poster - please check for typos ?

Please click on image to open in a new window and it will enlarge and then you can check for spelling - most punctuation is ignored for graphic impact...

need to wait until meeting on MON

All PR can be put together but we need to wait until meeting with club owner to publish anything. I for one would like to use the Moth lightly and build who we are...

We do have this story slam proposal we took to the pubs:

The Bitter End, one of the hosts of The Moth draws sellout crowds week after week… people of all ages and walks of life wait in line to tell their story –even though only 10 will be chosen at random – they come by the 100s to tell each other their stories. They pay $7 cover and buy a 2-drink minimum to listen to 5-minute stories… They fill the club at 7PM & are out by 10PM at the latest. The Bitter End has headliners come in for a second show.

massmouth is a group of Massachusetts’s professional and amateur storytellers looking for an indoor venue for our popular monthly "mouthoffs". The Moth in NYC currently has sell out crowds for story slams and we think we use the “slam” event format and massmouth can build to lines around the block, waiting for stories too.
We would like to propose that one Monday a month massmouth will host a mouthoff /story slam in your establishment. We have portable sound, experienced emcees, networks for promotion and you have the place. This being Boston – we could open the doors at 6PM and we could start 7 sharp. We can work out the door/gate/ money issues in a way that works for us, for you and your customer’s comfort.

A story slam is a contest and great entertainment. It can build clientele for you and builds audience for oral tradition and stories for us. We have been performing all year, but are looking for an inside venue and partnership starting in late OCTOBER. We can pass the hat and/ or charge admission, and/or a 2-drink minimum (the Bitter End in NYC does admission and 2 drinks for their Moth events ) and we would post stories that we record on YouTube and throughout our social networks like myspace,Facebook and ning. Great free viral advertising , business on a MON or TUE can be slow.

massmouth story, and your establishment have a natural affinity that will be especially potent for marketing and PR and win/win situation for all.

Some Ideas about storyslam

Hi all,

I think I have talk my friend into writing an article about us and connected with Moth. She is a freelancer, but has connections and it might get published. I can send her stuff on Moth, but not sure what to say about our "thing" - what are we calling it?? - do we have a short, descriptive outline of what it is?

She also mentioned that Moth does a radio show on Sat. on NPR from 7-8 I believe.

Send me your idea so I can pass them on to her asap

I can also list the event on Stage Source, since I am a member - it is a org. for theatre and performing people ( its where I get free tickets for many local plays and job postings ( hint - if anyone wants to see a play I can email you the list I get each week - I have been going alone, but would love company - I usually get 4 tickets)

PS - massmouth now has its own sound system - got one for cheap off of Ebay - this way Norah can save here expensive stuff for her gigs, and this will be available anytime for use by massmouth. Should come by next week, has mike, wheels + handle for easy transport - plug in or battery powers - even has an Ipod slot for music before hands, in between acts, ect.

judge and mini features to call?

I think we will need at least 50 names to get the 20 or so solid peeps we need

We also need to be sure what we are telling them so we all say the same thing. here is what I remembered...

1, must join mm to be a part of it...
2. if they agree to judge get a mini feature 3 min story which will be at beginning or end of each set ( four mini features)
3. if not a judge then get the member bag select choice to tell
4. if not enough tellers, then gauranteed a place in line up.


Who Judge/ mini feature/will come?notes date Who
1. Karen Chace
2. Bob Reiser
3. Laura Packer
4. Kevin Brooks
5. Bruce Marcus
6. Jim LaChapelle
7. Cindy Marshall
8. Tony Toledo
9. Merril Kolhofer
10. Judith Black
11. Michael And…
12. Elsa Zuniga
13. Christian deT..
14. Jackson Gilman
15. John Porcino
16. Joey Talbot
17. Peggy Melan…
18. Lani Peterson
19. Susan Lenoe
20. Diane Edge…
21. Elisa Pearmain
22. Nicolette Heavy
23. Bonnie Green…
24. Eshu
25. Motoko
26. Tim Van Eg..
27. Libby Frank
28. Leeny DelSea…
29. Bambi Good
30. Anna Adler
31. Mei Lin
32. Tim Seston
33. Katie Green
34. Vernon Cox
35. Lynne Cullen
36. Heleena Leet
37. Kate Chadb…
38. Bonnie Rankin
39. Nina LaNegra
40. Doug Lipman
41. Alicia Quintano
42. George Capa…
43.Jo Radner - sometimes in Boston area?
44. Andrew Potter?

Theses don't have to be tellers - could still judges or just come for support

45. three apples folks??
46. Guy who ran book store in Medford ( where Laura P. did her thing/did 3 A. book store)
47. How about some local librarians who support storytelling??
48. The women who is running the Cambridge Storytelling Group
49.Reporters from Phonix, Tab, etc.
50.If they are still in town - people from Moth who are coming here!

5

Stu is this color

Paste this into a chart - judge and mini features to call?

Great start on a list Andrea...

Reports from Meetings

Report from Sally Penta CPA:
• there is no tax advantage to registering as a company with a dba
• each of us can and should deduct expenses and payments from our massmouth work as we go
• this year continue as we are
• we should incorporate and be nonprofit unless it IS our intention to turn a profit ( on storytelling ? for real? – I do not think so - I am not worried )

my thoughts-
it costs $75 to join VLA – volunteer lawyers for the arts and they can help us ?
and later we could proceed to incorporate. APPLICATION FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE (Non-Profit Incorporation) We would fill in both sides of this application as completely as possible and return it with a non-refundable application fee of $250 made payable to: VLA

or
we could ask Three Apples if they want to morph into massmouth, or somehow call us an outreach committee of their organization and incorporate us into them ?Seeing as Three Apples is reorganizing and we are realizing their mission statement this might fly? Something I know that we could run a festival – right ? Our OUT OF THE BOX festival?
Lets think about this one before we do it and what that would mean, would that be another LANES type thing? That is what happened with STF.
They have a board and a misssion that may not be quite the same. We are taking people by surprise and building audiences ,that , may not be there vision. However an alliance may be in keeping with both our missions. Affliation?? P.S. this is Andrea up had trouble with color as you can see. Blue is my color.

Update and Needs

Update :spoke to person for Hub Pub(and we heard from Bull Finch as well) last night and they are interested in massmouth coming and trying it out. Hub Pub is located in midtown , on Province St. Concerns for him

1)never charged cover charge(we could charge drink minimum, seemed to like that)

2) if the red sox get into playoffs need to start in Novemeber

pros and cons for us

1) pro great location, right near the T , 2 colleges around and con noisy

2) great space upstairs ,has food, con has food, and will it be too noisy?

We have one more place to get in touch with then we need to decide what date,and who

we were thinking the 26th to capitalize on Ghost Stories (as everyone(storytellers) know we are most popular at this time of year people are actually looking for us.)Hoping for 26th of October need to move quick just enough time for publicity

We try it out with whoever once ,if successful , we are on. ,Andrea

GREAT NEWS Norah will post I am sure but Kennedys is interested as well which would be my pic. !! Thanks Norah for following up and walkin the walk n talkin the talk.

so we need a date we were tossing around the 26th , lots of works ahead for publicity if this works out.

We Need

We'll need to do a lot of work:

1. write and send out GOOD pr!
2. call 50 people 9 storytellers ( we will get 1/2) to come
3. we need judges, calculators - big # s on cards ( a la Olympics)
4. write story slam rules
5. write story tips
6. write faq
7. decide - pass the hat or cover/
8. decide how the drinks work - a ticket at the door - buy for $ 5 and get whatever drink for that amount ? Just have waitresess enforce?