Cape Cod Community Media Centers Hosts StorySlam Competition

DENNIS PORT – The Cape Cod Community Media Center will be hosting their first StorySlam on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.

The event is a live storytelling competition and will take place on the main stage at the Media Center’s state-of-the-art television studio.

The theme of the 2017 StorySlam is “Lost & Found”.

Pre-registered storytellers from Cape Cod and as far as Texas will be competing for cash prizes.

Judges will be retired Barnstable High School drama teacher John Sullivan, Cape Cod Community College writing professor James Kershner and CEO of Good Natured Dog Productions Alecia Orsini Lebeda.

“It’s wonderful to be able to create and host an event like the StorySlam,” said Terry Duenas, Executive Director of the Cape Cod Community Media Center. “Using the creative expression of the spoken word in this large group, performance setting is exciting and unique and to have the ability to capture the event is really icing on the cake.”

The public is invited with an entry fee of $10 going to prize money for the contestants.