“I Remember You From The Home Planet!”—Juggling A Storyteller's Path From Curley's And Cornelia Street To Sleepy Hollow

Bill Buschel

Videographer/blogger, poet/narrative artist and former PoemAlley Advisory Committee Chair, Bill Buschel now applies his gently authoritative vocal presence in two prestigious venues this month.

Cornelia Street Cafe

Saturday night’s Greek American Writers at Manhattan’s 30-year storied Cornelia Street Cafe—urban crossroads of culinary and creative authenticity--is hosted by poet, essayist/translator Dean Kostos (whose 2005 collection, Last Supper of the Senses, from Spuyten Duyvil, was required reading for a course in alternative poetics at Duke University).

Dean Kostos

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

Bill’s sensitive commitment to Greek culture/mythology and contemporary social observation, expressed through his Graffiti arts interview program on Hellenic Public Radio, involvement with assorted PA programs and his blog, Just My Eyes, is answered amply by Cheryl’s bi-cultural input as a New York spoken-word performer, much informed by her still-vibrant Trinidadian roots. Click on the title below to find out about her most recent collection, Convincing the Body (Vintage Entity Press, 2005).

As a painter and crossword puzzle designer, Gary J. Whitehead recites selections from the forthcoming A Glossary of Chickens (Princeton University Press). A recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, his accomplishments as a Hudson Valley-based English teacher were also acknowledged with a Princeton University Distinguished Secondary School Teaching Award.

Gary J. Whitehead

When:

Saturday, June 8, 2013

6 PM

Where:

Cornelia Street Cafe

29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY 10014

Contact:

212-989-9319; info@corneliastreetcafe.com

Beginning June 24, Bill, himself, will head to the Hudson Valley to share what he knows of broadcasting, drama, poetry and even juggling to teach a three-session course on public speaking, whether for poetry, storytelling, or even business speaking for the corporate lecture circuit-bound.

Hudson Valley Writers’ Center

Great Speakers Are Made, Not Born is part of the 2013 summer curriculum of the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, a resource for advancement of the art and craft of writing located in the old Philipse Manor train station and founded in 1983 by the celebrated poet Margo Taft Stever, in tandem with Slapering Hol Press, the publishing arm of the HVWC. 

The Hudson Line (Main Street Rag, 2012) is her latest chapbook; Margo has also read at the Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival and the Shanghai International Studies University in China.

Bill has spoken and/or led workshops on Storytelling on the Radio, Shakespeare at 500 and Alexander the Great: A Study in Blue among other subjects. Most recently, he wrote Spreading Mom, a ten-minute animated feature which premiered April 7 at Stamford, CT’s Avon Theatre Film Center.

Get a feel for his performance style from a Stamford Barnes & Noble Open Mic reading from 2012:

As course attendees will learn, purpose, theme, intended audience—even setting, all have a role in enlivening one’s delivery so that it enlivens your listeners. In "The Lunch Stop", the highly personable, in-character approach of Geoffrey Lewis and Celestial Navigations, the musical storytelling trio, demonstrates how affecting the results can be:

When:

Mondays, June 24-July 8, 2013

7-9 PM

Where:

The Hudson Valley Writers' Center

300 Riverside Drive

Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591

Tuition:

$185; $160 for members

Contact:

914-332-5953; info@writerscenter.org