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Lip Service: True Stories, Out Loud is a live reading event dedicated to presenting the smartest, hottest, and most honest storytelling event in South Florida. Twice a year, Lip Service solicits true stories from the community. From those submissions, Lip Service selects eight stories. Lip Service producers work with the storytellers to edit and rehearse their stories in order to prepare them to be presented in front of a live audience. Lip Service stories are hilarious, heartbreaking, poignant, embarrassing, inspiring, and all true!
Storypalooza! is Lip Service’s open-mic event. Participants present a written 500-word true story and get instant feedback from the Lip Service editing pros.
Tickets: $20 (scroll down to purchase!) Lip Service, Miami’s longest running live storytelling show, kicks off its 14th season on Saturday, May 16 at the Koubek Center in the heart of Little Havana, Miami. About LIP SERVICE: Lip Service solicits true personal stories from the community. Anyone can submit a story (see submission information below). From those submissions, Lip Service selects 8 stories. Lip Service producers work with the selected authors to edit and rehearse their stories, which are presented before a live audience.…
Tickets: $20 (scroll down to purchase!) LIP SERVICE: True Stories, Out Loud is the smartest, hottest, and most honest storytelling event in South Florida. A blend of theater, storytelling, and literature, Lip Service features eight true stories presented before a live audience. The stories presented at Lip Service shows are hilarious, heartbreaking, poignant, embarrassing, inspiring—and all true! Please note: Lip Service stories and language may not be appropriate for children. Come hear great true stories, told by truly great storytellers: Lynne Hyde saves a stray dog that might just save her marriage.…
Thursdays, June 6 – 27 (4 weeks) 7 – 9 p.m. | MDC Wolfson Campus, Downtown Miami The stories presented at Lip Service—Miami’s showcase for true stories presented out loud—are personal, heartfelt, and honest. This four-week course, presented by Lip Service co-producers Esther Martinez and Nicholas Garnett, will show you how to identify, create, and present meaningful personal stories. You’ll learn: What qualifies as a story. How to identify which of your personal stories have what it takes to make a great story.…
Tickets: $20 (scroll down to purchase!) LIP SERVICE: True Stories, Out Loud is the smartest, hottest, and most honest storytelling event in South Florida. A blend of theater, storytelling, and literature, Lip Service features eight true stories presented before a live audience. The stories presented at Lip Service shows are hilarious, heartbreaking, poignant, embarrassing, inspiring—and all true! Please note: Lip Service stories and language may not be appropriate for children. Want to be part of the next show? Send your true,…
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