The Moth Story Slam is a coming up!!!!

The Moth is a group focused on good story.
It started a long time ago when people would get together and tell stories to one another.
Now its in Los Angeles, and its pretty exciting. You can attend, and just listen, you can judge, or you can tell stories.
Each event has a theme, so people have some sort of focus, and it pulls the night together.

Heres some info on upcoming shows:

"HOME" on June 16th:
Host: Jackie Clarke

6:30 Doors
7:30 Stories begin
$6 at the door

at El Cid
4213 Sunset Boulevard, Los Feliz
(between Bates and Myra Avenues)

Prepare a five-minute story about HOME. Where you're from... your humble abode, your roots, your heritage or where your mama lives. Home is comfort, a refuge, domestic bliss! Or perhaps a dysfunctional swamp with no lifeboat in sight. Your zip code, your people, your culture, your pajamas.

There is no place like home.
"MAIL" on June 29th:
Host: Jackie Clarke

7:00 Doors
7:30 Stories begin
$6 at the door

at Air Conditioned Supper Club
625 Lincoln Boulevard, Venice
(3 blocks south of Rose Avenue)

Prepare a five-minute story involving a mailbox. Love letters, junk mail, hate mail, fan mail, Dear John, ransom notes, court orders, news from the admissions office. Think mail order brides, brown paper packages, test results. Take us back to breaking the seal on the letter that changed your life! Email, telegrams, parcels, chain mail and other special deliveries.

How it Works:
7:00 PM *sign up to tell a story, volunteer to be on a judging team or just sit back and listen. 7:30 (SHARP), we'll pick the first name and the show will begin. Each teller will have 5 minutes to tell his or her tale. After each story, the judges confer, and give a score. The teller with the highest score becomes our StorySLAM winner. The winner will compete with the year's other winners in our next GrandSLAM Championship.

Be Forewarned:
The Moth is NOT a venue for readings; it is a venue for tellings. No notes, papers, or cheat sheets allowed. Contestants are judged on sticking to the five-minute time frame, sticking to the theme and having a story that sticks -- one that has a conflict and a resolution.

Story tips:
No standup routines please:
The Moth LOVES funny people but requires that all funny people tell funny STORIES.

Steer clear of meandering endings:
Your last line should be clear in your head.

Start in the action and set up the stakes.



There is a lot more info on the website about other events, the history of The Moth, and podcasts.
Check it out!!!!