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Join Us for a Night of Storytelling, Connection & Community at Distillery 98!

📅 Thursday, April 16th

📍 Distillery 98, Santa Rosa Beach

⏰ Doors at 5 PM | Stories at 6 PM

We can’t wait to return to Distillery 98 for an unforgettable evening of storytelling. Sit back and listen along while connecting with fellow story lovers and tellers, sharing laughs, and soaking in the magic of live storytelling.

April Story Theme: Family Ties

Family is often where our first stories begin. It’s where we learn love, language, conflict, and care—sometimes long before we know how to name them.

But family ties don’t stop at blood. They extend through generations, across distance, and into the people, places, and communities that shape us. They’re the threads we’re born into, the ones we inherit, and the ones we choose to hold onto—or gently unravel.

This theme invites stories about the families who raised us, the ones we’re raising, the ones we’ve found along the way, and the ties that continue to pull us back, push us forward, or quietly hold us together.

Want to Tell Your Story?

Our open mics are simple: sign up when you grab your ticket or find us night of and we’ll put your name in the bag. Whether it’s planned or spontaneous, your voice is welcome here. Writers, poets, songwriters, and storytellers of every kind are invited to step up to the mic. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, tall tales, truth-telling, and everything in between—if you’ve got something to share, we’d love to hear it.

Featured Storyteller: Maria Galati Hill

For Maria, boating isn’t just part of her career—it’s in her DNA. Anchored to the boating world since childhood, Maria grew up immersed in her family’s three-generation business, Galati Yacht Sales. Her children’s book reflects the joy, life lessons and passion for boating safety passed on for generatons.

Now a wife, mother, and storyteller, Maria shares that same love for boating with her husband and two daughters, Harbor & Story.  Her goal with “Joe Boating” was to bottle up that magic you feel on the water and put it into the very first children’s book of its kind.