Carapace for June: ISLANDS IN THE STREAM

Name: Carapace for June: ISLANDS IN THE STREAM
Start: 2024-06-25T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Manuel's Tavern

Schedule

Tue Jun 25 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Manuel's Tavern | Atlanta, GA

If you’re a beautiful weirdo, you might have to look hard to find your tribe. Whether via high school theater, Maker Faires, or gardening clubs, where did you finally unlock your sense of identity?
Kenny & Dolly believed that “everything is nothing if you’ve got no one.” There are people who find themselves by connecting most deeply with another individual, a soul mate, as it were. They say there’s a lid for every pot. Who was that one person who made you believe in yourself like never before? Did the two of you go on madcap adventures together?
Of course, there are pockets of time that seem utterly outside our typical reality. Sometimes “we just walk in the night, slowly losing sight of the real thing.” When we’ve been bogged down for too long, we might need an escape. Did you veer off course, steal away to another world? Perhaps you wound up literally marooned on an island.
Whether your story is about finding or losing yourself with a person, a group, or on a voyage, we wanna hear the tale. We’ll be docked at Manuel’s Tavern, as always the fourth Tuesday of the month and this time that means (*pulls out calendar*), June 25 at 7p. See ya there!
Notes for a more connective storytelling experience…
*no notes
*no political rants
*no stand-up comedy routines
This is OG storytelling, like folks used to do around the fire at night.
*FREE* STORY COACHING: We tend to be at Manuel’s by 6p on the night of the show. If you’d like a little coaching as you prepare to get up on that mic, please feel free to arrive in the hour before to talk through your story’s points for some potential ideas or help with shaping it.
VOLUNTEERS: We always need volunteers to make our events run smoother.
Roles include:
*greet people at the door and encourage sign-ups
*keep up the tradition with the wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey stuff
*be our personal paparazzi! (take photos)
Please let us know if you’d like to volunteer!
STORYTELLING TIPS: Don’t get lost in the facts of your own story. We often joke that your story doesn’t have to be factual, it just has to be true. Don’t go meandering about in telling a story exactly as it happened, point by point. Getting every single detail in there may feel important to you, but you can lose an audience with too many details that don’t really support the greater narrative (or keep you within time limits. Find the important details that serve and drive your story forward.