Come join us, Storyteller!

Campfire Stories is a friendly Friday evening event for East Bay kids, ages 4-10 and their grownups. It features live music, a story by the fire, and then socializing and s’mores.

Campfire Stories is currently held at Mariposa Garden, which is an intimate private space in North Oakland. Possible future location is Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland. 

2026 Campfire Stories will be held: 

• Friday March 6, performer call time 4:00 PM, event ends 6:45 PM
• Friday May 22, performer call time 5:30 PM, event ends 8:30 PM
• Friday July 31, performer call time 5:30 PM, event ends 8:30 PM
• Friday September 25, performer call time 4:30 PM, event ends 7:30 PM

Sound fun?

We’re looking for stories that are approximately 20 minutes long, and we value stories which:

• Encourage full-body audience participation 
• Are memorized / “in the jawbone” as opposed to read from a book 
• Draw from the realms of fairytales, folktales, and ancestral stories
• Have resonance with part of a natural cycle (more on that below)

Our events feature live music, and you will have the opportunity to request some collaboration from the evening’s musician. We hold one pre-show artistic talk-through which gives the musician and storyteller a chance to say hello and make a plan for collaboration if the spirit moves them.

We offer a Storyteller stipend of $100 per event.

Fill out the short form on this page and if we’re a fit we’ll be in touch!