10/4/2022 Open Telling Joe Pagliuca (aka Big Joe the Storyteller) has been delighting children, teens, and adults in New England and around the world for the past 20-something years. Tonight he'll bring his energy, passion, and style that boarders on the immature to a wonderful Story Space happening: all Open Telling! Hosted By: Big Joe Pagliuca | 10/11/2022 Steve Paling Storyteller, poet, and educator Steve Paling hails from Ithaca, NY. He tells a mix of original and adapted stories based on folk and fairy tales. Tonight he will take us along the crooked trails and wooded roads of an unnamed and imaginary kingdom whose main export is stories. Hosted By: Ralph Chadis Hear Ye: (Loads in 3 sec.) | 10/18/2022 Laura Packer Join this award-winning storyteller for seasonal spooky tales, from folklore and from life. Whether it's an unexpected gift from beyond the grave, a visit from a cryptid creature or an invitation to seek out more, these stories will make you shiver with frights and delight. Hosted By: Bruce Marcus |
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10/25/2022 Elinor Benjamin from Halifax, offers some adventures on the trail of the remarkable 19th century writer and character Lafcadio Hearn aka Koizumi Yakumo. Unknown to her, it started when she was 8 years old and she's still stalking him. There will be ghosts - of course - and a life-changing encounter in Japan. Hosted By: Bruce Marcus | 11/1/2022 Mike Cohen celebrates his upcoming birthday by taking us back to those thrilling days of Yore, when nothing was like it seems, and seams were like nothing. In other words, hold on to your hats! Hosted By: Barbara Aliprantis Hear Ye: (Loads in 3 sec.) | 11/8/2022 Jim LaChapelle has been a professional Teller for over 30 years. Tonight Jim will be sharing a good ol’ Jack Tale, a very personal Tale, and... oh, what’s this??? A leftover scary story? Where did that come from? It must have been hiding in the... dark! Hosted By: Mike Cohen |
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11/15/2022 CHRISTIE KEEGAN shares personal stories – as well as some folk and fairy tales – and aims to mine the personal for the universal in everything she tells, bringing the good, the bad, and occasionally the ugly to light and to life. She invites you to join her on her journey. Hosted By: Mike Cohen | 11/22/2022 Andrea Kamens Andrea will celebrate her fiftieth birthday with tales of Water, Wells, Droughts, and Magic. What an intriguing announcement from an intriguing teller who for years has been searching the nooks and crannies of the world of story. Hosted By: Ralph Chadis | 11/29/2022 Barbara Aliprantis “Nasruddin Hodja, Uncle Savvas and Me?” Barbara shares stories she heard as a youngster, hiding at the top of the basement stairs, eavesdropping on the menfolk who were sitting around the dining room table, swapping stories while the womenfolk were in the kitchen preparing snacks for everyone. Hosted By: Bruce Marcus |
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12/6/2022 Bruce Marcus unleashes a potpourri of original stories, poems and other malarkey, including rhyming modern day fairy tale/romance The Princess Fish, comic, true-life family disaster Cheesecake Blues and hilarious seasonal fare. Unexpect the expected! Hosted By: Andrea Kamens | 12/13/2022 Harry Ingram Author and recitationist extraordinaire, Harry Zooms to us from St. Johns, Newfoundland. With his cheerful lilt, huge, warm heart and wry humor, he evokes some of the very best of the wit and charm to be found on "The Rock". From painfully spicy foods to talking moose, expect to be richly amused! Hosted By: Bruce Marcus | 12/20/2022 Rona Barbour From the UK & Italy! Born in Glasgow, Scotland, as one of 8 siblings to registered blind parents, Rona learned from an early age the value and importance of communicating with others through story. Host of virtual series Int'l Ceilidh, she has been writing and telling stories since childhood. Hosted By: Mike Cohen |
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12/27/2022 Big Joe Pagliuca was going to present “Claus and Effect”, stories of how he has dealt with *frenemy* Santa Claus through the years, but he's come down with the Flu (or worse). So we're going to have all Open Telling instead, with a relaxed time limit. Hosted By: | | |