05/04/2026
Our hearts are full! What a fantastic way to close out WBI’s first solutions-focused festival of new works with Esther Banegas Gatica’s “Vis a Vis a Visa” and Mikee Loria’s “Family Kwento”.
Thank you to everyone who joined us over these three days for WBI’s first festival of solutions-filled entertainment!l
05/02/2026
That’s a wrap on day 1 with Douglas Weissman’s “The Road from Ruin”. What an amazing way to start off this weekend!
Join us tomorrow at 11:30m for Merlin, a play by Susan McCully that highlights solutions for climate change adaptation, and “The Rules of the Financial Avengers” at 2:30pm, a memoir by Tom Swift that highlights the path to financial freedom.
Grab your tickets at bit.ly/WBIFest26 or grab them at the door.
See you there!
04/29/2026
It all starts Friday! See you there? Tickets & Info @ bit.ly/WBIFest26
Friday, May 1 @ 2:00 pm: Road from Ruin, a young adult fantasy novel by Douglas Weissman that highlights frontline solutions for climate change.
Saturday, May 2 @ 11:30 am: Merlin, a play by Susan McCully that highlights solutions for climate change adaptation.
Saturday, May 2 @ 2:30 pm: The Rules of the Financial Avengers, a memoir by Tom Swift that highlights the path to financial freedom.
Sunday, May 3 @ 11:30 am: Vis a Vis a Visa, a TV pilot by Esther Banegas Gatica that uplifts the solutions for immigration.
Sunday, May 3 @ 2:00 pm: Family Kwento, a screenplay by Mikee Loria that uplifts the solutions to intergenerational trauma and the destigmatizing of mental health care.
Susan McCully
04/24/2026
Come see stellar talents entertain you with attainable solutions wrapped in delicious fiction!
Get your tickets today! bit.ly/WBIFest26
04/21/2026
Announcing the Casts and Directors!
Look at these luminous talents! Get your tickets to see these Bay Area superstars in 5 unique, hilarious, and uplifting new works.
Come see what’s possible! bit.ly/WBIFest26
04/16/2026
Tickets on sale now*
*they’re free! 👇
bit.ly/WBIFest26
04/08/2026
Announcing: WBI STORIES, May 1-3
Join us in San Francisco for a hope-filled weekend of solutions-focused new works!
Tickets & Info: bit.ly/WBIFest26
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Susan McCully Douglas Weissman Esther Gatica Mikee Loria Tom Swift
03/27/2026
Thanks to the incredible WBI community, we’ve raised enough for public readings of our 5 Beta Cohort projects!
Thank you!
12/31/2025
This New Year, build your YES-list with WBI. Together, we can create widespread solutions-agreement and actions. Help us build a resounding, collective YES to the possibilities we’re all fighting for by donating today at wbistories.org/donate
Thank you for building this narrative change with us and being such an important part of the WBI community.
We wish you a very happy New Year filled with all the YES!