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
FEATURED GUESTS For October 14th:
FEATURING: LAURA SIMMS
Laura Simms is an award winning performer, writer, and educator advocating storytelling as compassionate action for personal and community transformation. She performs worldwide combining ancient myth and true-life story for adult and family audiences. She is the Artistic Director of the Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling Center in NY and the founder of The Center for Engaged Storytelling. She has been a Senior Research Fellow for the International Peace institute at Rutgers University Newark under the auspices of UNESCO and received the Brimstone Award for Engaged Storytelling, CHOICE award for best story collection and Sesame Street's SUNNY DAYS award for work with children worldwide, as well as a Life Time Achievement Award from the National Storytelling Network. read more HERE
and JASON NKWAIN
Jason Nkwain was born in Cameroon, and moved to the USA at the age of thirteen. He has been publicly speaking since circa the age 7 and as time went by, he slowly developed a love for performance poetry. In 2012, alongside some of his close Cameroonian friends, he co-founded Legacy Entertainment Productions, which is a collective of African artists whose main focus is to elevate and expose the beauty and the brilliance of the African Art.
