The Moth

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For other uses, see The Moth (disambiguation).
The Moth Radio Hour
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Other names The Moth
Genre Storytelling
Running time 60 minutes
Country  United States
Language(s) English
Syndicates Public Radio Exchange
Host(s) Catherine Burns
Sarah Austin Jenness
Jenifer Hixson
Meg Bowles
George Dawes Green
Producer(s) Jay Allison
Viki Merrick
Whitney Jones
Exec. producer(s) Sarah Haberman
Air dates since 2009
No. of series 7
No. of episodes 96
Opening theme The Drift, ‘Uncanny Valley’
Website The Moth site
Podcast The Moth podcast

The Moth is a non-profit group based in New York City dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling.[1] Founded in 1997, the organization presents storytelling events across the United States and abroad, often featuring prominent literary and cultural personalities.[1] The Moth offers a weekly podcast and in 2009 launched a national public radio show, The Moth Radio Hour, which won a 2010 Peabody Award.[2][3] The 2013 story collection The Moth: 50 True Stories reached #22 on The New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Best-Seller List.[4]

Overview

The Moth was founded in 1997 by poet and novelist George Dawes Green, who wanted to recreate the feeling of sultry summer evenings in his native Georgia, when moths were attracted to the light on the porch where he and his friends would gather to spin spellbinding tales.[1][5] George and his original group of storytellers called themselves "The Moths", and George took the name with him to New York.[1] The organization now runs a number of different storytelling programs in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, and other American cities (16, as of April 2014), often featuring prominent literary and cultural personalities.

Live events and programs

The Moth features several different varieties of live shows, all dedicated to the art of first person storytelling.[1][6]

The Moth Mainstage is their curated flagship program, which is a "staple" of the literary scenes in New York City and Los Angeles and regularly tours around the United States and the world as The Moth on the Road.[6][7][8]

The organization also holds The Moth StorySLAM events, open mic storytelling competitions open to everyone in cities across the United States, including New York City, Detroit, Chicago, Louisville, Ann Arbor, Pittsburgh, Cambridge, and Los Angeles.[6][9] The format was inspired by and is similar to poetry slams.

For the StorySLAM, ten participants are chosen at random from a pool of volunteer storytellers to tell a true story (without notes) in the five to six-minute range. Storytellers are scored by three teams of judges—selected from audience members—on a scale of one to ten. The storyteller with the highest score will then advance to The Moth GrandSLAM, which is typically held two or three times annually in the same city as the StorySLAM and is generally a more formal affair.

The MothSHOP Community Education Program offers storytelling workshops free of charge to "students and disenfranchised adults in underserved neighborhoods."[6] The MothSHOP Corporate program "trains employees to utilize the power of storytelling to promote their goals and ideas."[6]

In 2012 The Moth launched the High School Slam program, which brings Story SLAMs to public high schools in New York City. They currently hold slams at twelve high schools in three boroughs.

Broadcasting

The Moth offers a weekly podcast, which provides free audio of stories from all types of Moth events.[6] The podcast has over 70,000 subscribers and averages over 1 million downloads a month.[6] In August 2009, the organization also launched a national public radio show, The Moth Radio Hour, produced by Jay Allison and distributed by Public Radio Exchange.[2][6] In the fall of 2009 The Moth Radio Hour was licensed by more than 200 public radio stations, and it later won a 2010 Peabody Award.[2][3][6]

Publishing

The Moth: 50 True Stories
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Editor Catherine Burns
Author Various
Country United States
Language English
Genre Storytelling
Publisher 2013 (Hyperion Books)
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 432
ISBN 978-1401311117

On September 3, 2013 Hyperion Books published The Moth: 50 True Stories, a collection of stories from the group's performance history. In December 2013 it reached #22 on The New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Best-Seller List.[4]

Storytellers

As of the end of 2013, over 10,000 stories have been told at The Moth.[10] Storytellers include:

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The organization's annual fundraising event is called the Moth Ball. At this event they present the Moth Award, celebrating the art of the raconteur. Past awards have gone to Garrison Keillor,[49] Salman Rushdie,[50] Anna Deavere Smith,[51] Calvin Trillin,[52] Spalding Gray (posthumously),[53] Martin Scorsese,[54] and Albert Maysles.[55]

References

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Further reading

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External links

  • Official website
  • The Moth, on SoundCloud
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