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:
Loren Niemi
Storytelling is Loren Niemi’s life’s work, a convenience since he is a storyteller. He has spent more than a quarter century creating, collecting, performing, and teaching stories to audiences of all ages. In 2001, he created the Public Policy Project in St. Paul, MN to help communities to shape and tell their own stories illuminating issues of race, equity and social change. Niemi teaches storytelling in the Communications Department of Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, as well as in storytellingworkshops and in corporate and organizational consulting. He is the author of The Book of Plots and co-author of Inviting the Wolf In: Thinking About Difficult Stories, with Elizabeth Ellis. Find more at http://www.storytelling.org/Niemi/
Dovie Thomason
Dovie Thomason enchants audiences with tales that teach about human nature and indigenous worldview,s with wry humor and subtle graces that enable a modern appeal with deep cultural roots. Thomason carries the name and the influence of her Kiowa Apache grandmother, from whom she absorbed stories of her paternal ancestors and ‘pan-Indian’ stories that her grandmother learned from other children in the boarding school era. Thomason also has learned tales from neighboringcultures, different interpretations of familiar stories, and tales of her maternal Lakota ancestors. Learning to convey these stories to audiences young and old, indigenous and non-indigenous, is Thomason’s vocation. Her storytelling has been featured on countless prominent stages, including the Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Institution, London’s Barbican, and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and she has lent her voice to narrations for the BBC, NPR, PBS, RTE, and the National Parks Service.
