Feb 19 2021
These posts are adapted from the 20 minute lessons on story telling presented by Dan at the beginning of our Workshop! Workshop! show. The other day, Kay was having a conversation with Dan during class. She brought up that they’d been in a closed workshop together. She said, “Last night I got to listen to …
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Feb 18 2021
Rebecca Anderson is co-pastor at two Chicago churches. You can find her on Sunday mornings at Bethany UCC in Ravenswood (BethanyChicago.com), and Sunday evenings at Gilead, a queer, storytelling, bar church on Chicago’s north side — now a queer, storytelling, mostly-online church — that she planted with friend and colleague Vince Amlin (GileadChicago.org). Rebecca’s been …
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Feb 11 2021
Heidi Grandberry was brought into this world against her will. Her childhood was spent in the Midwest where she became fluent in the language of Passive Aggression. Her comedy is dark while simultaneously engaging and thoughtful.
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Feb 08 2021
These posts are adapted from the 20 minute lessons on story telling presented by Dan at the beginning of our Workshop! Workshop! show. I want to continue with the theme from the post the other day where we talked about how in first person narrative, you as the narrator is separate from you as a …
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Feb 05 2021
These posts are adapted from the 20 minute lessons on story telling presented by Dan at the beginning of our Workshop! Workshop! show. In storytelling you are always aware, as narrator, that the audience is there. You’re talking directly to specific people in that crowd, you’re making eye contact and connecting with them. One trick …
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Jan 30 2021
These posts are adapted from the 20 minute lessons on story telling presented by Dan at the beginning of our Workshop! Workshop! show. One idea that’s intuitive to implement in terms of storytelling, is the idea that you as a narrator are separate from the you as a character in your story. But it’s learned …
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Jan 15 2021
Monday, January 25th, at 6pm Central/7pm Eastern we will be working on storytelling with special guest Suzii Galvan. Asked to describe herself, Suzii told us: “I’m Suzii, small town girl from the valley of California. Self taught mix medium artist, Podcast host of Just. Press. Foreplay., and dog mom of 3. Lover of the metaphysical, …
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Jan 13 2021
Trish Sullivan is a Chicago stand-up comedian and storyteller who has been described as having “big mom energy.” She has lived most of her life in Chicago but moved to Omaha, Nebraska, for two and a half years and began taking improv comedy classes and transitioned to stand up comedy. She came to storytelling by …
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Jan 01 2021
Bob Dancer is the premier video poker writer and teacher. He’s been a successful professional gambler for decades. Click to see more about Bob and the story he’ll be working on.
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The Hot Girl Game is Best Played with Women You Trust. (A Bad Feminist Story.)
“Dan, do you want to play the hot girl game?”
Valarie is one of my oldest Chicago friends and she is coy with sly winks, and surprise happy shouts you come to expect. This mirth is tempered by the…
Reasons I Don’t Use the Word Feminist Out Loud
Growing up an early Millennial all my female friends would say, “I’m not a feminist.”
This would follow a string of feminist beliefs they did hold. And I’d say, “Yeah. I’m for all that.” And they’d explain, they didn’t like the…
Today's the last day of my Easter holiday and I'm going to make it a build day.
After probably 25 years of thinking about it, I'm going to finally build myself a website.
Will update this thread as I go.
I am addicted to rock climbing and I hate every minute of it.
For years, I’d poo-pooed rock climbing.
Why wouldn’t I go running instead?
Now that I’ve tried it… I know… running would be way healthier and more efficient. (Swimmers are giving me the, “If you really want a…
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