# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Storytelling with Odd Salon and Curiosity Guild
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 12 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 12 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: The 10th Annual Menlo Park Storytelling Festival happens this November-December! Adults and teens are invited to join us Nov. 12 to Learn Something Weird: true stories from the odd corners of history, science, art & adventure.

For over a decade, curious minds have sought out Odd Salon events in San Francisco and New York to hear strange-but-true stories, shared live on stage. In 2026, Curiosity Guild will be bringing more wonderfully weird tales to the Bay Area. https://oddsalon.com/ https://www.curiosityguild.org/

The lectures bring experts and enthusiastic amateurs together to explore history’s overlooked and under-told stories, from legends of lost cities to masters of art forgery, engineering failures, daring heists, and more.

Join us for some amazing tales!

This storytelling event is for adults and teens.

This is one of eight events in the 10th Annual Menlo Park Storytelling Festival. Join us for one event, or the whole series!

- 11/2: Smiley Stories: Latin American Soul - Belle Haven Library - All ages
- 11/12: Odd Salon and Curiosity Guild - Menlo Park Library - Adults & teens
- 11/15: Tellabration! ™ - Belle Haven Library - 6-Adult
- 11/16: Asian Storytopia - Belle Haven Library - “8-108”
- 11/22: Storytelling 101 Workshop - Belle Haven Library - “7-97+”
- 12/2: Regina Stoops: Coming Out—Again - Menlo Park Library - 6-Adult
- 12/5 - StoryFest - Online - Ages 6-Adult
- 12/7 - Diane Ferlatte: Knick Knack Paddy Whack - Belle Haven Library - All ages

About Storytelling:

- Storytelling is telling stories--without using a book.
- It's an ancient art form that predates libraries, and books, and writing.
- It's not necessarily for children!
- Traditional-style storytelling creates unique images in the mind of each listener.
- According to the National Storytelling Network, "storytelling is the interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener’s imagination. In storytelling, the listener imagines the story.”
- According to the Storytelling Association of California (an organization dedicated to promoting storytelling as a living art form), storytelling is “orally passing on adventures, wisdom, experiences, surprise, history, laughter, beliefs and imagination.”

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park, CA, 94025
https://www.menlopark.gov/Government/Departments/Library-and-Community-Services/Events/Events-for-adults/20251112-Odd-Salon

More free events with Menlo Park Library:
https://www.menlopark.gov/Citywide-calendar

Menlo Park Library on social media:
@menloparklibrary on Instagram & Facebook
@menlolibrary on Twitter/X
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/menlo-park/storytelling-with-odd-salon-and-curiosity-guild/200029028944945
- **Event Categories**: storytelling, art, festivals, trips-adventures, workshops, calendar
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 156

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Menlo Park
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 800 Alma St, Menlo Park, CA, United States, California 94025
- **lat**: 37.45272
- **long**: -122.1789
- **full address**: 800 Alma St, Menlo Park, CA, United States, California 94025

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Storytelling with Odd Salon and Curiosity Guild being held?
  - **A:** Storytelling with Odd Salon and Curiosity Guild takes place on Wed, 12 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm to Wed, 12 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm at 800 Alma St, Menlo Park, CA, United States, California 94025.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Storytelling with Odd Salon and Curiosity Guild?
  - **A:** Storytelling with Odd Salon and Curiosity Guild is organized by Menlo Park Library.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Storytelling with Odd Salon and Curiosity Guild is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Menlo Park, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. With 150+ people already showing interest, this is clearly an event worth adding to your calendar - don't miss out.

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