February 26, 2013

Tell it on Tuesday celebrates the expression of individual voices by promoting the art of storytelling and solo performance. Coming together as a community to share works crafted by theater artists and storytellers, we provide an East Bay home to the solo performer.

STORIES
Howard Petrick
1965

Daniel Ari
Fights With Poems: Shakespeare V. Skymall

Erica Lann-Clark & Olga Loya
Believe it or Not

MUSIC
Stuart Rosh
Vocals, Guitar and Harmonica

Music at 7 pm
Stories at 7:30 pm

1965 Howard Petrick is a solo performer who lives in San Francisco. He has toured North America the last for years with his successful autobiographical solo show Breaking Rank. Tonight’s presentation is part of a new still untitled show, that may or may not  be autobiographical or fiction.

Fights With Poems: Shakespeare V. Skymall Where language eschews the straight lines and plain meanings of prose is the place Daniel Ari finds himself—fascinated and frustrated, maddened and mesmerized. Fights With Poems is a body of work exploring both well-known and original poetry in energetic live performance.

Believe it or Not Erica Lann-Clark, a nationally known storyteller, playwright and solo performer, has told at major storytelling festivals, like The National Storytelling Festival in Jonesorough, Tennessee, and at venues from coast to coast. Her solo play, “Shopping For God,” ran to critical acclaim at the Marsh Theater, SF. She loves to tell where the heart of the story meets the heart of the listener.

Olga Loya, a nationally known Latina storyteller, solo performer and writer, uses her voice, body and sometimes music and dance to draw her audience into the imaginative and surprising worlds of the tales she tells. She has been a featured teller at many festivals including the Guadalajara, Mexico Festival and the Jonesborough National Storytelling Festival and has performed and taught workshops at colleges, schools, libraries, conferences, festivals, theaters, museums, bookstores, and corporations. She tells stories because they have a way of entertaining, teaching and giving people strength.

MUSIC Stuart Rosh sings slice of life songs that harken back to the days when songwriters all spoke Yiddish (or tried to), men knew how to dress, and every lady of bearing proudly owned at least one pearl necklace.  He's recorded four CDs (some of which contain infernal rock and roll), a memoir published by Oxford University Press, and a novel about Russian emigre mathematicians, Hilbert's Sixth Problem, that should be out next year.  He is currently working on an opera with a classical music composer.