Rejoice! Regardless – Featured Storyteller Laura Simms
About Rejoice! Regardless – Featured Storyteller Laura Simms
There is always possibility and joy. Rejoice! Regardless is a monumental weave of personal stories throughout a Kurdish Jewish Fairytale collected in the 1940s in Jerusalem called What a Beautiful Road. Laura tells stories of her childhood in Brooklyn, working in a displaced persons camp in Haiti, with Gypsy women in Romania, and hearing the violin music of a survivor who lived in her attic in Boro Park.
Laura Simms is an internationally acclaimed storyteller, writer and educator advocating engaged storytelling as compassionate action for personal and community transformation. She offers in-depth classes, coaching, and powerful performances of stories that address the most pressing issues of our times with dignity and joy.
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