2010 Conference - Story Concerts & Fringe
Story Concerts!
Friday, April 23 • 7:00pm
Storytellers: Renee Englot, Jeff Gere, Kim Sheahan, Anne Shimojima, Kevin Strauss
Saturday, April 24 • 7:00pm
Storytellers: Sue Black, Karen Chace, Clare Norelle, Karen Pillsworth, Mary Schmidt
Sunday, April 25 • 10:45am
Storytellers: Laura Berlage, Suzie Garfield, Meg Gilman, Joe Jekot
Fringe Performances
What is Fringe? The Northlands Fringe gives artists freedom to be creative. Performers are chosen by an un-juried lottery selection process. The Fringe is included in your conference registration fee.
Friday, Apri 23 • 8:45pm
Gutsy Broads – Strong Women/Strong Stories
Megan Hicks
Desperate times call for desperate measures: Althea used a kitchen knife. Job’s wife gave God a piece of her mind. And I created the Bob Mapplethorpe Memorial Condom Wallet.
Audience: Adult
Content Warning: Adult language, violence, sexual content
The Urban Hermit
Rachel Nelson
An urban hermit finds connection with others through street busking. Storytelling, physicality, and music. Waltzing with a washtub bass, homemade percussion, street fiddling, growing up. A strange musical; loosely autobiographical.
Audience: Adults and older teens
Content Warning: None
FRIDAY, APRIL 23 • 10:00pm
Pele, Hawaii’s Volcano Goddess
Jeff Gere
The ancient Volcano Goddess Pele lives today on Hawaii’s Big Island. Jeff Gere tells true supernatural tales of her continuing encounters with island people, collected over twenty years.
Audience: Teens & Adults
Content Warning: Intense situations and scenes
Sunday Drive to the Dump
Regi Carpenter
Stories of a river rat's daughter on Sunday's in Clayton, NY on the St. Lawrence River. Fishing, swimming, shopping at the dump. One man's trash is another man's treasure.
Audience: Adults
Content Warning Some sexual content
SATURDAY, APRIL 24 • 8:45pm
The Mahabharata
Cathryn Fairlee
The Mahabharata is a Hindu epic that has been told, sung, carved, painted and danced for over 2000 years. Cathryn will tell some of the most famous and beloved episodes.
Audience: Teens and adults
Content Warning: None
Advent: The Coming of the Lord
Don Falkos
Prophetic fulfillment and divine intervention are prominent elements of this story about the birth and early life of Jesus based on the first three chapters of the Gospel of Luke.
Audience: All
Content Warning: Life altering
SATURDAY, APRIL 24 • 10:00pm
The Storytelling Smackdown: so good it hurts
Kevin Strauss
Full-contact competitive storytelling. Be prepared. Three storytellers go head-to-head telling the same story in their own way, amid air horns, ping-pong balls and folding chairs hurled by the other performers.
Audience: Family with teenage children (no one under 12 allowed in the room)
Content Warning: possible adult language; possible simulated violence; copious amounts of irreverence regarding both All Star Wresting and Storytelling; no sex, but then again, we can't have everything
The Single Question or Dating and Other Questionable Acts!
Jean Armstrong
Aging single brings out the world's worst questions from those that aren't single and even from those that are! A comedy that'll make you question your spin(ster) on the diversity of lifestyles!
Audience: Adult
Content Warning: Mild adult content – not for kids (Nudity in that I bare my soul!)