Ivywild School

Ten Reasons to Participate in Your Local Storytelling Community

Verbal storytelling is a slowly dying art. It’s like handwriting and mail correspondence. It used to be a way of spreading history and teaching lessons, building memory, and defining reality through various means, which could be passed from generation to generation. The beauty of storytelling is that each person who steps on to the stage has a personal truth they wish to communicate. These stories offer lessons, entertainment, and humor, and they

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Hear, Here! A Night with Andrea Gibson

Hear, Here! was the chant, and sponsor, of the night at Ivywild School in Colorado Springs as female poets Susan Peiffer, Nicole Wilkinson, Denali Gillaspie, and legend Andrea Gibson graced the stage of the old school auditorium. Gibson said that she had performed at a church once, expecting it to have been overtaken by artists and converted like the Ivywild School, but it was just a regular church. Self-styled cynic and revolutionary

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The Ivywild School: Grand Old Tradition, Brand New Perspective

When I ask people if they’ve ever been to the Ivywild School, they say, “Why would I want to go to a school?” When I explain what the Ivywild School has become, they ask, “Where is it? I want to check it out!” Those who visit the school will discover that the only thing school-like about it is the theme. The rest is a progressive, fun place to eat, drink,

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