The Living Room - Story Time for Grownups.

Calling all Story Tellers! The Living Room Story-time is a space for friends, neighbors and perfect strangers who are comfortable in front of an audience and want to share their stories in order to satisfy a need for creativity and connection.  The story time gathering features six true to life stories for mature audiences that focus on varying adventures about love, sex, death, health and spiritual transformation. The event begins at 7:00 pm.  The stories are not an open mic.  They are not exactly rehearsed, read nor memorized. They are organized. Come and listen to the Living Room Stories on the First Saturday of the month. 

First Saturdays @ 7 pm.
at: UNITY CHURCH OF AUSTIN
5501 W US Highway 290
West Bound Access Road
78735

So...You Want To tell A Story?

To share your story at our monthly gathering, we encourage you to attend a free monthly HOW TO TELL A STORY lunchtime workshop at the Twin Oaks library. After we receive your sign up request, we send you notices about the next one. If you are unable to attend a workshop, you can still sign up to tell a story here. We contact you soon after to  hear the story you want to tell. Click below to sign up. 

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“The Living Room Story-time feels like a family reunion. It’s like a family obligation—but in a good way!”
—Adriene Mishler international Yoga Instructor
“The Living Room Story-time feels like a family reunion. It’s like a family obligation—but in a good way!”
—Adriene Mishler International Yoga Instructor
“Garcia-Crow is no ordinary matriarch. She's neither here nor there – an in-between sort of woman. . .she is a somewhat eccentric jill-of-all-trades: an actress, director, playwright, screenwriter, mother, musician, filmmaker, dreamer, psychic, and storyteller rolled into one. She even wrote reviews of dance and art shows for the Austin Chronicle in its nascency but discovered that she could never be a journalist because of her penchant for telling alternate truths. "I had no interest in fact," she says. "I know for a fact that truth is not a reality. What is true for you cannot be true for me!" So Garcia-Crow abandoned her journalistic pursuits and stuck with theatre – and storytelling at The Living Room.
—Jillian Owens,The Austin Chronicle
“The stories at the Living Room are a means of personal growth. Whenever I have told one, it has been scary but it’s one way I have gotten over my own fear and opened up about part of my life that might not be as acceptable or normal. It helps me to remember. As I grow older, there's so much that is lost if it's not relived."
Greta GardnerPd.D
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Appeal - A New American Musical
of Mexican Descent

By Austin Community College. 

Oct. 11 – Oct 27 ( Fridays + Sundays) 

For Tickets and info: https://sites.austincc.edu/adm/2024/08/26/appeal-symposium-september-12-14/

 

Set in South Texas and Washington D.C. between the 1940s and 1960s, “APPEAL the New American Musical of Mexican Descent” introduces the historic vaudeville-like tent show “La Carpa Garcia” to tell the true story of Texas Civil Rights attorney Gustavo “Gus” Garcia. Winning a landmark case in 1954 which made it possible for people of color to finally have their equal place on juries, Gus’ success as the first Latino to argue a case in the Supreme Court, came at a high cost when he died homeless on a park bench in 1964, burying his monumental contribution to US Civil Rights history with him.”connection.  

Appeal: The New American Musical of Mexican Descent is based on a true story.
Books and Lyrics by Amparo Garcia-Crow
Music and additional lyrics by Arthur Shane
Director: Carl Gonzales
Music Director: Julian Gamez-Arizola

Events + Community

Create. Collaborate. Celebrate. It all happens in Community.
2024 will be a great year for us to be and stay connected. 

WHAT IS A BARDO WORKSHOP/RETREAT? The Bardo workshops are a series of four seasonal intensives that explore the transitional states of birth, living, dying and death. By using drama therapy, movement, memoir techniques and “presence” practices, the participants explore role playing, dance and self-presentation to investigate and gain insight into their lives. The focus is to uncover their disembodied aspects and behaviors that keep them from “birthing” fully into authentic, expressive and joyful beings!

The two day workshops are purposefully at a private residence so that community is cultivated as a safe container to witness and inspire inter-connection.  DATES FOR 2024 TBA

Ampie you are one of the most aware and considerate humans I have ever met, especially as a event host. When she facilitates the Bardo workshops, she noticed everything, she appreciates everything and because she is so wise she's a fabulous teacher storyteller mother friend actor writer mentor— truly the best. I admire her as well as love her.
—Clara RiccobonoBardo attendee
"Being with Amparo is like looking at a map of a wild- undiscovered world. Full of all the surprise. The way she researches, seeks and learns from whoever she coaches is riveting. I always feel on the edge of my seat with her. The way her magical brain connects does not allow a private session with her to be otherwise.”
Jack DarlingAward-winning writer and magician
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Creative Life Coaching
with Amparo Garcia-Crow

You’re successful, yet unfulfilled.

You have done everything that was expected of you.

You have developed a sense of responsibility and obligation and in the process lost what you are passionate about.

Jumpstart your next creative inspiration with Amparo. Through zoom or phone, she offers you new perspectives regarding the power of play and improvisation in life and work. 

The Sessions.

Through individual discovery sessions she designs with you a plan to practice and build an awareness of who you are by design. The plan, inspired by what you want to create from scratch, is designed to help you begin the idea you want to complete. Amparo, a former professor in the Performing Arts and in Creative Writing supports you to create a took box that begins to access your strengths, inner wisdom and talents to jumpstart your project.

 

Session Details:

Deadlines are created to support you to make your creativity a priority and to meet your goals in three ways:

Step 1 – A Walk through, talk through the Life You’re Living

Step 2 – The creation of the plan with the action steps you are committing to create by design

Step 3 –  The continuing development of the practice

For more information or to schedule your first session click below.

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I don't air our stuff much but when participating in Ampie’s BARDO workshop in San Francisco, I was set free to reveal some ancient traumas in the process. Most people don't have the deep understanding of flaws and love. She has a gift for understanding, no judgment, and acceptance of the individua's soul. Saying thank you will never be enough compared to the loving support she genuinely shows for me. I feel so honored to be brought in so close and to self-heal in the safe container she creates.
—Mary Waller, Bardo attendee
“Besides her many creative gifts which I have admired for decades, Amparo magically creates a welcoming community where ever and however-- she is invited to participate!”
Nora Comstock,National and International founder of LAS COMADRES
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