Bellingham Story Hour – Hot Mess

Who know’s what October’s Live Show will bring!

Join us for a night of true stories told live!

Sign up for a chance to share your own true story based on our monthly theme- or come to enjoy the true stories of your friends and neighbors (and everyone in-between).

The act of sharing our most authentic selves with other people in a safe and encouraging environment creates connection and allows us to see ourselves in others.

Stories can be entertaining, heartwarming, educational, cringe inducing, shame releasing, vulnerable, weird, and all of the things in-between but they are always true, always your own experience, and always rewarding to tell and hear.

DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 FOR PRE SHOW FESTIVITIES, SHOW STARTS AT 7:00-

Sign up at the show for the chance to tell your own 5 to 10 minute story live on stage, or just enjoy listening to the true tales and authentic adventures of your friends and neighbors.

We love small stories, the stories that happen between the “big moments”- and we strive to make a place for those smaller and slower stories.

Read our story guidelines and community agreements online!

Basic Guidelines for Storytellers:

NO SCRIPTS, NO NOTES, NO RANTS, NO PERFORMANCE PIECES, NO STAND UP COMEDY, NO UNPROCESSED THERAPY, NO PROPS

1. Story Hour will have themes chosen ahead of time and we will select performers who submit their name into a random drawing process.
2. Stories must be TRUE and less than 10 minutes long!
3. Stories must be about YOU. Your story, your version, your view.
4. Performers for Story Hour will be chosen randomly from participants who self-submitted for the evening
5. All stories will be between five to ten minutes with a time moderator to help folx stay in their time limit
6. Please offer content warnings for any seriously triggering subjects presented in your story
7. Censoring will not be employed, but if a story being presented is clearly breaking Community Agreements or causing clear harm to the audience, the performer will be asked to leave the stage and future performances may depend on a prescreening from the host.
8. All ages will be in attendance, so plan accordingly.