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:
Jessica Piscitelli Robinson is the founder of Better Said Than Done, a program of true personal storytelling. Jessica has been writing fiction since elementary school, going on to write scripts and study filmmaking at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has been a regular commentator on WAMU, DC’s NPR station. Jessica has led storytelling workshops at INOVA Fairfax Hospital, the Johns Hopkins University, and for several non profit and corporate clients, as well as regularly teaching Better Said Than Done storytelling workshops. Jessica performed her first story in 2007 and has been addicted ever since, performing for SpeakeasyDC (now renamed StoryDistrict), Fan-Freaking- Tastic, TEDx, SWAN Day, McLean Bible Church, WIFV, the Reston Nature House, and any venue or corporate event in need of a great story.
Diane Edgecomb An award-winning storyteller, author, and theatre artist, Diane Edgecomb’s one-person storytelling has been featured on NPR and at storytelling festivals, theatres, and coffeehouses throughout the country for over thirty years. A featured teller at both the National Storytelling Festival and the International Storytelling Center, Diane is known for transforming into the characters in her tales, bringing each story to vivid life. She is the winner of the first and only ORACLE award from the National Storytelling Network for Storytelling Excellence in the Northeast. Publisher's Weekly called Diane "a storyteller in the grand tradition and virtuoso of the spoken word...an entire cast rolled into one!" Get the latest news on Diane at her website.
