March 8, 2013 - 4:29pm
Spotlighting the performance of Spoken Word art, the month’s InKY Reading Series will feature Truth B. Told, James Wallace and contributors from The Moth. Stop by The Bard’s Town tonight for true poetry performance.
I’m shaking.I’m shaking right now.I’m shaking right now because I’m cold. No. Because I’ve had too much coffee. No. I’m out of breath from dancing in the workplace. It’s the inflammation from my blitzkrieg of fresh tattoos. I...
February 1, 2013 - 4:45pm
For those willing to brave the cold Friday evening, The Moth GrandSLAM inside The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts will reward with 10 stories sure to entertain. For one of the storytellers, however, they will be rewarded with more than just the opportunity to tell their tale.
If you can brave the cold temperatures and slick streets Friday evening, The Bomhard Theater inside The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts at 501 W. Main St. will make it worth your while. The Moth GrandSLAM Championship kicks off at 8 p.m., where 10 winners from previous StorySLAMs face off...
May 30, 2012 - 7:59am
The Moth StorySLAM featured a local storyteller on their podcast. The next one could be you.
The Moth is a New York based non-profit that is bringing back the art of storytelling. There’s an audience, a microphone and a handful of storytellers, which can be you if you are so inclined and have a good story to tell. In September of last year, Louisville joined as a part of the...
February 20, 2012 - 11:00am
The place was packed, everybody ready to hear me tell a story. Yes, me. I was at Headliners Music Hall to participate in the Moth, a live storytelling event that started in New York in the late 1990s and recently made its way to Louisville. The theme that night, which I knew ahead of time, was “neighborhoods.”
This article appears in the February 2012 issue of Louisville Magazine. To subscribe, please visit Lou.com.I had prepared a story about my family’s old Brooklyn block, filled with Russian immigrants, Orthodox Jews and us yuppies. Life there had been nonstop culture shock. For example, there...
September 28, 2011 - 9:00am
Headliners residency kicks off; continues each month
The highly anticipated Louisville debut of The Moth StorySLAM met expectations last night at Headliners as a sold-out crowd enjoyed two and a half hours of unscripted storytelling and improvisation from an otherwise untested group of (mostly) amateur speakers.
