COME HEAR IT AT THE GRAPEVINE @ Busboys and Poets, Takoma SECOND WEDNESDAYS @ 7:30 PM! Tim Livengood and Noa Baum host The Grapevine Spoken Word Series. Celebrate the timeless Art of Storytelling, with Truths, Folktales, Rumors, and everything in between! $10 suggested Donation
This Month's Features:
Regi Carpenter is a solo performance artist, short story writer, and performance coach. An award-winning performer, Regi has toured her solo shows and workshops in theaters, festivals and schools, nationally and internationally. Her writings and blogs about storytelling, ancestry and identity have been published in various print and online publications. Regi holds a BFA from Ithaca College where she currently teaches Regi is the youngest daughter in a family that pulsates with contradictions: religious and raucous, tender but terrible, unfortunate yet irrepressible. Tales of underwater tea parties, drowning lessons and drives to the dump give voice to multiple generations of family life. Regi is the recipient of the JJ Reneaux Emerging Artist Award, a Leonard Bernstein Teaching Fellowship Award, the Parent's Choice Gold Award, the Parents' Guide to Children's Media Award and the Storytelling World Award. Her performance piece Snap! won the 2012 Boston StorySlam. Snap! is a featured Listen story on The Moth website. In addition, Regi recently raised over $6,000 from fans across the country to make a CD and DVD of Snap! In addition to her work as a performer, coach and writer, Regi is also the founder of Stories with Spirit, a creative initiative dedicated to bringing songs of joy and stories of hope to grieving children and the people who love and care for them in homes, hospices, and hospitals. Her high school storytelling curriculum, “Teens Talking†has been awarded grants from the New York State Council of the Arts. She lives in Ithaca, New York, where there’s ten square miles surrounded by reality.
Jo Radner performs in theaters, festivals, conferences, schools, colleges, and at community events. She tells personal and family tales as well as stories about the people and history of Maine. Jo believes that humor and sadness are good bedfellows, and she particularly favors characters with admirable lives shaped around unavoidable misfortune. She has published books on early Irish history, contemporary Anglo-Irish drama, and women's folklore, and she has published articles on Celtic studies, literature, Irish and American folklore, women's studies, Deaf culture, and New England social history. Currently Jo is writing a book titled "Performing the Paper: Rural Self-Improvement in Northern New England," about a 19th-century village tradition of creating and performing aloud handwritten literary newspapers.
