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For a few weeks, 聽envisioned their next storytelling event at the 聽as revolving around the festival鈥檚 theme: Blessed are the peacemakers.

Fitting, especially,聽for , which hails from an institutional home with Anabaptist peace-oriented values.

Then, a quick connection with the act to follow 鈥� pastor , author of 鈥淔lipped鈥� 鈥� resulted in a thematic 鈥渇lip鈥� of their own for聽this weekend’s聽performance in Hot Springs, North Carolina. No matter for this experienced group of actors, who rely on their quick thinking, improvisational and artistic skills, and a deep intuitive confidence in each other to spontaneously re-enact stories offered by volunteers in the audience.

Wild Goose, here we come!

A conversation in common

Always seeking new spaces and places to build community through storytelling and theater, Inside Out heads south to camp out and join the fun at the Wild Goose Festival beginning Thursday, July 9. That leaves plenty of time to catch, and enjoy, the vibe for this well-rounded group of 91短视频 faculty, alumni, and graduate and undergraduate students.

The festival 鈥渋s a place where artists, activists, thought leaders and seekers gather in both joyous and serious conversations about living into social justice,鈥� says Inside Out co-founder . 鈥淲e are so excited to be part of that conversation.鈥�

Billed as a celebration of justice, spirituality, music and the arts, Wild Goose鈥檚 myriad of speakers, poets, musicians and performance artists 鈥渋nvite respectful 鈥� but fearless 鈥� conversation and action for the common good,鈥� according the website.

鈥淲ild Goose seems the perfect place to find folks who share our pursuit of community and justice,鈥� adds co-founder . 鈥淭hese are 91短视频 values too!鈥�

Connecting communities in story

Inside Out takes the stage on the last night, at 5 p.m., Saturday, July 11, in the Performance Caf茅. The hour-long 鈥減erformance鈥� begins with fun, simple audience interactions, followed by an invitation to audience members to share a real story from their lives. The actors then provide an unscripted improvisation of the story.

鈥淭he playing back provides the storyteller a chance to witness their own story from the outside, discover new meanings and be affirmed by the community response,鈥� says Vogel. 鈥淲e are all connected, teller, performers and audience. We all witness the transformation together.鈥�

Stories and their tellers are honored in a safe space 鈥渇ormed with respect and dignity,鈥� Foster says.

In a happy coincidence, Inside Out provides what Vogel calls the 鈥渨arm-up act鈥� for Pagitt. She and her husband, David, worked with Pagitt when he was the youth pastor at Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. The couple produced dramas for Wooddale鈥檚 popular weekly youth events, and also produced and directed a nationwide tour of 鈥淟iving on the Edge,鈥� a youth-oriented and youth-performed musical.

After Inside Out鈥檚 storytelling event, Pagitt takes the stage to talk about concepts from his new book, 鈥淔lipped.鈥�

鈥淗is book challenges assumptions and knowledge of God, looking to Jesus鈥� teachings for what we may have missed,鈥� Vogel said. 鈥淏efore he speaks, we鈥檒l ask the audience to share moments when we were upended, when our lives changed forever. What we share and learn together in 鈥榩laying back鈥� those experiences will help us be ready to explore Doug鈥檚 message.鈥�

Since its founding in 2011, Inside Out has worked on and off campus to promote storytelling and playback theatre as a movement toward social change and personal transformation. Actors have聽a range of backgrounds, from theatre arts and music to conflict transformation, and many have also been through 91短视频鈥檚 (STAR) program.