SPOTLIGHT ON
Listen To Your Mother
WHAT IS IT?
Listen To Your Mother is a live staged reading event giving local writers a chance to share their stories of motherhood, MC’d by the popular children’s entertainers Bobs and Lolo (a.k.a. Robyn Hardy and Lorraine Pond). Onstage for the event will be three mothers from New Westminster: Amanda Buck, Janice Bannister and Vanessa Woznow.
WHERE AND WHEN?
Listen To Your Mother takes place in 41 cities across North America, with events taking place in and around Mother’s Day. The local production takes place on Saturday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the St. James Hall, 3214 West 10th Ave., Vancouver.
WHAT WILL I HEAR?
All the mothers will share their own stories of their motherhood journeys – so expect laughter, expect tears, and expect to be moved in every possible way.
The presenters represent a wide range of backgrounds and life experiences.
Vanessa Woznow is a storyteller with degrees in creative writing and political science who hosts a storytelling show on Vancouver Co-op Radio that’s dedicated to women’s stories. She’s a longtime Big Sister who has performed standup comedy at the Vancouver Comedy Festival, and she currently blogs at rantandrollallnight.com.
Janice Bannister is a stand-up comic, actor, producer, writer and speaker. She “combines her nerdy scientific side of being a psychiatric nurse with therapeutic laughter and her life as a stand-up comic to get you thinking about how to live ‘lighter,’” a write-up notes. Her stories draw on all facets of her experiences, including her life as a single mom of two kids “that still like her.”
Amanda Buck began writing after her young daughter was diagnosed with a rare disease called cystinosis, and she started the blog Elsinosis: Living with Cystinosis to chronicle their story and help other families. Check her out at www.elsinosis.com.
The roster of other writers includes Karen Barré, Pamela Jones, Erika Mitchell, Nancy Painter, Andrea Paterson, Teresa Reid, Eran Sudds, Brooke Takhar, Tina Teeninga and Mia Zhou.
HOW DO I GET TICKETS?
Tickets are $20, available online through ltymvancouvershow.eventbrite.ca. Partial proceeds help the Pacific Post Partum Support Society.
For all the details, see listentoyourmothershow.com/Vancouver.
