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	<title>Anderson Story Slam &#187; 2010 &#187; May</title>
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		<title>July Story Slam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 15:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next story slam will be at 7p.m. Monday, July 12th at McGee&#8217;s Irish Pub in Anderson,SC. Reservations at reccomended. Call McGee&#8217;s at 864.261.6401. If you&#8217;d like to tell a story, please take a look at our guidelines and send me a message here. Guidelines for story slam stories: Your story should: be a personal [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The next story slam will be at 7p.m. Monday, July 12th at McGee&#8217;s Irish Pub in Anderson,SC. Reservations at reccomended. Call McGee&#8217;s at 864.261.6401.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to tell a story, please take a look at our guidelines and send me a message <a class="smcf-link" href="http://andersonstoryslam.org/contact">here</a>.</p>
<p>Guidelines for story slam stories:</p>
<p>Your story should:</p>
<p>be  a personal and true (though,embellishments are welcome)</p>
<p>be told without notes  have a beginning, middle, &amp; end (It&#8217;s best to stick to one event rather than tell us &#8216;all about your childhood&#8217;.)</p>
<p>be 5-7 minutes long (We might not kick you off the stage, but we could lose interest. Make sure your story has a point- then get to it.)</p>
<p>Hope to see you all in July!</p>
<p>Thanks, Marie</p>
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		<title>Anderson Story Slam-One year later</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 11:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we started all this, our hope was that the story slam would build community. In this year we&#8217;ve seen that it takes a whole lot of community to build the story slam. Sure, we had an idea, but that&#8217;s wasn&#8217;t enough. We needed a charismatic MC to move things along smoothly. We needed an [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When we started all this, our hope was that the story slam would build community. In this year we&#8217;ve seen that it takes a whole lot of community to build the story slam.</p>
<p>Sure, we had an idea, but that&#8217;s wasn&#8217;t enough.<br />
We needed a charismatic MC to move things along smoothly.<br />
We needed an awesome location with super-cool owners &amp; staff (and great beer)<br />
We needed willing story tellers (to my amazement they always show up and blow us away!)<br />
We needed a devoted audience (and boy are you guys devoted!)<br />
We needed friends of friends of friends to spread the word</p>
<p>When we put all the pieces of that puzzle together it worked!</p>
<p>We now know our old friends better than ever-we learned that David Gamble can smoke out a rat, Sarah Curnow once had a thing for Forenza, and Kim Lee will talk about ANYthing in front of a crowd.</p>
<p>And we have made new friends who we wouldn&#8217;t have met without the vehicle of the slam.</p>
<p>And we have laughed. A lot.<br />
Laughing with a room full of people just brings about a feeling that is warm &amp; fuzzy, all peace &amp; love (though it could have been the Hobgoblin and hard cider  :)</p>
<p>We imagine many of members of the audience have had a similar experiences. At our last slam, the room was so full that a waitress had to put one couple at a table with complete strangers. By the end of the night  all those strangers were talking together like friends.<br />
THAT&#8217;S what it&#8217;s all about!</p>
<p>(And it&#8217;s spreading- one night we had folks from three different towns come check us out because they want to start a story slam in their area. pretty cool!)</p>
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		<title>Grand Slam Winner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 12:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul THE MAN (of the cloth) Frey, was last night&#8217;s Grand Slam winner! He captivated the audience with his cautionary tale of &#8220;Children&#8217;s Church&#8221; gone wrong. This is why you need a reservations for the story slam- look at that crowd! :]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Paul THE MAN (of the cloth) Frey, was last night&#8217;s Grand Slam winner! He captivated the audience with his cautionary tale of &#8220;Children&#8217;s Church&#8221; gone wrong.</p>
<p><a href="http://andersonstoryslam.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/IMG_0505.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-145" title="Congrats to Paul!" src="http://andersonstoryslam.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/IMG_0505-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>This is why you need a reservations for the story slam- look at that crowd! :</p>
<p><a href="http://andersonstoryslam.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/IMG_0494.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-146" title="This is why you need a reservation on story slam night- call McGee's!" src="http://andersonstoryslam.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/IMG_0494-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
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