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Monthly Show 2nd Tuesday of Every Month Mrs. Murphy & Sons Irish Bistro (3905 N Lincoln, Chicago) 7:30 PM FREE Doors open at 6:45. |
This Much Is True is dedicated to bringing the members of our community together in a welcoming environment where we can share with each other, listen to each other, and learn from each other. Once a month, we gather to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual while simultaneously tapping into the universality of the human experience.
Our core group of storytellers is joined each month by special guests from every corner of Chicago's creative community. The stories are often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always true.
Please join us for an evening of memorable tales and delicious craft beer in the intimate upstairs lounge of one of Chicago's finest Irish taverns. We look forward to meeting you or seeing you once again.
Our core group of storytellers is joined each month by special guests from every corner of Chicago's creative community. The stories are often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always true.
Please join us for an evening of memorable tales and delicious craft beer in the intimate upstairs lounge of one of Chicago's finest Irish taverns. We look forward to meeting you or seeing you once again.
Our Next Show is on Tuesday, Dec. 10th, With Regulars:
Stephanie Douglass
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Scott Whitehair
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And Featuring These Special Guests:
Mama Edie Armstrong
Mama Edie is a bilingual storyteller (Spanish/English), published
writer, percussionist, speech/language pathologist, and voice-over artist who
has provided international storytelling performances and workshops to parents,
teachers, children, social workers, steel workers, attorneys, and various other
professionals since 1989. Her stories are largely inspired by her
passionate regard for her African and Native American ancestries. She
believes that the power of story can help us to connect with the importance of
knowledge of one’s self, of belief in one’s self, of understanding our connections
to the rest of the world, and of honoring the right each of us has to strive to
attain our highest potential. Whether fun and frolicking or somber and
serene, these presentations are powerful reminders of our own beauty and
strength and the gifts we are to the world.
LeVan D. Hawkins
LeVan D. Hawkins is a writer, poet, & performance artist formerly of Los Angeles, now based in Chicago. In Chicago, he has appeared at Links Hall, Alt Q Festival at the Old Town School of Folk Music, the Homolatte Reading Series, Robbins Public Library and the Gerber-Hart Library in Chicago. He has traveled across the country reading and performing and has appeared in the New York International Fringe Festival and the National Black Theater Festival. In LA, he has performed at venues such as the UCLA Hammer Museum, Redcat Theater at Disney Hall, and Highways Performance Space. An MFA recipient from Antioch University – Los Angeles in Creative Writing, he uses his experience in theater and spoken-word to turn standard literary readings into engaging demonstrations of the storyteller's art.
Tekki Lomnicki
Tekki Lomnicki is a solo performer,
playwright, director and educator. She has devoted her craft to finding ways to
incorporate her abilities and those of others to perform compelling stories. Tekki
is the Artistic Director of Tellin’ Tales Theatre, a company, dedicated to
building community through the art of storytelling. They produce adult solo
performance as well as a life changing mentoring program and show called “Six
Stories Up” featuring kids and adults with and without disabilities. Tekki performs
her critically acclaimed solo work for schools, conferences and theater
audiences all over the US and Canada and starred in the award-winning film, The Miracle by Jeffrey Jon Smith. She
also taught for Chicago’s Gallery 37 and currently teaches solo performance to
adults at the Prop Thtr. She is a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artists
Fellowship in New Performance Forms, the 2008 3Arts Artists Award in Theater
and the 2010 Grigsby Award for Excellence in Solo Performance. See glimpses of
her performances at tekkilomnicki.com
and see her live in Lifeline’s Theater’s Fillet of Solo in January.
Amy Rood
By day, Amy Rood
gets paid to do software support for your library. By night, she sleeps.
And in between, with no intention of going off the grid or turning into
a backwoods doomsday prepper, she develops skills for a
post-apocalyptic world. She can cook, compost, and make her own clothes.
And she tells stories, which will be especially nice after the
apocalypse when all the books have been burned and you need
entertainment while you're sitting around the tire fire. Until then,
she'll work as a librarian, mix you a mean Old-Fashioned, get a serious
ab workout laughing with you (and probably at herself), and hang out
with her world-ranked-in-air-hockey spouse and their rescued pets
(including the world's most awesome one-eyed cat).
And she'll still occasionally show up to tell you stories about her
idyllic childhood and all the awkwardness that came after, no apocalypse
required.
Amy's story of awkward triumphing over sexy has been included on The
Moth Radio Hour and The Moth Podcast. And she also regularly decides to
do questionable things like shaving her head, not buying new clothes
for a year, and trying to overcome coulrophobia; she writes about those
adventures on Go Mighty: http://gomighty.com/amyr.
Ozzie Totten
Ozzie has claimed Chicago as his home for the past seven years. He's actively involved in 2nd Story, where he serves as a company member and the manager of the podcast program. In his free time, he's a die hard Minnesota Twins fan. Yes, you read that right.
