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! $15 suggested Donation
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Heather Forest's unique minstrel style of storytelling blends original music, folk guitar, poetry, prose and the sung and spoken word. She has toured her repertoire of world folktales to theatres, major storytelling festivals, and conferences throughout the United States and abroad. Heather has recorded eight albums of storytelling and has written seven children's picture books based on folktales, which have received honors too numerous to mention in detail. Her first full-length folktale collection, "Wonder Tales from Around the World" (August House), won the Storytelling World Anthology Award for 1996, and its sequel, "Wisdom Tales from Around the World," received the 1997 Storytelling World Anthology Award. She is the recipient of the 1997 Circle of Excellence Award from the National Storytelling Association. Heather is founder and Executive Director of Story Arts, a cultural arts organization in Huntington, New York, that presents storytelling concerts and workshops in schools, theatres, and community centers in the Long Island, New York area.
To find out more, visit Heather online.
Chelise Fox began as a student of philosophy, because she wanted to explore the meaning at the center of everything. Then later, when she decided she wanted to explore the meaning at the center of everything for real, she studied storytelling. They tell her that the hybridization is, unfortunately, permanent, so now she is a philosopher-storyteller. Telling stories with heart and humor that explore the pieces of the human puzzle, she has performed widely with the ETSU tale-tellers, and recently at a few local folk festivals, including the FSGW Washington Folk Festival and Minifest. Her work on liminal storytelling won her the 2014 Dan Crowley Award of the American Folklore Society. When she's not storytelling, she likes to visit the real world, where she enjoys rock climbing and stepping on crunchy leaves.
