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
This Month's Features:
Arif Choudhury is a professional storyteller, filmmaker, theater artist, and stand-up comic. He performs for schools, libraries, conferences, and festivals around the country and abroad. He tells humorous stories of growing up in one of the few Bangladeshi-Muslim immigrant families in Chicago. Focusing on issues of ethnic and religious identity, assimilation, multiculturalism, and diversity, his stories poke fun at how we think of one another.
Arif recently recorded a CD of stories entitled, "Where Are You From? And Other Difficult Questions" and has written his first children's book "The Only Brown-Skinned Boy in the Neighborhood." He wrote and directed a short film entitled "Coloring" based on his childhood and contributed a story about his dating woes for "Salaam, Love: Muslim Men on Love, Sex, and Intimacy". Arif lives with his wife and two children in New York City.
Noa Baum Born and raised in Israel, Noa is an award-winning storyteller and author performing internationally with diverse audiences ranging from the World Bank, prestigious universities and congregations, to inner city schools and detention centers. She offers a unique combination of performance art and practical workshops that focus on the power of narrative to heal across the divides of identity and build bridges of peace and understanding.
Noa's recently published book, A Land Twice Promised - An Israeli Woman's Quest for Peace, is a winner of the Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award. An introspective memoir, it mines the depths of the chasm between the Israeli and Palestinian experiences, the torment of family loss and conflict, and the therapy of storytelling as a cleansing art.
