SPEAK UP!

Norah Dooley, Storyteller

Norah Dooley will be telling “Charter School” English for "gulag” - you die from the work
this Wednesday July 28th at 7 PM at Speak Up! Spoken Word Open Mike at
Tatiana's Restaurant, 70 Market Street, Lynn, MA.

Norah Dooley is a storyteller and children’ s author. Norah’s widely acclaimed picture books,
Everybody Cooks Rice, Everybody Bakes Bread, Everybody Serves Soup and Everybody Brings Noodles,
(Carolrhoda Books@lernerbooks.com) are four titles in a series about her former neighborhood in Cambridge, MA.
Norah Dooley has published 5 storytelling CDs. She appears in schools, libraries and teacher’s conferences.
She has performed as a featured storyteller in the Christmas and Spring Revels in Cambridge and Boston MA,
the Cambridge River Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Albany NY River Festival, 3 Apples Storytelling Festival, MA
and at the Clearwater Festival.

Norah has been presenting workshops and stories for people of all ages throughout New England and also in
New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Phoenix . She has published 6 spoken word CDs available at CDBaby
including Music of Angels (1999), Stories Nobody Told Me “Italian” Folk tales (2002) and Stories from the Neighborhood,
World Folk tales (2002), Rabbitales (2006) My Bad,Bad Dog and other Neighbors (2006) and Irish Folk Tales: Live @Passim (2008).
Norah Dooley, along with three folks, was awarded the Brother Blue Award for supporting Storytelling in New England.
Norah is one of the founders of massmouth, a Massachusetts storytelling organization that sponsored a
Story Slam at the Boston Public Library that drew 340 folks to the Rabb Lecture Hall. Standing Room Only.

"Norah Dooley is an entrancing storyteller" - Scott Alarik, Boston Globe

SPEAK UP! meets every Wednesday. We gather at 7 PM. Sign up begins at
7 PM. You will get your own five minute slot of fame at the microphone.
The Open Mike starts at 7:30. Our featured performer goes on at 8:30 PM
followed by more Open Mikers till 10 PM. See you at SPEAK UP!

SPEAK UP! Spoken Word Open Mike
Every Wednesday 7 PM.
Tatiana's Restaurant
70 Market Street
Lynn, MA 01901
781-477-0700
www.tatianasrestaurant.net.

ciao,
Tony Toledo, SPEAK UP! host
Corn Party Host Aug 14th, 2:44 PM
PO Box 302
Beverly MA 01915
ToledoGoat@aol.com
978-921-GOAT(4628)
www.TonyToledo.com

Up Coming Features:

July 28 Norah Dooley, The Charter School as Gulag. AHHHH!

August 4 Harris Gardner and Lainie Senechal, Poets

August 11 Afro D Pete Shungu, Music/Poetry/Passion

August 18 Mystery Folk Singer from Lynn, MA

August 25 KR Glickman, What I'd Tell Oprah, Stories in Sign Language
(w/voice interpreter for the Deaf impaired.)

Sept 1 Michael DeLauri, Wordsmith

Sept 8 Demetrio Carrion, Tonic Words