PLEASE NOTE:
BYO – CHAIR, BLANKET, SNACKS, LIBATIONS…THINK CONCERT IN THE PARK!
Arrive for socials at 6:30pm, stories start promptly at 7:00pm.

This will be a live outdoor storytelling event with social distancing measures in place in the parking lot behind Startup Studios. Park at New City Church.

We will be seating the audience in groups with their household members or family over six feet apart from the next group. Please bring seating comfort options “picnic-style” (chairs, blankets, cushions, etc) and libations. Rain date is Wednesday Sept. 9. If you are telling a story, please know we will have sanitation measures in place between each storyteller.

Don’t feel comfortable attending the event in person?: Tune in on Facebook Live to watch Storytellers Presents at 7:00 pm.

FOR DIRECTIONS:
We will be located at 1055 Riverside Drive, behind Startup Studios. The best way to get to the parking lot is to enter in the New City Church entrance and we will direct you from there.

TOPIC: PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES
They say it’s the journey, not the destination, that provides the most opportunity for growth. Your moments in transport are not suspended in time, but rather are an ecosystem all their own. You’re traveling in more than miles, but also creating a vehicle for strange interactions, awe-inspiring sights, and seemingly unexplainable connections.

So get from point A to point B with Storytellers Macon. Give us your best examples of how the “planes, trains, and automobiles” (and bicycles, and boats, and sneakers, and rickshaws…) have influenced you. We’ll be back at our new home at stART Up studios, and ready to hear how you move and why it moved you.

Our featured storyteller is Rachel Umana, the founder and Executive Director of Bike Walk Macon. She works to make bicycling and walking safe, fun, and convenient for everyone in Macon-Bibb County through advocacy, education initiatives, and community events. She is a Mercer University graduate, with a B.A. in Psychology, Social Entrepreneurship, and Spanish. Inspired by her car-free year as an English instructor in Thailand and her passion for exploring her city by bike and foot, Rachel founded Bike Walk Macon in July 2015 with the support of the 8 80 Cities Emerging City Champions Fellowship program. She is a 2018 Leadership Macon graduate, a member of the Downtown Macon Rotary Club, and serves on the Georgia Bikes Board, OneMacon Steering Committee, Pedestrian Safety Review Board, and the MATS Citizens Advisory Committee. She lives in the Tatnall Heights neighborhood with her husband Jon and dog Roxy and loves that fun, food, and friends are all within walking and biking distance.

To sign up to tell a story: https://bit.ly/331nEmu
* Signing up prior to the event is encouraged
* Stories are limited to 5 minutes per person
* Please be mindful of bringing children that stories are uncensored, except for hate speech.