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Tenx9 (ten by nine) is a Belfast-originated monthly storytelling night in Nashville where 9 people have up to ten minutes each to tell a real story from their lives. Tenx9 Nashville is a Belfast-originated monthly community storytelling night where nine people have up to ten minutes each to tell a real story from their lives. It is an opportunity for people to engage each other’s lives through per

sonal tales of life experiences. It’s important that the stories are real stories. It’s less a performance, more of a sharing. It’s just stories. An Irish proverb says, "It is in the shelter of each other that the people live." This is an attempt to embrace the shelter of each other through the telling and hearing of our stories. So, ten minutes each for nine people to tell a true story. Once a month. You do not have to tell a story to attend. Just come and listen. Or come and share. Either way, come and enjoy. If you want to tell a story, offer your submission through our website: tenx9nashville.com/contact/. Write a story up or tell one on the spot. Just make sure it's true, and it's actually a story. For Tenx9 editorial guidelines for writing and telling stories , visit our page: http://tenx9nashville.com/guidelines/

Thanks to the genius minds of Padraig O Tuama and Paul Doran for creating such a glorious event in Belfast and allowing us to start a satellite in Nashville. Tenx9 Nashville facilitators:
Michael McRay, founder, organizer, co-host
Brittany Sky, co-host
Rob McRay, co-host & understorier
Gayathri Narasimham, Podcaster
John Sloop, Podcaster

02/07/2026

Another Tenx9 community dinner February 19! Head to www.tenx9nashville.com/eat to grab your spot. Link in bio takes you to our event page where you can learn more about the dinner and reserve your spot.

01/14/2026

Another Tenx9 community dinner Jan 21! Head to www.tenx9nashville.com/eat to grab your spot. Link in bio takes you to our event page where you can learn more about the dinner.

12/28/2025

Mark your calendars for all our 2026 dates! Let the stories flow like milk and honey.

10/22/2025

We’re back with another community dinner through .table! Thursday night, Nov 6 at 7pm. Wanna come eat dinner with other folks who go to Tenx9 and love storytelling?

Sign up at www.tenx9nashville.com/eat

10/11/2025

So humbled and grateful to and for this honor! We are twelve years in with no plans to stop. Let’s keep the magic of live personal storytelling thriving in Nashville.

Thank you to all of you who keep showing up 🙏🏼

- Michael

09/24/2025

Doing our first community dinner through .table tomorrow! Intentional dinner conversations with fellow community storytelling enthusiasts :) join us!

Sign up at https://folxtable.com/event/tenx9-september-dinner

09/22/2025

Alert 🚨 special partnership incoming with at The Schermerhorn.

For this special edition of Tenx9 at STORY 2025, we’re hosting a night of true stories on the theme “Wow.”

That one little word we say when we’re struck speechless — by awe, by beauty, by absurdity, or by a moment that flips everything upside down.

Maybe it was a jaw-dropping view.
Maybe it was a twist you never saw coming.
Maybe it was a moment so funny, or awkward, or perfectly timed, you still can’t believe it happened.
Or maybe it was a moment of heartbreak or wonder that opened something up inside you.

Come for free to the Curb Ballroom at the Schermerhorn on Oct 8 at 7pm for some WOW stories.

RSVP Required: https://istoria.com/story-tenx9-rsvp/

09/19/2025

Lots of new followers! Welcome to our profile.

Tenx9 is a Belfast-originated monthly community storytelling night where nine people have up to 10 minutes each to tell a true story from their life. Every event has a theme, and every night is free.

We’ve been doing monthly events since September 2013, making us Nashville‘s longest running storytelling series.

We’re placed for the nervous and the unsure to get up and give it a go. We exist for real people to tell real stories to one another with no agendas, no attempted persuasion, no morals to the story. Just the gift of getting to hear from each other about what it’s like to be a person.

Come grab a pint and some food and share in our little economy of generosity where we attend generously, listen generously, tell generously, and give generously.

“It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.” - Irish proverb

08/25/2025

🍽✨ Stories on the Menu! ✨🍽

We’re so excited to announce another and Tenx9 Nashville storytelling collaboration—this time with the absolutely amazing folks at !

I have been a huge fan of their work for years—advancing food justice, sustainability, education, and advocacy all across our city. So we’re teaming up for a night of stories all about… FOOD.

📍 Where: at
📅 When: Wednesday, November 5
🕡 Time: 6:30–9:00 PM
🎤 Theme: Food

We’re looking for 6 true stories about the impact of food in your life. These could be…
🥗 Fighting for food justice
🍝 Meals that went spectacularly right—or hilariously wrong
🍲 Heartbreaking or heart-lifting moments over a shared meal
🌮 A conversation around food that changed your life
🍦 Even that unforgettable case of food poisoning

The key? Your story must be true and from your own life—no essays, no speeches, no recruiting to a cause. Just real experiences from real people, centered on food.

Think you’ve got a story? DM us or submit at tenx9nashville.com/food

Tix required. See link in bio.

08/19/2025

For our 12 year anniversary event, we are partnering with the very excellent to bring you 9 stories connected to our city.

What’s your story about/in/for Nashville? Maybe it’s about the time you first arrived, or the time you almost left. Maybe it’s about something that happened in a hidden corner of the city you love, a run-in with someone unforgettable, or an experience that could only happen here. Perhaps about the flood, or the tornado, or your Nashville Covid-bubble life. Maybe a story about love found in Nashville, or love lost here. The possibilities are endless.

Funny, serious, heartbreaking, heartwarming—give us your Nashville story. Pitch your story through the link in our bio.

If you’ve never been to a Tenx9, just come listen! Scores of folks pile into to drink up and eat and listen to the goodness.

As always, it’s free. But come early to get a seat!

08/01/2025

Back where it all began in Belfast. I am leading a tour this week to Northern Ireland and I arranged for a to happen so my group could taste the goodness.

13 years ago I stood in this room (second photo) at The Black Box Theater in Belfast during my grad program here and was mesmerized. I’d never seen live storytelling before—not like this. True stories told with humor and vulnerability and courage and clumsiness and honesty.

I loved it.

I asked the founders if I could start one in Nashville when I moved home. They said “why not”. And I’ve run one every month for nearly 12 years. Changed the course of my life—literally. Storywork is my vocation.

And it all started here.

My thanks to Paul for hosting a special Tenx9 for my group!

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1 Symphony Pl
Nashville, TN
37201-2031

Website

http://tenx9nashville.com/

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