Sara Bareilles - Gravity

Just got really inspired by this video

Mother's Day Event to Benefit the Mothers and Children of Haiti

The Storytelling Center of New York City presents
Stories and Songs: A benefit for Haiti

Sunday May 9, 2010 2pm Scandanavia House, Victor Borge Auditorium.
$20/Adults $10/kids Reservations recommended 212-613-3117
www.storytelling-nyc.org

Story Contest at Operation Exodus Inner City, NYC

There's a wonderful after school program in Washington Heights called Operation Exodus Inner City. They also have a Saturday Mentoring Program that reaches over 100 neighborhood children every week. As part of their efforts to boost the children's passion for literacy and imagination, Operation Exodus held a story writing contest, and I had the honor of telling the two winning stories this past week at the Friday assembly. One was titled "The Day I Shrunk my Mom", and the other was "The day I Became a Cartoon". They were a ton of fun to tell, and I had some great onstage help by the winning authors!

Celebrating World Folk and Fairytale Day at Avenel Middle School

I was delighted to be asked back to Avenel Middle School to help them celebrate World Folk and Fairytale Day. I love visiting Avenel! The library is always full of life, and the librarian there is constantly on the lookout for new ways of helping kids fall in love with literature. I, too, love watching kid’s eyes light up when they connect to a story and there’s few better places to see that happen than in a library!

This weekend has been quite a busy one! I was in a short movie yesterday that filmed in the pouring rain on the NYC streets, and the show I'm in at LaMaMa has been having a very successful weekend! Sadly, I'm getting ready to go to the final performance. It's been a wonderful experience!

Back from the calming sounds of the ocean and Hurricane Danny! While away, I was able to work on two original stories that should be ready for telling soon! At the beach I for some reason became fascinated with the idea of creating and telling stories about tiny things, so you can guess that that is what one of my stories is about. The other springs from a childhood memory of a pair of shoes that I would wear EVERYWHERE!

Over the weekend, I was asked to be a regular storyteller at the Avenel Middle School Library. I'm excited about this because each month will have a different theme that the librarian will also be carrying into other activities in the library.

Last week I was at the Vacation Bible School of 5th Ave. Presbyterian Church. Along with the wonderful storyteller Beth Curry, I told a series of stories about how God uses water. Man, those kids were great! They came in everyday with a ton of energy and lots of amazing questions about the stories. After each story, we got to play games that related back to what we had just heard.

This week I'm spending some time at the beach listening to the waves and catching up on some writing. I've got some stories brewing that I'm excited about!