TOTALLY TRUE THINGS: A Socially Conscious Storytelling Show presents
FISH OUT OF AGUA
written & performed by Michele Carlo
The live performance of Fish Out Of Agua was live-streamed Oct. 22, 2020. The show was recorded and is available as a webinar. Register to watch and the link will be emailed to you. NYS Social workers can earn 1.5 contact hours of Continuing Education by watching this show -or any other in the series - and completing an online evaluation. by Lifestage, Inc
Michele Carlo, a redheaded, freckle-faced Puerto Rican raised in an Italian/Irish section of the Bronx, grew up as a double outsider. Too white for her proud Spanish-speaking relatives and a mystery to her schoolmates, Michele braved a search for identity that was a long, rough-and-tumble-ride. By turns heartbreaking and humorous, she recalls the family calamities, fumblings of growing up and all the people and events who shaped her. From the 'playground battlefield" in the not-so-wholesome summer of'69, to graffiti-filled afternoons and high school race riots in the 70s, to art school in the new wave 80's and her emergence as an artist with a unique and alluring voice, Michele's story is an homage to New York City... an iconically American, unforgettable portrait of growing up.
MICHELE CARLO is a native New Yorker, a Nuyorican, a natural redhead - and an author, storyteller/comedy-adjacent performer who has appeared across the U.S, including on NPR with Latino, USA, the Clearwater Music & Arts Festival, RISK live shows and podcast, PBS' Stories From The Stage, and The Moth's Grand Slams and Mainstage in NYC. Many of Michele's early Moth stories appear in her book Fish Out Of Agua: my life on neither side of the (subway) tracks (Citadel/Kensington)
POST-SHOW DISCUSSION INCLUDES JF SEARY
JF Seary is Nuyorican actor, performance poet and educator, an adjunct lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and speaker on issues of human right, racial and social justice, and and women/gender justice. She has taught secondary English and Drama in the New York City Dept of Education for 19 years, performed at the Nuyorican Poet Cafe, the Bowery Poetry Club and Le Poisson Rouge. She has toured American cities - NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, LA, Grand Rapids, Orlando - as well as in London, the UK, and San Juan Puerto Rico, and has toured colleges across the country with her solo poetry show and with Krall Charles Media's ensemble HerStory. J.F. Seary is currently a co-creator/co-writer for the web series The New York Effect. She facilitates creative writing and performance workshops across the country.
