Hey Good is Better family,
It's your weekly-ish love note from Tilly Hinton. This week, we talk pandemic filmmaking, pagophilia, democratized storytelling, fresh music, and fathers and sons.
I also have a save-the-date that I am super excited to share. Read on for more.
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Save the Date: Thursday 17 September, 6 pm Pacific Time. That's a sultry 9 pm in New York and an easy 11 am Friday brunch in Australia.
And it's the time slot for a special 'Storytime presents...' event featuring a witty and charming co-host and more of the superb humans that you've adored at Storytime during this pandemic. If you love Storytime, this bonus event will give you an extra helping of all that goodness for September.
By then, many of us will have been in lockdown for six months. Oh my!
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You'll remember Mallewi from Storytime for the Apocalypse Episode 8 where he read ‘For My People’ by Margaret Walker. His debut album "Retina" is releasing in 14 days. That's sooooooooner than soon! Click here to pre-order. Mallewi got started early making art, with the City of Baltimore commissioning him at 12 years old to create a portrait of Billie Holiday at the Eubie Blake Cultural Center. Ever-driven, as a teenager Mallewi created art pieces and sold them in his neighborhood to buy a tape recorder. He would record his own musical training, and review the tapes at home, taking extensive notes, noting questions to explore more deeply. "Retina" is going to show us what that kinda discipline makes possible. Cannot wait!
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If you've had your eye on LA River X this week, you'll have "met" T. Chick McClure whose photography has been mesmerizing audiences, and me, all week. Chick's takeover has just wrapped, but wait there's more. Today, NPR released a Story Corps recording about Chick and their dad Chas road tripping after 30 years apart. There's every chance it'll make you cry, and if it doesn't this for sure will: a photo essay by Chick about that same road trip.
"It’s go time. The moment of truth. I suck all the air in the room into my lungs and slowly blow it out. I look at myself in the mirror. It’s new for me to recognize myself."
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LA River X is the Instagram project that democratizes Los Angeles River voices. It is a platform for community storytelling for anyone with a river story - photographers, bird watchers, filmmakers, painters, historians, students, scholars, artists, writers, biologists - to share by guest-hosting for a week-long Instagram takeover. If you know a person or organization that belongs in the LA River X family, now would be a perfect time to introduce them to Tilly.
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Speaking of Instagram, here is the Good is Better family of Instagram accounts: @tillyhinton, @storytimefor, @iamthelariver, and @lariverx. Click on the images below to follow.
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At Storytime Episode 9, Richard Sanderson read from ‘Kcymaerxthaere: The Story so Far …’ by Eames Demetrios. Earlier in the seemingly-endless pandemic, Dickie and his wife Elizabeth Arends founded and directed the tremendously successful Lock Down Log On Film Festival which drew 84 submissions from across the world. You can watch the winning films here, for 23 minutes and 9 seconds of storytelling nourishment.
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Janna Silverstein has amazing friends. You may remember her from Episode 7 when she read from the novelette ‘Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs’ by her friend Adam-Troy Castro. Janna is also friends with Elizabeth Bourne, an incredible photographer and visual artist who has moved to Svalbard (Norway north of the Arctic circle) to paint and photograph the landscape as it changes as a result of global warming. Elizabeth is a self-declared pagophile - a word I had to learn for this - a lover of ice. If you're melting in a northern hemisphere summer like I am just now, these images might speak extra-loud to you. Cool down, and think about how to stop the planet heating up, at Elizabeth Bourne's website and Instagram.
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