The Moth StorySLAM is an open-mic storytelling competition in which anyone can share a true, personal, 5-minute story on the night's theme. Sign up for a chance to tell a story or sit back and enjoy the show!
Tonight’s theme is Family Matters.
**TICKETS GO ON SALE 11/12 AND IT DOES SELL OUT**
[Ticket link - on sale 11/12/2025](https://www.ticketsales.com/freight-and-salvage-tickets/venue?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=438335306&utm_network=o&msclkid=d1e7e049f2a4195f507d895b68d46356)

**Please sign up for the event on Mighty Networks at**
[https://community.fff50.org/events/the-moth-storyslam](https://community.fff50.org/events/the-moth-storyslam)

**FAMILY MATTERS:** Prepare a five-minute story about the people you're bound to by blood, marriage, or choice. Siblings, in-laws, step-relatives, or the chosen family who showed up when it mattered most. Tell us about the holiday meltdowns, the group texts gone rogue. Stories of unconditional love, long-held grudges, and the chaos that only family can bring. Did I do that?
**Doors Open:** **6:00 PM We will meet at 6:15 to meet each other and get seats together .**
**Show Starts:** 7:00 PM
General Admission tickets for Berkeley StorySLAMs go on sale 3 weeks prior to the show date at 12PM PT. StorySLAMs nearly always sell out, so buy early. Please be sure to arrive at least 10 minutes before the show. For sold out shows, a limited number of Standing Room Only (SRO) tickets may be available. SRO tickets only become available after the show starts and are sold at full price. The SRO ticket line usually forms before the show starts. All sales final.
With support from [KQED](https://www.kqed.org/).
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ABOUT THE MOTH
Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of stories told live and without notes. Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase. Each show starts with a theme, and the storytellers explore it, often in unexpected ways. Since each story is true and every voice authentic, the shows dance between documentary and theater, creating a unique, intimate, and often enlightening experience for the audience. The Moth was founded by the novelist George Dawes Green, who wanted to recreate in New York the feeling of sultry summer evenings in his native Georgia, when moths were attracted to the light on the porch where he and his friends would gather to spin spellbinding tales. The first New York Moth event was held in George’s living room and the story events quickly spread to larger venues throughout the city. Led by Executive Director, Sarah Haberman, The Moth conducts eight ongoing programs: The Moth Mainstage, which tours internationally, has featured stories by Elizabeth Gilbert, Hasan Minhaj, Kathleen Turner, Malcolm Gladwell, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, John Turturro, Molly Ringwald, Boots Riley, Krista Tippett, Damon Young, Mike Birbiglia, Rosanne Cash, Danyel Smith and Tig Notaro, as well as an astronaut, a pickpocket, a hot­dog eating champion and hundreds more; The Moth StorySLAM program, which conducts open-mic storytelling competitions in 28 cities: 26 in the US plus Melbourne, AU and London, UK; The Moth Community Program, which offers storytelling workshops and performance opportunities to adults who are too often overlooked by the mainstream media; The Moth Education Program, which brings the thrill of personal storytelling to high schools and colleges in New York, and educators around the world; The Moth Global Community Program, which develops and elevates true, personal stories from extraordinary individuals in the global south; The Moth Podcast—the 2020 Webby People’s Voice Award Winner for Best Podcast Series—which is downloaded more than 100 million times a year; MothWorks, which uses the essential elements of Moth storytelling at work and other unexpected places; and the Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour which, produced by Jay Allison at Atlantic Public Media and presented by PRX, The Public Radio Exchange, airs weekly on over 575 public radio stations nationwide.

Please Note: The Moth StorySLAM is not eligible for the Friend of the Freight Donor Discount. Interested in donating? [Click here.](https://thefreight.org/individual-giving/)
**Tickets: $20.00 (includes all fees)**

Tickets for this event go on-sale **Wednesday, 11/12/25 at 12:00PM.**

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