Tagged: The Monti

The Monti - American Graduate Special is an hour of true stories from the front lines of North Carolina’s high school drop out crisis. It's hosted by Jeff Polish. He's the founder of The Monti, a local non-profit whose stated mission is to create community through the story-telling. For this collaboration with WUNC, Jeff sought out North Carolinians with personal stories to tell about the struggles that get in the way of a successful high school education.

Storytellers and story-lovers gathered for another edition of "The Monti" story slam this week. The theme was "heat." Durham resident Robert Bland's "hot" story was the winner...

The Monti's new season opens September 10th at the Carrboro ArtsCenter. Featured storytellers include Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt and State of Things managing editor Lindsay Foster Thomas.

Here's another story from The Monti story slam. It's a competition of sorts -- where randomly chosen volunteers tell 5-minute stories centered around a theme. This week's theme was "law and order." The winner was Julie MacDonald, a community college teacher who lives in Durham. Her story was recorded live earlier this week at Motorco in Durham.

On March 24th, the local performance story-telling group The Monti held a story slam. It's a competition of sorts -- where randomly chosen volunteers tell 5-minute stories centered around a theme. Last night, the story tellers focused on "Romance" and Amy Scott, a 4th grade teacher from Durham, was one of the crowd favorites.  This is her story recorded live at Casbah in downtown Durham Thursday, March 24th.

Here's a story recorded earlier this week at a story slam put on by The Monti -- it's a local organization that asks people to go on stage and tell a personal story – without a script or notes. At story slams, audience members drop their names into a hat for the chance to tell a five-minute story on a theme. There are judges -- and winners and losers. This week the theme was “vices” and Dave Van Hook got one of the top scores for the night. This is his story – recorded in Durham earlier this week at The Monti’s Story Slam about vices.