& Company
Storyman Live!
STORYTELLERS & MONEY in 2010
Fresh Approach To Raising Funds
Your organization has conducted cakes sales, maybe;
brownie bake-offs, chili cook-offs, raffles, even wine-tastings. For your next go-round at persuading a percentage of the population to be patrons of your cause, try stories.
Stremba's been telling stories since the Richard Nixon era.
His friends in the "business," somewhat younger, have been even more devoted to the calling. And your prospective donors could be their audience. To find out more how their stories could help your people raise necessary monies, don't hesitate contacting Stremba via e-mail.
Fresh Approach To Raising Funds
Your organization has conducted cakes sales, maybe;
brownie bake-offs, chili cook-offs, raffles, even wine-tastings. For your next go-round at persuading a percentage of the population to be patrons of your cause, try stories.
Stremba's been telling stories since the Richard Nixon era.
His friends in the "business," somewhat younger, have been even more devoted to the calling. And your prospective donors could be their audience. To find out more how their stories could help your people raise necessary monies, don't hesitate contacting Stremba via e-mail.
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✠ CONTENTS : THIS PAGE ✠
Above.
- The lead announcement about
storytelling as a fundraising option.
Below.
- 1. StoryLive Dates in Baltimore.
2. Solo Storytelling.
3. Portable Parlor Plays.
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1. StoryLive Dates : 2010
"Is There Life After High-School English?"—
Stremba's current solo project under development.
✠ Will convene a series of Less-Than-Dressed-Up Rehearsals
for these solo pieces. Public invited for free.
Three Saturday mornings in March at 10:15.
Two Saturday evenings in May at 7:30.
- March 6th, 13th, and 20th.
Baltimore venue, mid-town location,
MICA neighborhood, to be identified by e-mail.
Two Saturday evenings in May at 7:30.
- Dates to be posted.
Baltimore location to be identified.
✠ Baltimore locations (mid-town, MICA neighborhood) will be modest spaces; therefore necessary to e-mail in advance to reserve a spot on Invite List.
✠ Audiences will also have opportunity to learn more about
The Portable Parlor Play Project.
✠ For more details about Stremba's parlor plays or
about "Is There Life After After High School English?"—
please scroll down below.
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2. Solo Storytelling : 2010
"Is There Life After High-School English?" comes out of genuine wonder. Those chestnuts of world literature that powers-on-high had once-upon-a-time decreed be included
in our high-school anthologies—how did teachers manage to afflict us with THEM? I mean, were they really excruciating suffering—"Thanatopsis" and "A Fly Buzzed..." and Bartleby and Chillingsworth and Roderick Usher??? And were the lines from Whitman just full of gas???
Stremba aims at raising some of them up again in the context of a series of nifty narratives to see how we might've missed
the intrinsic fun of 'em all.
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3. Portable Parlor Plays
for Folks Who Love to Read AloudThe Soft-Boiled Detective In Tough Old Baltimore series features Theodorick ("Tod") B. Hall who was in fact a real honest-to-goodness plainclothesman who worked the streets and waterfront of post-Civil-War Baltimore into the opening years of the 20th century. In these parlor plays, Hall comes
to life in your living room through the voice and presence of one of your guests.
Yes, unplug the TV and summon Stremba with his original scripts. Invite friends, neighbors—there'll be parts
(some big, many small) for all who love to read aloud.
For more background on this city detective, check out
the following pages—
http://stremba.us/todHall.html (2004)
http://www.stremba.us/softboiledDetectiveInBaltimore.html(2005)
For more more on Hall and more regarding parlor plays,
go to this page—
http://www.stremba.us/rescuing_a_baltimore_legend.html(2009)