Let Me Tell You! A Curated Story Telling Jam
Monday, May 06, 2024
7:00-9:00 pm
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Ages: 18+ yrs.
Fee: FREE
Location: Joseph C. Vallez Activity Center

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A free monthly storytelling event hosted by 2-time Moth winner Errol McLendon

Everyone tells stories. At family gatherings. In bars and coffee shops. Here is your opportunity to share your personal stories with your community. Stories can be funny or poignant. About love or tragedy, or maybe both. They can be about something you learned or something you wish you had never done. Something historic you witnessed or were a part of.

If you would like to participate in our upcoming Jams please submit a description of a 7 - 8 minute story you would like to tell to errol.mclendon@gmail.com to be included in an evening of friends sharing stories with friends. First time tellers are welcomed and encouraged.

A free Zoom workshop will be offered two weeks prior to each show to help enhance your story in a relaxed, informal environment. One-on-one coaching will also be available.

Concessions will be available for purchase

MAY TELLERS:

Barbara Peterson

Barbara Peterson is a Chicago based personal narrative storyteller who tells with eloquence, heart, and humor. She has told at Moth slams, has been a featured teller at an NSN showcase on StorySpace.org, and appeared at various online and in-person open mics and jams. She envisions storytelling as a medium to take her audience on a journey through her life's experiences and hopes at journey's end the story has added something of value to their own lives.

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Doug Dusik

Doug Dusik is communications professional living in Naperville. He has been a fan of storytelling since he was allowed to sit at the adult table as a child. Doug would behave so he could hear the grown-ups tell their tales, and he enjoys a good story to this day.

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Scott Levy

Scott Levy teaches improv, comedy writing, stand-up, and storytelling at Chicago's Second City Training Center. He is a multiply published short story writer and comedic essayist who is currently working on two novels. He has a lengthy background in acting, sketch comedy, and improv.

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Saba Haider

Saba Haider received a Master’s degree in Wildlife Sciences in 2006 in India. During her time there, she conducted research at various national parks and forest preserves, aiming to protect endangered animals and the environment.

Having moved to the United States 17 years ago from India, Saba now resides in Aurora with her husband and two children, both attending IPSD 204 schools. For over a decade, she has been running a business in the Health and Wellness sector. Saba actively serves on the Public Health Board of the DuPage County Health Department.

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Dawn Haney

Dawn Haney is new to the storytelling world, but has extensive experience in theatre. She graduated from SIU, which is also where she met her now husband, Paul. She is a proud mother of Linus, who is graduating from film school in California in a couple of weeks (and she is not afraid to exploit any connections you may have) and Ben, soon to be finishing his Freshman year at Triton College.

Dawn enjoyed 12 wonderful years working at Tree House Humane Society where she served as a Veterinary Technician, Adoption Counselor, Animal Assisted Therapy Manager, Communications Director, Behavioral Counselor, and Program Manager of the Foster Parent Program - although not always at the same time! After that she was  the trainer/handler/spokesperson for a pretty famous feline (more about that in her story!), worked for a time at the Lincoln Park Zoo (until Covid stopped that) and is still working on saving animals by being a part of protecting their environment – at her work at the Forest Preserves of Cook County.

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Kate Prior

Kate Prior is a corporate trainer who teaches cybersecurity basics by day, works on her novel by night, and creates paintings and other art things on the weekends. Occasionally, she tells stories at storytelling events like Do Not Submit, Serving the Sentence, and Is This a Thing?  You can view the stories that she’s told so far on her YouTube channel, Prior Tales.

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