Story Story Night

Enter now to be a featured storyteller for MiRAGE

It’s February, and love is in the air. Or is that an optical illusion? This month at Story Story Night, we explore tricks of the senses, and dashed figments of the imagination, with MiRAGE: Stories of Too Good To Be True. So what’s been your figurative fool’s gold in life? Tell us how the fantasy world rose up in your line of sight, then how the vision came crashing down. Phantasmagorical, for reals.

Enter in now to be a featured storyteller. Submissions are due by Sunday, February 10. Simply email your story to story@storystorynight.com, or fill out our quick 3-question entry form. Find your meaning in the MiRAGE, and get a glorious prize package when it's all revealed.

Story Story Night Gets Down with AFTERMATH

(BOISE, IDAHO)  In light of the recent apocalypse of the year 2012, Story Story Night sees what survives in the AFTERMATH: Stories of What Went Down in the Wake at the live storytelling show held on Jan. 28, 2013 at the Rose Room, located at 718 W. Idaho Street in downtown Boise. 

Advance tickets are on sale now for $8 (no online fees), or at the door for $10. Doors open at 6 pm, and the show starts at 7 pm. Featured storytellers launch the night with true stories on the theme, told live on stage and without notes, followed by an open story slam. Musician Dan Costello performs, and Jessica Holmes hosts the evening.

Hitting the featured stage in force are Emma Arnold and Jessica Holmes, Doyle Cozza, and Emmanuel Vera IV. Arnold and Holmes break hearts as best friends in a teenage wasteland. Cozza joins forces to be all he can be in the aftermath. Vera IV wanders into a meth family sitcom style shoot-out. 

Following an intermission, a story slam starts. Names are drawn at random from a hat, and the chosen few have 5 minutes to tell a true story on the theme. The featured storytellers choose a winner, who receives a prize package of a free night’s stay at Boise Guest House and Rediscovered Books.

After the show, the Story Story Afterparty takes off at Red Feather Lounge and Bittercreek. Both local-focused restaurants now offer an exclusive free drink special to the Night’s ticketholders.

“January is the month when our best resolutions are often broken. We all go through minor apocalypses in life,” says Holmes, the driving force behind Story Story Night. “See what takes root and takes off in the aftermath.” 

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Story Story Night is a live storytelling phenomenon based in Boise, Idaho. The Story Story Night podcast returns in 2013. Stay tuned in at www.storystorynight.org.

Enter now to be a featured storyteller for AFTERMATH

Now calling featured storytellers for Story Story Night's upcoming January 28 theme, AFTERMATH: Stories of What Went Down in the Wake.

This provocative post-apocalyptic theme is open to your interpretation. Did you fall from glory? Reach an unexpected end after a bombshell event? Or find yourself in a strange situation after a cataclysmic moment? Do tell.

Submissions are due by Sunday, January 13. Simply email your story to story@storystorynight.com, or fill out our quick 3-question entry form. Make 2013 your year of story. Resolve to be brave, and bare all, in the pursuit of finding your true voice. See you on stage.

Story Story Night blows up in APOCALYPSE New Year party

(BOISE, ID)    To celebrate the end of days in 2012, on Monday, December 31, Story Story Night hosts APOCALYPSE: A New Year Party to End the World as We Know It. Held all night long at the Rose Room, located at 718 W. Idaho St. in downtown Boise, the APOCALYPSE party showcases stories with a beat, live music, DJs, burlesque dancers, film mixing, and more all centered on the theme of ending with a total blast.

Advance tickets are on sale now for $15 at www.storystorynight.bigcartel.com, available for pick up on show night. Door tickets will be available for $20. A hand stamp for ticketholders will allow reentry to the event throughout the night. Doors open at 7 pm.

The night kicks off with the atmospheric sound stylings of Stardust Lounge. At 8 pm, apocalypse-themed storytelling begins, featuring Dan Costello, Brent Mathieu and Raleigh Arnold. Ophidia Dance Studio burlesque performers open the storytelling portion of the evening.

Starting at 10 pm, the APOCALYPSE continues with live music from Dan Costello and the Truck Stop Orchestra. Soon after, film VJ Jason Willford starts up visual projections that fit the theme, the vibe, and the rhythm. After the ball drops at midnight, DJ Psycache drops the beat to continue the dance party into 2013. 

“When it all goes down, this APOCALYPSE will be an absolute revelation. A real party riot. So celebrate end times, come on,” says Jessica Holmes, the driving force behind Story Story Night. “Go out with a bang this New Year’s Eve, and be here when it all blows up.”

Story Story Night will also be a part of MODERN RESOLUTIONS, a pop-up shop and art event held at the Modern Hotel and Bar the Friday and Saturday before New Year’s Eve on December 28 and 29 from 5 to 10 pm. In one hotel room, Story Story Night will be recording true stories from visitors on the themes “Apocalypse Now” or “Resolutions Past.” Select stories will air through Story Story Night and the Modern Hotel, and may even be broadcast at the APOCALYPSE.

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Story Story Night is a live storytelling phenomenon based in Boise, Idaho. A new Story Story Night podcast airs every week. Stay tuned in at www.storystorynight.com.

Story Story Night plates up “FORK” November 26

(BOISE, ID) As a post-Thanksgiving treat, on Monday November 26, 2012, Story Story Night dishes on "FORK: Stories of the Road Less Taken or Not Traveled" at the Rose Room, located at 718 W. Idaho Street in downtown Boise. Featured storytellers Jocelyn Robertson, Niki Mathews, and Robert and Margaret Scott serve up true stories on the theme, told live on stage and without notes, followed by an open story slam. Musician Dan Costello performs, and Emma Arnold hosts the night.

Limited priority seating tickets are now on sale for $7 at www.storystorynight.bigcartel.com, available for pick up at will call on show night starting at 6 pm. Priority seating tickets ensure a sure shot at a seat until first-come, first-served open game tickets go on sale for $5 at 6:30 pm. Showtime is at 7 pm. Pie Hole pizza and a full bar (with valid I.D.) are available at the all-ages venue. 

In the first act, Mathews finds a dividing line as a picky eater and coldweather missionary. Robertson comes to a crossroads as a hoarder’s girlfriend. The Scotts find themselves at a fork at the end of the artic road. The featured storytellers receive prizes from Bittercreek/Red Feather, Boise Co-Op, Fawn and Foal, and Story Story Night.

After an intermission with live music, an open story slam starts. In the story slam, names are drawn from a hat, and the chosen few have 5 minutes to tell a true story on the theme. The featured storytellers choose a winner, who receives a prize package of a free night’s stay at Boise Guest House and a gift certificate to Rediscovered Books.

“You can spear a lot a tasty tidbits with a theme like FORK,” says Jessica Holmes, the host and driving force behind Story Story Night. “We invite you to bring the extended family, and feast on the take-away from real life experience.”

After the show, the Story Story Afterparty takes off at Red Feather Lounge and Bittercreek, both local-focused restaurants now offer an excusive free drink special to the Night’s ticketholders.

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Story Story Night is a live storytelling phenomenon based in Boise, Idaho. A new Story Story Night podcast airs every week. Stay tuned in at www.storystorynight.com.