Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center Hosts:

Terrie Silvermans Life Stories Performance Party...Celebrating the Giving and Receiving of Stories, Featuring Storytelling, Solo Performance, Improv, Prizes, Audience Participation, and a Matzo Brie Breakfast.

Venice, CA -- October 27, 2003 -- Immediate Release - Following the Los Angeles World Storytelling Festival, local literary treasure Beyond Baroque presents Artist-in-Residence Terrie Silverman, showcasing a retrospective of brave, moving and often hilarious stories from the past four years of her Life Stories Performance Workshops.

Sunday, November 16th - 7:30 PM
Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA
Admission - $7

The evenings stories include growing up in Nazi Germany, unaware of being Jewish; fear of having sex, convinced that the 'private part was broken after running into a post at eleven; and discovering being pregnant is both horrible and hysterical. In addition, Terrie will demonstrate how to use a fortune cookie for storytelling and other feats of creativity, as those in attendance will be taken through writing and storytelling exercises, with a select few chosen to present their stories on-stage. Party prizes include a Life Stories workshop session, a writing consultation, clothes from the evenings performers and the grand prize -- a Matzo Brie breakfast with the Artist-in-Residence and her mother.

About the Artist-in-Residence
Performance Artist and poet, Terrie Silverman, MFA, began teaching the Life Stories Performance Workshops in 1999. Since then, hundreds of people have taken the workshop, including many first time writers. Some of the participants have had one-person shows produced in theatres and festivals in California and nationwide, have been featured on NPR (National Public Radio) and been published in local newspapers and literary journals. Ann Randolphs Squeeze Box won best solo show from the L.A.Weekly Theater Awards and the Ovation Awards. Brooksfilms (Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft) is producing Squeeze Box Off-Broadway and has optioned it for a motion picture.

Contact info:
Terrie Silverman 310.281.3175
http://www.creativerites.com

About Beyond Baroque
Beyond Baroque is a performance venue, bookstore and independent publisher. Founded in 1969, Beyond Baroque offers free workshops for writers to develop their voice, find support, build new communities and experiment with form. Readings, performance events and art gallery exhibitions are tailored to foster the Los Angeles literary community.
http://www.beyondbaroque.org