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No Name @ Word Up Super Storytellers to Explore Our Differences in Washington Heights This Month

By: Oct. 26, 2017
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No Name Comedy/Variety Show producer Eric Vetter brings New York's best established and emerging authors and storytellers including: Dawn J. Fraser, Anoush Froundjian, Harmon Leon and Will Lee to the Word Up Community Bookshop in Washington Heights on Tuesday, November 7 @ 7:00pm for its monthly series No Name @Word Up Super Storytellers Edition.

This month's theme: THE DAY I KNEW I WAS DIFFERENT -- Stories about the moment you realized you were...Black, Latino, Asian, gay, queer, trans, differently abled, old, nerdy, weird, not up to someone else's beauty/fitness standards -- or were justa star-shaped peg in a square hole.

Super Storytellers is curated and co-hosted by author/storyteller Michele Carlo, the author of "Fish Out Of Agua: My life on neither side of the (subway) tracks," (Citadel Press). 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. 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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