Story Week 2024’s program to foster ‘Common-Unity’

“We have so many avenues for passive consumption of art: TV, film, books, songs. We don’t need another celebration that divides artist from audience,” the director of Story Week, Miles Merrill, explains to ArtsHub. “A lot of people want to be heard and seen. They want to participate in the creative process. Everyone has a story and an urge for creativity, otherwise YouTube would have failed. The aim of Story Week is to pass the mic around. Spin the spotlight around to people who aren’t ‘on the bill’. That’s what slams do and what our Story Dinners do – where everyone who attends shares a story and a meal. Story Week is a deepening the human experience beyond consumption to creative communication.”