Storytellers Open Mic at Chiringo

Emerald Coast Storytellers is excited to welcome you to our next open mic event Thursday, March 9th. This month’s theme will be hot mess. 

Hot mess: “a person or thing that is spectacularly unsuccessful or disordered, especially one that is a source of peculiar fascination” 

Tell us a story about a time life got turned upside down, a time things didn’t go as planned, but the only choice was to pick up the pieces and carry on – in all that messy glory. 

Come support the arts and enjoy dinner, drinks, and a show of creative local talent at Grayton Beach's Chiringo. Doors will open at 5 and the show will kick off at 6 PM.

For those interested in taking the mic, we ask that you please email emeraldcoaststorytellers@gmail.com to apply for a spot and include your name, genre, a little bit about yourself, and what you plan to present. We've had a lot of requests and would like to give everyone a chance to read! If there's time for extra people, we'll open the floor before our Featured Storyteller.

Introducing our March Featured Storyteller… Walton County's 2023 Artist of the Year Bradley Copeland. 

 Bradley is a prolific 25-year-old artist living in Santa Rosa Beach, FL with an inventory amassing over 600 pieces and growing rapidly. Bradley's passion for art has existed for as long as she can remember. The artist graduated from Auburn University in 2018 with a Bachelor's Degree in Art, but it wasn't until the end of her time in college that she realized her relationship with art was much more than mere amusement; it was completely indispensable. After graduating from college, Bradley apprenticed under an Alabama artist and moved to the Florida Panhandle a year later in 2020. Here, Bradley's passion and career flourished. She has since opened her own studio and gallery, held several solo and group shows, and was featured on the cover of Emerald Coast Magazine. Bradley recently completed 30A's newest public art mural located on the side of Linda Miller Real Estate.   The up-and-coming artist's work can be found in several galleries across the Southeast, including her own studio/gallery where she obsessively paints, inspired by everything around her. Bradley considers art to be her religion, her compass, and her greatest love. Her passion for creativity evolved into a need to share its healing abilities with others, and with the help of the Cultural Arts Alliance,  a brand new prison art program was born. Above everything previously described, her most rewarding accomplishment is teaching this type of creativity every week to the residents of Walton Correctional Institution.