The Narrators' Westward Expansion
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Good people! The Narrators is a monthly live storytelling show in Denver, CO run by Andrew Orvedahl and Robert Rutherford, where people are invited to come share true stories from their lives based on a changing monthly theme. We also run a podcast of the same name, which culls stories form the live show, and we have a series on Colorado Public Radio called The Narrators' Second Listen (produced by Ron Doyle), which explores the role of storytelling in our daily lives. After moving venues a couple of times to prvide space for our growing audience, we have settled into our home at Buntport Theater in Denver.
The show is guided by the simple notion that listening to stories from other people's lives increases our capacity for empathy, as it allows us to relate to others in their mirrored struggles, victories, and failures. Storytelling is a process by which we are granted perspective, and our growing audience testifies to its value.
Over the course of the last two years, the show has grown and found new opportunities with which to showcase voices within the Denver community. The Narrators have collaborated with the Denver Music Summit to produce an evening of tour stories from local and touring musicians, and recently collaborated with Off-Center at the Jones, a theater within the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, on a theatrical production centered around true stories from past Narrators guests.
Our monthly show is free, and though we do recieve some funding from sponsors to cover the production of our podcast, this stipend can't cover the cost of expanding the podcast. Why are we expanding the podcast? READ ON!
Robert is moving to San Diego in August to pursue a new career opportunity, and we see this as a chance to grow the show, so we are launching this campaign to purchase podcasting equipment so that The Narrators can begin producing content from Denver, San Diego, and Los Angeles.
Here's our wish list, our goal, the equipment that we need to purchase and how much it's gonna cost:
Zoom H6 recorder - $399
AKG K490nc Headphones - $250
2x Shure Beta SM-58a Microphones - $320 ($159 each)
2x 8 GB SD Cards - $50 ($24.99 each)
Cables, Mic stands, windscreens - $180
We are looking to raise $1200 total.
We'll be raising funds at our live shows, selling posters and using donations from beer and wine to get us there, but we sure could use your help.
If you have ever been moved by, connected with, or have gained new perspective from a story that you have heard on our show, then please donate. If you value the role of good old fashioned yarn spinnin' among different people in the community, please donate. If you are trying to get into impress a love interest with your sense of philanthropy, please donate. If you want to see more photos of Andrew and Robert in their underpants, please donate. Every red cent you toss our way gets us closer to bringing what we do, and what the storytellers we host do, to a much wider audience.
The show is guided by the simple notion that listening to stories from other people's lives increases our capacity for empathy, as it allows us to relate to others in their mirrored struggles, victories, and failures. Storytelling is a process by which we are granted perspective, and our growing audience testifies to its value.
Over the course of the last two years, the show has grown and found new opportunities with which to showcase voices within the Denver community. The Narrators have collaborated with the Denver Music Summit to produce an evening of tour stories from local and touring musicians, and recently collaborated with Off-Center at the Jones, a theater within the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, on a theatrical production centered around true stories from past Narrators guests.
Our monthly show is free, and though we do recieve some funding from sponsors to cover the production of our podcast, this stipend can't cover the cost of expanding the podcast. Why are we expanding the podcast? READ ON!
Robert is moving to San Diego in August to pursue a new career opportunity, and we see this as a chance to grow the show, so we are launching this campaign to purchase podcasting equipment so that The Narrators can begin producing content from Denver, San Diego, and Los Angeles.
Here's our wish list, our goal, the equipment that we need to purchase and how much it's gonna cost:
Zoom H6 recorder - $399
AKG K490nc Headphones - $250
2x Shure Beta SM-58a Microphones - $320 ($159 each)
2x 8 GB SD Cards - $50 ($24.99 each)
Cables, Mic stands, windscreens - $180
We are looking to raise $1200 total.
We'll be raising funds at our live shows, selling posters and using donations from beer and wine to get us there, but we sure could use your help.
If you have ever been moved by, connected with, or have gained new perspective from a story that you have heard on our show, then please donate. If you value the role of good old fashioned yarn spinnin' among different people in the community, please donate. If you are trying to get into impress a love interest with your sense of philanthropy, please donate. If you want to see more photos of Andrew and Robert in their underpants, please donate. Every red cent you toss our way gets us closer to bringing what we do, and what the storytellers we host do, to a much wider audience.
Organizer
Robert Rutherford
Organizer
Denver, CO