In Like a Lion - slam!

Today is the final open slam of the 2009-2010 storytelling slam season. Today at Ryles Jazz Club from 4-7 you can tell your best five minute story on the theme "In Like a Lion."

What does In Like a Lion mean?

Here are some ideas.

• It could reference the changing of the seasons.
• Or how about some one walking into a room like a lion?
• I can imagine a number of PG13 or R-rated scenarions where someone might move in like a lion.
• Lions are predators. What happens when they move in?
• Then again, in lion families, the males tend to laze around while the lionesses do all the work. Maybe she moved in like a lioness...

The theme is flexible, playful and your last chance for entry in the Big Mouthoff, April 20, at the Boston Public Library, where the winner gets a week in a Tuscan Villa. See you there!

(c) 2010 Laura S. Packer

Congratulations MassMouth!

On Saturday, March 20, 2010, MassMouth founders Norah Dooley, Doria Hughes, Andrea Lovett and Stu Mendelson were awarded the Brother Blue and Ruth Hill Award by the League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling in recognition of their extraordinary commitment and efforts to promote a broader understanding of the art of storytelling and the support of storytellers in the development of their art. It serves, as Brother Blue, has said, “To honor those who give their lives to storytelling to change the world.”

When the award was announced the crowd rose to their feet and cheered, in delighted recognition of all that MassMouth has done to build storytelling in Massachusetts.

Congratulations!