Mar 8, 2025 :: Chapman University :: Founders Day

The Office of Church Relations is excited to host a reinvigorated Founders Day on March 8, 2025 featuring the first ever Chapman StoryHour in which storytellers from the Chapman community will tell real stories and draw us together as community. The theme of the StoryHour is "Oops... I did it again!" Rebecca Anderson, storytelling coach, will help our storytellers craft their narratives in ways that will draw us in and draw us closer together.

June 7 - 9. 2024 :: Sierra Pacific Synod :: Claiming Our Hope

At this annual gathering of 400 clergy and congregants, Rebecca Anderson offered three keynotes, Sunday’s sermon, and hosted an event of synod storytellers who worked together in advance of the conference.

Oct 22, 2019 :: Border Crossings :: 7 pm

Join us for a night of award-winning storytelling, world class music, and local beer (thanks, Marz Community Brewing!) to raise money toward the $8000 it takes to sponsor a family.

Music from Nick Photinos of Eighth Blackbird and Northwestern's Yasuko Oura (Lyric Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera). Stories from Moth Grandslam champion Nestor Gomez (80 Minutes Around the World, Immigration Storytelling), Jitesh Jaggi, and others who now call Chicago, and the U.S., home.

Invite a friend and come make Chicago a more welcoming place. All proceeds go directly to the Bethany-Pilgrim Project (Bethany UCC and Pilgrim Lutheran Church and School), welcoming refugee families to Chicago.

Oct 15, 2019 :: Out At Work

Join us for a riveting, hilarious, and at times heartbreaking night of storytelling, Out in the Workplace: Stories of Telling (or Not Telling) the Team/Client/Contractor of Our Sexual Orientation, and Lessons Learned. Featuring an amazing line-up of tellers from The Moth | Radio Hour and beyond.

The Bulthaup showroom opens at 6pm for food and drinks. Arrive before 7pm to hear the story series tailored for the LGBTQI+ architecture community! 

Organized by AIA Chicago's LGTBQI+ Alliance.

SPONSORED BY: Bulthaup, with support from SCB
HOSTED BY: LGTBQI+ Alliance of AIA Chicago
MEMBER PRICE: Free / NON MEMBER PRICE: Fre

June 24, 2019 :: UCC General Synod :: 930

A Monday night, post-worship, off site, first ever General Synod NEW CHURCH STORY SLAM. Hosted by Gilead Chicago, the United Church of Christ, and Faith INFO. The Gospel is alive in surprising places, lighting the way forward — and sometimes leading us right off the map of what we know about church:

bar church? farm church? the only queer space in the village? a college campus partnership that WORKS?! Listen, imbibe, and witness alongside those who are on the frontlines of faith outside the institutions we (well, some of us) know best.

Listen to Ryan Hart’s story here.

April 28 - May 1, 2019 :: NW Washington Synod

Y’all know who you are (Rostered ELCA Ministers of the NW Washington Synod)! Earshot is so glad to be heading to the Pacific Northwest to explore stories as spiritual formation. We’ll dream together about why and how storytelling matters in congregations (in worship and beyond), generate ideas for our own stories, gather some tools to craft them, and imagine how to help others get at their own stories.

July 12 - 15, 2018 :: Wild Goose Festival :: Hot Springs, NC

Earshot is going back to North Carolina! (Maybe we're regulars now?) Come find Rebecca:

- telling a story as part of opening worship (Thursday night)
- leading "Build a Story" in the Studio Tent (Friday morning at 10)
- hosting a StorySlam in the Studio (Saturday, 4 - 6 pm). Bring your story!
- hosting a story open mic in the Cafe (midnight on Saturday)

May 16, 2018 :: Interfaith Story Slam (Shavu'ote and Pentecost!) 

Some fantastic partners in faith-based crime (Gilead Chicago, Mishkan Chicago, Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church, Chicago, SVARA, Reboot, and Friendship Presbyterian Church) are teaming up for another interfaith story slam.

Celebrate Pentecost (a few days early) and/or Shavu'ote, with dairy food for dayz and stories of Revelations (ah-ha moments, not the apocalyptic book of the bible). Wednesday, May 16. Chicago Theater Works (1113 W. Belmont). Doors at 6:15, stories at 7. Get tickets here.