Fringe Performances

The Fringe at the NSN is back for its 5th Season!
Explore the limits of storytelling at the National Storytelling Conference

The NSN Conference Fringe follows the Fringe Festival model giving artists freedom to create and audiences "the ability to decide for themselves the truly great productions from the good, the bad and the gloriously disastrous." In keeping with the Fringe principle of an un-juried selection process, Fringe performers for the 2010 National Storytelling Network Conference have been selected by lottery.

 

Thursday Night • 9:45-10:40pm

 

Storytellers Unplugged
Ruth Halpern and Tim Ereneta
What do storytellers do if you take away their repertoire? They improvise! Storytellers Unplugged use audience suggestions to create compelling characters and stories in the moment.
Category: ensemble, improvisational / Content warnings: language may contain adult content

 

Sense of Place

Lynne Duddy

True personal stories about our sense of place, that human phenomenon that fosters our recognition of self, our attachments, and our feelings of belonging.

Category adult, solo / Content Warnings: language, adult subject matter

 

Everything I Know About Leadership I Learned from Beavers

Pete Griffin

The Ranger rode into town, not on horseback, but in a Dodge minivan, learning about life through humorous predicaments over 35 years in the Forest Service from Michigan to Alaska.

Category: adult, solo / Content Warnings: adult subject matter (anger mgt, adult health issues)

 

Friday, Session A • 10:45am-11:40am

 

ALAKAZAM! We Have Talent Too!

Carol Esterreicher

“Snapshot” narratives showcase five special education students I coached for their eventual “debuts” in their school’s talent show. Magical demonstrations, props, music, lighting enhancement, and audience participation celebrate their stories.

Categories: Improvisational / Family/Solo/Audience Participation / Content warnings: None.

 

Friday, Session C • 3:45-4:40pm

 

Family Famine: Hunger for Love

Rachel Hedman

Savor feelings of home as storyteller Rachel Hedman combines with musicians in sharing personal and multicultural stories of parent/child relationships. The smallest crumb of love could satisfy the soul.

Categories: Group, Geared for 8-year-olds+ / Content Warnings: None

 

Friday Night • 9:45-10:40pm

 

Queen Berta and King Pippin: A Medieval Tale of Treachery

Priscilla Howe

This thirteenth-century tale of stolen identity, greed, beauty, treachery, lust, kindness and big feet is Priscilla’s translation of Berte Aus Grans Piés, first written by French minstrel Adenet li Rois.
Categories: Solo, Family (PG-9) / Content warnings: mild adult subject matter

 

My Name is Hutta: A True Story

Debra Morningstar, Oneida Storyteller -Yukhika-l’atuhse

Adopted away from her cultural roots…Hutta’s Earth Walk through childhood abuse and spiritual brokenness—takes an unexpected turn; a riveting and poignant journey of the resiliency of the Human Spirit.

Category: Adult, Solo / Content Warning(s): adult subject matter, violence (incest, sexual abuse)

 

Chaidentity

Slash Coleman

“Chai” = “life” in Hebrew. A profound storytelling experience that reaches to the core of Jewish Identity & Jewish Life as told by the son of a Holocaust survivor.

Category: solo; Content Warning(s): none

 

Saturday, Session F • 3:45-4:40pm

 

Tales for Teens

Audrey Kopp

Despite today's plethora of popular young adult stories, mythology and folk and fairy tales can still intrigue teenagers. Come and meet such stories from yesteryear.

Category: Young Adult, solo / Content Warnings: None.

 

Saturday Night • 9:45-10:40pm

 

Hand Me Down Storytelling Garments: One Generation to Another

Angela Lloyd, MFA

Veteran Storyteller Angela Lloyd offers up clothing and stories in an auction/exchange. Participants are encouraged to offer their own props and stories, leaving the room in costumes others arrived in.

Category: adult, solo, improvisational, ensemble / Content warning: None.

 

Chain Saw Story
Russ Conrad
A rural KY story set in 1955 surrounding the first time Daddy bought chain saws for our hardware store and the first chain saw he sold in that small community.
Category: Family, Solo / Content Warning:  None

 

What Are You?

Barbara G. Wong

How do you see yourself—and how do others see you—when you’re not just one thing? Stories about growing up Chinese-Cuban-American, before the word multiracial was coined.

Category: Adult, Solo / Content Warnings: None