A storytelling show about you—the audience—The Campfireball is created spontaneously out of whatever stories and lives happen to be gathered together inside Story Parlor at that moment in time. There’s nothing to prepare and nothing to fear—participation is never required, and the show is just as much fun to sit back and watch unfold as it is to play along. Come on out for a night of storytelling you will literally never be able to experience again. Never possible to know what’s coming next, each Campfireball slowly begins to reveal surprises, connections, and communitas as the space transforms from a room of strangers to a room of neighbors.
Workshopped and developed over two years in the master's program for storytelling at East Tennessee State University and showcased at the 2023 Asheville Fringe Festival, host/storyteller Cory Howard (National Storytelling Festival, Moth Grand Slam winner) blends intimacy and absurdity in an effort to shepherd the audience through ridiculous yet reverent ways of drawing out their life experiences.
This month’s theme is YEARNING. What do you want? What do you really want?...And what would you do if you got it? So many aspects of our lives are built around the constant pursuit of SOMETHING (love/families/$$$/careers/successes/hobbies/faiths/stuff/more stuff/streaming subscriptions/happiness/fun/even more stuff/etc/etc), this month The Campfireball dives into whatever it is that keeps our yearning fires burning. What have we chased, what have we searched for, what have we gained, what have we lost, what have we cast aside in pursuit of something else? Have any of us found satisfaction or contentement, and if so, how? And, also, really? Really REALLY?? Join us in June as we swap tales and unpack the often irritating but none-the-less steady passenger we call Yearning.