The Dublin Story Slam - Growth

The Dublin Story Slam - Growth

As part of our new storytelling project, City Stories, we are looking to share personal true stories that teach us a valuable lesson about Growth. Whether it’s a story of growing your favourite plant, growing as a person or working with others to deliver an ambitious project, we want to hear what made you sow those seeds, helped them blossom and what you learnt along the way. From making that big move in life to picking up a skill that change everything, we’re looking for stories about starting something out of nothing, of getting out of your comfort zone, or navigating failure before finally finding success. This May, as part of Climate Action Week, let’s all help each other not just grow but flourish as we share our personal true stories at The Dublin Story Slam.

How it Works:
Storytellers

We're inviting anyone with a true personal story, 4-7mins long and inspired by the theme Growth. Stories need to be true, about you and shared without any notes, scripts or props onstage. Think of us as a close friend you're sharing a personal experience with rather than a performance you need to script, rehearse & memorise. Some of our most memorable storytellers have been people who have never been onstage before. Just be you and the rest will follow! You can watch back this video about how to tell a story over on our You Tube Channel. 

 To be in with a chance to tell a story, you can sign up to tell a story in two ways:

Sign up in advance - Email us the first line of your story to story@thedublinstoryslam.com. The first four to do so get in for FREE and FIRST so you can save some seats for your friends. You'll also definitely get to share your story on the night. Entries only accepted 2 weeks before the Story Slam. 

Sign up on the night - You can also just buy a ticket, head to the show and sign up to tell a story on the night. However's there's a chance your name might not be picked depending on how many names are in the hat. If you want to be certain you'll get to share your story, then sign up in advance. 

On the night we pick a max of 8 names at random from the bucket. If you get called, you get up onstage and share your story that can be between 4-7mins long. Remember no notes are allowed onstage! At the end of each story, Judges in the audience will give a score out of 10 and at the end of the night, we'll announce the winner of The Dublin Story Slam. The winner then goes onto compete in our annual Grand Slam event at the end of the year. 

Audience

 At each show we also invite the audience to share their own mini epics by filling out an audience slip. Each month we ask a different question that you can reply to anonymously. Eg Tell us about a time you had a close call! Our host selects a number of these mini epics and reads them out loud & anonymously onstage during the night. 

Judges

If you've been to one of our shows, you'll know that we have three teams of Judges, selected from our audience. Each team gives each story a score out of 10. These scores are tallied up and at the end of the night we choose a winner. Teams can be up between 2-4 members. You need to have a ticket to be on a Judging team but we'll also invite you in first ahead of the queue so you can grab some good seats for the show. If you're interested in being a Judge, just e.mail us at story@thedublinstoryslam.com.

For more info please visit us at www.thedublinstoryslam.com.