“Get to the Point”: a new monthly storytelling series, devised and hosted by me, beginning TONIGHT (Dec. 3) at Café Nine

I’ve been asked to create a new monthly storytelling series at Café Nine, debuting December 3 and continuing on the first Monday of every month.

So the debut (“Volume One,” as I call it) is 8 p.m. TONIGHT, Monday Dec. 3, at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven.

I’m very excited by this new opportunity, and am overwhelmed by the responsibility.

I want to honor the current idea of what storytelling means—the cathartic personal anecdotes and amusing modern adventures which fuel The Moth and This American Life—but I’m also a theater guy, a history buff, a voracious reader and the son of a Classicist. So I want to open the series to monologues, myths, orations, poetry, performance art and, as they say, more.

For Get to the Point’s inaugural volume, I’ve enlisted:

• Ina Chadwick, a seasoned storyteller who’s produced events at clubs and theaters around Fairfield County.

• Poet and writer Franz Douskey

• Michael “Live Mike” Cooper, telling a story rather than fronting a band

• Chris Randall—photographer, director of New Haven Land Trust and community-builder

• Steve Scarpa of New Haven Theater Company

• The band Jellyshirts, covering a Velvet Underground story-song classic.

• others

This is a FREE event. No cover. And the start of something regular. Imagine the possibilities. Contact me at chris@scribblers.us to get involved.