TELL IT ON TUESDAY AT THE MARSH IN BERKELEY
October 24, 2023 @ 7PM
The Marsh Berkeley
2120 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Join Gerry Keenan, Melinda Ginne, Eleanor Clement Glass and Magda Peck at the Marsh for Tell It On Tuesday.
Tell it on Tuesday celebrates the expression of individual storytelling and solo performance. Coming together as a community to share works crafted by theater artists and storytellers.
Tickets will be available at www.tellitontuesday.org. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Stagebridge classes and programs.
Please contact Barbara Johnson is if you have questions at barbara@stagebridge.org
Gerry Keenan - As a writer and fine art photographer Gerry has been telling stories for many years. Ten years ago she decided to add spoken word telling to her lexicon of written stories and the stories her photos evoke. She thinks telling stories may be in her DNA as she grew up intrigued by her Irish father’s ‘gift of gab’ and the tales her Polish mother’s family told of ‘the old country’ and credits Stagebridge and it’s EPIC program with giving her the tools to take her stories ‘on-stage.’
Melinda Ginne, Ph.D., is a psychologist with over 40 years of experience in geriatrics and treating the psychological aspects of major medical illnesses. She draws inspiration from Glinda the Good Witch (Billie Burke), Oliver Sacks, Sid Caesar, and Imogene Coca. For generations, her family lived in Boyle Heights, the Jewish-Latino comunidad of East Los Angeles where tacos were kosher and the Shul was directly across the street from the Catholic Church. The language of the streets and of her family was English, Spanish, and Yiddish. She is a graduate of the EPIC storytelling program at Stagebridge in Oakland and has been telling stories on Bay Area stages for many years.
Eleanor Clement Glass delights children with folktales from around the world as a Volunteer Storyteller at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, a Stagebridge Teaching Artist in the Oakland Public Schools and children’s programs of the Storytelling Association of California. She tells personal family stories from her Black and Filipino cultures at National Storytelling Network conferences and local Bay Area venues, including the Noh Theater in San Francisco, Monkey House and The Marsh in Berkeley. She also contributes stories to Asian American Storytopia, a YOU TUBE channel offering Asian stories and cultural activities by Asian American Storytellers to children from kindergarten to 5th grade, as a way to combat Asian hate. As a cultural ambassador with Eth-noh-tec, she exchanged stories with Storytellers in China and South Korea. Recently, she performed folktales for children and families in Kauai at a north shore Community Center.
Throughout her career, Magda Peck has been known for weaving powerful personal stories into leadership practice for the public’s health and equity. About 10 years ago, she started taking a deeper dive into the art and science of storytelling for social change, first as an Urban StoryTelling Fellow with Ex Fabula in Milwaukee, then with StoryCenter an Stagebridge, in Oakland. Her latest intergenerational collaboration, SquareRoot Stories, builds storytelling skills and strategies in communities across the country for healthier women, children and families. Magda loves how a light cracks through when our hardest stories are honed and heard from the inside out. magdapeck.com