SPRING/SUMMER APPEARANCES 2008
(*Connotes schools or other programs that are closed to the public. Contact the school if you wish to attend)
APRIL 2008
April 4, 5, 6 (F, Sa, Su) – Featured Artist, Presenter at the Virginia Storytelling Gathering. The conference will be held at the Roslyn Conference Center in Richmond. I will be delivering the keynote address, presenting a workshop and facilitating a coaching session at this gathering of storytellers across the state of Virginia. Additional workshop presenters include: Judith Onesty, Gail Rosen, Les Schaffer. Contact: the Virginia Storytelling Alliance (VASA) – Norris Spencer at tellspence@cox.net.
April 8 (Tu) – Featured Artist – Convocation at Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC. The program begins at 11am in the Belk Auditorium. Contact: Laura Shealy, Director of Cultural Events. Ph: 864-833-8292 or email at lwshealy@presby.edu or visit www.presby.edu.
April 11 (F) – *Co-Artist-in-Residence with John Blake, Jr. at the School in Rose Valley, Rose Valley, PA. Our day-long residency includes classroom visits and a presentation of Fiddlin’ With Stories for all grades. Contact: Jodie Brown, 610-566-1088 (school phone) or email at Jodie@TheSchoolinRoseValley.org.
April 18 (F) - *School Performances, New Garden School - Toughkenamon, PA. I will be presenting both morning and afternoon programs. Contact: Mary Beth Lauer at 610-853-5914 or email at glauer2@comcast.net.
April 19 (Sa) – Host, Sound All Around: The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Preschool Concert Series. All the musicians return with their instruments for an ensemble presentation. Composer Allen Krantz has written a piece just for the ensemble. Featured artists and instruments: David Cramer, Flute; Rob Kesselman, Bass; Jennifer Montone, French Horn; and Angela Zator-Nelson, Percussion. Concerts take place in the Academy of Music Ballroom. Concert times: 10am, 11:15am and 12:30. Call: 215-893-1900 or visit www.philorch/imaginations.
April 21 (M) – Repeat of above concert. Monday concert times are 10am and 11:15am.
April 24 (Th) - *Family School Performance, Garnet Valley Elementary School; Glen Mills, PA. This special ‘Family Night’ performance begins at 6:15pm. Contact: Jason Kotch, Title 1 Coordinator at 610-579-4197 or email at kotchj@garnetvalleyschools.com.
April 26 (Sa) – Pre-concert Artist, Carnegie Hall Family Concert. Featured concert artists: The Orchestra of St. Luke’s with conductor John Morris Russell. Concert theme: ‘Symphony in Space’. Pre-concert storytelling begins at 12:30 in the Rohayton Room. Concert begins at 2pm in the Stern Auditorium. Carnegie Hall is located at 57th and Seventh Avenue (881 Seventh Ave.) Call: 212-903-9670 or email at education@carnegiehall.org.
April 29 (Tu) – *Host, Perelman American Roots Final Concert, Carnegie Hall. This is the final concert on this education series for Middle School students. Concert theme: Big Sound, Big Apple – Jazz in New York City. This concert features jazz vocalist Sachal Vasandani and his band and incorporates lyrics created by students in participating schools. Concert time: 11:30 in Zankel Hall. Contact: Aaron Siegel at the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall at 212-903-9634.
MAY 2008
May 1-4 (Th-Su) – Featured Teller at the Ojai Storytelling Festival, Ojai, CA. Additional featured tellers include: David Holt, Kevin Kling, Bil Lepp, Andy Offutt-Irwin and Kuniko Yamamoto. Dovey Thomason will serve as host and MC. Contact: Brian Bemel at Performances to Grow On - 805-646-8907 or for complete schedule visit www.ptgo.org.
May 7-9 (W, Th, F) – *Featured Presenter at the 29th Annual Conference of Agencies Serving Troubled Youth. Theme: Pathways, Promises, Possibilities. Conference takes place at Snowbird Cliff Lodge in Snowbird, UT. Contact: Bonnie Shaw at 801-583-6307 or email at bcleos@comcast.net.
May 13 (Tu) – *Workshop Presenter, Trainer – Historic Philadelphia, Inc./Once Upon A Nation Historic Storytellers Project. Living History Center, 115 S. 3rd St. Phila. PA. Contact: Sandy@onceuponanation.org
May 15 (Th) – *Keynote Speaker – Annual Awards Luncheon for the Children’s Education Program at Bass Performance Hall, Ft. Worth, TX.
May 21 (W) – *Workshop Facilitator – Philadelphia Orchestra’s Camden Music Workshop at the Linden Elders Center in Camden, NJ. Contact: Ayden Adler, Director of Education and Community Partnerships at 215-893-1910.
May 23 (F) - *School Performance – Friends Select Lower School, Phila. PA. Call: 215-561-5900.
JUNE/JULY 2008
June 3 (Tu) - *School Performance – River Edge, NJ. Sponsored by Young Audiences of New Jersey. Call: 609-243-9000 or email info@yanj.org.
June 19 (Th) – *Featured Speaker – Philadelphia Education Fund Year-end Luncheon.
June 22 (Su) – Sunday School Speaker, Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, 57th & Race Sts., Phila. This is both ‘Move-Up Day’ in the Sunday School as well as ‘African Heritage Sunday’ church-wide. Guest speakers for the main services are Rev. Bruce Alick at 7:30am and Rev. Dr. Adetunde Adelekan at 10:45am.
June 30 (M) – *Guest speaker, Operation Understanding Annual Send-off Dinner at the Diamond Club of Temple University. Visit: www.operationunderstanding.org.
JULY 2008
July 25 (F) – World Premiere (as librettist and narrator). The Philadelphia Orchestra will give the premier performance of Kabo Omowale (Welcome Home Child). The work grew out of the workshops I facilitated with the Linden Elders Center in Camden, NJ. I created a text based on the contributions and input of the workshop participants. It’s the first text I have written that has been orchestrated and written for choir. I selected the highly accomplished composer, Andrea Clearfield. The result of our collaboration is a work for spoken word, chorus and orchestra. If you are a friend, musician, storyteller, arts connoisseur – this performance is NOT TO BE MISSED! This final Philadelphia Orchestra Camden Community Concert is FREE. Performance time is 7pm at the Gordon Theater on the campus of Rutgers Univ. (For you Philly folks, that’s right under the BF bridge)
Additional participants: Students from the Camden Creative Arts HS Choir, members of the Temple Music Prep choir, members of the Christina Cultural Arts Center (Wilmington, DE) Community Choir, and members of The Philadelphia Singers. Rossen Milanov will conduct. For info: Call 215-893-1900 or visit
**Post concert note: Thanks to everyone who came to support this wonderful concert. We could not have imagined the incredible response to the work we received from the audience and those comments we are still getting via email!! It was also given a favorable review by David Patrick Stearns in the Magazine Section of the July 29th Philadelphia Inquirer. Thank you all!! See you in the Fall!
Contact
Information:
Charlotte
Blake Alston
Ph: 610-259-1135
Fax: 610-259-5387
Email: Griotwoman@aol.com
Bookings:
Alisa Carr-Kaeser, Agent
8639 B 16th Street
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Ph: 202-667-1076
Fax: 202-462-8190
Alisa.annietiberio@gmail.com
