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.

NATURE

Prepare a five-minute story about life on earth. From the great, wide-open outdoors to the wee, uncharted interiors of the human mind. Think: salt of the earth, strong as an ox, sturdy as an oak, peas in a pod, a thorn in my side, treated like dirt! An inevitable force to be reckoned with. Beautiful, punishing, restorative.