Kristin Chenoweth Hosts Characters Unite Month at New York Public Library, 12/6

PROMISES star Kristin Chenoweth will host "A More Perfect Union: Stories of Prejudice and Power" at the New York Public Library on Monday, December 6, 2010. The event is presented in conjuction with USA Network's Characters Unite Month, New York City's non-profit storytelling organization, The Moth, and is part of a national series of five Character Unite Mainstage showcases, which launched its first tour in New Orleans this year. Denver, Seattle and Chicago are among the next stops.

Each event will feature local and celebrity storytellers sharing a true tale of overcoming prejudice or discrimination. Participants include Most Def (A TRUE MAN OF COLOR), Simon Doonan, Wes Moore, Aimee Mullins, Sirdeaner Walker, and more.

The event trains high school students in each of the five select markets to tell their own Characters Unite-themed stories. After-school workshops culminate in an all-school storytelling assembly, in order to start a dialogue about important issues of diversity, tolerance and respect. USA has also created custom school kits for teachers in high schools across the country that will include storytelling activities based on The Moth workshop series.

Characters Unite draws on the legacy of USA's original "Erase the Hate" campaign of the 1990s. In 2009, the initiative included an award-winning PSA campaign; the launch of charactersunite.com and the online Pledge for Unity; the first annual Characters Unite Award; and the first-ever Characters Unite Town Hall, moderated by NBC News Special Correspondent Tom Brokaw in Washington, DC.

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About The Moth:

The Moth is an acclaimed nonprofit organization dedicated to the art of storytelling; it was founded in New York in 1997 by poet and novelist George Dawes Green, who wanted to recreate in New York the feeling of sultry summer evenings on his native St. Simon's Island, Georgia. Today, The Moth conducts six ongoing programs-The Moth Mainstage, Moth StorySLAMs, MothSHOP Community Program, The Moth on the Road, MothSHOP Corporate, and the annual Moth Ball-and has presented more than three thousand stories told live on stage, and without notes, from people of all walks of life. The Moth Podcast began in 2008 and is now downloaded over one million times each month. The Moth Radio Hour has been licensed to more than two hundred stations across the country since it's launch in 2009. www.themoth.org.

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