Here we are in the tough, grey days of the year. Six more weeks of winter and no twinkly lights to take the edge off. I don’t know about you, but this is the time when I need to know that there’s something good out there in the world.
To help us all find that kind of spark, Better Said Than Done presents For Goodness’ Sake: Stories Done Good! Join us online Thursday, February 10th at 8:00 P.M. Eastern as your host, Jessica Robinson, brings on each of our superb tellers: Sara Armstrong, Regi Carpenter, Chetter Galloway, Joan Leotta, Angela Lloyd, and Linda Yemoto! Tickets are on sale now!
Let’s take a minute and meet our tellers for the show…
Sara Armstrong loves stories! In her classroom, she told stories to her elementary school students. When she taught classes to reluctant adults, she told stories. She found that making connections and building relationships before teaching facilitates learning. Now she tells her favorite folk and fairy tales as part of her own growth and understanding of the world. She loves listening to stories, and learning about others through the stories they tell. Sara is the chair of the Storytelling Association of California and serves on the Board of ASST – Artists Standing Strong Together.
For over twenty years Regi Carpenter has been bringing songs and stories to audiences throughout the world in school, theaters, libraries, at festivals, conferences, and in people’s back yards. Regi is the youngest daughter in a family that pulsates with contradictions: religious and raucous, tender but terrible, unfortunate yet irrepressible. These tales celebrate the glorious and gut-wrenching lives of four generations of Carpenters’ raised on the Saint Lawrence River in Clayton, New York. Tales of underwater tea parties, drowning lessons, and drives to the dump give voice to multi-generations of family life in a small river town with an undercurrent.
Chetter Galloway grew up hearing his father tell stories on Sunday road trips. One of his favorite stories was The Talking Skull, a West African cautionary tale where a man loses his head! Chetter is a graduate of East Tennessee State University with a Master of Arts degree in Storytelling and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Kuumba Storytellers of Georgia. He is also an avid runner who enjoys creating stories while he’s running! Often described as engaging and entertaining, he invites you to Feel the Rhythm and Live the Story!
Joan Leotta plays with words on page and stage and has told in almost all of Washington DC’s museums and in schools, libraries, parks, and festivals all over the DMV. She’s a current member of Voices in the Glen and area representative for Tar Heel Tellers of North Carolina. Her poems, articles, essays, and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Yellow Mama, The Ekphrastic Review, anti-heroin chic, Haunted Waters Press, Verse Visual, Silver Birch, Verse Virtual, and others. She is a 2021 Pushcart nominee, and received Best of MicroFiction in 2021 from Haunted Waters.
Angela Lloyd is a one-woman band on washboard, her solo performances are a whimsical braid of poetry, story, and song played on autoharp, tenor guitar, spoon and bell. For two decades, Angela’s primary landscape for teaching, learning and telling stories were two progressive elementary schools in Los Angeles. Students explored multiple cultures, retold fables, and crafted their own. Nominated in 2013 for the Circle of Excellence Oracle Award at the National Storytelling Network NSN), Angela currently serves on the YES Board for Youth Educators and Storytellers, a special interest group of the NSN and the Oracle Award committee.
For more than 30 years, Linda Yemoto was just “Ranger Linda” to thousands of kids and adults in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now retired from her career as a Park Naturalist, she continues to tell stories that convey her appreciation of natural and cultural history. Linda is a storyteller and docent at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco where she interprets the art collection through stories. She served on the National Storytelling Network Board of Directors for six years, and chaired the Bay Area Storytelling Festival for 30 years.
These six talents are sure to amuse, astound, and inspire you! The Zoom show starts at 8:00 P.M. EST. As per usual, it’s a “pay what you can” event – with a suggested contribution of $16 and a minimum of $6. Beat the rush and grab your ticket now!
