KidsLIVE: TeenLIVE presents The Moth High School GrandSLAM

Date and Time

June 5, 2015

Location

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Bartos Forum

For ages 13 to 18 years

Event Details

The Moth's Education Program brings the art and craft of personal storytelling to high school students across New York City. In the after school StorySLAM program, students learn to craft compelling narratives, practice performance techniques, and connect as a team. After five weeks of preparation, students take the stage to share their true, personal stories. This semester, in twelve schools and four boroughs, more than 95 students will share their stories. On June 5th, we invite you to join as ten of these all-star storytellers take the stage at the city-wide High School GrandSLAM at the Celeste Bartos Forum.

Friday, June 5th
Doors open at 6pm; stories begin at 7pm
Open to the public
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This event will be hoested by HASAN MINHAJ, a comedian, writer, and actor in New York and is the newest correspondent on the Emmy and Peabody award- winning program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. A 2014 Just For Laughs ‘New Face’, he was recently selected by the Sundance Institute to develop his solo show and feature film at the prestigious New Frontier Storytelling Lab. He hosted the documentary special Stand Up Planet produced by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His viral web series The Truth with Hasan Minhaj has been featured in countless publications including The Huffington Post, Gawker, and New York Times. He has been seen on a variety of other television programs including Arrested Development on Netflix, HBO’s Getting On, and @Midnight on Comedy Central.

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling, and a recipient of a 2012 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions (MACEI). Through its ongoing programs—The Moth Mainstage, The Moth StorySLAMs, The Moth Community & Education Programs, and Moth Corporate Programs—The Moth has presented more than ten thousand stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Moth podcast is downloaded nearly 25 million times a year, and the Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour, produced by Jay Allison and presented by PRX, The Public Radio Exchange, airs weekly on radio stations nationwide.

TeenLIVE programs are sponsored by the Andreas C. Dracopoulos Family Endowment for Young Audiences.