Join us for an evening of stories about having faith and finding our destiny. Hosted by Paula Croxson and Christine Gentry at Caveat NYC. Doors at 6:30pm. Show starts at 7:00pm.
Early bird tickets available until until Jan 22, 7:00pm.
Stories by:
Azhar Bande-Ali is an Indian-American storyteller from Atlanta who believes that great stories wrap vulnerability with humor like sushi or, as he calls them, a stushi. He is a Moth StorySLAM winner and a Moth Showcase performer. This year, you can find him performing as an Artist in Residence at Keepsake House. Ask him about the time an essay he wrote about Michelle Obama landed him the best surprise ever.
Brian McQueen is an operatic bass and voice instructor residing in New York City. As a recitalist, Brian as Artist in Residence with the Tono International Arts Association, ChaShaMa, Manchester Literary Festival, and Poetry International in London. They recently made their Canadian operatic debut in Ian Cusson’s Of the Sea with Tapestry Opera and have also appeared with On Site Opera, Janiec Opera, Trilogy Opera, Ardea Arts, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and The New York Opera Festival. Brian maintains a vibrant private voice studio in NYC in addition to being a Teaching Artist at both The Harlem School for the Arts and Lincoln Center.
Leroy Núñez is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History. He was born in NYC, but raised in the swamps of Florida, where he developed a love of wildlife and natural history. His current work is focused on the evolution of snakes. Integrating genomics, morphology, and natural history data to figure out how diversity arises in these incredible critters.
Christola Phoenix was born, bred, roasted, and toasted in Harlem, New York. She is a lifetime resident of the Harlem Community. Her nursing career of forty-two years was at Harlem Hospital Medical Center, the same hospital where she was born a day after the 4th of July 1946. She is presently writing her memoir, Paper Curls and Peanut Earrings, set against the backdrop of Harlem, New York in the l950s, '60s, and '70s. Christola is a 2020 NYFA Fellow Artist in Nonfiction Literature. Her writing has been supported by fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Hedgebrook and Millay Arts. An excerpt from her memoir, "The Lotto," was published by Roxane Gay's The Audacity. She's a GG (great grandmother). She dances in her living room like no one is watching, to the R&B music of the 1960s and '70s.
Rives is a poet and pop-up book maker in New York City. His work has appeared in Elle magazine, the Snap Judgment podcast and BravoTV’s Ironic Iconic America. He is a former National Poetry Slam champ, Def Poetry Jam cast member and mainstage TED speaker. Rives loves night swimming, unsurveilled rooftops, All Creatures Great and Small and all creatures great and small.