Welcome
A story, a story, let it come…
Regi Carpenter is the National Storytelling Network’s 2008 JJ Reneaux Emerging Artist Recipient cited for ” your spontaneity, your natural and flexible relationship with the audience, your delight in performance, and the versatility of your repertoire.”
Regi has been delighting and inspiring audiences throughout the country with a diverse repertoire of world stories, folktales, myths, music and personal stories of the her hometown on the St. Lawrence River and the people who inhabited its shores since 1993. She is the winner of numerous awards for performing, recording, teaching and writing. Regi’s wit, compassion, and craft are reflected in her workshops, keynotes, adult and children’s programs.
Bendable Barbie
“Bendable Barbie - a story in pieces” is the latest CD by award-winning storyteller, Regi Carpenter.
Listen to the introduction to Bendable Barbie Intro to Bendable Barbie
“Regi Carpenter has a voice that dances. It can, at a moment’s notice, be light as a feather, frisk about playfully, or leap with sudden power. Best of all is the sheer joy she communicates in telling her tales.”
- School Library Journal
Endings and beginnings..
My beloved brother, Tim, was killed in a car accident. He was a great guy and an amazing brother. My brother didn’t walk, he strolled. He didn’t laugh, he snorted. He didn’t sing, he bellowed. He didn’t listen, he understood. He didn’t love, he adored. He was a sweet man who worked at the Elmira prison as a social worker.He was the inner wheel of the wheel in our family, keeping all the spokes in their place.
It seems so often that tragedy is senseless and yet, it never is. It helps the heart continually open to the sorrow and sadness that abounds in the world. Sorrow brings us together in the family of beings, just as laughter and singing, dancing and stories do. So, in a year filled with almost unbearable sadness, there had been an overwhelming abundance of friendship, family, laughter and caring. Life just keeps moving forward, like the current in a river.
I also began doing some wonderful healing work with the IM School of Healing. A group of us meet monthly and explore touch, movement, energy and beliefs. To know more about it, please visit www.imschool.com. I have been in Ithaca for thirty!! years. Looking, visiting, wondering, imagining has been great and stressful and interesting. Who am I and what do I need from my hometown ? I’ll let you know where I end up.
This year has also brought some wonderful chances to share stories with people I don’t normally meet. I have been telling to incarcerated teenagers, cowpokes and senior citizens.
“Regi Carpenter’s CD “Diving and Emerging” is wonderful. Her voice is intimate and the perfect instrument to bring you to her childhood on the St. Lawrence River, where Regi had underwater tea parties, fished with Wonder Bread bait, and watched a mother run down to the river after her son has drowned. These stories touch the mysteries of life.”
-Jay O’Callahan