Grapevine Storytelling with Megan Wells and Mama Edie Armstrong

Our featured tellers this month are the mighty Megan Wells and the awesome Mama Edie Armstrong!  

Join us on Wednesday, June 11th at 7:30 Eastern at Busboys and Poets Takoma; or, for out-of-towners, via Zoom. You can register FOR FREE at: https://fsgw.org/grapevine for access to the live stream or to catch the recorded show later. No registration needed for in-person.

You will get emails with reminders on the date, time, and location, as well as Zoom information. We ask for donations to support our tellers, suggested $20 per person (feel free to give more!). Donations can be made in person or online before, during, or after the show, at: https://fsgw2.org/grapevine.html

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:

      
Mama Edie McLoud Armstrong is a bilingual storyteller, percussionist, and speech/language pathologist. Her travels inspired her article “How to Reach a Multilingual Audience,” in Margaret Read MacDonald’s Tell the World! Storytelling Across Language Barriers. Whether fun and frolicky or somber and serene, her wisdom folktales, historical and personal stories encourage self-love, social justice, and personal empowerment. More about Mama Edie 



Megan Wells is a national touring storyteller and in-demand historical impersonator. She is renowned for her epic telling from myth and literature as well as her historical impersonations of famous powerful women. She has garnered five national awards as well as three regional awards in her hometown of Chicago. Megan is truly, madly, deeply, wildly, obsessively, indubitably, supercalifragilisticexpialidousiously IN LOVE with the art and craft of storytelling. More about Megan    

Learn more about The Grapevine (Storytelling) series