Fall Lyceum series: Tell Me A Story

Creating Community Through Storytelling

Tuesday, October 11 at 7:00pm
$5 donation / students free.

How does a fiction writer or a personal storyteller connect with the audience? What is truth in fiction and in oral story telling? How does personal vulnerability effect the connection between the writer/reader and the teller/listener? And how can storytelling create community, engagement, and intimacy? These are some of the questions that Nathalie Thill and Mac MacDevitt will explore this evening, through their own storytelling and through their experience with creating communities of storytellers, in Essex, Saranac Lake, and all across the region. 

 Mac MacDevitt first discovered storytelling during his years in Chicago and here is the founder and a cohost of SpeakEazy - the monthly personal storytelling open mic at Whitcomb’s Garage. He also facilitates a monthly workshop for storytellers in Essex.

Courtesy Adirondack Explorer

Nathalie Thill is the executive director of the Adirondack Center for Writing, which cultivates the art of writing and the joy of reading and celebrates the power of language to invite discovery, to create an understanding of people and sense of place, and to build a community. She is an avid and accomplished storyteller.