Switched-Up Storytelling Series and Podcast
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The second half of our “Prom Queens” show marks an important No, YOU Tell It! first. Story coach, social media savant, and forthcoming Prom Queens: Celebrating Prom Poems and Stories by Queens Writers anthology editor, Tim Lindner, took on a new role as storyteller, trading tales with the fabulous Ricki Richards. Give a listen as story coach Pichchenda Bao gets to know our storytellers before they…
Everyone has a story about going (or not going) to prom. For this special Bookend Event for the 20th Anniversary of the Brooklyn Book Festival, four contributors to the forthcoming Prom Queens: Celebrating Prom Poems & Stories by Queens Writers anthology from Poets of Queens stepped into each other’s prom stories. Before we hear the first pair, give a listen as story director Erika Iverson gets to…
This special show was inspired by the Queens Name Explorer , an interactive digital map developed by Queens Memory that illuminates the historical significance behind the people’s names that grace public spaces across the borough. Story partners Francisco Delgado and Ari Figueroa. Photo credit: Sachyn Mital. Give a listen as our second set of storytellers step into the map to explore “My Place” in…
For this show, produced in collaboration with Queens Memory and the Greater Astoria Historical Society , our “My Place” storytellers came together for a community writing workshop centered on the Queens Name Explorer . We all generated poems and personal stories on the page inspired by the historical significance behind the people’s names that grace Queens streets, parks, monuments, and more.…
Give a listen to the second half of our first-ever student matinee , performed at the beautiful Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre at Symphony Space on March 13, 2025. Listen to Part 1 here . The fantastic Najah Imani Muhammad hosted the show for a theater full of high school juniors from Global Learning Collaborative and Talent Unlimited High School to help inspire the personal stories they want to…
Our spring “Before & After” show was our second time performing at the beautiful Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre at Symphony Space on March 13, 2025, but it was our very first student matinee! Our storytellers and our special guest host, Najah Imani Muhammad , who are all No, YOU Tell It! alums, illustrated the power of storytelling for a theater full of high school juniors from Global Learning…
It is fitting that this heartfelt story swap, inspired by the life and music of Astoria legend Tony Bennett, includes our first live musical performance. Give a listen as story coach Tim Lindner gets to know a little bit more about our two storytellers before they step into each other true tales in the second half of our “Left My Heart” show performed at Grove 34 on June 5, 2024. Full program…
For the first time, our four storytellers participated in a Queens community “Art Heart” event about a month before the show, where all the participants generated and shared personal stories inspired by the life and music of Astoria legend Tony Bennett from the Greater Astoria Historical Society archives. What started that day grew into this heartfelt story swap about the intricacies of mothers,…
After the main arch was completed, a writer for the New York Tribune said: Perhaps never in human history has a mechanical triumph of such magnitude been launched with so little fanfare. In the second half of our Hell Gate show, founding member and story director Erika Iverson interviews the authors before their story partners take the stage so that we can learn more about them and the inspiration…
“With a regular coat of paint that bridge can last as long as the pyramids.” – Bob Singleton, Executive Director, Greater Astoria Historical Society from Hell Gate Bridge, an Astoria icon, turns 100 years old in AM NY , March 27, 2017 Our September Hell Gate show at Grove 34 in Astoria was a Queens-based Bookend Event for the 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival. Four Queens storytellers traded true tales…
