AAUW Aurora Area Branch Presents 'Keeping Faith: Sisters of Story'

14 North May Street,Aurora IL 60506

11 March, 2023

Description

KEEPING FAITH: SISTERS OF STORY is four women who call upon their personal experiences and traditions to demonstrate peace and the commonalities among people of many faiths. They use storytelling and song to bridge the divides fed by the rise of hateful and vitriolic language in our nation. Rohina Malik, a Muslim woman, playwright and storyteller; Susan Stone, a Jewish woman and storyteller; and Kim Schultz who is an actor and storyteller who identifies as Christian came up with an idea: What if we all told stories from our faiths with the goal of bringing people together and showing peace, curiosity, and similarities amongst the faiths. KEEPING FAITH: SISTERS OF STORY was born. Join us for an evening of story and song that examines who we are going to be as a community and as a nation and how we are going to allow our stories to be told. Each storyteller tells 3 stories inspired by their personal faith journey. We will be joined by cultural-musical storyteller, Lucia Thomas on violin, oud, and guitar. Light refreshments will be served and there will be time for Q&A after the performance. ROHINA MALIK is a critically acclaimed playwright and solo performance artist. She is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists, and an Artistic associate at the 16th street theater. Rohina’s plays The Mecca Tales and Yasmina’s Necklace, were both nominated for a Jeff Award for Best New Work. Her one woman play, Unveiled has been produced at the 16th Street Theater, Victory Gardens Theater, Crossroads Theater, Brava Theater, Voyage Theater Company, and Silk Road Rising. http://rohinamalik.weebly.com KIM SCHULTZ is an author, actor and refugee advocate who occasionally runs off to Mexico to run an artist residency on the Caribbean. She has performed on many local and national stages, has written two solo shows and recently published THREE DAYS IN DAMASCUS (Palewell Press, 2016), a memoir about falling in love with an Iraqi refugee. Kim loves stories and how they shape our memories and lives. She blogs, tweets and can be generally found at www.kimschultz.net SUSAN STONE, storyteller and teaching artist, has traveled all over this country, as well as to Poland, telling Jewish tales--Chasidic, folkloric, and personal-- for adults and children, at schools, synagogues, museums, and festivals. Her CD’s have earned Parents’ Choice Gold and Storytelling World Awards. Former adjunct faculty at National-Louis University, she is Founder/Co-director of the Evanston Public Library Storytelling Festival. www.susanstone-storyteller.com Our musician is LUCIA THOMAS. Lucia is a violinist/multi-instrumentalist and arts organizer. She has traveled all over the United States, Europe and Mexico, playing professionally with various musical ensembles. She is artistic director of the Chicago Folklore Ensemble, which celebrates immigrant communities in the United States by performing dynamic arrangements of stories and songs learned directly from immigrants. Their recent book and CD have been featured at TEDxUChicago, WBEZ, and they continue to perform on stages throughout the Chicago area.