Tell It On Tuesday Spring Workshop Performance
Stories
- Gigi Bisson, “Adult Child of a Junkaholic Comes Home”
- Helen Curran, “The Summoner’s Tale”
- Jean Gregory, “The Apple of Nobody’s Eye”
- Sally Holzman, “Having The Last Word”
- Eric Larson, “Oh Boy, Oh Man”
- Sharon Noteboom, “And the People Cheered”
- Ann Riley, “MAGIC”
- Kristina Yates, “Snapshots”
Music
Steve Laciak, classical guitar
About the Performers
Gigi Bisson spins true stories about the flip side of life (often in outrageous costumes)—bridging the gap between traditional oral storytelling and the new, edgier, “radical participatory” culture. Originally a journalist, she has performed with the Renegade Women/Unrepentant Men storytelling troupe, Porchlight, Memoir Spool, Sierra Storytelling Festival, Flambe Lounge and as a featured artist on the main stage at Burning Man Arts Festival in Nevada.
Helen Curran is a bilingual storyteller, who started telling in France, where she usually lives. In the Bay Area she tells traditional tales in her native language, English. She still has a funny accent as she comes from a small European Island not far from France.
Jean Gregory is a retired teacher currently working part time for Patten University monitoring student teachers in the teacher credential program. She has 30 years teaching experience in inner city schools in both Chicago and Oakland.
Sally Holzman started storytelling after retiring from the work world as a means of forestalling Alzheimer’s. She’s busy recommending this cure at Senior centers, on radio, festivals and story swaps. Sally is the founder of the Contra Costa Tale Spinners, member of the improv troop Antic- Wittys and Stagebridge storytellers.
Eric Larson used to be five, then ten, then sixteen, eighteen and twenty-one. These days, he’s thirty and still not too sure of anything.
Sharon Noteboom, after teaching in San Francisco for 32 years, is now pursuing her other real interests. She began telling stories in the classroom, both personal and traditional, but thinks that this is much more fun.
Ann Riley enjoys telling stories at the Asian Art Museum, for Stagebridge, and for anyone who will sit still and listen. She is hoping to gather more stories on her ’09 trip to Antarctica.
Kristina Yates is a Marriage and Family Therapist in Oakland, California, a storyteller with StageBridge, world traveler, foster mom for many temporarily homeless dogs, person of Pepper the Service, and she calls herself a psychiatric survivor (she survived psychiatry). She comes from proud poor Appalachia roots and received elocution lessons at the tender age of seven.
About the Show
New work from our Spring 2008 Workshop participants.