Story artist Priscilla Howe is the first performer in the 2023 Speak Story Series, presented by Speak Storytelling, Inc. of Shepherdstown. Read the Full Story >>
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Speak Story Series presents Bil Lepp — Sep 14
Speak Story Series presents storyteller Bil Lepp in an online performance on September 14 (Tue) at 7:30 pm. Read the Full Story >>
Speak Stories Series Presents: Diane Macklin – August 10
Speak Stories Series hosts storyteller Diane Macklin for an online performance on August 10 (Tue) at 7:30 pm. Read the Full Story >>
Speak Story Series presents Chirine El Ansary — June 8
Chirine El Ansary grew up between Egypt and France. Chirine brings a physical approach to storytelling and a deep interest in how words and movements can merge to create atmospheres, generate emotions, and convey precise images. Read the Full Story >>
Feb 9 — Speak Stories Series Presents Jasmin Cardenas
Cardenas is a Colombian-American award winning bilingual storyteller, actress, educator and social activist. She enjoys exploring the uncomfortable truths found when you grow up between cultures. Jasmin has always lived between worlds being told she’s not fully American in the US and a gringa in South America. Cardenas was awarded a 2020-2022 LAB Fellowship from Read the Full Story >>
Speak Story Series for 2021
The planned lineup for 2021 will feature a storyteller each month. Details will be posted on the website as they are finalized. All events will be presented online through June. Read the Full Story >>
Talking Across Time & Space
Adam Booth credits a course he took with Rachael Meads in the Appalachian Studies department at Shepherd University for starting him on the path to becoming a professional storyteller, a passion he has pursued as a career for the past fifteen years. Read the Full Story >>
Speak Story Series hosts storyteller Elizabeth Rose with Online Event
Speak Story Series hosts storyteller Elizabeth Rose in an on-line performance. Elizabeth’s stories include a blend of traditional southern folklore, Appalachian tales, mountain ballads, ghost stories, songs and her own personal stories of growing up in small town East Tennessee. She is an educator, workshop leader, presenter, and professional storyteller.December 8, 2020, 7:30 pm Pre-registration Read the Full Story >>
Living with Racism as a Black Woman
Tune in from the comfort of home to be informed, entertained, and perhaps discomfited by, Donna Washington’s performance of “The Chairs in the Trees” presented by Speak Storytelling. Read the Full Story >>
Program Matches Students with Shepherdstown Seniors for Oral History Project
The Shepherdstown Area Independent Living organization, or SAIL as it is more commonly known, has partnered with Shepherd University for a year-long intergenerational project entitled “Hear This! Sharing Stories Across Generations.” Read the Full Story >>
Building a Voice for Appalachia
On November 8, 2016, Donald J. Trump was elected 45th President of the United States, and on November 9, a group of media students and innovators at West Virginia University (WVU) knew what their newest project needed to entail—a truthful outlet from which Appalachia could be heard. Read the Full Story >>
Love a good story? You’re in luck.
A words-artist and musician by profession, Booth is the founder of the Speak Story Series, a community-based and organized concert series that brings recognized storytellers from across the world to listeners in Shepherdstown (WV). The series presents stories about diverse cultures and beliefs, helping people, as Booth describes, “bond over deep emotional experiences.” Read the Full Story >>