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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 7:00. |
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 pubs. 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 pubs. We look forward to meeting you or seeing you once again.
Our Next Show Is Tuesday, March. 10th, with Hosts:
Stephanie Douglass
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Scott Whitehair
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And Featured Special Guests:
Mark Piekarz
(Musical guest singing traditional Irish songs!)
(Musical guest singing traditional Irish songs!)
Mark Piekarz is a lyric tenor and pianist who has particular interests in art song, cultural programming and liturgical music. He is an active vocal soloist in the Chicago area, and has sung with some of the finest classical ensembles in Chicago. For the past four years, he has researched the history and repertoire of Polish vocal music, written both in Poland and the U.S. He's presented the fruits of this research in two solo concerts, for which he provided his own translations in the program notes. He's performed with Bella Voce (Chicago), Coriolis (Evanston), Wicker Park Choral Singers (Chicago), Redmoon Theater, and at the Irish American Heritage Center. He's a graduate of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and lives in Logan Square. http://markpiekarzmusic.wordpress.com/
Sheila Arnold
Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold Jones has been gifted by God with performance skills and has been using this talent since she was eight years old. She has been a full-time Storyteller since 2003 sharing a variety of stories - “whatever fits in her mouth”. She travels throughout the country providing Stories, Historic Character Presentations, Christian Monologues and Professional Development for Educators to schools, churches, libraries, organizations and Storytelling Festivals. Sheila is often interactive and many times intersperses stories with song. In 2013, Sheila was an Exchange Place Teller at the National Storytelling Festival, Jonesborough, TN and in 2014 she was honored to be a Teller-in-Residence at the International Storytelling Center, also in Jonesborough.
Katie Liesener
Katie Liesener is a journalist and storyteller who moved to Chicago from Boston last year. Her journalistic peak was an ode to Marshmallow Fluff that appeared in the Best Food Writing book series. She tells stories around the Chicago area, most recently winning a Moth GrandSlam in Milwaukee. Katie spends her days working on a book and nights sleeping on an air mattress that is neither seaworthy nor floorworthy.
Kathy O'Neill
Kathy O'Neill has read her short stories and poetry about growing up Irish Catholic in New Jersey at the iBAM! Irish Books, Art and Music Celebration and has read at Storylab, "Is this a Thing" and Jamie O'Reilly's Roots Salon. O'Neill is a writer, journalist, special events producer and publicist. She works for the Irish American Heritage Center and often appears on in the media, such as NPR and the Chicago Sun Times, discussing issues of Irish identity. O'Neill has been a writer for NewCity Newspapers and was the Midwest Correspondent for ABCNews.com. She has also worked for Redmoon Theater, the Democratic National Convention, Nightline, Good Morning America and World News Tonight, with Peter Jennings.
Jack Zimmerman
“His stories are fine and funny and closely observed.” - Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun-Times. Jack Zimmerman has worked as a parking-lot attendant, greenhouse laborer, dock hand, trombonist, college instructor, night watchman, piano tuner, newspaper columnist, magazine editor, and PR man for Ravinia and Lyric Opera. He’s written a couple of novels and has told stories his entire life. A few years ago, he read one of his stories on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion.”
