FRIDAY NIGHT STORYTELLING FOR ADULTS
An Unforgettable Night
On Friday, November 13 from 7-9:30pm, storyteller, Jim Brulé, emcees a night
of fantastic storytellers:
Eva Abram, Carrie Sue Ayvar, Roger Jenkins, Jo Radner, and Cris Riedel
Jim Brulé is a Maggid - a transformational storyteller. His stories and students span the globe; his online storytelling school has been operating for years. Stories filled with challenge and mysticism fill his repertoire as he inspires his audience to change. Jim believes that the right kinds of stories told with an open heart can be the basis for healing the rifts within us and between us. Jim is a board member and immediate past-president of Northeast Storytelling, and serves on the board of Artists Standing Strong Together. His latest collaboration with Sheila Arnold can be seen at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/woundshealingandtruth
Eva Abram is a traditional storyteller, actress, and professional speaker. She uses the power of storytelling to share wisdom through folktales and history stories. Her stories inspire, entertain and build bridges to connect people with their humanity. Eva’s graceful style and emotional connection to story captivates audiences of all ages.
Carrie Sue Ayvar (EYEBAR) is an award-winning bilingual storyteller, keynote speaker, and artist who blends traditional, international & personal tales. Carrie Sue takes her listeners on a journey into the imagination connecting people, languages, and cultures through her stories that flow effortlessly between Spanish and English.
Roger Jenkins is a Singaporean who discovered storytelling after careers as teacher and theatre practitioner. Storytelling highlights? Winning Best Storyteller Award (2013, Kanoon Festival) founding Singapore’s 398.2 Storytelling Festival; and co-founding FEAST (Federation of Asian Storytellers). He has published Stories for Values Education (Juniors and Teens), two collections created to help schools tackle character education.
Jo Radner (Lovell, ME) has been studying, teaching, telling, and collecting stories most of her life, and has performed from Maine to Hawaii to Finland. Although she tends to make stories about northern New England, she also performs some unusual traditional folktales and her own modern tales and riffs on classics.
Cris Riedel has been telling stories professionally for twenty-six years. "All the world's people tell stories - our stories connect us." She's a folktale-teller, and likes the old stories of folks who solve the problem-and save the day–with their wits. She came to storytelling after many years in theater.