NEW YORK

Organizations

Black Dirt Storytelling Guild
Location: Florida Public Library, Florida, NY
Contact: (845) 651 7659
Description: The Black Dirt Storytelling Guild is open to all story lovers age 16 and up. The Guild meets on the second Thursday of every month. Events include summer Campfire Storytime sessions, Tellabration and other programs.

Children at the Well
Youth Storytellers for Peace & Understanding
Location: Capital Region of NYS
Contact: Paula Weiss
Email: directorcaw@gmail.com
Description: A coached program for diverse groups of young people aged 11 to 18. Participants meet weekly with coaches and are part of various events year round.

Rye Storytelling Guild
Location: Rye Free Reading Room
Contact: Angela Calderella
Email: booksamc@aol.com
Description: Meets first Tuesday of the month from 6-8pm (914-967-0480)

Story Circle of the Capital District
Location: Albany/Schenectady/Troy
Contact: Kate Dudding
518-383-4620
Email: Kate@KateDudding.com
Description: Storytelling guild that meets monthly on the 3rd Tuesday or Wednesday of the month for adults and youth twelve and over who are interested in practicing a new story or listening to the story sharing (story-circle.org)

Storycorps
Location: 80 Hanson Pl. 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Contact: 646-723-7020
Description: StoryCorps calls itself “America’s oral history project”. It has collected over 60,000 interviews from over 100,000 participants with diverse backgrounds, the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered. The recordings are archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

The Long Island Storytelling Network (LISN)
Location: Emma S. Clark Library, Setauket, NY
Contact: Harvey Heilbrun
Email: lisntellers@gmail.com
Description: Fourth Sunday of every month, open story sharing meeting

The Moth
Location: 75 Broad St., NY, NY
Contact: 212-742-0551
Description: True stories told live. Multiple venues.

The Storytelling Center of New York City
Location: New York City
Contact:
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Recurrent Events

Interfaith Story Circle of Dutchess County, NY
Location: Dutchess County
Contact: Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi
Email: lhartin@aol.com
Description: Features storytellers who tell a prepared story on a chosen theme; then we open the floor for those in attendance.

Interfaith Story Circle Program
Location: Albany, Schenectady Troy, NY,
Contact:
Email: ifsc.tricity@gmail.com
Description: Group shares stories and storytelling resources with those others who believe in the moral, the spiritual and healing power of story. Each month, from September to June, hosted by a different faith community.

Bady House Storytelling Concerts
Location: 85 Chester Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Contact: Robin Bady
Email: robbady@gmail.com
Description: Monthly house concerts, featuring one out-of-town performer and two New York tellers. Sunday evenings.

Q.E.D.
Location: Q.E.D. Café, Astoria, NY
Email: QEDAstoria@gmail.com
Description: Monthly personal storytelling events and open mics, on such themes as “Talk Therapy”, “My First Time”, “The Rivalry”, “Brutally Honest.”

Word: The Storytelling Show
Location: The Sidewalk Bar and Restaurant, NYC
Contact:
Description: Monthly performance of People Telling True Stories and Live Music with some of the great storytellers. Third Wednesday of the month

RISK! Live in NYC
Location: The Bell House, Brooklyn, NY
Contact:
Description: Monthly live personal storytelling show for ages 21 and over. Third Wednesday of the month

Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling
Location: Central Park, NYC
Email: storymentor2010@gmail.com
Description: Professional storytellers tell children’s fairy tales and folk tales, by Hans Christian Andersen and others. Saturdays, June – September.

NEW YORK STORY EXCHANGE
Location: The Cornelia St. Café, NYC
Contact:
Description: Second Tuesday of the Month. Four featured tellers, followed by a "5 for 5 Open STORY Exchange." Up to five audience members can get five minutes each onstage to share stories, poems, spoken word or music!

Story Slam
Location: Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, NYC

Story Slam
Location: Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY

Story Slam
Location: The National Black Theatre, NYC

Story Slam
Location: The Great Hall at Cooper Union New York, NY

Story Slam
Location: Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY

Storytelling
Location: Hammondsport
Contact: Cris Riedel
Email: crisriedel05@gmail.com
Description:

Occastonae – Story Slam/Open Mic
Location: Peekskill
Contact: Judith Heineman
Email: juhestories@aol.com
Description:

Story Circle at Proctors
Location: Schenectady
Contact: Kate Dudding
Email: kate@katedudding.com
Description: storytelling production at an art center

Storytelling School Program
Location: PS333 UWS NYC
Contact: Mary Ann Schmidt
Email: storytellingmsc@gmail.com
Description: K-3 storytelling open to guest tellers

Mostly True Things
Location: Long Island
Contact: Jude Treder-Wolff
Email: bookings@lifestage.org
Description: A storytelling show with a game component

https://www.mostlytruethings.com

See also the recurrent events listed under the following organizations: Story Circle of the Capital District, Black Dirt Storytelling Guild, Rye Storytelling Guild, and The Long Island Storytelling Network (LISN)