Celebrating Bethlehem's Southside Culture
Chances are that, regardless of your generation, story time was an integral part of your childhood. If you are like me, tales of medieval princesses and heroes were a staple growing up; however, it’s not just for kids anymore. By contemporary standards, most of us may pigeonhole storytelling to children’s books and bedtime stories, but…
“You need to stay faithful to your story, but you need to tell it on your own terms.” – Charles Kiernan If you haven’t visited Godfrey Daniels–our folky, eclectic, fiercely independent 4th Street neighbor–find a way to get there. I realized I hadn’t been inside since my arts-focused pre-orientation program before my freshman year at…
Every second Wednesday night at Godfrey Daniels Listening Room, community is built. The Lehigh Valley Storytelling Guild hosts their Story Circle, a gathering that is free and open to the public. Tellers new and old show up to share, to workshop, and to listen. In anticipation of the July storytelling circle, I reached out to…
On Wednesday, February 14, Tackling T.I.N.A. hosted the first of three public conversations scheduled this Spring. Themed around the idea of “Storytelling as a Strategy for Change,” Lehigh students and faculty joined together with Bethlehem community members to imagine how narrative frames and cultural myths shape our social and political realities. Led by graduate students…