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A Benefit Event for the People of Ukraine!
Have a story you’re itching to tell? Unsure about how to tell it or who to tell it to? Dubious about whether
anyone even wants to hear it? Imago Performing Arts has the ointment for that itch!
We are pleased to introduce
Have a story you’re itching to tell? Unsure about how to tell it or who to tell it to? Dubious about whether
anyone even wants to hear it? Imago Performing Arts has the ointment for that itch!
We are pleased to introduce
With a nod to our friends at The Moth, SpokenStorySlamKC invites you to share your compelling, funny, tragic, sweet, memorable moments
of life…or just come to listen. Story builds community; let’s build ours! We invite you to become a part of the construction crew!
of life…or just come to listen. Story builds community; let’s build ours! We invite you to become a part of the construction crew!
Three ways to get involved!
1. Be the Audience
You are invited to attend our first SpokenStorySlamKC event.
Saturday, May 7 at 7:00pm
Location
Beggars Table Church and Gallery in the Crossroads
2010 Baltimore
Kansas City, MO
Parking
In the gravel lot just to the south of Beggars Table on the east side of the street. Street parking is also available.
Admission
$10 suggested donation at the door
Please note: all profits from this event, including concessions, will go toward benefiting the people of Ukraine. Want to know more about this initiative? When we give money, we do! Please see the bottom of our SpokenStorySlamKC Event for more information.
The workshops and storytelling event are intended for adult audiences and participants. We recommend all attendees be over the age of 12.
You are invited to attend our first SpokenStorySlamKC event.
Saturday, May 7 at 7:00pm
Location
Beggars Table Church and Gallery in the Crossroads
2010 Baltimore
Kansas City, MO
Parking
In the gravel lot just to the south of Beggars Table on the east side of the street. Street parking is also available.
Admission
$10 suggested donation at the door
Please note: all profits from this event, including concessions, will go toward benefiting the people of Ukraine. Want to know more about this initiative? When we give money, we do! Please see the bottom of our SpokenStorySlamKC Event for more information.
The workshops and storytelling event are intended for adult audiences and participants. We recommend all attendees be over the age of 12.
2. Be the Storyteller
If you are interested in telling one of your stories at our event you can learn more and pitch your story by clicking the link below.
If you are interested in telling one of your stories at our event you can learn more and pitch your story by clicking the link below.
Make sure to pitch your story by April 23!
We will only have time for 20 storytellers at our event, so wow us with your pitch and give us what you've got!
We will only have time for 20 storytellers at our event, so wow us with your pitch and give us what you've got!
3. Be Prepared
If you've got a story to tell (and we all do!), but the thought of telling that story in front of a live audience makes you want to curl up in a fetal position and suck your toes, then help is on the way. We have two optional workshops designed to help you structure and tell your story in the most effective way with the least amount of angst.
Optional Workshops: Discovering Your Story and Becoming a Storyteller
April 9 & 23
Learn more and register by clicking the link below.
If you've got a story to tell (and we all do!), but the thought of telling that story in front of a live audience makes you want to curl up in a fetal position and suck your toes, then help is on the way. We have two optional workshops designed to help you structure and tell your story in the most effective way with the least amount of angst.
Optional Workshops: Discovering Your Story and Becoming a Storyteller
April 9 & 23
Learn more and register by clicking the link below.
The workshops and storytelling event are intended for adult audiences and participants. We recommend all attendees be over the age of 12.
Ukraine Benefit Information:
Feeling powerless to help? Need to know a way to support Ukraine and its people? Want to know a trusted way to donate?
Over the past few weeks, we've been considering how to respond to the war in Ukraine. Whenever there is a global cause, whether it's a natural disaster or war, many people give to help; however, a few months to a year later those funds are often gone even as the needs of those affected have grown. So an organization called Perception Funding (https://www.perceptionfunding.org/) has taken some time to find organizations we already know and trust who are serving those in need in Ukraine and who will continue to serve there for years to come.
Here are three ways IPA's SpokenStorySlamKC event is planning to partner with Perception Funding to help support Ukrainians in their time of need.
1. Perception Funding partners with the largest and oldest church denomination in Belgium, Vianova. They have a sister church in Kiev, Ukraine which is coordinating with the Humanitarian Aid Association of Ukraine. Vianova has taken large truckloads of food, clothing, bedding, toiletries, and medical supplies to their sister church in Kiev. Many future trips are in the works.
2. The Church of God seminary in Germany has seven churches in Ukraine. Every day volunteers from the seminary drive to Ukraine with their cars filled with food, water, clothes and medical supplies, delivering it all to one of the seven remaining churches and then returning to Germany with a car full of refugees. On March 10th they brought 29 refugees to Germany. This operation will continue every day as long as the borders remain open.
3. Kansas City is headquarters to an organization called Fellowship of Christian Athletes. This March FCA was hosting a conference with 30 of their staff and families from Ukraine when the war began. The Ukrainians have been unable to return. Perception Funding hopes to provide housing, transportation, and living expenses.
Perception Funding's goal is to raise $30,000 and divide it among the three initiatives mentioned above.
Imago Arts would like to join them.
Would you help? It could make a great story...
Join us May 7 at 7:00pm for our Benefit!
Ukraine Benefit Information:
Feeling powerless to help? Need to know a way to support Ukraine and its people? Want to know a trusted way to donate?
Over the past few weeks, we've been considering how to respond to the war in Ukraine. Whenever there is a global cause, whether it's a natural disaster or war, many people give to help; however, a few months to a year later those funds are often gone even as the needs of those affected have grown. So an organization called Perception Funding (https://www.perceptionfunding.org/) has taken some time to find organizations we already know and trust who are serving those in need in Ukraine and who will continue to serve there for years to come.
Here are three ways IPA's SpokenStorySlamKC event is planning to partner with Perception Funding to help support Ukrainians in their time of need.
1. Perception Funding partners with the largest and oldest church denomination in Belgium, Vianova. They have a sister church in Kiev, Ukraine which is coordinating with the Humanitarian Aid Association of Ukraine. Vianova has taken large truckloads of food, clothing, bedding, toiletries, and medical supplies to their sister church in Kiev. Many future trips are in the works.
2. The Church of God seminary in Germany has seven churches in Ukraine. Every day volunteers from the seminary drive to Ukraine with their cars filled with food, water, clothes and medical supplies, delivering it all to one of the seven remaining churches and then returning to Germany with a car full of refugees. On March 10th they brought 29 refugees to Germany. This operation will continue every day as long as the borders remain open.
3. Kansas City is headquarters to an organization called Fellowship of Christian Athletes. This March FCA was hosting a conference with 30 of their staff and families from Ukraine when the war began. The Ukrainians have been unable to return. Perception Funding hopes to provide housing, transportation, and living expenses.
Perception Funding's goal is to raise $30,000 and divide it among the three initiatives mentioned above.
Imago Arts would like to join them.
Would you help? It could make a great story...
Join us May 7 at 7:00pm for our Benefit!
A COVID Community Storytelling Project
Auditions in January
Premiere in April of 2023!
Due to the surges of coronavirus variants, it is with great regret that we thought it best to yet again
postpone auditions and performance dates for this original work.
Believing it will take more than a vaccine, a negative test, or a normal temperature to heal from our collective COVID-19 pandemic experiences and convinced that story is a crucial part of the healing process, IPA is excited to bring you our community storytelling project! This original work is currently in development and will be based on the stories you tell us. These stories will be curated and edited by IPA’s artistic director, Bobbie Jeffrey. The project welcomes director Ana Sharp Williamson to the IPA stage.
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