Our featured tellers this month are the foundational Linda Goss and the surprising Claire Hennessy!
Please register FOR FREE. You will get an email with the necessary Zoom information. We ask for donations to support our tellers, suggested $15 per person. Donations can be made online before, during, or after the event.
The Grapevine is spoken word performance for adults and teens, celebrating the timeless art of the story, hosted by storytellers Renée Brachfeld and Tim Livengood.
ABOUT OUR TELLERS:
Linda Goss is a tradition bearer, a premier contributor to the art of storytelling, and a co-founder of the National Association of Black Storytellers. “Mama” Linda grew in the tradition from listening at the feet of her Grandaddy Murphy and on the knee of her Uncle Buster in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains in Alcoa, Tennessee. She is the author of seven books and she has two albums of storytelling with Smithsonian Folkways. In 2019, she was named an NEA National Heritage Fellow.
More about Linda
British-born Claire Hennessy is a storyteller, podcaster (The Bonkers Brit) and author. She performs funny, true and often embarrassing stories about her husband and kids around the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been published in numerous award-winning anthologies and is hoping to find an agent for her humorous memoir before she is too old to go on a book tour.
More about Claire. Catch her podcast here
For more information go to The Grapevine (Storytelling)
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