Story Club Minneapolis is a live monthly storytelling show that USUALLY happens at the Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater. Story Club showcases true, autobiographical stories -- especially stories that are bold, vulnerable, unexpected, and connected to the complexity of our cultural environment. No two Story Club evenings are ever alike, but each month when we wrap up the show, we feel like we’ve witnessed a new, unique little community coming together.
In the wake of the Coronavirus, Story Club Minneapolis has moved our shows into online livestreams via Zoom.us. Because of this, we’re swapping out our open mic section for curated storytellers, which means that, while there won’t be names pulled from a hat, there WILL be five phenomenal narrative artists from the Twin Cities and BEYOND, coming together in one special evening. We think that’s a bright spot in an otherwise trying time!
HOW TO SEE THE SHOW:
Go to:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B_Yqox0ATb-z8HAdR0I5dw
Fill out the form.
You'll get a confirmation email (it'll be from "Jeff Grell") which will give you all the instructions for how to join the show at 7pm CST on Thursday, September 10th!
Story Club’s host and producer is actor/writer/storyteller Amy Salloway! She’s the creator of the award-winning autobiographical touring solo plays Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?, So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!, and Circumference, as well as the two-person show Entwined. She’s contributed true personal stories to programs on MPR and CBC radio, and has been both a storyteller and story coach for the hit national podcast RISK! Amy teaches memoir and creative writing classes through Minneapolis Community Education, and storytelling workshops for regular people and corporations through The Story Studio. Find out more at Amy’s Facebook page Awkward Moment Productions.
September’s featured performers are Ronna Levy, Gabriela Santiago, Justin Lioi, Michele Carlo, and Alys Ayumi Ogura!
Ronna J Levy has been telling stories in the classroom for 30 years. She's now begun telling stories outside the classroom as well. She's been featured at Long Story Short, Grackle, UCB East, and she's been seen at various in-person open mics throughout New York City. She's toured her one-woman play This Gonna Be On The Test, Miss? at Fringe Festivals throughout the northeast.
Justin Lioi is a Brooklyn-based storyteller and mens' psychotherapist. A former actor and singer, he moved toward therapy after teaching early childhood music classes and wanting to better understand why families, particularly fathers, do what they do. He enjoys how storytelling gives him opportunities to better understand who he is.
Michele Carlo is a native New Yorker, a Nuyorican, and a natural redhead who’s told stories across the U.S., including the Moth's Mainstage in NYC; RISK!’s live shows and podcast; on NPR with Latino USA; and the PBS series Stories from the Stage. She’s also the host of the weekly podcast Radio Free Brooklyn, and the author of the NYC-set memoir Fish Out Of Agua. Find out more at www.michelecarlo.com.
Gabriela Santiago is a writer, performer, and one of the people of color destroying science fiction and horror in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! and People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror! (Available at www.destroysf.com!) Her work has also appeared in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Glittership, Clarkesworld, and other publications. She has performed in the past with Patrick's Cabaret, Raw Sugar and Story Club Minneapolis, and can often be found at OUTspoken. Her Twitter handle is @LifeOnEarth89.
Alys Ayumi Ogura is a Twin Cities-based dancer and multi-disciplinary performing artist. She's an alumni of the 2017/2018 Arts Organizing Institute Fellowship through Pangea World Theater’s Lake Street Arts! program and the NEA’s Our Town grant. Her theatrical/movement pieces have been shown at the Funny Theater Festival by Raw Sugar, the Ragamala Dance Company’s Ode to Navarathri Festival, and 3 Play curated by Charles Campbell’s Skewed Visions. Other highlights of her choreography work include the Body Cartography Project's Future Interstates series; the Walker Art Center’s 2017 Choreographers’ Evening; 9 X 22 SOLO, curated by Laurie Van Wieren; and Inbox@Art Box Choreographers’ Evening, curated by Sarah Hauss.
Ogura is currently an ensemble member at the April Sellers Dance Collective, and regularly works with Pam Gleason’s MotionArt and Sarah LaRose Holland’s Kinetic Evolutions Dance Company.