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Share Healing Story Alliance is a not-for-profit, educational, arts organization which provides online resources and concert, workshop, and community programming in support of storytelling as a healing art.
Description
Join the Healing Story Alliance for a special gathering to share and explore stories of kindness in its many faces and forms. Through folk tales and personal stories, we will dive deeply into multiple experiences of kindness. What is it? How does it impact us and our relationships to ourselves, to each other, to the world? Come and listen to “kind stories” shared by both professional tellers and community members and see what memories of kindness emerge for you.
Date: November 3, 2024
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm EST
(Open Mic Story Share and Reflection: last half hour)
Format: The story session opens with a concert of seasoned tellers and community tellers sharing stories with themes of kindness. During the second half of the gathering, audience members are invited to share a story, moment, or reflection about kindness that emerged for them as listeners.
Purpose: We all need a little more kindness in our lives. Perhaps a story can take us there.
“WHEN YOU ARE KIND TO OTHERS, IT NOT ONLY CHANGES YOU, IT CHANGES THE WORLD.”
Harold Kushner
ABOUT the STORYTELLERS
Featured Tellers
Adam Booth is the 2022 West Virginia Folk Artist of the Year, awarded at the Governor’s Arts Awards. Adam blends traditional mountain folklore, music, and an awareness of contemporary Appalachia to create original, forward-thinking story artistry. Adam’s new multidisciplinary program The Heron’s Journey has been selected for the 2024-2025 Mid Atlantic Arts Touring Roster. He is a member of the Recording Academy and his recordings have received multiple national honors, including a Parents’ Choice Gold Award. Adam serves as the inaugural Storyteller-In-Residence at Shepherd University and is the founding artistic director of Speak Story Series, a premier destination for storytelling in concert.
Lisa Williams is the CEO and Founder of Magnolia StoryMatters. In 2024, Lisa was featured as one of several artists in the Urban Requiem project, an intergenerational tribute to Detroit's culturally rich history. In 2023, Lisa was awarded the 2023 Wilmington Black Storytelling Residency fellowship, where she created an original folktale and performed at the Urban Artist Exchange Amphitheatre. She also took on the role of emcee for the Detroit Association of Black Storytellers (DABS) 2023 Black History Program, which was held at the prestigious Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan. Her deep commitment to building community has been evident in her work with MIGEN, the Michigan LGBTQ+ Elder Network. In this role, she empowered members of the community by helping them find, shape, and present their personal stories. Lisa serves on the board of the National Storytelling Network (NSN) and is the Director of Storytelling in Organizations (SIO), a special interest group within NSN.
Cindy Rivka Marshall is an award-winning professional storyteller, story coach, and children's book writer based in the Boston area. Her workshops bring story-based approaches to education, diversity awareness, and community building. Her commitment to social justice motivates Cindy to design and facilitate personal story-sharing experiences that lift up marginalized groups. Her recordings of stories have won awards from Parent’s Choice, Storytelling World, and National Parenting Publications.
Emcee
Bob Kanegis claims roots that reach back to the esteemed sages and fools of Chelm. Thus, it is that he tells tales that span the ridiculous to the sublime. He believes that we each have two big stories; The Story of Me and the Story of We. Where they intersect is where community happens. With that view as a compass, Bob has spearheaded numerous collaborations including Vision and Voices with the National Park Service, We Have Stories to Tell, a multiyear project with farm workers and homeless families, F.E.A.S.T Families Eating and Storytelling Together and the promotion of his initiative, The Endangered Stories Act. Through Three-Fold Legacy workshops and individual coaching he guides people to uncover, craft and tell their most important stories.
Bob has contributed to anthologies including, The Healing Heart-Stories to Build Community, Telling Across Language Barriers, Speak Peace, and Where the Heart Is-A Celebration of Home.
Learn more at www.storyconnection.com and find Bob’s musings on intersection of folktales, family, culture, and nature on his blog- www.storytellerscampfire.com
Community tellers
Whittier Mikkelsen is an author and storyteller who specializes in telling healing stories and facilitating workshops centering on disability and emotional healing. She holds an MA in psychology and worked in mental health until pain, secondary to cerebral palsy, caused her to slow down and pursue writing. Whittier's love of the natural world has led her to photography. Her floral photographs hang in local galleries. A resident of Florida's Gulf Coast, she is focused on storytelling and writing her memoir.
Stu Ervin is a retired engineer who designed imaging hardware. He is a lifelong musician who plays many instruments. He sees music as a window to the soul. Stu is a climate activist. He says that being a dad was the best thing he ever did. His dream is to offer free music lessons to kids who can’t afford them.
Community Tellers
Whittier Mikkelsen is an author and storyteller who specializes in telling healing stories and facilitating workshops centering on disability and emotional healing. She holds an MA in psychology and worked in mental health until pain, secondary to cerebral palsy, caused her to slow down and pursue writing. Whittier's love of the natural world has led her to photography. Her floral photographs hang in local galleries. A resident of Florida's Gulf Coast, she is focused on storytelling and writing her memoir.
Stu Ervin is a retired engineer who designed imaging hardware. He is a lifelong musician who plays many instruments. He sees music as a window to the soul. Stu is a climate activist. He says that being a dad was the best thing he ever did. His dream is to offer free music lessons to kids who can’t afford them
Date & Time
Sun, Nov 3, 2024 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM