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Welcome to
Healing Story Alliance
Founded over 25 years ago, Healing Story Alliance is an alliance of artists and practitioners who view storytelling as a healing art. HSA currently offers dynamic programming and online resources that promote healing of the self, society, and the earth. We are no longer a member-based organization requiring dues. We welcome anyone into our circle who is interested in the healing power of story to bring about positive change. Join our new mailing list to keep abreast of our offerings! Join our Listserv to engage in robust conversation on the power of healing story.
Upcoming Events
Write about Healing: An Author Interview Series
featuring Author Noa Baum
Sunday, December 8, 2024
7:00-8:30 pm EST
Host: Jo Radner
Admission $15
Join us for the third event in a new Healing Story Alliance series where authors are interviewed about their creative writing processes and the healing power of storytelling. Unique among all narrative arts, storytelling engages listeners in a profound way, deepening our understanding of what healing means and how it functions.
Admission is $15 per ticket. The Author Interview Series are recorded for later viewing by all registrants.
OARS in the Water
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
7:00pm-8:30pm EST
FREE – Donations Accepted with Gratitude
What offers you refuge and reassurance — brings you soul-satisfying happiness? Maybe some form of social mission guides you. Perhaps contemplating a painting, creating a story, cultivating a garden, celebrating a winning game lightens your spirit. Together let’s explore what gives you joy.
Sunday, January 5, 2025
7:00-8:30 pm EST
by The Artist Anubis
Pay What You Are Able $25-$50
Broken Mirror: The Poetic Mosaic of a Broken Mind is a one-man show written, directed, and performed by The Artist Anubis. This production takes audiences inside today’s contemporary Black man’s heart, mind, and fears. Fusing theater and improv into his technique, The Artist Anubis grapples with defining himself as a son, lover, and father—all while in the presence of his therapist. At times, his eloquence feels as if the artist is grasping for sanity and, at other times, his humanity. His introspection reveals the shadows and all that is light as he fights his way back to his mental wellness. Honesty is at the forefront of his performances—all done eloquently by The Artist Anubis in spoken word rhyme, which makes Broken Mirror an enjoyable experience as we relate, asking ourselves which of our truths lie in the pieces.
Anubis takes the audience on an emotional rollercoaster, delivering stories filled with sobering drama and moments of intriguing comedy.” – Behind the Scenes Magazine
About the Artist
Luther “Anubis” D. Isler, poetically known as The Artist Anubis, is a spoken word poet, published author, cultural curator, and community cultivator. Anubis founded Harlem Bomb Shelter, a spoken-word and literary arts organization that presents open mics, showcases, workshops, teen programs, and mentorship.
Anubis is an historic Harlem Writers Guild member and an AUDELCO Award Honoree. He has published an original anthology “My People Burn and Other Visions.” He is an accomplished Off-Broadway producer including “What Would You Do? A Poetry Play” in 2017 and, in 2024, completed an Off-Broadway run of his one-man show “BROKEN MIRROR: A Poetic Mosaic of a Broken Mind” which was nominated for 2 AUDELCO Awards.
NEWS! The Book upon which this concert is based has won a Storytelling World Award!
ABOUT the Healing Story Alliance Website
This website offers resources, guidance and practical applications for storytelling, revealing and reflecting the many facets of healing story in the world today and in the past. In addition to bibliographies, and links, there is a library of articles on Healing Stories and Storytelling. Our acclaimed Journal, Diving in the Moon: Honoring Story, Facilitating Healing, is available from 2013-2017 as an e-journal on the HSA website.
All authored writing on the Healing Story Alliance website is the copyrighted property of its author. These resources are intended for not-for-profit educational use. Any commercial use of resources on this website must be arranged directly with the author of the text or video.
Many are drawn to our site in search of answers or resources for dealing with the pain and tragedy of turbulent current events in the personal, social and global realms. This interest is addressed in our compilations of stories which we encourage you to explore.
- Healing Treasures: Stories intended to precipitate conversation, and guide teaching and healing with participants.
- Stories We Live: Personal stories and methods for gathering and applying life experiences as healing references.
- Stories for Children in Crisis: Compiled by Laura Simms, includes stories, articles, and links, drawn from years of research and professional work with children.
- Stories for Peace: storytelling in pursuit of peace and understanding.
- Healing the Earth: featuring stories contributed by storytellers working in environmental settings or on educational projects with an environmental theme.
HSA was a long standing Special Interest Group of the National Storytelling Network. In 2022 it became fiscally sponsored by Story Arts Inc, a NY state 501(c)(3) arts organization dedicated to the fine art of storytelling and to its educational applications. Story Arts is directed by Heather Forest. As a subsidiary project of Story Arts Inc., HSA functioned as a not-for-profit arts organization under Story Arts Inc.’s fiscal umbrella while establishing it’s own not-for-profit organization in New York State. In January 2023 HSA Inc. received IRS recognition as an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Healing Story Alliance Inc is now an NSN Collaborative Partner.