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Speak Up Storytelling presents “Crazy Little Thing Called Love””

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Our friends Matt and Elysha Dicks bring their next installment of Speak Up Storytelling to Hartford this February. This segment’s theme is “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”. Sounds intriguing to say the least and just right for the month of February!

Storytellers include: 

Christopher Kriesen

Jeffrey Freiser

Laura Gordon

Sam Carley

Tracey Segara 

Matthew Dicks

Eric Feeney

Speak Up is both honored and thrilled to dedicate this show to the memory of Sara Kaplan, a fan of Speak Up, a frequent audience member and workshop attendee, and an all-around lover of stories who passed away last year. Sara, a high school teacher and a lover of books as well as stories, and her husband, Ken, attended many Speak Up performances over the years and would take workshops together just for fun and the opportunity to share their love for storytelling together. There was nothing more comforting as a storyteller than to look into the audience and see Sara and Ken sitting side by side, smiling in anticipation as you prepared to speak your first line. Her passing was a great loss to her family, her friends, and our community.

We dedicate this show to Sara Kaplan with hopes that stories of her life will be told for generations to come.  

A portion of the proceeds from this show will be used to offer financial assistance to allow those in need to take a storytelling workshop.

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Artist Bio

Speak Up is a Hartford-based storytelling organization that seeks to promote the art of personal storytelling to a wide audience and foster and support a community of storytellers in Connecticut. Speak Up brings professional and amateur storytellers to stage to share true stories from their lives. Speak Up founders and producers Matthew and Elysha Dicks work closely with storytellers to help them craft their stories for the stage and teach storytelling workshops to storytellers and professionals at all levels.

Speak Up shows feature storytellers who tell true stories from their lives on a predetermined theme. Our shows showcase a blend of seasoned storytellers and people telling stories for the first time.

In addition to Infinity Hall, Speak Up has established partnerships with Real Arts Ways,  The Mount, The Connecticut Historical Society, and The Noah Webster House.

Click here to check out the Hartford Magazine article.

Shows are produced by Matthew and Elysha Dicks. They are hosted by Elysha Dicks, and Matthew Dicks serves as one of the storytellers for the evening.

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