Next KIND STORIES IN CONCERT
Sunday, Dec 7, 2025
7:00-8:30 pm Eastern Time
Exploring kindness in its many faces and forms, through folk tales and personal stories, we dive deeply into multiple experiences of kindness.
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Featured Tellers
Nick Smith started learning folktales when stuck at home during a childhood illness. He didn’t start telling them to anyone else until adulthood, as part of his job at a library. Since then, he has told stories in an odd variety of places, including a Victorian parlor, a mausoleum, a former city hall and a horse race track. Luckily, the horses weren’t running at the time.
Anabelle Castaño is a bilingual storyteller, archaeologist and museum educator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She interweaves her three professions and works on building bridges between material and immaterial culture through traditional stories from all continents. Currently she’s part of the storytelling committee for the Buenos Aires International Book Fair -which has hosted a storytellers’ international meeting for 27 years- and a member of FEAST. You can find her online telling folktales, offering workshops on storytelling, online resources, repertoire and oral traditions and developing content for various projects. www.anacas.com.ar
Sue O’Halloran has performed her original stories nationally and internationally at such festivals as The National Storytelling Festival and The Timpanogos Storytelling Festival and has led thousands of seminars in corporate and nonprofit settings on the power of storytelling for workforce engagement, inclusion, and connections. Sue is the author of several noted books and is a recipient of both the National Storytelling Network’s Leadership and Circle of Excellence awards. Her Racebridges website showcased 260 social justice video stories and received over half a million visitors each year. Her ten-year JustStories Storytelling Festival featured the untold stories of marginalized and accomplished communities. www.SusanOHalloran.com
Community Tellers
Alana Shapiro is a student studying Environmental and Sustainability Sciences and Computer Science at Northeastern. For her co-op, she worked at the Food Project in Roxbury, helping to support their efforts to bring healthy, affordable produce to lower-income communities. There she worked on the farm, ran farmers markets, and administered some of their food justice programs. She currently volunteers with the Massachusetts Sierra Club on their legislative team supporting their efforts to pass legislative priorities through campaigning, tabling, and lobbying events. <[email protected]
Ella Reznikova, originally from Ukraine, lives in Vermont and practices Buddhism. She is an interpreter and a freelance author who has been published. The moment Russia invaded Ukraine, she organized the Compassion for Ukraine Tonglen zoom group that has met daily for over two years. Ella works with Ukrainian volunteers fundraising for numerous needs. https://sites.google.com/view/ukraine-tonglen/home
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Jo Radner is a Folklorist, storyteller, writer, and oral historian who creates personal tales and stories about the people of northern New England. She is past president of the American Folklore Society and the National Storytelling Network and serves on the Advisory Board of the journal Storytelling, Self, Society. A Harvard Ph.D. and former professor at American University, she has been studying, teaching, telling, and collecting stories most of her life. She lives in Lovell, Maine, and can be reached at [email protected]
Healing Story Alliance is a not-for-profit, educational, arts organization which provides online resources and concert, workshop, and community programming
in support of storytelling as a healing art. Please donate to help make programs like these possible.
To listen to past Kind Stories, visit our archive of recordings.