By Bobbi Eggers
There is a moment that happens in a room when someone tells a great story. You know it when you feel it. The chatter stops. Phones disappear. People lean in. Strangers become, for a few minutes, something closer to each other than they were before.
The best stories don’t just move us. They change us. They crack something open.
They remind us that every life, however ordinary it appears from the outside, contains extraordinary moments of courage, loss, humor, and grace.
That will happen on Friday April 24 and I hope you will be there.
We live in an age of content, more than any human being could consume in a lifetime. And yet what we hunger for hasn’t changed since people gathered around fires: a true story, told well, by a real person who lived it.
Storytelling is not entertainment. It is something older and more necessary than that. It is how we make sense of our lives, how we find ourselves in each other, how we discover that the thing we thought was too strange or too painful or too particular to share is the very thing that makes someone across the room exhale and think – yes, me too.
On Friday, April 24th at 6:30 pm, Christ Church Greenwich is hosting the 5th annual storytelling and seated dinner event, “The Calling,” that brings this ancient art form into our Chapel turned-Cabaret. It is one of the favorite Greenwich events of the year. Six people will share real stories about a calling in their life — a tipping point, a moment that changed everything. These are not religious, not polished performances by professionals. They are true accounts, shaped and refined in workshops led by Bonnie Levison, a Greenwich resident, Moth Story SLAM Champion, Mainstage Storyteller, and Lead Storytelling Coach whose own stories have been featured on New York’s Central Park Summer Stage and the Peabody Award-winning Moth Radio Hour.
If you’ve ever lost an hour to The Moth podcast, you already understand what this evening will feel like. If you haven’t, this is your introduction to something that might just become one of your favorite things.
The evening includes wine, a seated dinner, and six stories you won’t soon forget — told live, in person, and not recorded. What happens in the room stays in the room.
These are the evenings that people talk about for years. We hope you’ll be there. Friday, April 24 | 6:30 pm | Christ Church Greenwich Tickets and information: christchurchgreenwich.org/upcoming-events
Bonnie Levison has worked as a marketing executive at Young & Rubicam and NBC. She co-founded The Nantucket Comedy Festival in 2008 and produces a variety of comedy shows.
