The Exchange presents Storytelling: "Made By Fire"

In association with the Exchange Gallery exhibition "Made By Fire", we invite you to come tell your stories on that same theme.

We put out the call for entries for the exhibition saying this: "Potentially warming, potentially destructive, and also offering potential for creation, fire is a necessary element in certain processes of artmaking. From casting and forging metal to ceramics to glass art, the heat of fire is recorded in the resulting objects."

Artists can interpret that theme in any way -- and storytellers can too: Do you have a story about a house fire? A camp fire? A fire in your belly? Undergoing a trial by fire? You can bring prose, or poetry, or a song -- anything that tells a story.

We would like to hear from you ahead of time about what you plan to present (and please, keep it no more than PG-13 and no more than 10-12 minutes or so). Please call or e-mail to sign up -- 570-317-2596 or RXhjaGFuZ2UgfCBFeGNoYW5nZUFydHMgISBvcmc=.

Limited audience seating in the Exchange Gallery available: Please call or e-mail to make a reservation if you can -- 570-317-2596, RXhjaGFuZ2UgfCBFeGNoYW5nZUFydHMgISBvcmc=.

Donations accepted at the door -- $10 suggested, anything accepted.

We will record the event for later upload to YouTube.

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"The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms." -- Muriel Rukeyser

The Exchange looks at our storytelling events as opportunities to build a shared sense of this community's and this region's identity -- what, after all, does "Columbia-Montour" mean to you? Even for those of us who live here (and who love living here), that name does not instantly evoke the same sort of clarity and certainty that "The Poconos" or "Lancaster County" or even "The Endless Mountains" does.

But, we believe, if we tell our stories to each other, and share what we find important about this region, we can start to build the sort of "brand" that those other regions have.

For more of our Storytelling events, including videos of each, visit us at ExchangeArts.org/storytelling.

You may also like the following events from The Exchange:

• Next Wednesday, 25th June, 07:00 pm, The Exchange's Listening Room presents Dave Keyes and Friends in Bloomsburg
• Next month, 16th July, 07:00 pm, The Exchange presents Big Bone Daddy at the Town Park Concert Series in Rock Glen
• Next month, 26th July, 11:00 am, Work due for "Efforts at Imitation" in Bloomsburg

Also check out other Arts events in Bloomsburg, Exhibitions in Bloomsburg.