Spoken word fans in Central Florida have an assortment of events to select from: various poetry-related open mic nights around town, regular Orlando Story Club events, Loose Lips when they’re up to it. Now former Orlando Weekly calendar editor/former Orlando Sentinel reporter Trevor Fraser, operating under the stage name “Ian If,” has introduced a new offering: Oral Projects.
Orlando Story Club: TBD (To Be Determined) Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7pm. Every Orlando Story Club event has a theme. Anyone with a story that fits with that theme can enter by putting their name in the story hat. Ten names are drawn at random. Each storyteller is given 5 minutes to impress the audience, and the top 3 tellers take home prizes.
Orlando Story Club: "Yaaaaas Queen" Every Orlando Story Club event has a theme. Anyone with a story that fits with that theme can enter by putting their name in the story hat. Ten names are drawn at random. Each storyteller is given 5 minutes to impress the audience, and the top 3 tellers take home prizes.
The 2021 Orlando Fringe Festival is now in the history books with payments for participating artists sharply up despite a pandemic, improvements that will be sticking around and a new opportunity to examine how big the festival should actually be.
In a Fringe Festival filled with superheroes, self-aware refrigerators and other fantastic beasts,
Thrive is a place where you can encounter the most exotic creatures of all: actual human beings. Four brave members of the Orlando Story Club are getting on stage and publicly exposing their real-life narratives about overcoming adversity through overwhelming honesty. First, Ha’Ani Hogan wins our hearts by confessing that, as the daughter of a Casanova and a beauty queen, she’s been broken by appearance-obsessed online dating. Next, Logan Anderson opens for us an empathetic window into the traumatic brain injury that forced him to relearn how to walk, lift a glass of water or even cry. Then Elizabeth Brendel Horn shares both her painful struggles with eating disorders and infertility, as well as the pleasure of shoving her timid daughter down a snow-tube hill. Finally, Anthony Mauss utterly destroys us with his epic journey from small-town boy through the seminar