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Hosted by Ray Christian
What makes you swoon or gets your heart pumping? Delve into romantic or playful love stories that are personal, from folklore, or original. Stories may contain more adult content as the show continues; please view at your discretion.
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Performers
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Life In The Pits
Rebecca Hom is a master storyteller, with experience as an exhibit writer, group and classroom facilitator, columnist, public radio correspondent, interpretive naturalist, and full-time mother. She’s gathered and shared stories on six continents, with groups of all kinds, from toddlers to tottering elders. Trained in the field of social work at Wartburg College, Iowa, Rebecca has spent 25 years using her human resource skills and the art of storytelling to share stories with a message.
The Vatican: A Love Story
Israeli born Noa is an award-winning storyteller, author and coach. She focuses on the power of storytelling to heal across the divides of identity and build bridges of peace. Noa presents internationally to diverse audiences, including the World Bank, US Defense Department, The Mayo Clinic, National Storytelling Festival and the Kennedy Center. Noa’s memoir “A Land Twice Promised – An Israeli Woman’s Quest for Peace” won multiple awards including the Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award. She lives in the US since 1990 and was voted by Washington Jewish Week as one of 10 most interesting local Jews.
The VIP Room
Storyteller Chetter Galloway is as raconteur of African and African-American stories. He is a native of Suffolk, VA, the youngest of ten children and remembers his father telling stories on road trips. He first experienced the power of storytelling at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, VA. He honed his craft at East Tennessee State University in their Masters of Storytelling Program. Chetter has worked with the Woodruff Arts Center, the SC Arts Commission, and Better Basics Enrichment Program of Birmingham, AL. He has recorded (3) storytelling CDs: Evil Knows Where Evil Sleeps, Fresh Squeezed Carrot Juice, & A Story, A Story, Let It Come, Let It Come. Chetter has performed across the country at notable venues such as: Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Atlanta Dogwood Festival, The Fernbank Museum, The High Museum of Fine Art, The National Black Arts Festival, & The Smithsonian. His programs are perfect for schools, churches, family reunions, civic groups, holiday celebrations, assisted living homes, and more. Chetter is a member of the National Association of Black Storytellers, National Storytelling Network, Kuumba Storytellers of Georgia, and the Southern Order of Storytellers. Engaging and entertaining, Chetter invites you to Feel the Rhythm & Live the Story!
The Gambler
Judith is an international award winning storyteller, arts educator, producer. She is a Chicago Moth winner, NSN Oracle Award recipient for Service and Leadership, and a co/ founder of the LA Women’s Theatre Festival, Judith introduced Tellabration! to Chicago in 1997 and produced it for 20 years, founding the Chicago Storytelling Guild simultaneously. Her CD, Grimm’s Grimmest: The Darker Side of Fairytales won a Parents’ Choice Gold, Storytelling World Honor and Parenting Press awards. “Sheltering” in her native New York, she has become obsessed with making earrings during the pandemic – “Corona Creations: Every earring tells a story!” An original story will be created for each.
Hanging Laundry & The Ring
Laura Packer has been performing, coaching, writing, consulting, giving keynotes, and leading the storytelling field for more than 25 years. She knows the best way to the truth is through a good story and that this universally accessible artform creates empathy, builds bridges, and has the power to change the world. As the author of the award-winning From Audience to Zeal: The ABCs of Finding, Crafting, and Telling a Great Story and the accompanying workbook, she is committed to helping others find their voice. As the creator of #storyseeds she is dedicated to helping others deepen thrive creativity. Laura has received many awards. In 2020 she was inducted into the National Storytelling Network’s Circle of Excellence in recognition of her mastery, excellence, and dedication to the art of storytelling. Other awards include the 2020 Storytelling World Award for her Audience to Zeal books; 2018 Minnesota GrandSlam; best in Fringe in Kansas City in 2016 and 2018; the J. J. Reneaux Mentoring Grant from the National Storytelling Network in 2016; 2012 League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling Brother Blue Award; finalist in the 2009 and 2010 Boston Story Slam series; recipient of the 2010 National Storytelling Network Oracle Award and others. Laura has told in venues as wide ranging as festivals, theaters, government agencies, corporate stages, in the streets, in prisons, schools, assisted living facilities, libraries, hospices and more. Her audiences range from 4 years old to over 100 and in size from the intimacy of a good-night story to 5000 seat auditoria. She is a past Chair of Sharing the Fire, the oldest, largest regional storytelling conference in the US, past board member of both the League for Advancement of New England Storytelling and the National Storytelling Network, and current board member of StoryArtsMN. Laura has also hosted several Boston, Kansas City and Minneapolis area storytelling venues. In addition to her performances, Laura’s keynotes and talks are interactive and engaging. She strives to leave her audiences with new skills and new stories. Her coaching is supportive and full of curiosity. In her quest to help people tell their own stories, Laura has taught storytelling, writing and public speaking globally. Students have ranged from aspiring storytellers to corporate executives to librarians to elders to mental health professionals to artists to IT leaders and more. As sole proprietor of thinkstory organizational storytelling, Laura helps both for- and non-profit organizations communicate more effectively through coaching and storytelling techniques. Through listening and speaking exercises as well as story gathering and telling experiences, organizations come to a clearer understanding of their vision, needs and possibilities. Her one-day storytelling workshop, Stand Up and Speak Out: Tools for Effective Self Promotion, presented at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center was endorsed as “More useful than you could possibly imagine.” Her previous work at iRobot, the nation’s leading consumer robotics firm, was seminal in shaping the company’s view of its own history and future mission.
Three Crones
Richard has been telling stories professionally for 30 years – throughout Europe and as far away as India, Singapore, Hong Kong and America. He usually tells in English, although having lived in Germany since 1976, he is sometimes asked to tell in German. The last 12 months have been a steep learning curve as, working intensively online, recording, live-streaming and leading workshops. His large website offers resources as well as a video gallery of more than 120 folk tales: www.tellatale.eu.
Love Done
A bilingual storyteller, Lillian Rodrigues-Pang tells stories to audiences of all ages for fun, education, personal and community acceptance/awareness. Combining stories with song, rhyme, props, percussion, actions and language, Lillian enthralls the audience with her full bodied, theatrical performance. storytellersnsw.org.au/lillian-rodriguespang
Ladyboy Wants Gabies
Archy Jamjun is the curator of Outspoken at Sidetrack. He is a two time winner of The Moth Grand Slam and has been featured on the RISK! Podcast and StoryJam. His show I LOVE EVERYTHING!!! debuts at the Fillet of Solo Storytelling Festival this January. You can find him on Facebook and Twitter as Archy Arch J