Stories
- Howard Petrick, 1965
- Daniel Ari, Fights With Poems
- Erica Lann-Clark and Olga Loya, Believe it or Not
- Lashon Daley, “My Newspaper Lover”, “Check Race Box” and “Audrey”
Music
Stuart Rosh, Vocals, Guitar and Harmonica
About the Performers
Howard Petrick is a solo performer who lives in San Francisco. He has toured North America the last for years with his successful autobiographical solo show Breaking Rank. Tonight’s presentation is part of a new still untitled show, that may or may not be autobiographical or fiction.
Where language eschews the straight lines and plain meanings of prose is the place Daniel Ari finds himself—fascinated and frustrated, maddened and mesmerized. Fights With Poems is a body of work exploring both well-known and original poetry in energetic live performance.
Erica Lann-Clark, a nationally known storyteller, playwright and solo performer, has told at major storytelling festivals, like The National Storytelling Festival in Jonesorough, Tennessee, and at venues from coast to coast. Her solo play, Shopping For God, ran to critical acclaim at the Marsh Theater, SF. She loves to tell where the heart of the story meets the heart of the listener.
Olga Loya, a nationally known Latina storyteller, solo performer and writer, uses her voice, body and sometimes music and dance to draw her audience into the imaginative and surprising worlds of the tales she tells. She has been a featured teller at many festivals including the Guadalajara, Mexico Festival and the Jonesborough National Storytelling Festival and has performed and taught workshops at colleges, schools, libraries, conferences, festivals, theaters, museums, bookstores, and corporations. She tells stories because they have a way of entertaining, teaching and giving people strength.
Lashon Daley was born and raised in Miami, Florida and enjoys listening to Will Smith’s song about her hometown. She received her M.F.A in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College in 2008 and plans to be an author when she grows up. She came to Berkeley to pursue an M.A. in Folklore because she believes that everyone has a story to tell.
Stuart Rosh sings slice of life songs that harken back to the days when songwriters all spoke Yiddish (or tried to), men knew how to dress, and every lady of bearing proudly owned at least one pearl necklace. He’s recorded four CDs (some of which contain infernal rock and roll), a memoir published by Oxford University Press, and a novel about Russian emigre mathematicians, Hilbert’s Sixth Problem, that should be out next year. He is currently working on an opera with a classical music composer.