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~ Friday June 27th 1-4 pm in the Schoolhouse~

OUT OF THIN AIR with Willy Claflin

How to write and tell original stories

 

Here’s an entertaining and practical workshop on how to dream up your own original tales. Using a couple of fool-proof formulas, Willy will show you easy ways to pull stories out of thin air. You are guaranteed to come away with at least one new story to tell—a story that no one else has ever heard before. It’s as easy as…pulling a rabbit out of a hat!

Special guest lecture by Maynard Moose

Tickets for the Workshop are sold separately HERE.

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This years Local Teller Showcase will be on Friday, June 27th from 5:15-5:45

Rowen White

Rowen White is a Seed Keeper/farmer and author from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate activist for indigenous seed and food sovereignty.  She is the Educational Director and lead mentor of Sierra Seeds, an innovative Indigenous seed bank and land-based educational organization located in Nevada City CA. Rowen is the Founder of the Indigenous Seedkeepers Network, which is committed to restoring the Indigenous Seed Commons, and currently serves as a Cooperative Seed Hub Coordinator.  She facilitates creative hands-on workshops and strategic conversations in community around seed/food security around the country within tribal and small farming communities. As a farmer, mentor, leader, writer, and storyteller Rowen is deeply committed to a lifelong practice of embodied prayer that contributes to cultivating a culture of belonging in our ways of nourishing ourselves.  She is part of a collective movement to reseed imaginations of a more beautiful and nourishing future through uplifting and mentoring emerging changemakers, visionaries, community members, and creative humans who are making nourishing contributions at the intersections of the landscape of food sovereignty and cultural revitalization. She believes that by cultivating creative supportive learning spaces, reclaiming narratives, and practicing radical imagination, we can work together to seed the change for a more equitable and beautiful relational, kincentric food system that centers around a deep sense of belonging and connection.

 

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Open Telling~ NEW TIME!

Sign up to tell your own story in the Schoolhouse:

Saturday morning, June 28th~ 9:30-10:30 am.

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The 2025 Story Slam theme is Jump in With Both Feet!

From your personal life to the global situation- tell us a story of a big turn around and how it effected change… or not!

Got a story?… Take it to new levels at this years’ Festival!

Story slam is held in the Schoolhouse on Saturday- June 28th from 5:30-6:30 pm.

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You as a slammer will enter the competition by dropping your name in a hat. Twelve names will be drawn.

You’ll have five minutes to tell the tale. Time your tale well. Points are lost if you pass the five minutes.

There will be a small team of judges, some professional storytellers, some not, made up of audience members.

Judges will make decisions based on these criteria: how well the story is told; how well the story is structured; how well the story explores, connects with, and/or reveals some truth about the theme; and how well the time limit is honored.

True stories are the medium here; poetry is discouraged unless it fits the criteria and tells a story. Folktales, myths or fables are discouraged unless, again, they are worked into the teller’s true story and fit the criteria. Copyright laws apply: Don’t use someone else’s work. Audience and judges expect real life adventures.

Props—including notes—are not to be used.

The winner is the lucky recipient of an All-Festival Pass to next year’s Sierra Storytelling Festival.

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