The Cicada Story Slam

Season 3, Episode 1 | Welcome to another year of Cicada story telling! Some wonderful stories on the theme ‘Beginnings’ at the slam this week. We heard stories about when it all began, the start, the seed, the moment, the first step. We heard about ideas and firsts of all kinds.

Season 2, Episode 8 | Tonight we heard some very sentimental words from our contestents. Here is a summary of some of the stories we heard.

Season 2, Episode 6 | A lively night of stories on the theme of ‘Hidden Treasures'.  Highlights include -

Laurel Freeland: Photos of her grandchildren take her back to a time of sneaking off from school, barbecues in the bush. They forgot to extinguish their fire, this meant trouble. A man on a tractor puts out the fire, what a great hidden treasure to find in the bush.

Season 2, Episode 5 | An enthralling night of stories as part of the Words in Winter festival. As always the fire was on in the back room at the Daylesford Hotel with a full house of guests listening to local stories.

Season 2, Episode 3 | The Longest night certainly inspired a range of stories from Don’s story of the birth of his premmie son, Kevin's story of the Beatles tour of America in 1964 and then John Lennons death in New York 16 years later, Leticia’s performance to a muted audience in the US and Toby told a story of his sister playing tricks on him and his relationship with dogs.

Season 2, Episode 2 | What a great night! We love our new venue - at the back of the Daylesford Hotel. It is cozy and warm, and well, it's a bar...

Season 2, Episode 1 | Welcome to a whole new season of The Cicada Story Slam Podcast. We had a wonderful turnout on Thursday night - many thanks to all those who turned up to support our first Slam.

Nicki Marshall is the winner of the first season of the Cicada Story Slam with her story "Everything is Connected".

Meg is the tied winner of the "Local Heroes" Story Slam.