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the art of storytelling with story club cle

11/15/2018

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Story Club Cleveland asked me to be a featured performer on Wednesday night at their west side show at Forest City Brewery. I'm glad I said yes (and hopefully they are too). I told a story about raising my daughter in the era of Trump, while others told stories about moving to Cleveland, traveling and running marathons. The other featured storyteller was Liz Ferro, who told her own powerful story of surviving foster care and sexual abuse and how it led to her amazing work with girls through her nonprofit organization Girls with Sole.

One of the things that struck me about the evening was how well-versed the crowd clearly was in the form, and how kind they were to each performer. The individuals who took the open mic slots had some ideas of what they wanted to talk about, but they were not reading from a script or their notes, and that made it all the more fun and interesting. I guess in our digital age, people feel the desire to gather over a glass of beer and tell stories to each other. Aw. Plus the beer is good and the venue is fantastic.

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Susan Blouch
11/16/2018 09:17:11 pm

Sounds like a great evening! When is the next one?

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Amy Phipps link
11/19/2018 09:37:30 am


Thank you for joining us Lee! We loved having you!

Susan- We have typically have two shows a month. East side on the first Tuesday of the month at 730 at Bottle House east (next month Dec 4th)
West Side on second Wednesday at Forrest City Brewery. (next month Dec 12th)

Bonus show with performance of students from Dana Norris' "Writing out loud" class 7pm Tuesday Nov 20th at Forrest City Brewery.

http://www.storyclubcleveland.com/

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Lee link
11/19/2018 08:47:31 am

check out story club cleveland online to find out!

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