Next KIND STORIES IN CONCERT
Sunday, February 2, 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.
Kind Stories in Concert
Sunday, February 2
Online & Free | 7:00-8:30 pm EST
Emcee: Jennifer Munro
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‘Kindness is having the ability to speak with love,
listen with patience, and act with compassion.”
–Random Acts of Kindness Foundation
Join the Healing Story Alliance for a special gathering to share and explore stories of kindness in its many faces and forms. Through folk tales and personal stories, we will dive deeply into multiple experiences of kindness. What is it? How does it impact us and our relationships to ourselves, to each other, to the world? Come and listen to “kind stories” shared by both professional tellers and community members and see what memories of kindness emerge for you.
Date: Feb 2, 2025
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm EST
(Open Mic Story Share and Reflection: last half hour)
Format: The story session opens with a concert of seasoned tellers and community tellers sharing stories with themes of kindness. During the second half of the gathering, audience members are invited to share a story, moment, or reflection about kindness that emerged for them as listeners.
Purpose: We all need a little more kindness in our lives. Perhaps a story can take us there.
“WHEN YOU ARE KIND TO OTHERS, IT NOT ONLY CHANGES YOU, IT CHANGES THE WORLD” – Harold Kushner
KIND STORIES in CONCERT
ABOUT the STORYTELLERS
Featured Tellers
Renee Spears Emanuel, recipient of the 2023 “Women in the Arts Award,” is a gifted storyteller whose folktale and tall tale renderings have captivated audiences of all ages for over a decade. Renee has performed on public television, at universities, libraries, conferences, and other venues.
David Novak made his storytelling debut in St. Louis in 1979. He has since been featured at the National Storytelling Festival, Timpanogos, Talking Island and many others. International appearances include the Singapore StoryFest, Czech Children’s Theatre Festival, Sydney International Storytelling Conference, and China international schools. David is proud to have been in the dynamic storytelling trio, Triple Crown Tellers, with Milbre Burch and Angela Lloyd, and co-creator of The National Yakker’s Theatre Ensemble with Nancy Donoval and Gerald Fierst. He is recipient of the NSN Circle of Excellence, and the Aurand Harris Playwrighting Award. David lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
Liz Mangual was “kidnapped by stories.” Her childhood was filled with an ever-changing cast of unusual characters fresh off the boat from Puerto Rico whose lives were difficult but who still found time to laugh, dance, play music and tell stories. Liz thinks of her storytelling as a sancocho (a rich stew) seasoned with encounters with life, people, cultures and the universal concerns that make us human. Her storytelling has brought her to the usual places; libraries, schools, festivals…and to more unusual places like migrant farm worker camps and youth prisons. She enjoys many rich collaborations with colleagues, and organizations across the country. What keeps Liz on the story trail? The constant re-discovery that storytelling is a powerful tool for creating safe, and welcoming environments, for bringing joy and fun to the lives of children. What better way to build connections and community than through story? Look for Liz by the banks of the nearby Rio Grande. The River, where past, present and future meet, just like they do in stories.
Emcee
Jennifer Munro, a recipient of the National Storytelling Network’s Circle of Excellence Award, tells original stories about rogues and heroes that resonate with the frailty and courage of the human condition. She also puts modern spins on ancient tales, often combining them with personal experience. She has produced three award-winning CDs and a collection of short stories, Aunty Lily and other Delightfully Perverse Stories, also an award winner. Jennifer has performed at the National Festival and the Timpanogos Festival. Her most recent project, a tour-deforce performance of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, has been hailed by critics as “dazzling and spellbinding”.
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.