Bring Your Own
Series produced by Bring Your Own
Bring Your Own is a nomadic storytelling series in New Orleans that takes place in living rooms, backyards and other intimate spaces within the community. Each month, eight storytellers have seven minutes to respond to a theme. BYO airs on NPR member station WWNO and is a biweekly podcast on WWNO.org. Listen to stories at bringyourownstories.com or susbcribe on itunes.
ing Your Own is a live storytelling pop-up series that takes place in living rooms, backyards, after-hours storefronts and other intimate spaces within the New Orleans community. Each month, seven storytellers have seven minutes to respond to a theme. Stories are told live, unscripted, and true to the teller.Bring Your Own was founded by Liam Daniel Pierce in March of 2012. Storytellers volunteer prior to the event and are judged by three audience members to determine a winner, whose story is guaranteed for radio production. Winners subsequently choose the next month’s theme.As a pop-up organization, our events rotate and put previously unknown, underutilized and private spaces on the public map. Each event takes on the character of its environment; the success of the night is as... Show full description
Additional Files
- Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Producer (Screen_shot_2012-09-24_at_10.01.55_AM.png)
- Nina Feldman, Producer (b8da4db1d8e4eb96546f05121af3c1142a51f4a3811c542b6fcc2ccf6e6000fa-large.jpeg)
9 Pieces
- Added: Nov 02, 2013
- Length: 06:11
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 05:53
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 05:12
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 03:54
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 06:00
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 07:00
- Added: Oct 10, 2012
- Length: 03:27
- Added: Oct 14, 2012
- Length: 05:23