Mary McGrath and Jo Radner

discuss

Putting Together the Pieces:
The Power of Narrative

Date

Apr

Wednesday
April 9, 2014
7:00 PM ET

Location

FPC Parish House
3 Church St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Cambridge Forum welcomes Radio Open Source producer Mary McGrath and award-winning storyteller Jo Radner for a discussion of the various ways that materials—facts, memories, voices, pregnant pauses, music, sound effects—are put together to create a narrative that inspires the imagination and moves the heart.

This program is part of the series of My Life Touched by Art, supported by a grant from the Cambridge Arts Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a public agency.

Jo Radner

Jo Radner (Lovell, Maine) is a folklorist, oral historian, and award-winning storyteller who has been studying, teaching, telling, and collecting stories most of her life. She has performed from Maine to Hawaii; her stories favor characters whose lives defeat simple explanations. Her recent CD, Yankee Ingenuity: Stories of Headstrong and Resourceful People, won a 2013 Storytelling World Award. Jo is past president of the American Folklore Society and the National Storytelling Network.

Mary McGrath

Mary McGrath began her career in public television in New York in the 80’s. She met Chris Lydon in 1993 at Charlie’s Sandwich Shop on Columbus Ave in the South End where they hatched “The Connection” and a 20 year long adventure and partnership.

Event Series: Cambridge Forum

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