Community-focused, open-mic storytelling competitions where anyone can share a five-minute story on the night’s theme. These eight to ten lucky audience members, picked at random, vie for the chance to be crowned the night’s StorySLAM champion.

LEFTOVERS

Prepare a five-minute story of what remained. Feelings, dinners, or lingering guests; the time there was too much or not quite enough; or the moment you couldn’t quite end things clearly. Cold pizza for breakfast, the last appetizer on the plate, family heirlooms, seeds of resentment.