Submission deadline: 11:59pm Sunday, March 17th
Submit here: https://sosayweallonline.submittable.com/.../the-vamp...

Wedding Season ushers in true tales about the ties that bind, commitments, bondage and whatever unpredictable takes our storytellers bring to the stage this April.

The VAMP Storytelling Showcase: With This Ring
Thursday, April 25th
8pm
Whistle Stop
2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
$10

The Peace Corps has sent American volunteers to serve in a humanitarian capacity in 60 countries since its founding in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. As part of their mission—The 3rd Goal—is to ”to increase Americans' understanding of other peoples and cultures.” So Say We All is proud to partner with the San Diego Peace Corps Association to advance that goal, and bring the stories of their returned volunteers to the stage in a fully produced VAMP Storytelling Showcase. We hope you join us to learn more about our world, and the true stories of the people who have dedicated a fundamental part of their lives to improving the quality of life others.

• Submit here: (Peace Corps Volunteers only): https://sosayweallonline.submittable.com/submit/290169/san-diego-peace-corps-volunteer-association-vamp-showcase-if-youre-not-laug

• Deadline: 3/24/2024 @11:59PM

San Diego Peace Corps Association VAMP: “If You’re Not Laughing You’re Crying”
Friday, April 19th @ 8pm
Thorn St. Brewing
3176 Thorn St, San Diego, CA 92104
$10 suggested donation
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Hello La-La Land!

VAMP returns to Los Angeles with a new home, new stories, and new faces on the mic. For the month of April, we bring you stories on the theme of "Survival," a variety of true yarns about going the distance and coming back to tell the tale. You don’t have to be Bear Grylls or Destiny’s Child—just making it out of a sticky situation alive is enough.

The VAMP Storytelling Showcase: Survival
Wednesday, April 10th
Doors @ 6:30 pm | Show @ 7:00 p.m.
The Hotel Cafe - 2nd Stage
1623 N. Cahuenga Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
$15

Purchase tickets at the door or in advance here: https://new.hotelcafe.com/event/the-vamp-nonfiction-showcase/ 

March's VAMP Storytelling Showcase revels in the viscous, nasty, revolting truths of the human experience and our obsession with touching them.

Featuring:

• Heather Bentley

• Natalie Gardner

• Frank Traynor

• Eryn Roberts

• Debra Bass

• Gabriella Livanos\

• Chris Onderdonk

March VAMP: Eeeeew!
Thursday, March 28
8pm - 10pm
Whistle Stop
2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
$10
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February's stories deal with power dynamics, whether delightful, denigrating, or both at once. Strap in and hear our writers crack more than jokes!

Submission deadline: 11:59pm, TUESDAY JAN. 16th

Submit here: https://sosayweallonline.submittable.com/.../the-vamp...

February SD VAMP - Dirty Talk: Tops & Bottoms
February 22nd, 2024
8pm
Whistle Stop
2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
$10
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Submission deadline: December 17th. - Submit here.

Never tell us the odds, never suggest we listen to reason, we’re taking the shot no matter how dumb it may seem in January with a storytelling show about the longest chances and the unreasonable people who took them, with predictably mixed results.

January VAMP: So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance?
Thursday, January 25th @ 8pm
Whistle Stop Bar
2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
$10 suggested donation
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Holidays are synonymous with homecomings, but so often we either feel like strangers, surrounded my strangers, or such suffocation we need to make ourselves tourists just to claim some air. That’s where the best advice ever given to holiday tourists was born from: stay at a hotel! The distance of the heart when everyone comes back together is the foundation of So Say We All’s holiday parlay and we always keep a seat open for you.

Submission deadline: Sunday, November 19th, 11:59pm - Submit here: https://sosayweallonline.submittable.com/submit/5108/the-vamp-storytelling-showcase-san-diego

December San Diego VAMP: Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn
December 28th, 2023
8pm - 10pm
Whistle Stop
2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
$10
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Family, tourists, termites, "little green men," even Aunt Flo: Visitors come in all forms. We have all sorts of feelings and reactions towards them. We are them. For better or worse, they're here to stay.

Send us your true story!
Submission deadline: Monday October 23rd, 11:59pm - Submit here: https://www.sosayweallonline.com/submit

November San Diego VAMP: Visitors
Whistle Stop Bar
2236 Fern St., San Diego CA 92104
$10 suggested
21+

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November’s Los Angeles show is an opportunity to meet the dog days head on, writing about the moments that were motivating by boiling blood, burning forests, baking sidewalks, overclocked tempers, and however else our band of storytellers interprets the theme to turn their thermometers red.

November LA VAMP Storytelling Showcase: The Heat
Sunday, November 12th, 2023
Bar Lubitsch
7702 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046
8pm - 9:30pm
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We’re awash in the arterial spray of our most necessary fluid this October at the Los Angeles VAMP Storytelling Showcase! We’ll be gushing bucketfuls of hot takes to court your vasovagal syncope and make sure this October haunts your dreams... but like in a super fun way you can bring an online date to.

Submission deadline: Sunday September 10th, 11:59pm.
Submit here: https://sosayweallonline.submittable.com/submit/243584/the-vamp-storytelling-showcase-los-angelesVAMP Storytelling

October Los Angeles VAMP: Blood
Sunday, October 22nd, 2023
Bar Lubitsch
7702 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046
8pm - 10pm

Ohhhhh, you almost had it! But then you didn’t. Whether it was the perfect job, the new crush, the affordable apartment, or any number of hopes and dreams you felt slip through your fingers like tiny, unobtainable grains of sand, it hurts extra bad when you screw it up and realize how close you were to having it.
Whatever it is.
Do you even know what you did to blow it so bad?! Dang, did you blow it!

Submission deadline EXTENDED!: Sunday, August 20th, 2023, 11:59pm
Submit here: https://sosayweallonline.submittable.com/submit/5108/the-vamp-storytelling-showcase-san-diego

September San Diego VAMP: Ya Blew It!
Thursday, September 28, 2023 @ 8pm
Whistle Stop Bar, 2236 Fern St., San Diego CA
$10 suggested
21+

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So Say We All is thrilled to bring storytelling showcases back to Public Square in La Mesa for the first time since before the ‘rona! Come on over to “The La Jolla of East County,” as one resident refers to it, and experience a night of narrative exhibitionism!

Hosted by Dallas McLaughlin

Story Punks
Saturday, September 9th @7pm
Public Square
8278 La Mesa Blvd, La Mesa, CA 91942
$10 suggested donation
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There's never enough time in life, especially for explanations. So much to unfurl about a life and so hard to know how much matters to someone finding out maybe a little too late. That's what we're going to be taking all the time to tell about at this July's VAMP and we think it'll be worth hearing out.

Featuring:

- Jay Vu
- John Clapp
- Brandy Dykhuizen
- Justin Hudnall
- Dallas McLaughlin
- T.J. Tallie
- Victoria Chavez

August San Diego VAMP: What Had Happened Was...
August 31st, 2023
8pm
Whistle Stop
2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
$10
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Oh, how the moments where the strength we take for granted fail us are memorable, to be polite; the shaking of identity, of reality, of trust, of a baby (kidding) and many more possible interpretations await this revelatory evening of stories that will leave you hopefully a little more settled than when you came in.

Featuring:
- Anna Gassaway
- Jim Stephens
- Marion Wilson
- Melissa Vipperman-Cohen
- Tracy Smith
- Liz Roccoforte
- Victoria Leyva

July San Diego VAMP: Shook
July 27th, 2023
8pm - 10pm
Whistle Stop
2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
$10
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We all have a Todd. Todd is the person who knows more than you. Todd can, and will, tell you how to improve at work. Todd has been more places than you, and will describe them. Todd is a politics expert, a sports (all of them) trophy winner, an amazing actor, and a financial whiz.
It's possible Todd is a big bag of lies.
It's possible you have your own inner Todd.
Whatever the case is, don't you just want Todd to shut the f--k up?

Submit your stories by 11:59 pm on Monday May 22nd, here:
https://www.sosayweallonline.com/submit

June San Diego VAMP: Shut the F--k Up, Todd
Thursday, June 29 @ 8pm
Whistle Stop Bar
2236 Fern St., San Diego, CA 92104
21+
$10 donation suggested

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Every good story requires conflict but this month we want that conflict served up HOT AND IN OUR FACE! We want to pick a side, root for strangers, and cheer the devastation of the losers! And maybe, just maybe, we’ll realize the journey was the reward the whole time, but most likely we’ll be totally fine celebrating phyric victories and making people we don’t like sad.

Send us your true stories by 11:59pm, Thursday, April 6th!

Read guidelines and submit here: https://sosayweallonline.submittable.com/submit

Produced by So Say We All, a 501c3 literary and performing arts nonprofit based in Southern CA, The VAMP Storytelling Showcase is a highly-produced, non-fiction, multimedia reading series. Each showcase revolves around a different theme, which is heavily open to interpretation by submitting writers. Out of each round of submitting writers, a cohort is selected to work together over the course of 3-4 weeks in read-and-critique sessions, provided with writing and performance coaches, and finally provided with a live showcase to perform their original true stories.

See examples from previous VAMP Showcases on our YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/sosayweallonline

May Los Angeles VAMP: Versus
Sunday, May 21st - Doors @ 8pm / Show @ 8:30pm
Bar Lubitsch
7702 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046
$10
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We've all felt the call to run--maybe we overstayed, maybe we heeded that instinct, but the story of being the one to go is one we all own. Don’t go anywhere else but to the VAMP Storytelling Showcase in May if you want to find what’s missing from a variety of true storytellers who have come back from the journey just to tell you about it.

Submission deadline: April 6th - https://sosayweallonline.submittable.com/.../the-vamp...

May San Diego VAMP: I Should Go
May 18th 2023 @ 8pm
Whistle Stop
2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
21+
$10

Eating habits that become entire personalities, health-crazes, and so, so much weed are just some of the ways this month’s plant-based storytelling showcase will be digested by our storytellers and regurgitated for your consumption. Pull up a seat at the table.

Featuring:
Maggie Frank-Hsu
Kelly Bowen
T.J.Tallie
Cat Tucciarone
Shayna Jurrens
Sarah Sharp
David Zafra

April San Diego VAMP: Plant-Based
Thursday, April 27th 2023
8pm - 10pm
Whistle Stop
2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
$10
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Justice. Revenge. Schadenfreude. We love to see a good comeuppance. Sometimes the waters of fairness get muddy.... but who's to say what's right and what's wrong. Right?

Send us your true stories by 11:59pm, Sunday, March 5th!

Read guidelines and submit here: https://sosayweallonline.submittable.com/submit

Produced by So Say We All, a 501c3 literary and performing arts nonprofit based in Southern CA, The VAMP Storytelling Showcase is a highly-produced, non-fiction, multimedia reading series. Each showcase revolves around a different theme, which is heavily open to interpretation by submitting writers. Out of each round of submitting writers, a cohort is selected by a blind panel of judges to work together over the course of 3-4 weeks in read-and-critique sessions, provided with one-on-one writing and performance coaches, and finally provided with a live showcase to perform their original true stories.

See examples from previous VAMP Showcases on our YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/sosayweallonline

April Los Angeles VAMP: Just Deserts
Sunday, April 16th
Bar Lubitsch
7702 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046
Doors at 8pm, Show at 8:30pm
$10

"As with any social behavior, we pick up linguistic norms and learn to code-switch according to context." March’s VAMP features stories from humans who navigate multiple worlds and who they are as they move between them.

Submission deadline: February 16th 2023 - https://sosayweallonline.submittable.com/submit/5108/the-vamp-storytelling-showcase-san-diego

March San Diego VAMP: Code Switch
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
8pm
Whistle Stop
2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
$10
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Come join a storytelling celebration of PianoFight performed by some of the people whose lives it changed forever! We’re bringing together a cross-section of the performers, old timers, and friends that have made PianoFight not only the most active performance venue on the West Coast, but a major hub in the lives of countless people. We hope you can join us for hilarious and poignant true tales and stay for drinks afterwards!

Featuring stories from PianoFight favorites:

• Sam DiSalvo

• Molly Shapiro

• Jessic Mele

• Nicole Odell 

• Noemi Zeigler

• Molly Benson

• Giorgia Luisia

• And hosted by Jake Arky

VAMP Storytelling Showcases are highly produced multimedia performances of original true stories by their authors. So Say We All is a 501c3 storytelling arts and education nonprofit whose mission is to help people tell their stories and tell them better.

Farewell, Pianofight: An Evening of True Stories
Wednesday, March 15th 2023
8pm - 10pm
Pianofight
144 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA 94102
$25 - Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/farewell-pianofight-an-evening-of-true-stories-tickets-546677716767

February brings reflection on our relationships, what to lean more into and what to run screaming from to make fresh room when spring comes. We'll be having stories that bleed and bite about love this year, so maybe wear a turtleneck if you don't want to get taken.

Featuring:

• Heidi Handelsman

• Debra Bass

• Chelsea Glaser

• Brent Hannify

• Kelly Quigley

• Elaine Gingery

• Lauren Cross

February San Diego VAMP: Vampires
February 23rd 2023 @ 8pm
Whistle Stop
2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
$10 suggested donation
21+

New Years resolutions exist because we've choices we might have done different. That's how we're kicking our first show of the year off, with the opposite of toxic positivity: stories about hard-core self-ownership of choices that we wish we could undo.

Submission deadline: December 15th - https://sosayweallonline.submittable.com/submit

January San Diego VAMP: CRTL+Z
Thursday, January 26th @ 8pm
Whistle Stop
2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
$10
21+

For SSWA's inaugural VAMP Storytelling Showcase in Los Angeles, we wanted to lead with a night of stories that spoke to what happens in the darkest hour, with the people who choose to stay out after the time others decide nothing good happens--and the myriad of experiences they reap.

Featuring:
Aja Houston
Dustin Marquel
Sam DiSalvo
Travis Lowe
Kirsten Hernandez
Jiavani
Shannon Kernaghan

January LA VAMP: Midnight Strikes
January 19th, 2023
Door @ 8pm / Show @ 8:30pm
Bar Lubitsch
7702 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046
$20 / Pay at door
21+

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We all know the winter holidays are all about family and gratitude and navigating depression. It’s also a great time to go scrolling through the social medias to see what old flames are up to, to hit the bars and find the other lowly hearts with high tolerances and low standards, and to be naughty on purpose. Maybe it’s better when Santa’s watching…

Featuring:

Anastasia Zadeik
Kylie Chance
Steven Brydle
Dallas McLaughlin
Timothy Vaux
Rachel Graham

December VAMP: Horny For The Holidays
Thursday, December 29th @ 8pm
Whistle Stop: 2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
21+
$10 suggested donation

November's VAMP Storytelling Showcase features rouses us off the couch before we fatten our hams to hear stories about dogged pursuits, aspirational designs, and the tracking of prey in any way conceivable.

Submission deadline: 11:59PM October 9th.
Submit here: https://sosayweallonline.submittable.com/submit

November VAMP: The Hunt
Thursday, November 17th @ 8pm
Whistle Stop: 2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
21+
$10 suggested donation
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The Santa Ana blood winds blow through town during October and bring everyone a little closer to the edge. Unleash the beast with us this October as we celebrate the times we’ve gone over it, snapped and shown the world who we really are.

Featuring:

- T.J. Tallie
- Chris Curtis
- Heidi Handelsman
- Joe Hudak
- Jessica Young
- John Perkins
- Jesse Morgan

October VAMP: Beast Mode
Thursday, October 27th @ 8pm
Whistle Stop: 2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
21+
$10 suggested donation

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 11:59pm, Monday August 15th.
Submit here: https://sosayweallonline.submittable.com/submit

This August we’re respecting the hustle with stories about some of the more extreme and outlandish things people have done for money, but anyone who tells people to just pull themselves up by their bootstraps deserves to be strangled with bootstraps. Late stage capitalism: it might be ruining everyone’s lives, but it sure makes for some goofy stories along the way.

August VAMP: Comedy of Errors
Thursday, September 29th @ 8pm
Whistle Stop: 2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
21+
$10 suggested donation

August’s VAMP stories celebrate the great cock-up cascades, the absurdity of good intentions gone wrong, the best laid plans brought to disaster so bad, it’s hilarious, at least in retrospect.

Featuring:

- Ryan Shores
- Madison Ford
- Jake Arky
- Emily Blocher
- Adam Greenfield
- Kelly Quigley
- Danielle Callahan

August VAMP: Comedy of Errors
Thursday, August 25th @ 8pm
Whistle Stop: 2236 Fern St, San Diego, CA 92104
21+
$10 suggested donation
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