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We are excited to announce our 5-day Storytelling Retreat during Family Week at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck New York this summer, July 26-31 Join us for a week long introduction to the craft and practice of personal storytelling – learn to tell stories from your life and share an immersive and connective experience with other storytellers. TheContinue reading “What’s Your Story: Storytelling Retreat at Omega Institute July 2026”

A heads up that next month’s On The Fly Story Slam will take place on the 2nd Thursday of the month, on November 13. To prepare ourselves for the upcoming Thanksgiving family gatherings, the theme will be FOOD FIGHT. And yes, we are suggesting throwing food at family members with whom you disagree. Or atContinue reading “November 13: FOOD FIGHT”

We had an absolute blast last night at our 2022 Grand Slam at a packed to the brim Avalon Lounge in Catskill where eight On The Fly slam winner competed for the Grand Slam prize. Meg Rhinehart won with her beautifully told story. Congratulations, Meg! You can hear her story and all the stories on SoundCloud. We’ll seeContinue reading “Stories and Pictures from On The Fly Grand Slam ’22”

On April 7 we will be celebrating the winners of last year’s story slams. Ten beautiful storytellers. Please join us in celebrating these wonderful storytellers and help us pick the 2022 Grand Slam winner in style. We will fit as many people as possible at Avalon, but we suggest you come early to secure aContinue reading “Grand Slams ’22”

Story Folks! Slight change of plan for this week: The Avalon Lounge will be closed on Thursday for a photo shoot, so we’re moving the slam for one night across the street to Left Bank Ciders, who has graciously offered to host us. Same theme – ESCAPE. Same time – 7pm. There will be no charge atContinue reading “March 3 Slam at Left Bank Ciders in Catskill”

Thank you to these beautiful storytellers for braving the rain and ice and taking the stage at Avalon to share there IN THE FLESH stories. If you missed it or would like to hear their stories again, you can listen here. We highly recommend that you do!

Heart of Darkness stories – so good! If you missed the slam, but would like to listen to the stories, you can find them on our Soundcloud page. The next story slam is February 3. The theme will be IN THE FLESH. And if you want to check out the themes and dates for theContinue reading “Stories and Pictures from Jan. 6 Slam”