Life hangs on a narrative thread. This thread is a braid of stories that inform us about who we are, and where we come from, and where we might go. The thread is slender but strong: we trust it to hold us and allow us to swing over the edge of the known into the future we dream in words. (Storycatcher: making sense of our lives throgh the power and practice of story, Baldwin, 2005, p. 3)
Big Water Story Fest offers a weekend of personal story through telling, theater, writing, and song. Featured tellers are Nancy Donoval, Tret Fure, Rachel Nelson, Mara Kirk Hart, and Meredith Cornett.
Thursday November 21 7 pm
Pre-festival stories through music, poetry, and theater presented by Tret Fure and Rachel Nelson. UMD Montague 70 $5
Friday November 22 7 pm
Friday night is part of National Storytelling Network’s “TELLABRATION!” The evening will feature Nancy Donoval, Tret Fure, Rachel Nelson, Mara Kirk Hart, and Meredith Cornett.
Everyone is invited to bring a story (up to 5 min.) to share during the evening celebration of story.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Duluth, 835 W. College St., Duluth, MN
FREE
Saturday November 23 9 – 4 pm
Workshops:
AM Tret Fure – “The heart of the song”; Mara Kirk Hart – “Turning memories into memoir: From truth to art”; and Rachel Nelson – “Story performance: Inviting the listener in.”
PM Tret Fure – “Marriage of lyric and melody”; Meredith Cornett – “Many voices: The rise of collective memoir”; and Nancy Donoval – “From you to universal.”
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Duluth, 835 W. College St., Duluth, MN
$45 am & pm; $25 one Discounts for members of Arts on Superior, Lake Superior Writers, Arrowhead Reading Council, and Story Arts MN
Tickets at BrownPaperTickets.com
Saturday November 23 7 pm
Concert
Performances and readings by Nancy Donoval, Tret Fure, Rachel Nelson, Mara Kirk Hart, and Meredith Cornett.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Duluth, 835 W. College St., Duluth, MN
$15/$10 with workshop registration
Tickets at BrownPaperTickets.com
Sunday November 24
Theater and Music
2:30 pm Rachel Nelson in “The Urban Hermit”
4:00 pm Tret Fure CD release concert
Harrington ARTS Center, 1401 Belknap St., Superior, WI
$15 one show/$25 for both
Tickets at BrownPaperTickets.com