Jeff Gere, Storyteller - Coming Special Events - Kaimuki

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Jeff...What coming up? Well… STORYTELLING AT DAC (Downtown Art Center)
…. Monthly on LAST SATURDAYS (ish…sorta)

Hi All,

The Downtown Art Center (DAC) (1041 Nu’uanu Ave, 2nd Floor across from Hank’s Bar) will feature storytelling monthly. And they asked me to curate! So I invited some friends doing great work to come talk story because I really want to hear them!

It’s as simple as that.

NOW THE LINE-UP is SET!… and what an exciting group of tellers & adventures we have! And YOU can come listen for FREE (by donation) thanks to a grant from the City & County of Honolulu. I’m so excited! I wanted to share the whole schedule with you now…and to give you the first 'heads up"... I hope you can join me/us for a few dates.... F R EE (by donation). Come.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
See you there.
Jeff (Gere)

THE DATES are all on late (or last) Saturdays at 7pm

DAC Storytelling Night with Eden Lee Murray
Saturday, Nov. 23 at 7 p.m.
FREE with RSVP
Nov 23 EDEN LEE MURRAY- A Life in the Theatre--Onstage & Off!
Eden Lee Murray is surely one of Honolulu’s finest performers, directors & artist-educators. She shares personal stories & adventures that have shaped her work as an actor: her love of the Bard, brushes with the famous, unexpected blessings, and the events leading up to her latest upcoming epic performance.
Eden Lee Murray is a renowned performer, director, and artist-educator in Honolulu, celebrated for her passion for Shakespeare and her extensive contributions to Hawaii's theatre scene, including directing the Kaimuki High School Shakespeare Festival, earning sixteen Po‘okela Awards, and appearing in productions and TV shows like Magnum: P.I. and Rescue: HI Surf.

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Dec 13 & 14 (JEFF GERE & JAMES McCARTHY both nights.
Christmas themes, details to be announced, staged in three rings at Arts @Mark’s Garage, The Printmaker’s Gallery, & Downtown Arts Center. More to come…

VISIT JEFF GERE WEBSITE
SHOW PRESS RELEASE Contact: Jeff Gere, jeffgere1031@gmail.com (808)737-1774

VISIT DOWNTOWN ART CENTER
https://www.downtownarthi.org/events

past events

Oct 19 SERINA DUNHAM & MARK BRANNER- Mark teach theater at UH. ‘Funnybone’ is Mark’s personal play about surviving a nearly fatal bike/car accident (Serina helps- you know her from Honolulu Theater for Youth shows.) They just returned from performing it in the biggest Fringe Festival in the world in Edenborough, Scotland … (or Serina will do a few Rakugo tales),
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Downtown Art Center and Jeff Gere present:

Storytelling Night with special guests Mark Branner and Serina Dunham of "Funny Bones"!

FREE and open to the public!

Mark Branner, who once worked as a clown with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, now teaches courses at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in TYA (theatre for young audiences), puppetry, mask, and physical comedy. He is also a versatile director with a broad range of experience in the local theater scene. His recent work, "Funny Bones," is a deeply personal play inspired by his own near-fatal bike/car accident. Serina Dunham, a well-regarded performer known for her work with the Honolulu Theater for Youth, collaborates with Branner on this project.

Their recent production of "Funny Bones" was showcased extensively in Honolulu as they prepared for their performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest Fringe Festival. After their return from Scotland, where they received valuable international exposure, they are excited to share their experiences and insights from this remarkable journey. Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the ideas and creation process that goes into a theatrical show!

This event is FREE and open to the public - RSVP right here!

LOCATION
Downtown Art Center, 96817
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Sept 28 CELINA CARLSBERG, a quirky, brilliant art/theater student showed up in Jeff’s UH stllg class- Hear of her difficult early years, her improbable entry into high school drama & bloom at UH, & this summer’s Kabuki tour to Japan.
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/downtownartcenter/1320190

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Coming Events
About Jeff Gere

Jeff Gere is a storytelling activist! He is the Drama Specialist in the Parks Department, talks to thousands of Summer Fun children each summer (new CD: Silly 'N Spooky: Tales of Kids in Hawaii). Jeff directs and hosts the TALK STORY FESTIVAL (Hawaii's largest and oldest storytelling celebration- 3 FREE nights each October).

Jeff hosts/produces TALK STORY RADIO (1/2 hour weekly storytelling show featuring the tales & tellers of Hawaii & the Pacific Rim)(KIPO 89.3FM Mon 5:30, KTUH 90.3 FM Thurs 7pm). Born on Halloween, he specializes in true supernatural tales/ oral histories of Hawaii (3 Haunted Hawaii CDs).

ABOUT JEFF GERE
Jeff Gere is a master storyteller. He blends talents as painter, puppeteer, mime, teacher, and director into a performance style, which has electrified audiences of every age throughout Hawaii and the mainland for two decades. Jeff's physical energy, wide range of voices, morphing elastic face and clear characterizations make his performances unforgettable events. Jeff becomes his stories!

Gere earned a BA in Painting and Art History, spending his junior year in Florence, Italy, and an MA in Inter-relating the Arts (a multi-disciplinary program requiring 4 to 6 original shows a week for 2 years). He returned to Italy in 1979 to caretake a 600-year-old Tuscan villa. He created, produced, directed and acted in Dream Theatre, exploring social issues through experimental puppet, mask and mime pieces. This troupe of seven toured Italy extensively and toured to 13 German cities (6/82).

In 1982, Gere came to Hawaii to study Asian Mask Theatre. He's since established himself as one of its most popular storytellers and puppeteers. He's taught and performed in literally every venue conceivable (all Hawaii's museums, most private & public schools, all ages, audience sizes, & income levels; bars, prisons, homeless shelters, conferences, conventions, beaches, graveyards, retreat & community centers, & state-wide solo and group tours, many of which he produced).

In 1987, Gere was hired as the Drama Specialist, Parks Department, City & County of Honolulu. In 1989, he created the Talk Story Festival, Hawaii's largest & oldest storytelling celebration. It attracts some 3,000 listeners to its broad, diverse offering of local talent and receives excellent publicity. He founded a non-profit and found corporate sponsorship (Bank of Hawaii, Aloha Airlines, LavaNet).

His original programs, often commissioned, include The Arabian Nights (2 musicians & bellydancer; 10 tales over 18 months (03-04) & Hong Kong 6/05), Yo Pharaoh ( 2 musicians & dancer), and Van Gogh's Ghost. He performed in the Vancouver Story Fest. (Arabian Nights 11/04), Turkey (Karagoz Shadow Puppet Fest. 11/04) Thailand Story-In-English Camps (4/03) for kids and teachers. He's taught at the National Storytelling Conferences ('04, '99, '93). Jeff was featured at the Boulder City Folk Festival (9/02 and 03), the Flying Leap Storytelling Festival (Calif. 99), and the National Invitational Storytelling Championship (Idaho 97). In '92 he toured American Samoa, Guam and Saipan and represented Hawaii at the Universal Expo in Sevilla, Spain. He toured the West Coast annually (93-02). He created, directed, & performed "Art Off The Wall", a collaborative interdisciplinary performance series interpreting art exhibits at Honolulu's Contemporary Museum (97-00, funded by the Hawaii Community Foundation) and its Teacher Training Course (00- 04, Maui Arts & Culture Center). Gere also developed a "Tell Well" Storytelling System (Univ. Hawaii 90-97).

Jeff has produced 4 CDs, Haunted Hawaii vols. 1, 2, & 3, retelling true supernatural tales, and Rank Devil Mountain, folk tales of fire with 3 musicians. His children's video of original stories, Silly 'N Spooky, won Honors from the National Parent's Choice Awards (96). He had 2 stories appear in Chicken Soup for the Soul of Hawaii (03). He's in Storytellers: a Biographical Directory of 120 English-Speaking Tellers Worldwide (98). New York Cablevision leased 5 spooky stories for their subscription WEB series (98). He's done extensive radio & TV projects in every capacity, including co-producing and performing in "The Storytellers" series (KITV 4, ABC affiliate, 95-97). He's featured in the Places of Mystery Series (Travel Channel, 8/00) and Haunted History Series (History Channel, 10/00). He was awarded Outstanding TV Performance Arts Series (00) on Olelo Community TV, where he's created monthly programming since '90. He starts Talk Story Radio in spring, '05 (Hawaii Public Radio).
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