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May 14, 2010 - 4:28pm
All Star Slam MAY 24th - 6:30 to 8:00PM Cambridge Public Library
A concert of 12 personal stories told to win a chance to be the massmouth representative at the National Story Slam, Windy City National Story Slam in Chicago - JUNE 13th 2010 Sunday afternoon at Printers Rowhttp://www.windycitystoryslam.com/wordpress/
massmouth has just been invited to send a rep the national event. We've created a venue to showcase
12 storytellers will contend for that spot on MONDAY night, MAY 24th at the beautiful new Lecture Hall at the Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway in Cambridge http://www.cambridgema.gov/cpl/ Contestants will tell a story on any theme 5 minutes (+30 seconds grace) and the audience will decide the winner with written ballots. The lucky winning contestant will receive $240 towards round trip air fare and free hotel in Chicago for the National Story Slam.
Participants must be able to attend these two events, will be responsible for their travel arrangements and all additional expenses.The winner will be may asked to represent massmouth in other capacities as well
Important - Deadline: we need a quorum of 12 contestants by MAY 18th at which time we will close entries, which...
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April 30, 2010 - 4:38pm
On April 20th, 2010 at the Big Mouth Off in Boston MA Chris Osborne, Cambridge resident,
won the Audience Choice winner for his story " The Neighbor". This is the second time Chris has won the Audience Choice honors. Chris won at Ryles for his enrty in "errors of eros" recently aired on cctv.
Way to go Chris, congratulations! To see the entire night of stories including Chris' entire performance order your DVD now... http://tinyurl.com/y7j9okf
THE BIG MOUTH OFF was the final contest in Bostons first story slam season, produced by massmouth and will be held at 6PM on APRIL 20th 2010 at in the Boston Public Librarys Rabb Auditorium, Copley Square, Boston MA .massmouth has hosted an exciting series of story slams on the following themes: scared to death, dining disasters, its my job, so embarrassing, its relative, errors of eros, love and lies, outrageous, and in like a lion. In each slam ten contestants told real life stories and two winners became finalists. THE BIG MOUTH OFF was the final contest in Bostons first story slam season, produced by massmouth and will be held at 6PM on APRIL 20th 2010 at in the Boston Public Librarys Rabb Auditorium, Copley Square, Boston MA .massmouth...
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April 30, 2010 - 4:28pm
New prize category: Storytelling 2.0 Prize at the Big Mouth Off
At the request of an anonymous donor, the Big Mouths were asked to create a new category of award for the Big Mouth Off and choose a winner for that award. This new award supports massmouth's mission to "...renew the timeless art of storytelling in Massachusetts by building audience while engaging a new generation of tellers..." In response to this request, we created a Big Mouth's Storytelling 2.0 Prize category and our donor has offered a cash prize for the contestant. We also solicited another prize from LANES.org. We are happy to announce the winner of the 2010, Big Mouth's Storytelling 2.0 Prize Award ~ the winner is Paul Hlebowitsh (above) for his story "Chocolate Milk" The prize is $100 in cash and LANES.org, the New England's longest running storytelling organization, has contributed a one day free conference registration to the New England Storytelling Conference ~ aka Sharing The Fire, 2011.
to see the entire performance order your DVD now... http://tinyurl.com/y7j9okf
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April 23, 2010 - 4:00pm
Great stories and a fabulous audience attended the Big Mouth Off on April 20 2010.
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April 16, 2010 - 3:31pm
Stories from the Cambridge Story Slams and the 6 slams in Boston will be featured as the winners from the local slams compete for season winner and a grand prize - one week in a town house in Tuscany. Free and open to the public.
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April 9, 2010 - 4:48pm
new cctv member, Mary Muthoni made her first movie today. We used a zip camera and she learned a bit about editing. Very fun. She is such an avid learner - I wish some of the western educated people who whine about using computers would take a page from her book. "This is the first time I have seen a computer," said Mary. In just 4 weeks she has been learning to navigate email, take and send pix back home and now we are going to make some videos together. The keyboard and English spelling are all big challenges for her but she just plugs along. She tries new things and wants me to make more "films " with her.
cctvcambridge.org makes it all happen. cctv = the best!
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April 2, 2010 - 5:34pm
above: Charlot Lucien as Toussaint L'Overture a play written by Michael Anderson preformed by the Lucien family with Tony Toledo,Joanne Piazzi and Judith Black, massmouth and LANES storytellers on on March 27th 2010
BENEFIT CONCERT RAISES MONEY FOR HAITI...
On Saturday, March 27 at 7 pm the storytelling community of New England, under the auspices of Massmouth and the League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling (LANES) presented an extravaganza of storytelling, dance, and music hosted most generously at the Arlington Street Unitarian Universalist Church in Boston.
The suggested donation was $20 and all proceeds went to Partners in Health and Eritaj, a Haitian foundation supporting local ties to Haiti. Audience members choose which organization to donate to at the door. These combined efforts raised $2,350 dollars.
Local storytellers performed Haitian stories to help celebrate Haitian culture in all its glory. Haitian born performer and artist Charlot Lucien headed up the bill and performed Haitian folktales and riddles accompanied by his two children, Malaika and Sebastien. Lucien cousins Sarah, Samantha, Gaethan, Izzy, and Sophy joined the other children to mime and...
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March 26, 2010 - 3:16pm
At the last slam of the *open* slam season, the theme was "in like a lion" and I told a story about going into a situation like a lion and leaving with my tail between my legs.http://massmouth.ning.com/video/norah-dooley-going-out
We had some new tellers and some old. Just opened a blip.tv accout and will try to to upload a clip soon. Here are a few others, posted at our massmouth.ning.com site.
The winnerhttp://massmouth.ning.com/video/diana-weisner-story-slam
runner uphttp://massmouth.ning.com/video/judith-black-story-slam-runner
and some of my faves:http://massmouth.ning.com/video/katie-liesener-the-professorhttp://massmouth.ning.com/video/kevin-brooks-milk-money-winhttp://massmouth.ning.com/video/dan-dahari-grampa-gets-kicked
Audience particpation:http://massmouth.ning.com/video/story-story-die-cambridge
Norah Dooley • Cambridge Story Slam • "in like a lion"
Time: March 21, 2010 from 4pm to 7pm
Location: Ryles Jazz Club
Street: 212 Hampshire Street
City/Town: Cambridge, MA
Website or Map: http://www.rylesjazz.com
Phone: (617) 876-9330
Event Type: story, slam
Organized By: Norah Dooley/Andrea Lovett/Doria Hughes/Stu Mendleson
Kevin Brooks cohosted with comic Ilene Fischer in...
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February 19, 2010 - 4:32pm
On Mother's Day this year a tree fell on our car. We were so lucky we were not in it. We had just parked after visiting Grandma Fairchild, signing cards and tying bows to flowers, on our way to visit Nonna Dibrizzi/Dooley. Many interesting comments by passersby. The most interesting? A mom and dad with two young children looked at the scene and said,
" Oh my god, that is where we always park." They lived across the street from the healthy looking tree with a major limb that detached from it and smashed in the front of our 13 year old Honda Civic, affectionately named "Duncan" by our 16 year old daughter. She wanted to learn to drive in it. What a heck of month was May 2009...
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February 19, 2010 - 3:55pm
The Kent State shootings, May 4th, 1970, led to protests and a national student strike, causing hundreds of campuses to close because of both violent and non-violent demonstrations. The Kent State campus remained closed for six weeks. Five days after the shootings, 100,000 people demonstrated in Washington, D.C., against the war and protesting the killing of unarmed students on a college campus.
The Jackson State shooting occurred on Thursday/Friday May 14-15, 1970, at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University) in Jackson, Mississippi. A group of student protesters were confronted by city and state police. The police opened fire, killing two students and injuring twelve. This happened 10 days after National Guardsmen killed four students at Kent State University in Ohio.
A group of around a hundred African-American students had gathered on Lynch Street (which at the time bisected the campus) on the evening of Thursday, May 14. By around 9:30 p.m. the students had started fires and overturned vehicles, including a large truck. Firefighters dispatched to the scene quickly requested police support.
The police responded in force. At least 75 Jackson Mississippi Police units...
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