Mike Daisey and Moth StorySLAM: Burned!

If Mike Daisey is in charge, it is sure to be fun. Go check out StorySLAM! tonight. Mike is an amazing storyteller, and he is hosting this cool storytelling event that is described as "kind of like a poetry slam but with stories."

Tues 8.08 (7 PM sign-up; 7.30 show)

Nuyorican Poets Cafe (236 E 3rd St)

$6

http://www.themoth.org

StorySLAM!

Theme: Burned



A competitive storytelling event

kind of like a poetry slam but with stories



Hosted by: Mike Daisey



Prepare a five-minute story about getting burned. Blistered by love, scalded by the powers that be, scorched by karma or just over-tanned.



Tell us about the things that make you go ouch and leave you smoldering.

Detail your involvement with faulty persons or equipment or places.

Embarrassed by your own foolishness.

Crushed by forces out of your control.

Blamed for a mess you didn’t make.

Busted for a mess you DID ...



Rules that don’t make sense.

Damaged goods, junk bonds, lemons and hidden fees.



Bamboozled or just unlucky.

Drawing the short straw when it comes time to paint the outhouse.

Last on line at the pig roast: "Would you prefer snout or knuckles, sir?"

Discount tickets that end up being a rip (David Hasselhoff as Hamlet) [ED NOTE: THERES NO AMT I WOULDNT PAY TO SEE THAT -tt].

Sixteen-hour flight between a squalling baby and a snoring behemoth.

Disqualified for what you are (no science majors allowed at the math seminar)

or for what you aren’t (these donuts reserved for left-handed phlebotomists with asthma ONLY).



Filling up on gas and then seeing it for 10 cents cheaper around the corner.

Falling in love with someone who is in love with someone else.

Bearing an incredible likeness to someone just featured on America’s Most Wanted.

Seduced by the small print and slammed by reality.



Sunscreen anyone?



How it Works:

Starting at 7:00 PM, we'll put the names of all the folks who want to tell a story in a hat. At 7:30 PM, we'll start picking names. Each teller will have 5 minutes to tell his or her tale. After each story, the judges (made up of you, the audience) will 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. Please email us at slam@themoth.org for our storytelling guidelines. 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:

"I was just about to say ‘I do’ when from the back of the church I heard someone call out, ‘Not so fast, bingo boy.’ I looked back and to my horror recognized Lola, a one-night stand I'd had in Vegas nine months earlier. She looked angry and she was carrying what looked like a newborn baby."



About Our Host:

Mike Daisey has been called "the master storyteller" and "one of the finest solo performers of his generation" by the New York Times for his monologues, including 21 Dog Years, Great Men of Genius, The Ugly American, Monopoly!, Invincible Summer, I Miss the Cold War, Wasting Your Breath, and Stories From the Atlantic Night Cafe which he’s performed Off-Broadway, across the country and around the world. He’s been a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman, and his work has been heard on the BBC, NPR, the National Lampoon Radio Hour, and his groundbreaking series All Stories Are Fiction is available through Audible.com. Currently he’s a commentator for National Public Radio’s Day To Day, a contributor to the New York Times Magazine, WIRED, Slate, Salon, and his writing appears in the anthology The Best Tech Writing 2006. His first book, 21 Dog Years: A Cubedweller’s Tale, was published by the Free Press and he is working on a second book, Happiness Is Overrated, a collection of essays dedicated to the proposition its title asserts. He will premiere two new monologues—Truth and If You See Something Say Something—in New York this year. He lives with his director, collaborator and co-conspirator, Jean-Michele Gregory, in Brooklyn..

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