January 12, 2010, 6:00 p.m.

NEW YORK STORY EXCHANGE
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village

Barbara Aliprantis, host

Storytelling occurs the second Tuesday of every month. Ring in the New Year with a gathering of gifted tellers.

Format: Open MIC (5-6 min each) There is no judging, no contest, no theme! Just great fun!

Followed by:

  • JUDITH HEINEMAN, storyteller, workshop leader, producer of special events, and an Illinois Humanities Council “Road Scholar”, has been a featured teller at festivals around the country. She is founder/producer of the annual Mohegan Colony Storytelling and Music Festival in Westchester County, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in August.
  • JOY KELLY, actress, director, musician and storyteller, performs throughout the country in theatres, cabarets, museums and libraries. She directs for the acclaimed theatre company, Theatreworks, USA, and has served as Artistic Director for the New Ensemble Actors Theatre and The Floating Hospital Theatre both based in New York. Joy’s television credits include Late Night with David Letterman, All My Children and One Life to Live.
  • STEPHANIE PARELLO, a born storyteller, weaves an eclectic tapestry of stories and anecdotes from here and there and everywhere! A native of New York City, Stephanie turned her life upside-down two and a half years ago by moving Down Under! Does she have new stories to tell? You bet!
Cover $7 (includes one house drink)

About Me

New York, NY, United States
“I was born in a two-room house, in a small fishing village on the Island of Paros. In my village community, as I remember it, there was a yiayia – a grandmother – in every house, and I thought they were all mine. When my mother, Margarita, 9 year old brother Yanni, 3 l/2 year old sister, Calypso and my 2 l/2 year old self, departed our Greek Island home, bound for America, to join my father, Anastasios, I left with vivid images of teary-eyed village folks, young and old, lining narrow, winding village streets, waving goodbye. While I was only 2 l/2, I remember that day as though it were yesterday…thus began my journey as a story teller, story listener…”