Jeff Gere

Sun Sept. 7, 11am- noon @ The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu)

Members Morning ­ ‘The Puppet Show’ Exhibit comes to life with stories told in shadow puppets
by storyteller & puppeteer Jeff Gere. FREE

OCT 10-12, 2008. 20th Annual TALK STORY Festival

The City & County of Honolulu presents 3 FREE nights of the best tellers in Hawaii at McCoy Pavilion,
Ala Moana Beach Park, Honolulu FREE.
Fri. Oct. 10 (6-9pm) SPOOKIES;
Sat. Oct. 11 (6-9pm) MILESTONES
(honoring our 20th Anniversary);
Sun. Oct. 12 (5:30-8:30pm) IMAGINE THAT! LOCAL TELLERS;
Makia Malo, Sandra MacLees, Lopaka Kapanui, ‘Tita’ Kathy Collins, James McCarthy, Ed Chevy, Brenda Kwon, Dann Seki, Nyla Ching-Fujii. MAINLAND GUESTS: Cathy Spagnoli (Asian tales & traditions, teller/author), Jennifer Cayley (Ottawa’s Epic Tales specialist), and Baba Jamal Koram (African- American Griot from Illinois). STORYTELLING WORKSHOP 1-4pm Sunday FREE too. Full line-up at www.honoluluparks.com

EYE SURGERY:
During set-up for Talk Story I noticed floating potatoes with halos on the outside of my right eye. I went to see the optometrist, and had surgery to repair detaching retina. I was off work and off the tour (below) on all neighbor islands (cannot fly). The other tellers filled in.

 

Sat Oct. 18, 7:30pm
@ Iao Theater (Wailuku, Maui) ($10) SPOOK OUT! Four disturbed storytellers GIFTED at making skin crawl meet. “Tita’ Kathy Collins (Maui’s Mana’o Radio DJ), Lopaka Kapanui (Oahu ghost tours), Cathy Spagnoli (Seattle Asian tale specialist) with piano improv wizard Les Adam. Kids under 13 NOT invited. Over 100 paid/attended. They want to do it again.

Sun Oct. 19, 6-10pm
@ Iao Theater (Wailuku, Maui)FREE. 100 CANDLES! A Japanese tradition says that if you blow out one of 100 candles after each ghost story, when it’s finally all dark you’ll see ghosts. We’ll put this belief to a test. This GHOST OPEN MIC takes hours. $10, $5 rebate for telling. 4 ghost tellers host. 50ish people attended

Sat Oct. 25, 5pm
"OBAKE IN KOKE'E" Artists Camp Sponsored by Garden Island Arts Council ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) & Hui O Laka @Koke’e’s CCC Camp with Cathy Spagnoli & NO Jeff Gere Lopaka Kapanui filled in. 70 folks attended (lodging, dinner & breakfast) $40 per person/ $70 per couple/ ask for family rates

Jeff Started doing Shows again

Sun Oct. 26, 6-9pm
3rd Annual ‘OBAKE OAHU’ @ Japanese CulturalCenter, 2454 S. Beretania (mauka of Star Market) 4th Floor Ballroom (‘Tita’ Collins, Spagnoli, Gere (first time performing after surgery), Kapanui) $3 fee. Last year it was so popular they turned 200 people away, so they reserved the whole Ballroom. Not as many people came (about 200 did attend)

Fri Oct. 30
Gere took the Superferry to Maui, edit recordings of others on Maui Tour with Les Adam, do Hawaii State Board of Water Supply Conference, back next day.

FRI Oct. 31
Halloween Nuuanu Street Bootacular! (tell to neighborhood kids and do shadow puppets)

Sat Nov 1
@ The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu) - Drama & Art! 10:30-noon, (526-1322 x30) Learn to make your own shadow puppet and then stage a story through the art of shadow puppetry. This unique expression session will take place in the David Hockney installation, also known as ‘The Magical Red Forest’. Jeff Gere will inspire and coach story and puppet creation.

Sun Nov 2
@ Hawaii Plantation Village (Waipahu) Plantation Spooky Talk Story! 5-7pm, $5 (100 people packed the old Community Meeting Hall). Gere, Kapanui, Darlene Rodrigues, Miora Maeda- Nakamine.

#2 EYE SURGERY:
the retina re-detached in my right eye (too much active storytelling too soon?). The second surgery took place on Nov. 3rd.(cannot fly so I had to cancel the Los Angeles Storytelling Festival where I was scheduled to perform Nov. 15)

Sat Nov 15 2008
LOS ANGELES STORYTELLING FESTIVAL Culver-Palms Methodist Church, 4464 Sepulveda Blvd in Culver City 9am-6:30pm. A complete schedule is at www.lastorytellingfestival.com. $30/$40/day.

The eye healed well and I did the talk at TCM:
Sat, Nov 22, 1:30pm
@ The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu) Pulling Strings: Jeff Gere has been pulling strings, making faces, and talking story for over 30 years! Join him as he shares his collection of masks, puppets, and stories from his travels around the world. Stories by a storyteller of stories and puppets! FREE (rsvtn: 526-1322 x30)