Ink Spot Part of East Village Arts and Culture Event
So Say We All has always been a fan of our friends and colleagues at San Diego Writers, Ink, the true writing pioneers of San Diego. This Saturday is the Open Spaces East Village Arts and Culture Event (EVACevent), with 13 total open art spaces in downtown San Diego for you to check out, along [...]
Call for Submissions: VAMP Presents “The Future”
So Say We All is currently looking to book poets, writers, comedians, storytellers, musicians, animators and more to perform pieces on the theme of “The Future“. We’re taking submissions for stories of futuristic happenings in September. This is an open theme to interpretation, send us your stories, true, fictional, or otherwise [...]
Call for submissions: “Edible Thought”
Dear storytellers, poets and writers,
So Say We All is embarking on a very exciting food-themed show in collaboration with Jay Porter, owner of The Linkery and El Take It Easy, and the Suture Gallery downtown. We want you to participate.
“Edible Thought” is where the slow food movement meets the slow arts movement, a multimedia [...]
San Diego Storytelling Through Art
Check out storytelling through art in San Diego by going to Survey Select.
Sparked by curator Mark Murphy’s love of narrative art, “Survey Select” is an art show with a mission: to engage the community through visual storytelling. And as San Diego storytellers ourselves, we are stoked that Survey Select and Murphy are here.
The 8-week exhibition [...]
Play Reading Series: “With You” & “Sexbot 2400″
"Every work of art is an attempt to make contact with at least one other human being. Whether completely abstract or richly realistic in its details, art is one man or woman saying, "I have experienced something, I have witnessed something, I have survived something — and I need to know if it's as important [...]
Call for Submissions: VAMP Presents “Trouble With Authority”
So Say We All is currently looking to book poets, writers, comedians, storytellers, musicians, animators and more to perform pieces on the theme of “Trouble with Authority“. August’s VAMP is dedicated to stories about successfully and not so successfully sticking it to the man. All you activists, feminists, freedom riders, love warriors and rabble-rousers, we [...]
Vermin On The Mount
Coming to San Diego’s East Village this Saturday is Vermin On The Mount, a series of writers telling stories that was based in L.A. starting in 2004. Lucky for us, Vermin has decided to take a trip down south to celebrate it’s sixth year on the planet. The evening will consist of a slew of [...]
Justin Hudnall’s Robot Heart
Source: Pinchback Press
So Say We All would like to say congratulations to Justin Hudnall for his publication in Pinchback Press’ new anthology about love in the electronic era, “Robot Hearts: The True & Twisted Tales of Seeking Love in the Digital Age”
Justin will be reading his story “The Rise Of Lunaresta”, which originally was written, [...]
The Capital of Indian Storytelling
The BBC’s Soutik Biswas recently wrote an interesting piece delving into the power of place in storytelling, and motivating storytelling, among Indian writers and their muse: Mumbai. Reading it makes me wonder what aspects of San Diego will be pointed to as recurring inspiration for its writers. The weather of course, there’s always the weather, [...]
One Pride, One Prom
In honor of Constance McMillen, the brave young woman from Mississippi who wasn’t allowed to bring her girlfriend to prom, the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties has invited her out as their guest and themed their pride party, “One Pride, One Prom.”
Toward that end, SSWA’s Justin Hudnall and Jess [...]
San Diego, Invaded
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The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s exhibit “Viva La Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape” is coming soon and bringing some of the world’s greatest names in guerrilla art to our streets. Join us in in [...]
The People’s Prom Photobooth is ready!
Hey prom queens, kings and gate crashers, the amazing photographic talents of Dymtro Bershadskyy and Adisa Ziric of White Gorilla Media have born fruit!
See the results in the slide show above and claim evidence of your fabulousness here.
Call for Submissions: VAMP Presents “The Sporting Life”
We’re currently looking to book poets, writers, comedians, storytellers, musicians, animators and more to perform pieces on the theme of “The Sporting Life“. June’s VAMP is dedicated to stories about the highs, lows, and jock itch of the sporting life.
Got a story from the sideline? E-mail us your piece at info@sosayweallonline.com by June 14th.
VAMP at [...]
SSWA plugged on the NBC Morning Show!
Diva Barbarella Fokos plugs SSWA’s April 2010 VAMP on the NBC Morning Show:
So Say We All’s April Shows: We need your art!
April is typically for humiliating other people, but this year around we’re turning that humiliation inward. Both Show and Tell and VAMP are dedicated to the bravest performers in town, presenting their most humiliating true stories in front of a room full of strangers, with extra points awarded for visual aides or evidence of said [...]
Call for Submissions: So Say We All’s March VAMP Show
We’re currently looking to book poets, writers, comedians, storytellers, musicians, animators and more to perform pieces on the theme of “Grievous Bodily Harm“. Our hope is for fights, war, accidents and disease will disfigure, maim, and contort our stories during the month of March.
Reminder: pieces recorded at our shows will be passed on for possible [...]
Call for Submissions: So Say We All’s February VAMP Show
We are coming to you, yet again, to see what unexpected surprises you’ve got for February So Say We All’s VAMP show!
We’re currently looking to book poets, writers, comedians, storytellers, musicians, animators and more to perform pieces on the theme of “Love is for Suckers“. Let there be no story too petty, no righteous [...]
New class available: “Writers in Performance”
So Say We All is partnering with San Diego Writers Ink to teach a new class, “Writers in Performance,” beginning on February 18th. This six week class ends with every student participating in their very own show!
Pricing and signup is available at the SD Writers Ink website here.
Train of Thought Returns January 6th!
Train of Thought is doing it big Jan 6th @ Queen Bee’s in North Park. Train of Thought presents HBO Def Poet, Paul Mabon. A Chicago native who has relocated to Southern California. He has performed at various high profile venues in the Los Angeles circuit as well as opened for the likes of Talib [...]
Farewell, Brother Blue
Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill, the official storyteller of both Cambridge and Boston, died Tuesday at age 88.
By Talia Whyte Globe Correspondent [...]
1 in 8 Million
The New York Times has crafted a beautiful piece of digital storytelling with their series, 1 in 8 million.
Click here for the full experience.
Best 1st Lady Story Ever
RACHEL L. SWARNS and JODI KANTOR recently published an incredible article on the history of Michelle Obama’s family line, creating a fantastic example of a genealogy story in the process.
Read the full article from the New York Times October 7th, 2009 issue.
The Rise of Low Power Radio
By KIRK JOHNSON
Published: September 7, 2009 – New York Times
CRESTON, Mont. — The floor of the broadcast booth at KXZI radio, which is, truth be told, really just Scott Johnston’s front porch, slopes gently down toward the yard, as 90-year-old farmhouse porches tend to do.
Mr. Johnston’s antenna, out by the big cottonwood trees that line [...]
More Storytellers Than You’d Think
Storytelling has been around since…well, forever, when you think about it. From raconteurs to orators, campfires to dinner tables, stories told aloud have influenced the way people create the history of their cultures, their families and their lives.
So Say We All is San Diego’s voice, for anybody who wants to pass on a true story [...]
