“I’m Tawkin’ Here” Queens Edition
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
When: 7:30 pm
“I’m Tawkin’ Here” at the New York Irish Center
10-40 Jackson Avenue, L.I.C., NYC.
#7 train to Verrnon-Jackson; G train to 21st/Van Alst.
[Detailed directions]
Featuring storytellers:
* Tara Clancy (Broad Channel) – Fifth generation New Yorker and Moth GrandSLAM storytelling champion whose solo show “Channel Rat” was featured in the NY Fringe Festival
* Kambri Crews (Long Island City) – Storyteller, public speaker, and author of the critically acclaimed memoir Burn Down the Ground
* Ed Shevlin (Rockaways) – Irish speaker, Fulbright award winner, and part of the heroic sanitation team that who cleaned up the Rockaways after Hurricane Sandy (featured in “If These Knishes Could Talk”)
* Angel Yau (Howard Beach) – Comedienne extraordinaire with Upright Citizen’s Brigade and Mortified! storytelling
* And music from SoSoon (Jamaica) of Mi-6 – Emcee, songwriter, and the “Spike Lee of hip hop”
Knishes have been generously provided for this event by Knishery NYC.
Learn more about “I’m Tawkin’ Here: Storytelling with a New Yawk Accent” HERE.
View photos from “I’m Tawkin’ Here” in Queens HERE.
