Opening Night: Stories at the Moth
Friday, November 2 • Program M4 • $20
Doors open at 7:30 p.m., Stories begin at 8:30 p.m.

Stories at the Moth, the roving urban storytelling collective, returns to the Mead Festival with an opening night extravaganza under the blue whale, Past Tense, Future Perfect: Stories About Generations. The Greatest and Gen X, the Boomers and their babies...is the space between the generations as wide as a galaxy, or as small as the womb? Can we look back and still see where we're going? This evening will be curated and hosted by writer and actor Tony Hendra (This is Spinal Tap), and it will feature an eclectic Moth lineup of tale-spinners as well as Mead Festival participants.

Open Forum
Sunday, November 4 • 3:00 p.m. • Program M20
Free; reservations recommended.

This free event will focus on the vital role of local grass-roots media-makers who tell their own stories and frame their own representations. The session will include a video short Living in Two Worlds, produced by students at the Al Noor School in Brooklyn, as well as new productions by and about diverse Muslim communities. A representative from FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), the national media watch group, will consider and comment on the role of mainstream media coverage of these communities.

Closing Night: Columbia River Redux (4 min.) & Buffalo War (56 min.)
Discussion with director and participants.
Kaufmann Theater • 7:00 p.m. • Program M46