![]() In 2014, he was the featured instructor at Hong Kong Story Worthy Week, headlined by David Sedaris, and in 2015 taught an intensive at All Hallows College in Dublin. ![]() Scott is in demand as a coach and trainer, spending his days helping individuals, companies, and non-profits develop their voices as storytellers. He is a frequent guest instructor at the city's top universities, and his personal narrative class has been selling out every month since 2012. Scott tells anywhere someone will listen, including The National Storytelling Festival Exchange Place, Steppenwolf Theater, the historic Green Mill, and on NPR, the Risk podcast, and Siruis XM. He is the producer of This Much Is True, Chicago's longest running monthly personal narrative series, creator of Story Lab Chicago, which has put 700+ new storytellers on stage since 2011, and director of Do Not Submit, a grassroots network of open mics across the city bringing people together to connect with each other. ![]() Scott Whitehair is a storyteller, teacher, and producer living in Chicago, IL. Her greatest achievement, and her absolute favorite thing about life, is being the mother to the amazing Soren and Eric. All that time by the water got her thinking, enough to get a Ph.D. A Southeast Side native, Walley’s father worked for Wisconsin Steel until the company closed its South Deering plant in 1980. A dirty job to be sure, but one that could be done fairly quickly twice a day leaving a good portion of her working hours free to spend her time near the blue waters of the great and beautiful Lake Michigan. The items displayed on the archive, and residents’ stories about those items, make an underappreciated community’s history come alive, project director Christine Walley said. "Matron" is short for cleaning the bathrooms at Foster beach. Garbage removal? Auto mechanic? Beach Matron? Jury Duty summons? Curb and gutter crew? These are the jobs she knew growing up. It also meant gainful employment through summer patronage jobs mysteriously given to her and her siblings and cousins. Among other things, this meant being roused out of bed in the dark of night on primary and election days for years on end. She's excited to see teens gain confidence as they socialize, decide on leadership roles and strategize together.Julie Pedersen was born in Chicago and raised in an average political family where all the men were cops, and all the women and children worked as precinct captains, poll watchers, donut buyers, envelope stuffers, door knockers, valets, and whatever else was required to maintain "the machine" that was Chicago politics back in the day of the first Mayor Daley. For weeks, the cracked window on the 29th floor. The glass falls like a shadow, swift and silent, a dark blur swooping through the wet sky. Vivian believes games offer teens an opportunity to enhance their social-emotional environment when they are cooperative, featuring collaborative missions and can help teens identify each other's strengths. PART 1: Howling window signals skyscrapers fatal flaw. From character building to quests and game variants to missions, they'll be covering it all! Any interested tweens and teens are welcome to join them.Īccording to lead mentor Vivian, teens are already learning about authoring and illustrating digital stories and their goal is not only gaming, but learning how to transcribe every process into a single story that they will publish in an eNewsletter at the end of this summer.
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