Title: StoryTelling in the Park
Location: Park
Description: Great stories in the park
Date: 2009-25-06
StoryTelling in the Park
June 25th, 2009Our Story
June 5th, 2009
“In terms of whose stories stay in my head, it’s my mother’s, my aunts’, my neighbors’, my teachers’.”
—Michelle Obama
At Mighty Writers, we’re all about telling a good story.
Fortunately, you can’t grow up in this city and not have at least a few good stories to tell.
All you have to do is listen to hear them.
Great Philadelphia stories are told everywhere.
On our playgrounds. In our markets. At the bus stops… anywhere and everywhere people congregate.
Some of the stories we hear are pretty tall tales. Others have the real ring of truth.
Every day we hear stories in our city that make us happy, stories that make us sad and stories that make us think.
Our Mighty Writers have stories, too. And over time we’ll share them here in this space.
This we know: The only thing more fun than reading or listening to a good story is knowing how to write or tell one.
Which is why storytelling is so much fun.
Good storytelling also requires structure, discipline and crafting: a strong beginning, middle and end—and knowing how to tightly stitch all three together.
Our tutors will work with our Mighty Writers through as many drafts as necessary until the story reads and sounds just right, until it becomes the kind of story that stays in your head, maybe forever.
Captivating Voices Needed!
June 2nd, 2009
Join Nic Esposito of Mighty Writers and the Urban Nutrition Initiative for a storytelling corner at the Clark Park Market in West Philadelphia beginning this Sat., 10am to 2pm.
Readers will be asked to read for 30 minutes at a time, entertaining West Philly children while giving their parents the space to shop for produce. Kids will enjoy the tales of Roald Dahl, Madeline L’Engle, Jerry Spinelli and other children’s writers. They will be able to contribute a poem or a picture to the Mighty Writers Sign-In Book, thereby becoming an official Mighty Writer!
Interested volunteers can attend the events planning meeting at the home of Dana Henry on Wednesday, June 3 at 6:30. Email for her address: danahenry65@yahoo.com.
Volunteers who cannot attend the meeting are also welcome to look for the Mighty Writers storytelling corner at Clark Park Market at 43rd and Baltimore. The Urban Nutrition Initiative (UNI Farm stand) is located toward the middle of the market, and the storytelling corner will be setting up near the statue of Charles Dickens.
