Community Plate invites you to come to The Corner, a free monthly evening of community storytelling held the second Thursday of each month at LA Arts in Lewiston.
JANUARY THEME: “WHILE YOU WERE GONE...” Have you ever gone to the concession stand, and then your team hits a home run? Maybe you leave the living room right before someone tells a hilarious joke, or leave the dinner table for a minute and someone else eats the last piece of pie. Or you come home from vacation and discover, well, any number of horrors. Life isn’t a streaming movie – we can’t hit pause or rewind – in the real world things happen when we’re not there. Do you have a story about sleeping through an exciting moment, or missing out on a big opportunity? You might also tell a story about a near miss that – thank goodness – you weren’t there for. Or turn it around a little further, and maybe there was a time that you were the only person to see something that everyone else missed.
As always the themes at The Corner are just a starting point, an opportunity to take a story in any direction. There’s no right or wrong–you can’t miss. So come to The Corner in January to tell or listen. You won’t want to miss out.
New to The Corner this year: Bring a dessert to share! In addition to pizza from DaVinci’s, we’ve added a DESSERT POTLUCK! Bring something sweet to share with your fellow storytellers and story listeners.
Each evening of The Corner includes several featured storytellers, who volunteer in advance, and because everyone has a story to tell, an open mic portion, where there is the opportunity for anyone to get up and tell a story. If you would like to be one of our featured storytellers for "While You Were Gone…" send us an email at community@communityplate.me
Stories should be five minutes (or less), first person, fundamentally factual, and free of handheld notes. For more information about how to tell a story at The Corner, visit: https://www.cometothecorner.com/tell
The Corner is a free community event. No tickets or reservations required.