Every year, we host live shows - in person and online - Around the world with all kinds of storytellers: researchers, doctors, and engineers, of course, but also patients, poets, comedians, and more. Our team’s favorite stories from those shows land on our weekly podcast. Some of the stories are heartbreaking, others are hilarious. They're all true and all very personal.

Scroll down to learn more about our work, including educational programming that aims to bring the power of science storytelling to all.

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Facing Death: Stories about confronting one's mortality
Facing Death: Stories about confronting one's mortality

On a flight to St. Louis, the plane Brad Lawrence is on, needs to make an emergency landing, and while Keven Griffen is doing field work in Sierra Nevada a wildfire breaks out.

 

Live Shows

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Phoenix, AZ - Perspective
Apr 26
Arizona Science Center
Phoenix, AZ - Perspective
Arizona Science Center

Join us for an evening of true, personal stories about science in Phoenix, Arizona!

Arizona Science Center
New York, NY - Faith
Apr 29
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New York, NY - Faith
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Join us for an evening of true, personal stories about finding (and losing) faith: in ourselves, in others, and - of course - in science.

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New York, NY - Moving On
May 31
Q.E.D. Astoria
New York, NY - Moving On
Q.E.D. Astoria

Stories about letting go and looking ahead.

Q.E.D. Astoria
The Story Collider Presents: 50 years of Sending People Underwater
Jun 2
Theater at St Jean's
The Story Collider Presents: 50 years of Sending People Underwater
Theater at St Jean's

Join the The Story Collider and the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society for an evening filled with stories that will transport you beneath the waves

Theater at St Jean's
Proton Prom 2024
Jun 10
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Proton Prom 2024
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This June 10, 2024 The Story Collider will host its fourth annual Proton Prom!

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Each year, we help hundreds of STEM professionals and science enthusiasts learn to use the power of storytelling to enhance their scholarly communication, classroom teaching, public engagement, advocacy work, and more.

From guest lectures and keynote addresses to weekly seminar series to two-day retreats, our educational programming can be offered in online, hybrid, and in-person formats and customized to fit your schedule and goals.

 

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Facing Death: Stories about confronting one's mortality
Facing Death: Stories about confronting one's mortality

On a flight to St. Louis, the plane Brad Lawrence is on, needs to make an emergency landing, and while Keven Griffen is doing field work in Sierra Nevada a wildfire breaks out.

Full Circle: Stories about going back to the start
Full Circle: Stories about going back to the start

Gregor Posadas joins the army to pursue his dreams of becoming an engineer and fulfill his father’s wish of “fixing” their home country of the Philippines, and after losing his father as a young child, Nanduh Balakrishnan feels compelled to use his school savings to buy a life saving drug for a patient at the hospital he’s working at.

This Is Why We Play: Stories about motivation
This Is Why We Play: Stories about motivation

While constantly staring at Mercury’s craters for NASA's MESSENGER mission, a picture of the Galapagos Islands captures Paul Byrne’s attention, and while serving in the navy to get his engineering degree, David Estrada is struck by the level of poverty he witnesses on the tiny island of East Timor.

Disgust: Stories about feeling revulsion
Disgust: Stories about feeling revulsion

While on a school trip in Russia, Cassandra Hartblay’s vegetarian dietary restrictions keep getting tested, and as a meat lover, Jenny Kleeman has high hopes for the world’s first lab-grown chicken nugget.

Taking You With Me: Stories about precious memories
Taking You With Me: Stories about precious memories

After constantly living in the shadow of her older sister, RJ Millena isn’t sure how to carve her own path, and when Jasmine Anenberg finds out her high school friend overdoses while she’s working in the field, she starts to see the world differently.

Checking On You: Stories about concern for others
Checking On You: Stories about concern for others

Dave Kalema keeps lying to his sick mother about how bad his knee injury is, and Dionne C. Monsanto doesn’t know how to help her daughter with her mental illness.

Pi vs. Pie: Stories about Pi Day
Pi vs. Pie: Stories about Pi Day

After her colleagues make fun of the pie she brings on Pi Day, Desiré Whitmore decides she will never again celebrate Pi Day, and math teacher Theodore Chao goes all out for Pi Day at his school.

Temperature Rising: Stories about forest fires
Temperature Rising: Stories about forest fires

In college, Nick Link almost burns down the entire neighborhood when he and his friends set some Christmas trees on fire, and after moving to America from Mumbai, Urvi Talaty feels like she has finally escaped the heavily polluted air that choked her as a kid.

Am I The Problem?: Stories from CZI's Rare As One Project
Am I The Problem?: Stories from CZI's Rare As One Project

When Riley Blevin’s son gets diagnosed with a rare disease, it changes his life, and Heidi Wallis becomes completely obsessed with trying to fix her daughter.

Love Story: Stories with a happily ever after
Love Story: Stories with a happily ever after

Scientist Bruce Hungate yearns to find someone who cares about the tiny details as much as he does, and science reporter Ari Daniel and his wife are at odds when it comes to moving their family to Lebanon, but the pandemic changes things.