Interstitium: The Moment of Truth

Join us for Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative’s Seventh Seattle Live Storytelling Event. We invite you to tell a medicine or health-related story on the theme: Moment of Truth. We are seeking story-tellers and story-appreciators, as we gather together to build a narrative medicine community.

Your story can be funny, serious, heartfelt, absurd, or lyrical. It can be expressed as a narrative, poem, song, movement, or any genre of your liking around the theme Moment of Truth.

Story guidelines:

• 7 minutes or less
• may be read from a written story, or told extemporaneously
• please maintain patient/people privacy and don’t use actual names unless you have permission
• story content can range from serious to funny to absurd to dramatic
• the event will not be recorded
• the event will not be judged

We reserve the right to curate the event. We strive to maintain an emotionally safe environment for all, and we will not tolerate disrespectful behavior.

If you would like to be a Storyteller, please email Stephanie Cooper and Elizabeth Dorn.

• Share with us what the story is about, and how you plan to present it
• Send us your story proposals as soon as you can
• Deadline to apply to be a Storyteller of May 22
• We will choose 8 stories from the submissions that best compliment one another

The event will be held indoors. Proof of vaccination status and wearing a mask will be required. 

Tickets $15