In a Nutshell LIVE Storytelling August: Bullies
Oh man, bullies, in school, the workplace, in the white house! We've all known 'em, and maybe we've even been them!
Big mean baddies trying to push you around, keep you down. How’d we survive, and thrive?
No time to read the whole newsletter? Here’s what’s happening at In a Nutshell in a nutshell (yes, we really are that clever!):
Our EIGHTH show is in less than 2 weeks! How many have you caught? Get your tickets now human, and join us on August 29th at the beautiful Sofia Theatre for one of our best line ups yet!
COME EARLY! At 6pm Wild Sisters Books presents Bay Area talk radio legend Brian Copeland presenting his latest book Shadows of Justice & chatting with our own author in residence, Aaron Carnes.
Tell a true personal story yourself! Throw you name in at WILCARD! this Thursday 8/21, or just chill, have a drink & a bite & listen to the stories at Old Soul The Alley! Featuring Suzon Lucore and more!
Subscribe to Prompt: a podcast for people who love stories. Paid subscribers gettin’ all sorts of extras!!!
WELCOME old friend and newbies. We are Sacramento’s home for world class, top tier, badass storytelling. Scroll down to meet this month’s batch of raconteurs.
This month’s prompt is a subject that just feels so very relevant right now. Bullies! How do we deal with ‘em? How have we beaten ‘em? How have we been them? It’ll be a thrill to see where our tellers go with this theme! And seriously, this line up is bonkers.
As always, tune in to Insight on Capital Public Radio to hear host Vicki Gonzalez chat with some of our tellers about the upcoming show.
Let’s meet this month’s tellers, and scroll down to see our merch (WE HAVE MERCH), and to find out more about Prompt!
Remember to come early at 6pm to hear author Brain Copeland in conversation with Aaron Carnes presented by Wild Sisters!
We 3 story loving friends are forever trying to express just how much we love and appreciate this community that has embraced us to help build this home grown show. Thank you for being on this ride with us. Let us know what you love, what you would like to see more of, and of course what you might like to see less of!
You love In a Nutshell Storytelling, and you know your friends will love it too. You can be the one to hip them to this good stuff. You’ve got our blessing to share the discount code: STORYFRIEND with your story friends saving them 20% off each ticket they buy, with no limit. Let’s make Sacramento THE story town!
Prompt: a podcast for people who love stories!
Prompt, launched last month and we’re already 3 episodes deep!
Our latest features Kiry Shabazz & his story about performing on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. A new episode drops every other Wednesday featuring a story recorded live at In a Nutshell and a chat with the storyteller about the story, about storytelling, about wherever our ADHD takes us!. Paid subscribers get even more of the quality chit chat with the world’s best Story Tellers.
That’s it for this month story telling fans. See you Thursday 8/21 for Wildcard and on Friday, August 29, at the gorgeous Sofia Theatre for the big show! Tell your friends. They’ll owe you one!
Keep telling your stories! Life is stories, and stories are life!
Thank you,
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Looking for things to do in Sacramento?
Sacramento365 is your year-round resource for arts and entertainment in Sacramento County. From festivals and music to theatre and holiday events, you’ll always find something new to do in Sacramento. Visit Sacramento 365 to learn more.
Did you love watching the tellers tell their stories? Want to learn how to tell yours?
Our friends at Capital Storytelling offer beginning and advanced storytelling classes, professional development workshops for businesses, and one-on-one story coaching. Visit them now for more info.
Sacramento Storytellers Guild put on a free (donations cheerfully accepted) show every month, & they’re putting together a storytelling fest!
Journalism represents a damn important form of storytelling and local journalism is in dire straights, trying to find a way to survive in a rapidly changing media landscape (the empty Sac Bee building is nightmare fuel). Solving Sacramento is a great local effort to keep local journalism going.
Our bay area story friends 6 Feet Apart Productions have a dope show coing up on the 26th that’s worth making a trip to the bay for:
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