Ex Fabula Featured on Philanthroper.com on Friday Sept 23, 2011

A big thank you to Philanthroper.com for featuring Ex Fabula as its daily featured non-profit to support on Friday Sept 23rd, 2011! Our mission is to connect storytellers with live audiences to build stronger communities. We run a monthly story slam series from October to May in Milwaukee and do special projects oriented around sharing and listening to true, personal stories.

If you’ve come to our page through the Philanthroper site, welcome! Please look around as we have lots of stories to share in our archives.

Here are some of our favorites to get your started:

Cindy Grover’s Gifts story:

Watch Jeanie Dean’s Stranger in a Strange Land story:

You can click on the tags to the right for “Live Stories Audio” and “Ex Fabula Video” to hear and see more of our great stories.

Terminal Milwaukee is our latest special event series and takes us on a journey following one charismatic native son of Milwaukee, Tom Crawford. We are holding live events over the course of a year to revisit some of the neighborhoods of his life where he tells stories at each one, along with current neighborhood residents telling their own stories about the neighborhood. Historian John Gurda helps share the story of the neighborhood itself through historical vignettes told at each event.

Tom told his first great Ex Fabula story on the theme “Busted”:

You can watch a trailer for the Terminal Milwaukee series here:

Thank you for checking out  Ex Fabula!

 

 

LISTEN! Ex Fabula WMSE Radio Show

Two more Ex Fabula Radio Shows are springing up, featuring stories from our last event at Stonefly with the theme of “Emergency!”  Storytellers will include Lauren Poppen, Brooke Maroldi, and Anja Notanja – that evening’s winner.

To catch these radio shows, tune into WMSE for lunch on Wednesday, April 6th, during the Milwaukee Midweek show airing at noon, or for breakfast on Sunday, April 10th, before Dewey’s Radio Show at 8:30am.

Also, don’t forget that the next Story Slam is coming up quickly: Tuesday, April 12th, at 8pm at the Bay View Brewhaus. You won’t want to miss stories on the theme “Theory & Practice.”

Story by Grant Hagen

Grant Hagen on being a Christmas Santa and balancing his instinct to be a Miracle on 34th Street Santa with his temptation to be a Billy Bob Thorton Bad Santa.

 

Deaduri Gales Christmas Story

Deaduri Gales on why playing Twister alone sucks and how two cousins went from enemies to sisters during a Christmas season filled with tragedy and joy.

 

Milwaukee musician Lisa Gatewood (http://www.lisagatewoodmusic.com/) on growing up poor in Whitefish Bay, wishing for ice cream socials in mansions that never came to fruition and evil Brownie Troop Leaders.

“The mothership was calling me home and the mothership was the Girl Scouts of America.”

 

LISTEN: Ex Fabula Radio on WMSE: Spectacular Preview (upcoming) and Death Defying (full audio available now)

Ex Fabula will be back on the WMSE airwaves on Wednesday, Dec 1 at 12:00 noon for a 30 minute long Spectacular Preview – featuring some of our featured Spectacular storytellers’ stories from previous events as we lead up to the December Spectacular at Turner Hall, Dec 11 8pm. Be sure to tune in to get an audio glimpse of the spectacular storytellers we’ll have.

Today we’ve got previously aired episode of the Ex Fabula WMSE radio show – the theme was Death Defying and featured some great stories pulled from a variety of previous events. This episode featured stories from Drew Brhel, Grant Hagen, Jeanie Dean and Karen Kolberg.

Click below to listen to Death Defying – originally aired on WMSE in September 2010. Thanks to WMSE and Jeremy Kuzniar for producing our radio show!

Ex Fabula WMSE Radio Show 3 Death Defying

Jeanie Dean at Ex Fabula - Photo by Kat Berger

 

LISTEN! Chipmunk “Confession” from Bud Dombrow

Here’s another great story from “Confessions” on Oct 13 at Stonefly. Our next event is TONIGHT at Bay View Brew Haus, 8 pm, with the theme “Neighbors”.

Bud Dombrow had something to get off his chest – about chipmunks…

Click below to listen:

Oct 13, 2010 Bud Dombrow

Thanks to WMSE for recording – their pledge drive is going on now! Click here to donate:  www.wmse.org

Bud. Photo by Kat Berger.

 

LISTEN! Winning Story from “Confessions”

October’s Confessions event at Stonefly brought out a whole variety of confessions! Our next event is Tuesday Nov 9 at the Bay View Brew Haus for “Neighbors” starting at 8 pm – bring your best wacky neighbor story!

To hear Brooke Maroldi‘s Audience Favorite story, click the link below:

Brooke Maroldi “Lifesavers”

Crowning the Audience favorite! Photo by Kat Berger.

LISTEN! Ex Fabula Radio on WMSE 91.7 “Coming Home”

Here is the episode of Ex Fabula Radio that aired the week of Oct 6 on WMSE 97.1 FM. Tune in the first week of each month on Wednesdays at noon and Sundays at 8:30 am to hear more Ex Fabula.

Stories of “Coming Home” from Anthony Umlauf, Amie Losi, Marion Ecks, Bambi Grajer and Bo Johnson, all collected from various events.

Ex Fabula Radio on WMSE – October 10

 

 

Ex Fabula for your eyes, ears and person (and stuff) this week!

For your eyes:

ALL STARS VIDEO

This video captures memorable moments from all of the storytellers on May 14, 2010 at Turner Hall.

Thanks to our wonderful All Star storytellers:

Anthony Umlauf

Leah Leone

Tom Crawford

Brian Moore, Liza Bielby and Barney Baggett

Drew Brhel

Paul Finger

Laura and Stephanie Halfmann

Thanks to High Frequency Media for capturing this event to share with everyone!

For your ears:

EX FABULA RADIO (#2)

Airing on WMSE on Wednesday Aug 4 at 12:00 noon and Sunday Aug 8 at 8:30 am. Tune in or listen online at wmse.org!

Featuring great stories from Season 1 and some brand new stories from our summer Guerrilla Story Slam.

For your person (and stuff):

Event: EX FABULA SHOW & TELL, Thursday AUG 5

Join us at the MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM on Thursday August 5 from 6-8:00 p.m. for Grown Up Show & Tell. Bring a special item and tell a story about it!
If you want to tell a story, come by 5:30 pm to sign up. This is a low-key FREE event with no strict time limits.

The event will be held outdoors on the Museum Terrace. Check out the American Quilt Exhibit while you’re there!

This event is sponsored by our good friends WMSE!