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SUMMARY:Tell Your Story - 2-Day Storytelling Workshop + Sharing with Kona Morris
DESCRIPTION:Tell Your Story\n2-Day Storytelling Workshop + Sharing\nwith Instructor Kona Morris\nWorkshop Dates (updated dates!): Tuesday\, September 15 & Wednesday\, September 16\, 2026 6-9PM\nSharing: Thursday\, September 17\, 2026 7PM (FREE! Invite family and friends!)\nWorkshop Fee: $230.00 \nRegister Here!  \nStorytelling encompasses every person on the planet\, no matter your background\, field of study\, or walk of life. Join writer and storyteller Kona Morris (The Moth\, PBS’s Stories From The Stage\, RISK!) for a special 2-day workshop that will guide you through the process of composing and structuring your stories for any audience. From job interviews to wedding speeches\, it is important to feel confident to share your stories because YOUR STORY MATTERS. Learn how to craft your own life experiences into a polished\, first-person narrative that you can share with family\, friends\, and at storytelling events. Open to all experience levels! \nWorkshop registration includes the opportunity to perform at our Storyteller Sharing on September 17 at 7PM (Student Arrival Time TBD)\, invite your family and friends! \n“Great stories happen to those who tell them.” – Ira Glass \n \nAbout The Curriculum\nIn the first class\, we will dive into the art of storytelling with several unique “story mining” exercises that are designed to help you remember the details of the most exciting and important stories in your life\, so you will have a long list of stories to work with. We will also cover effective storytelling structures\, such as the format for the most successful stories on The Moth Radio Hour\, which are designed for optimal audience engagement. We will look at examples of different story structures and how to apply them to your own stories. We will also discuss the importance of a strong ending\, and how to tailor it for your specific audience and purpose. \nFor the second class\, you will bring a draft of one of your developing stories\, and we will dive into techniques for how to tell it to an audience. We will cover tips for overcoming stage fright\, and how to make your story as engaging as possible. You will get practice telling your story and be provided with constructive feedback for how to make it more impactful. \nAt the Storytelling Showcase\, you will have the opportunity to tell your own story in front of an audience! \nRead some incredible reviews about Kona’s Pasadena Playhouse Storytelling Workshops here! \n“We cannot imagine ourselves without storytelling\, because the self is a story.” – Margaret Atwood \nAbout Kona\nKona Morris is a storyteller\, writer\, and educator. She has won The Moth StorySLAM in New York City\, Boston\, and Los Angeles\, and she came in first place for the Ojai Storytelling Festival Story Slam\, which was judged by Featured Tellers from the International Storytelling Festival. Kona has performed on national television shows and podcasts\, including Stories From The Stage (PBS)\, the RISK! podcast\, and AITApod. She starred in Denver’s Live Drunk History Comedy Troupe\, where she was Editor-in-Chief of Fast Forward Press and spent 14 years teaching literature\, mythology\, and creative writing courses to college students. Kona’s stories\, articles\, and prose poems have appeared in a variety of publications\, and she has been featured at literary readings\, writing conferences\, storytelling events\, and comedy shows around the world. Kona offers private coaching sessions and teaches storytelling craft workshops to inspire others to tell their stories. For more information\, please visit: KonaMorris.com \nKona Morris Headshot\, Credit: Photos by Victoria Smith @victoriasmithphoto \nWorkshop/Class Cancellation Policy\nYou may cancel up to 30 days before the start of class for a full refund.\nIf you cancel within 30 days of the start of class\, workshop fee is non-refundable.
URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/storytelling092026/
LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Creative Writing,Program,Storytelling,Workshop,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Open Mic @ Bethany Arts Community
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic @ BAC!\nDate & Time: Friday\, September 18\, 2026\n6:30-7:15pm: How to Rock an Open Mic Workshop (See below for more info!)\n7-7:30pm Performer Sign Up\n7:30-9:30pm Open Mic\nLocation: Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Road\, Ossining\, NY 10562\nFor Ages 16+\nTickets (at the door): Pay-What-You-Can $10 – $20 \nJoin Hudson Valley Books for Humanity and Bethany Arts Community for our monthly Poetry/Spoken Word/Music Open Mic. Come on by to BAC this month and share your latest poetry/spoken word/music projects with a supportive audience.   \nBring your talent\, your works in progress\, and your positive energy to our stage. This event is open to teens and adults near and far.   \nPlanning to Perform at Open Mic on September 18? Performer sign-up occurs between 7-7:30PM. Performers will submit their name “into the hat” and we’ll draw 13 names right before 7:30PM. Each performer will have up to 5 minutes each on the mic. Performers are encouraged to make a suggested donation between $5-$20 at the door. \nOUR COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS\nTo help nurture a space of respect\, validation\, and welcoming:  \n\nWe’re here to share space\, build community\, and support each other.\nPerformers: respect the 5-minute time limit and be mindful of your timekeeper.\nIf you like something\, make some noise! Snap your fingers\, stomp your feet\, clap\, whatever feels right to you.\nWe encourage you to get to know your seat neighbors. Connect and build community. \n\nOpen Mics take place the 2nd Friday of every month.   \nCo-hosted by Hudson Valley Books for Humanity\, a welcoming space to build community through books and art.  \nFind Hudson Valley Books for Humanity on social media @hudsonvalleybooksforhumanity\, on their website hvbooksforhumanity.com\, or visit them at 67 Central Avenue\, Ossining\, NY 10562.  \n— \nHow to Rock an Open Mic\nA Pre-Open Mic Workshop Series for Poets & Writers \nWith James K. Zimmerman\nEvery month at 6:30pm\nFREE! Registration (above) strongly encouraged. Walk-ins welcome until we reach capacity.\n*Workshop will begin promptly at 6:30pm. We are not able to accommodate late comers.  \nSeptember 18: Gearing Up @ Bethany Arts Community\nExplore how the brain works when we’re anticipating a public reading. Explore performance anxiety vs adaptive excitement.  In addition to the evening’s unique focus\, each workshop will include time for sharing material with the group\, practice reading\, discussion\, and a short meditation. \nABOUT JAMES\nJames K. Zimmerman is an award-winning writer and frequent Pushcart Prize nominee. He has been published in journals such as Atlanta Review\, Chicago Quarterly Review\, Chautauqua\, december\, Folio\, Lumina\, the minnesota review\, Nimrod\, Pleiades\, Rattle\, and Salmagundi\, among many others. He has read his works in dozens of venues\, including Poets’ House\, the New England Poetry Club\, KGB\, Otto’s Shrunken Head\, the Norwich (VT) Bookstore\, San Jose State University\, Amherst Writers & Artists\, Straw Dog Writers Guild\, and the Association of Writers & Publishers. His published books of poems include “Little Miracles” (Passager Books)\, “Family Cookout” (Comstock Books — winner of the Jessie Bryce Niles Award)\, “The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dōgen” (Poetry Box Press — Editor’s Choice)\, “Uncertainty” (Bottlecap Press)\, “Unbroken Circle\, Unending Thread” (Fernwood)\, and “Portrait Miniatures” (Broadstone Books). 
URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/openmicsep1826/
LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music,Open Mic,Performance,Poetry,Program,Reading,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Ecology of Us: A Community Conversation: Impact of Humans on Earth with Kristin Marting
DESCRIPTION:Ecology of Us: A Community Conversation: Impact of Humans on Earth\nwith BAC Artist-in-Residence Kristin Marting\nDate & Time: Wednesday September 30\, 7-9pm\nFREE Community Program. Registration encouraged. Walk-ins welcome until we reach capacity.  \nJoin BAC Artist-in-Residence Kristin Marting for a community conversation centered around the impact of humans on our earth and positive actions we can take towards sustainability.   \nKristin will read short excerpts from visionary writers Octavia Butler and Alan Weisman\, as well as an excerpt in progress from Quintessence\, her environmental speculative fiction opera.   \nKristin will then facilitate an “Open Space” format for our conversations — Open Space is a self-organizing\, participant-driven format in which attendees create the agenda together on a variety of topics in response to our central theme. As a participant\, you will be free to choose which conversation you join and move as desired between simultaneous conversations\, engaging with topics that resonate with you. We will re-gather as a group towards the end to share findings with the full group.   \nOur friends at Riverkeeper will join to share local issues affecting the Hudson River and provide resources for framing solutions. Riverkeeper protects and restores the Hudson River from source to sea and safeguards drinking water supplies\, through advocacy rooted in community partnerships\, science and law. ‌‍Learn more about Riverkeeper and their work here. ‌ ‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍  \nAbout Quintessence \nInspired by the speculative fiction of Octavia Butler and the environmental nonfiction writing of Alan Weisman\, Quintessence is a new environmental science fiction opera about othering\, nonconformity\, intolerance\, and community that Kristin is co-creating as librettist/director with composer Paul Pinto.   \nThe 90-minute multimedia opera tells the story of our dying planet in seven parts\, scored for an ensemble of seven singers\, four instrumentalists and electronics. Our earth is sick – it has been damaged beyond repair by our species. All humanity share an existential awareness of our fragility. There are too many of us\, but too few other species. Our earth is no longer able to produce anything naturally so food and drink are created through technology. One world government controls all resources\, which are distributed unevenly to haves and have-nots. As humans scramble to survive\, genetic modification has become a worldwide practice with almost no one unmodified. But the modifications induce unpredictable abilities. Ongoing human conflict is weakening our already ailing earth.  \nABOUT KRISTIN\nKristin Marting is an award winning director & creative producer based in NYC. She has constructed 38 world premieres (15 hybrid\, 10 opera/music-theatre\, 9 adaptations of novels & 5 classics). Selected premieres: BAM\, HERE\, Ohio Theatre\, Soho Rep. Selected touring: 7 Stages\, Berkshire Festival\, Brown\, MCA\, New World\, Painted Bride\, UMass\, Moscow Art Theatre\, Oslo. Selected workshops: Clubbed Thumb\, New Georges\, Playwrights Horizons\, Public Theatre\, Target Margin. Recipient of an OBie award for Lifetime Achievement and Proclamation from the NY State Assembly for steadfast leadership\, two prestigious MAP Fund awards\, a nytheatre.com Person of the Decade for outstanding contribution\, a Leader to Watch by Art Table\, and a BAX10 Award. She is the Founding Artistic Director Emeritus of HERE and co-founded/co-curated 12 editions of PROTOTYPE festival.  \nThis Community Program is a part of BAC’s Annual Fall Multidisciplinary Residency. As part of a residency at BAC\, we ask each artist to build and facilitate a Community Program. Community Programs are a unique opportunity for both artists-in-residence and our local community to gather\, engage\, and be in conversation with one another through art. Community Programs are free engagements open to the public and/or in collaboration with a local community partners.  \nBAC’s 2026 Fall Multidisciplinary Residency is made possible with support from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor’s office and the New York State Legislature\, Westchester County Board of Legislators\, ArtsWestchester and Westchester County Government. 
URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/ecologyofus/
LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Residencies,Art & Action,Community Program,Fall Multidisciplinary 2026,Storytelling,Talk
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