Gorton Center - Lake Forest, IL - Truth Be Told

Truth Be Told

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Truth Be Told

Sat, November 18, 2023
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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Sat, November 18, 2023 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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$20

Location

Gorton Center
400 East Illinois Road Lake Forest, IL 60045

Truth Be Told returns to Gorton!  Join us in the intimacy of our Stuart room for a night of personal storytelling curated by Scott Whitehair, Chicago storytelling royalty. Soak in personal stories that will let you in on the heartbreaking, the hilarious, and everything in between.

Past guests have included writers, actors, musicians, bloggers, activists, professional storytellers, Moth Grand Slam winners, comedians, and more from our city and around the world. We hope that you can join us.

Stories begin at 7:30 with an exciting lineup of six professional storytellers!

Beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages will be for sale at the event.

Scott Whitehair is a storyteller, teacher, and producer living in Chicago, IL. He is the producer of This Much Is True,  creator of Story Lab Chicago, which has put 700+ new storytellers on stage since 2011, creator of Truth Be Told at Gorton Center Lake Forest, and director of Do Not Submit, a grassroots network of open mics across the city bringing people together to connect with each other. Scott tells stories anywhere someone will listen, including The National Storytelling Festival Exchange Place, Steppenwolf Theater, the historic Green Mill, and on NPR, the Risk podcast, and Siruis XM. He is a frequent guest instructor at the city’s top universities, and his personal narrative class has been selling out every month since 2012. Scott is in demand as a coach and trainer, spending his days helping individuals, companies, and non-profits develop their voices as storytellers.

Adam Bottner:
Adam is a former litigator and for the past 15 years has been Director of Business Development for a legal technology company. Born in New York, lived in Pittsburgh, and raised in unincorporated Des Plaines (“the Third City”), he is a frequent Moth story teller, 3-time StorySLAM winner and has been featured on the Moth Story Hour radio show and podcast. He is a graduate of the Second City Training center and has written multiple screenplays, including his most recent, “Searching for Frenchy Fuqua”. Adam is the father of two amazing sons and lives in Buffalo Grove.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Nancy Brown:
Nancy loves stories and hosts family storytelling parties often. She is a social worker who advocates for people with disabilities and other social justice issues. She is an inclusion consultant and runs a free camp for children who would never be able to afford a summer camp. Nancy loves adventures, camping, biking and experiencing awe and wonder! She is the mom of 3 adult children and 4 grandchildren who are the love of her life.
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Meg Lavery:
Meg is a high school Health & Wellness teacher and athletic coach who is passionate about helping kids become good humans. Her jam is teaching essential topics like mental health, consent, communication, and empathy. She told her first story at the Wild Goose Festival in Hot Springs, NC, in 2016 and has continued her storytelling in the Chicago area on stages like Steppenwolf, Hey Nonny, Evanston Space, and the Athenaeum Theater. Meg is a two-time Moth StorySlam winner and The Moth Chicago GrandSlam Champion. She is also featured on The Moth Radio Hour and The Moth Podcast. Meg is an Illinois Policy Fellow, Youth Mental Health First Aid Instructor and teaches yoga/mindfulness. In her free time, she loves to read, write, and walk her dogs in the conservation community where she resides with her wife, daughter, and menagerie of rescue animals. She is happiest when listening to live music with a good craft beer.
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Edward Kelsey Moore:
Edward Kelsey Moore is the author of the New York Times and international bestselling novel THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT and a second Supremes novel, THE SUPREMES SING THE HAPPY HEARTACHE BLUES. THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT was chosen as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and was also named an Illinois Reads book by the Illinois Reading Council. Edward was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and received an Illinois Arts Council award. A film adaptation of THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT is currently in post-production at Searchlight Pictures. Edward’s essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times and a number of literary magazines, including Inkwell, African American Review, Ninth Letter, and Indiana Review. His work has also appeared on Chicago Public Radio and Minnesota Public Radio. In addition to writing and storytelling, Edward maintains a career as a professional cellist. His playing has been featured on multiple classical, pop, and jazz recordings and he has toured nationally and internationally. For many years, he has also worked as a teacher, preparing the next generation of musicians and writers. Edward has recently completed a new novel.
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Madhu Shukla:
Madhu Shukla is a theatre based facilitator and storytelling practitioner from Bangalore, South of India. Born to multicultural parents and raised in a culture very diverse from her family of origin – she has always tango-ed and tangled with themes of identity, home and belonging. A social artist, daughter, wife, cat mom, trainer, counsellor, teacher, entrepreneur, healer- in all of the many roles she inhabits – what she values most right now is riding the tidal polarities of life with gratitude and making space for healing nurturance.
Currently, she is based out of Chicago- exploring life, living and being in a new city on a new continent. She savours the famous Chicago winter by tucking into a warm bowl of ramen and staring endlessly into the vast still blues of Lake Michigan.

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Date:
Sat, November 18, 2023
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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Gorton Center
400 East Illinois Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045 + Google Map
Phone
(847) 234-6060
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