Now Streaming! Refresh, Reset, REBOOT! 2021
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About this Event
Help shake off 2020 (and the first two weeks of 2021) with four nationally celebrated storytellers. Tales of tentative travel, hoop skirts from hell, starting over and the unintended consequences of an incomplete Suduko puzzle. From laugh out loud funny to life afirming human connection, there's something for everyone.
This is a virtual online show streaming on YouTube. Tickets are pay what you can starting at $1.00 and up. Watch the show at your convenience.
Emcee: Claire Hennessy
Storytellers:
Bil Lepp’s humorous, family friendly tall-tales and stories have earned the appreciation of listeners of all ages and from all walks of life. In 2011, Bil was awarded the National Storytelling Network’s Circle of Excellence Award. Lepp has been featured 19 times at the National Storytelling Festival, and performed at major storytelling festivals, at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and at corporate events and functions across the country. He performed at Comedy Central’s Stage on Hudson in Los Angeles, CA.
Bil’s books and audio collections have won awards including the PEN Steven Kroll Award for Children’s Book Writing, Parents’ Choice Gold awards, and awards from the National Parenting Publications Assoc., and the Public Library Assoc. https://www.leppstorytelling.com/
Kim Weitkamp is a humorist, storyteller, singer and songwriter, Kim has taken home an armload of awards and recognitions. She currently has 9 albums, 7 of them award winning audio collections, the latest being, Monkey Bars, Middle Age, and Other Natural Disasters. Her material is played on NPR affiliate stations and on SiriusXM Radio. Kim travels the continent full time performing at theaters and at festivals. She has hosted a successful morning show and has given keynotes for some of Forbes most recognized companies and high profile national non-profits. She has received the Blue Ridge Excellence in the Arts Award, the Toastmasters International Leadership in Communication Award and 7 Storytelling World Awards. https://www.kimweitkamp.com/
Regi Carpenter has been bringing songs and stories to audiences of all ages throughout the world in school, theaters, libraries, at festivals, conferences and in people’s back yards for over 20 years. An award winning performer, Regi has toured her solo shows and workshops in theaters, festivals and schools, nationally and internationally.
Regi is the youngest daughter in a family that pulsates with contradictions: religious and raucous, tender but terrible, unfortunate yet irrepressible. These tales celebrate the glorious and gut – wrenching lives of four generations of Carpenter s raised on the Saint Lawrence River in Clayton, New York. Tales of underwater tea parties, drowning lessons and drives to the dump give voice to multi-generations of family life in a small river town with an undercurrent. https://regicarpenter.com/
Antonio Rocha is originally from Brazil, came to the USA In 1988 to study mime with Tony Montanaro. Since then Antonio has performed his unique fusion of mime and spoken word with his tenor voice and realistic sound effects from Brazil to New Zealand covering 15 countries across 6 continents. Antonio has many recordings, a picture book and earned the coveted Circle of Excellence Award by the National Storytelling Network. www.storyinmotion.com