All You Should Need To Know About the Festival
The Festival main page includes links to the storyteller bios, the schedule, tickets, a FAQ, and more. Click on the link below to get to the main festival page, and find all additional links in teal along the left side of the website. We’ve tried to make the website easy to navigate, but we hear you — it can be hard to read.Use the teal links as your guide, and look for a revised home page in 2024!
Schedule
The 2023 Women’s Storytelling Festival starts on Friday March 24, 2023 and runs through Sunday March 26, 2023 at the Old Town Hall in Fairfax City, VA. We are premiering our virtual showcase, online only, at 5:00pm Eastern. The in-person performances at The Old Town Hall, as well as the live-stream, begin at 7:00pm Friday night. The festival concludes around 6:00pm EST on Sunday. Click on the link below for the full festival schedule.
Tickets
For $40, the Virtual Festival Pass gives you access to all 15 plus hours of storytelling live-streamed from the venue, and also for one month after. If you miss any of the live-stream, you have time to catch up.
$60 gets you the In-Person Festival Pass. You can attend all programs from March 24 – 26 in-person, and you also receive the links to watch all of the recordings for one month after. $110 is the cost for a 2 person, in-person ticket.
Both the virtual and in-person passes give you access to vote in the People’s Choice Storytelling show while it’s happening live.
If we do not sell out, we will have in-person tickets available at the door. Virtual ticket sales close on April 1, as everyone has access to the festival videos until April 26.
PLEASE NOTE: You do NOT have to have a Paypal account to purchase. You can “checkout as guest” and pay with a credit card. If you do want to pay with check, please email jessica@bettersaidthandone.com for more info BEFORE March 18.
The People’s Choice Story Contest
The People’s Choice Storytelling Contest will take place on March 25, 2023 at 4:30pm EASTERN, both in-person at The Old Town Hall in Fairfax, VA, as well as streaming live online.
JUDGING will be based on audience votes combined with the judges’ scores. Our judges for the 2023 festival are Sheila Arnold and Noa Baum! Both the in-person audience and virtual audience votes will be counted. Audiences, however, can only vote during the live show, in-person or virtually.
YOU, the audience, MUST HAVE a Festival ticket to vote.
If voting online, the LINK TO VOTE will be shared at the end of the live program. You will need to be able to open a new browser window to vote, and you will be required to enter the email address you used to purchase your ticket. Your (online) vote will not be counted if you do not have a valid email (that matches your ticket purchase email).
Sponsors
Thank you to our 2023 Sponsors – The Bridgeport Art Trail, Capture Video Inc., Fairfax City, Financial Advantage Associates, Luna River Publishing, LLC, The Mary & Cathy Team, and Punchlist Consulting!
Please take a moment to click on our SPONSOR PAGE and find out more about our sponsors.
Interested in performing in a future Women’s Storytelling Festival? Fill out an application here!
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