THE MOTH Presents: Asheville StorySLAM - "AMERICAN DREAMS"
True five-minute personal stories compete in a lively StorySLAM centered on "AMERICAN DREAMS," where participants sign up to share daring aspirations, failures, and reinventions while the audience cheers and judges decide.
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