Brigid Reedy is a singer, songwriter, fiddler, poet, and storyteller who has become a singular young voice representing her beloved home state of Montana. Now age 22, Brigid’s writing draws considerably from her experience as a young woman living and working in the contemporary rural West. A natural and charismatic performer since the age of […]
Our newest Frank Basile Emerging Stories Fellow, Manón Voice, brings us the story of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest African-American congregation in Indianapolis.The church was organized in 1836 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. In her piece, Voice researched the connections of Bethel AME with the Underground Railroad and […]
A native of Great Britain, Jennifer Munro, award-winning storyteller, actor, and author, brings Scrooge, the Cratchits, and Fezziwigs vibrantly to life in her dramatic, and thoroughly English interpretation of Charles Dickens’s literary classic. Enjoy this tale of heartbreak, redemption, and joy, as Dickens intended it, on a bare stage with just the power of the human […]
Storytellers Carol Moore and M.J. Kang, who were both part of the Exchange Place for the 50th Anniversary of the National Storytelling Festival, bring a variety of personal stories featuring ways we give, receive, take, find and surround ourselves with people, places, and things we love. With a style that is comedic, conversational, and authentic, Carol […]
“Hometown Stories” featuring Bob SanderBob Sander was the only child of Frances and Theo Sander. He grew up in the small town of Beech Grove, just south of Indianapolis in the 1950s and 60s. His German great aunt (Tante) would sometimes call him “Snickelfritz,” as did his father. It’s a German (Pennsylvania Dutch) word for […]
“Six-Triple Eight” is the incredible story of the first and only Army Corps battalion of all African-American women allowed to serve in Europe during WWII. The battalion was recently awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for their outstanding achievements. For more than 30 years, Charlotte Blake Alston has graced stages in venues throughout North American and […]
Storytelling Arts of Indiana is proud to welcome back award-winning master storyteller/musician, historian and visionary Rev. Robert Jones for its annual fundraiser, “Talk of the Town.” The Rev. Jones will explore the impact of the blues on American music through stories and songs. American music has an amazingly eclectic mix of styles drawn from the […]
Storytelling Arts of Indiana is proud to welcome back award-winning master storyteller/musician, historian and visionary Rev. Robert Jones for its annual fundraiser, “Talk of the Town.” The Rev. Jones will explore the impact of the blues on American music through stories and songs. American music has an amazingly eclectic mix of styles drawn from the […]
A.J. Foyt vs. Parnelli Jones, Mel Lewis and Roger Brown and a red-white-and-blue basketball, water balloons, flashlight tag, book reports, and fresh cider from the Lilly Orchard, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Vietnam War…Come visit Bill Harley’s mythical landscape of coming of age on the northside of Indianapolis in the 1960s. […]
