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Now in its 22nd season, the International Storytelling Center’s renowned Storytelling Live performance series features 20 nationally known storytellers in live concerts at 2 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, from May through October. Special events are also offered throughout the season, including evening shows, virtual concerts, and holiday programs.

An Emmy award-winning storyteller and writer, Jim May’s stories are hilarious, touching, and filled with the many characters who populated the Illinois farming community where his family has lived since the 1840s. His story collection, The Farm on Nippersink Creek, won a best book award from the Public Librarian Association, and his book, Trail Guide for a Crooked Heart: Stories and Reflections for Life’s Journeys received a 2017 Storytelling World award. May has shared his work throughout the U.S. and abroad, and is the recipient of the NSN ORACLE Circle of Excellence award.
“You could call Jim May a modern-day Homer if the Greek had told stories about farm life.” – The Chicago Sun-Times

Get tickets here:  https://store.storytellingcenter.net/storytelling-live-07-08-07-12-jim-may-192/

Now in its 22nd season, the International Storytelling Center’s renowned Storytelling Live performance series features 20 nationally known storytellers in live concerts at 2 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, from May through October. Special events are also offered throughout the season, including evening shows, virtual concerts, and holiday programs.

An Emmy award-winning storyteller and writer, Jim May’s stories are hilarious, touching, and filled with the many characters who populated the Illinois farming community where his family has lived since the 1840s. His story collection, The Farm on Nippersink Creek, won a best book award from the Public Librarian Association, and his book, Trail Guide for a Crooked Heart: Stories and Reflections for Life’s Journeys received a 2017 Storytelling World award. May has shared his work throughout the U.S. and abroad, and is the recipient of the NSN ORACLE Circle of Excellence award.
“You could call Jim May a modern-day Homer if the Greek had told stories about farm life.” – The Chicago Sun-Times

Get tickets here:  https://store.storytellingcenter.net/storytelling-live-07-08-07-12-jim-may-192/

Now in its 22nd season, the International Storytelling Center’s renowned Storytelling Live performance series features 20 nationally known storytellers in live concerts at 2 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, from May through October. Special events are also offered throughout the season, including evening shows, virtual concerts, and holiday programs.

Dolores Hydock is an actress and storyteller from Birmingham, Alabama. She fills the stage with wit, energy, and a swirl of characters that bring to life an array of personal stories, medieval adventures, oral histories, and literary classics. Dolores has held a wide variety of jobs – a house parent at a halfway house for juvenile delinquents, a blues DJ, an au pair in Paris, an IBM computer sales rep, a cookbook copy editor, an acting teacher, and a teacher of Cajun dancing – all material for her stories.
Dolores’ stories are funny and touching, smart and insightful, personal and universal. — The Birmingham News

Get tickets here:  https://store.storytellingcenter.net/storytelling-live-07-15-07-19-dolores-hydock-193/

Now in its 22nd season, the International Storytelling Center’s renowned Storytelling Live performance series features 20 nationally known storytellers in live concerts at 2 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, from May through October. Special events are also offered throughout the season, including evening shows, virtual concerts, and holiday programs.

Dolores Hydock is an actress and storyteller from Birmingham, Alabama. She fills the stage with wit, energy, and a swirl of characters that bring to life an array of personal stories, medieval adventures, oral histories, and literary classics. Dolores has held a wide variety of jobs – a house parent at a halfway house for juvenile delinquents, a blues DJ, an au pair in Paris, an IBM computer sales rep, a cookbook copy editor, an acting teacher, and a teacher of Cajun dancing – all material for her stories.
Dolores’ stories are funny and touching, smart and insightful, personal and universal. — The Birmingham News

Get tickets here:  https://store.storytellingcenter.net/storytelling-live-07-15-07-19-dolores-hydock-193/

Now in its 22nd season, the International Storytelling Center’s renowned Storytelling Live performance series features 20 nationally known storytellers in live concerts at 2 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, from May through October. Special events are also offered throughout the season, including evening shows, virtual concerts, and holiday programs.

Dolores Hydock is an actress and storyteller from Birmingham, Alabama. She fills the stage with wit, energy, and a swirl of characters that bring to life an array of personal stories, medieval adventures, oral histories, and literary classics. Dolores has held a wide variety of jobs – a house parent at a halfway house for juvenile delinquents, a blues DJ, an au pair in Paris, an IBM computer sales rep, a cookbook copy editor, an acting teacher, and a teacher of Cajun dancing – all material for her stories.
Dolores’ stories are funny and touching, smart and insightful, personal and universal. — The Birmingham News

Get tickets here:  https://store.storytellingcenter.net/storytelling-live-07-15-07-19-dolores-hydock-193/

The McKinney Center will be featuring mixed media artist Chasidy Hathorn. The exhibition opening reception will take place on Thursday, July 17, 5:00 – 7:00 pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public and will be up through August 15. The artwork will be on sale that night and throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Chasidy Hathorn says, "Art tells a story, it truly does! That is one thing I love to do with my pieces--tell a story using paint, paper, razor blades, vintage magazines, fabric, packing paper...this list could go on for a while." Adding a bit of her spunky, Southern-Belle personality to her pieces, she signs each work under the artist name "SassyHat"--a nod to her inner-child artist who isn't afraid of bold colors, rich textures, and coloring outside the lines.
​Hathorn's journey from a German and Latin teacher to a full-time professional visual artist has been a long and winding Mississippi back road, and it’s a story that can only be told while sitting a spell on my front porch with a good cup of coffee.
​She didn't know she'd one day be an artist. When growing up in the middle-of-nowhere Mississippi, Hathorn dreamed of being all sorts of things--a preacher, a race car driver, a doctor, an astronaut, and even an architect. She still dreams of being a race car driver. Her fully engaged imagination and bold creativity (along with my love of talking) kept me her in trouble, especially in school. Hathorn says, "But, somewhere inside me, I always knew God had a plan for all of my tall tales, curiosity, and imagination. Stepping forward in faith, I made the decision in 2014 to make my art into my career. I don't regret taking the long way around to get to where I am today because I would have missed all of things that make my paintings and creations tell incredible stories."
The exhibit is free and open to the public, Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm. For more information you may contact the McKinney Center, 423.753.0562

Now in its 22nd season, the International Storytelling Center’s renowned Storytelling Live performance series features 20 nationally known storytellers in live concerts at 2 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, from May through October. Special events are also offered throughout the season, including evening shows, virtual concerts, and holiday programs.

Dolores Hydock is an actress and storyteller from Birmingham, Alabama. She fills the stage with wit, energy, and a swirl of characters that bring to life an array of personal stories, medieval adventures, oral histories, and literary classics. Dolores has held a wide variety of jobs – a house parent at a halfway house for juvenile delinquents, a blues DJ, an au pair in Paris, an IBM computer sales rep, a cookbook copy editor, an acting teacher, and a teacher of Cajun dancing – all material for her stories.
Dolores’ stories are funny and touching, smart and insightful, personal and universal. — The Birmingham News

Get tickets here:  https://store.storytellingcenter.net/storytelling-live-07-15-07-19-dolores-hydock-193/