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