Terrifying Tales: Chilly Stories for a Cool Night, A Storytelling Concert benefiting The Center

BEDMINSTER, N.J. - Oct. 23, 2023 - PRLog -- On November 4 join Better Said Than Done storytellers Robin Bady, Sarah Brady, Megan Hicks and Jessica Robinson in person at The Center for Contemporary Art ("The Center"), as well as streaming online, for "Terrifying Tales: Chilly Stories for a Cool Night," a storytelling concert benefiting The Center. These stories are intended to entertain and scare a mature audience. The show begins at 7pm, doors open 6:30pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Tickets for Terrifying Tales are available for the in-person event or streaming online. In-Person Tickets: Members of The Center $15, Non-Members $20 (On sale until November 3 at 12 Noon), Virtual Only Tickets: $10 (On sale until November 7 at Midnight). Proceeds, after paying the performers, will benefit The Center for Contemporary Art. Additional donations welcome.

Better Said Than Done defines storytelling as the art of performing a story in front of a live audience. Storytelling is a performing art, a form of entertainment, and, from our mouths, a reality the audience will not forget. Better Said Than Done, Inc., was launched in May 2011, by Jessica Piscitelli Robinson, to bring the art of storytelling to Northern Virginia. For more information on upcoming shows, storytellers, or workshops, please visit www.bettersaidthandone.com.

Visit https://www.ccabedminster.org to purchase tickets.

STORYTELLERS

Robin Bady is a narrative artist working nationally and internationally, developing performances and story projects. She performs at spoken word venues, fringes, theaters, and storytelling festivals. Her children's shows are featured at major museums, schools, libraries. Robin's solo show – Nancy Drewinsky and the Search for the Missing Letter – a story of McCarthyism and anti-Semitism –  tours fringe festivals and theaters. Robin hosts the BADY House Storytelling Concert series in Brooklyn; she also created No, We Won't Shut Up!, a powerful project showcasing the voices of a diverse group of women speaking out. She has told ghost stories since she saw her first ghost.

Sarah Brady is a storyteller and teaching artist who holds a Bachelor of Science degree in speech education and a Master of Arts degree in interpretative speech. Prior to becoming a professional storyteller, she taught communication and theatre at Hampton University. She has told stories at a variety of venues in both the United Kingdom and the United States, working with such entities as Story Tapestries; Arts for Learning–Virginia; Cambridge Storytellers; Epic Tales; the Suffolk Archives; the White Rose Project; and the International Storytelling Center. You can find out more about her work at sarahosburnbrady.com

Megan Hicks makes stuff and makes stuff up. For the purposes of this bio, she is three decades into a storytelling career that has taken her to four continents and from sea to shining sea. With her husband, whose name is (aptly) Jack, she co-produces the Rose Valley Storytelling House Concerts series, now in its 8th season. When she's not working on new stories, she's making art from things most other people throw away.

Better Said Than Done Founder Jessica Robinson has performed at the International Storytelling Festival, on PBS' "Stories from the Stage," for the Queens Theater, First Person Arts Festival, Mostly True Things, The Story Space, Bridgeport Pechakucha, at 2 National Storytelling Network(NSN) Conferences, and the Forest Storytelling Festival. She's shared stories on the Bonkers Brit, Full Spirals, and Funny Parents Podcasts. Jessica was a Featured Teller at the Stone Soup, the Washington Folk, the Women's, the Allegheny, the Florida, and the Hampton Storytelling Festivals. Jessica was presented the 2023 ORACLE Award by the NSN and is a co-author of Roar: True Tales of Women Warriors.