About this Event
What is a story? How do stories work? What happens when we send bits of information and emotion through the ether so that you and I can understand and feel something?
Join us for an evening of stories and an exploration of the nature of storytelling with Radio Diaries producer Joe Richman along with live scoring by cellist Lily Gelfand.
Joe Richman Bio
Joe Richman is a Peabody Award-winning producer and reporter and the founder of Radio Diaries, a non-profit organization. For two decades, Radio Diaries has helped to pioneer a model for working with people to document their own lives for public radio. Joe has collaborated with teenagers and octogenarians, prisoners and Pr*son guards, gospel preachers and bra saleswomen, the famous and the unknown. Through his career, he has interviewed hundreds of people, from a seltzer delivery man to a Civil War widow to Nelson Mandela. The LA Times called Joe “a kind of Studs Terkel of the airwaves.”
Lily Gelfand
Originally from Youngstown, Ohio, Lily is a Brooklyn-based dance artist and musician In May 2018 she graduated from from Ohio University’s Honor’s Tutorial College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and Choreography. While at Ohio University she has had the pleasure of performing in works by David Dorfman, Kendra Portier, Jasmine Hearn, Kyle Abraham, Joanna Kotze, Gladys Bailin, and Ani Javian. As a collaborative musician, she has also accompanied and composed works for Molissa Fenley, Giada Ferrone, David Dorfman, and Davide Di Pretoro. Lily currently dances for David Dorfman Dance and creates her own compositions.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St, Wellfleet, United States
USD 15.00
