Thursday 5 August: Detroit Moth StorySLAM

Thursday, August 5, 2010
Detroit Moth StorySLAM
"Heat"
at Cliff Bell's
2030 Park
Detroit, MI
4:00pm Doors / 7:30pm Stories Begin
$5 at the door

Word to the wise: Get there early. The last time I attended this event, Cliff Bell's quickly reached capacity, leaving another hundred people waiting outside.

StorySLAMs are now presented in four cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit! Come out and tell us your best story and help us spread the word.

The Moth believes that everyone has a story. The Moth created StorySLAM to give those stories a forum.

Following the wild success of our Mainstage series, The Moth sought to accommodate all the people who asked, "When can I tell my story?" and to encourage those people who doubted they had a story worth telling. The Moth StorySLAM provides a stage and a microphone, a theme to inspire and shape the evening, a lively and supportive audience, and a host to guide the festivities. SLAM stories are limited to five minutes, and ten stories are heard.

The stories are scored by three teams of audience-member judges, and a winner is announced at every SLAM. SLAM winners later face off in a Moth GrandSLAM. Since 2001, the raucous, moving, funny and wild quilt of themed stories that emerge during each show has kept the crowds coming back again and again.