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No Name @ Word Up Spotlights Super Storytellers In Washington Heights

By: Nov. 29, 2017
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No Name @ Word Up Spotlights Super Storytellers In Washington Heights  ImageNo Name Comedy/Variety Show producer Eric Vetter brings New York's best established and emerging authors and storytellers including: Jennifer Glick ("Talkingstick" @The Rubin Museum of Art), Maggie Nuttall (Scranton Fringe Festival), Greg DeLucia ("Family Dinner", "Storyfest-a Storytelling Festival"), Tamora Wilson (Song A Week 2017!) to the Word Up Community Bookshop in Washington Heights on Tuesday, December 5 @ 7:00pm for its monthly series "No Name @Word Up Super Storytellers Edition."

This month's theme: THE ACCIDENT-stories about how things changed in an instant, from breaking your mother's favorite object or breaking someone's heart, falling down the stairs...or falling in love. Also includes "Happy Accidents" where something that was meant for your harm turned out for your good.

Co-hosted this month by comedian / storyteller Jillian Thomas (The Ten Foot Rat Cabaret), the show will also include a "Magic Hat Open-Mic" where audience members can sign up for a chance at four minutes of stage time to share their own stories. Super Storytellers is curated by author/storyteller Michele Carlo, the author of "Fish Out Of Agua: My life on neither side of the (subway) tracks," (Citadel Press). Admission is FREE, donations welcomed.

Word Up Community Bookshop/Libreria Communitaria is located at 2113 Amsterdam Avenue (corner of 165th Street) in Manhattan. Subways: A, C or #1 train to 168th Street (walk south to 165th St, turn left, then walk east to Amsterdam Avenue). For additional information, go to: wordupbooks.com or call (347)688-4456.




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