KidsLIVE: TeenLIVE presents The Moth High School GrandSLAM

Date and Time

December 4, 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 past semester students from across the city learned to craft and share their personal stories with their school communities. On December 4th, please join us for the city-wide High School GrandSLAM, where ten of our all-star student storytellers will inspire you with their hilarious and heartrending stories at the Celeste Bartos Forum. Our ten all-star student storytellers will inspire you with their hilarious and heartrending stories.

Friday, December 4th
Doors open at 6pm; stories begin at 7pm
Open to the public
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This event will be hoested by BARATUNDE THURSTON, a supervising producer for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Comedy Central, where he oversees digital expansion. He co-founded Cultivated Wit and the About Race podcast, and he wrote the New York Times bestseller How To Be Black. Baratunde is a highly sought-after public speaker and thought leader who has been part of noteworthy institutions such as Fast Company, TED, the MIT Media Lab, The Onion, and the gentrification of Brooklyn, New York.

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.