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Meet “Here & Gone” Storyteller Dan Jessup

May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

What story did Chester Carlson, inventor of The First Photocopy, inspire Dan Jessup to share from his life?

Grab tickets to next week’s show to find out. First things first, meet “Here & Gone” storyteller Dan Jessup!

Dan Jessup is a bilingual-Spanish, Wisconsin-bred, Queens-based actor and host with experience across TV, film, commercials, and theatre. New York credits include Chain Theatre, The Secret Theatre, and pandemic-streamed corporate events from his living room. Chicago credits include NBC’s Chicago Fire, Shark Tank: The Musical, and telling radio audiences when the McRib was back at McDonald’s. He proudly spent 15 years honing improvisation and devised theatre skills in Chicago, spent another life in human resources leadership, and has worked as a live event host for 20 years. He’s very happy he landed in Astoria in 2018. Thank you! www.danjessup.com.

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May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

Grove 34 (3183 34th St., Astoria)

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Meet “Here & Gone” Artist Yelena Tylkina

May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

What is HERE?
What is GONE?
What in your life is HERE & GONE?

Astoria-based artist, Yelena Tylkina, illustrated the Queens “Here & Gone” Highlights – Westinghouse Time Capsule, North Beach, Astoria Pool Sentinels, and The First Photocopy – for our upcoming show in this gorgeous piece of artwork.

For the FIRST time, our four storytellers participated in a generative workshop using Queens history to inspire their true tales, which included responding to this visual prompt by answering the questions above.

Get your tickets for No, YOU Tell It! “Here & Gone” on May 18th to see the result.

We can’t think of a better way to celebrate No, YOU Tell It!’s 11-year anniversary than with our FIRST Flushing Town Hall grant! The 2023 Queens Community Arts Grant sparked our partnership with the Greater Astoria Historical Society and paved the way for this artistic collaboration with Yelena Tylkina.

Check out the other Flushing Town Hall 2023 Community Arts Grant recipients HERE.

Love the image as much as we do? Good news!  A full-size tapestry will be on display at the show, plus a chance to win story trivia prizes featuring the Queens “Here & Gone” artwork.

Can’t wait? View more of Yelena’s artwork via Fine Art America.

Yelena Tylkina lives and works in NYC as a professional artist, curator, and arts advocate. She produces fine art, design, illustration, and fashion. Yelena’s artwork takes on the fascinating and perhaps perplexing nexus where public persona and inner experience meet. The unbridled obscenity of our feelings, desires, and secrets is carefully inspected and sorted out in her souvenir-like presentations where she transforms travesty to destiny and, via tragedy, to ultimate ecstasy. Tylkina also writes prose, short stories in the style of magical realism, and is a prolific poet. To date, she has had over a hundred exhibitions including sixteen museum shows.  She has also appeared on several television and radio programs in the USA and Europe and her work has been the subject of focus in many articles in art magazines and newspapers, including “Noticias de Arte,” “Manhattan Art International,” “Russian Bazaar,” “Metro,” “Forward,”’ “Evening New York,” “Jewish World,” “Hellas News,” TV RUS, ARU.TV, ONT.BY, El Mundo, Vanity Fair, New York Times, NY1, and Belarus1.   

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May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

Grove 34 (3183 34th St., Astoria)

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Queens “Here & Gone” Highlight: Westinghouse Time Capsule

May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

An artifact of hubris remains in a 5000-year time capsule equal in distance today with the earliest civilizations of the past.

– Bob Singleton, Executive Director of the Greater Astoria Historical Society

Love the added insights Bob Singleton brought to our Queens “Here & Gone” Highlights and can’t wait to hear the true-life tales inspired by the Westinghouse Time Capsule, North Beach, Astoria Pool Sentinels, and The First Photocopy at tomorrow’s second story meeting.

See you at the show next week! Get your tickets here for 5/18.

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Special thanks to Rosalie Chandler, Bob Singleton, and Ava Vitali for helping us create these Queens “Here & Gone” highlights. The Greater Astoria Historical Society is the place to learn and celebrate Long Island City and its neighborhoods. Learn more at astorialic.org.

This project is supported by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, Statewide Community Regrants Program (formerly the Decentralization program) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and administered by Flushing Town Hall.

This project is made possible (in part) with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.

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May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

Grove 34 (3183 34th St., Astoria)

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Queens “Here & Gone” Highlight: North Beach

May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

HERE we have LaGuardia Airport. GONE is North Beach, an area that once rivaled Coney Island as a vacation destination, bathing area, and escape from the city. What now?? 

Grab your ticket here for our “Here & Gone” show and learn more about the Summer Night’s Festival at North Beach Admission Ticket. One of the four pieces of Queens history that inspired our storytellers’ true tales.

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Special thanks to Rosalie Chandler, Bob Singleton, and Ava Vitali for helping us create these Queens “Here & Gone” highlights. The Greater Astoria Historical Society is the place to learn and celebrate Long Island City and its neighborhoods. Learn more at astorialic.org.

This project is supported by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, Statewide Community Regrants Program (formerly the Decentralization program) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and administered by Flushing Town Hall.

This project is made possible (in part) with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.

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May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

Grove 34 (3183 34th St., Astoria)

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Queens “Here & Gone” Highlight: Astoria Pool Sentinels

May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

What happened to the two 16-foot-tall Metropolis-esque stainless steel statues that once stood atop the Astoria Pool locker rooms? Read our next Queens “Here & Gone” Highlight to find out!

How will these highlights from the archives of the Greater Astoria Historical Society inspire our four storytellers’ modern-day true tales? Click here to grab your tickets to come see!

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Special thanks to Rosalie Chandler, Bob Singleton, and Ava Vitali for helping us create these Queens “Here & Gone” highlights. The Greater Astoria Historical Society is the place to learn and celebrate Long Island City and its neighborhoods. Learn more at astorialic.org.

This project is supported by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, Statewide Community Regrants Program (formerly the Decentralization program) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and administered by Flushing Town Hall.

This project is made possible (in part) with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.

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May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

Grove 34 (3183 34th St., Astoria)

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Queens “Here & Gone” Highlight: The First Photocopy

May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

Did you know that Chester Carlson invented the first photocopy on 37th and Broadway in Astoria, mere blocks from where our “Here & Gone” show will take place at Grove 34? And that, as noted by Bob Singleton from the Greater Astoria Historical Society,

The name ASTORIA was on the First Page of the Information Age.

This show is filled with FIRSTS. Our FIRST grant from Flushing Town Hall. This Queens Community Arts Grant sparked our FIRST team-up with the Greater Astoria Historical Society. As a result, for the FIRST time, our storytellers’ true tales are inspired by four Queens historical highlights from the GAHS archives.

First up, learn about Chester Carlson, and check back for more Queens “Here & Gone”  highlights soon!

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Special thanks to Rosalie Chandler, Bob Singleton, and Ava Vitali for helping us create these Queens “Here & Gone” highlights. The Greater Astoria Historical Society is the place to learn and celebrate Long Island City and its neighborhoods. Learn more at astorialic.org.

This project is supported by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, Statewide Community Regrants Program (formerly the Decentralization program) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and administered by Flushing Town Hall.

This project is made possible (in part) with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.

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May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

Grove 34 (3183 34th St., Astoria)

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No, YOU Tell It! “Here & Gone” Celebrates Queens

May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

Here comes No, YOU Tell It! “Here & Gone” at Grove 34 in Astoria, where our four storytellers will step into each other’s true-life tales inspired by the rich and, at times, unknown history of Queens.

Get your tickets early for this special team-up show with the Greater Astoria Historical Society! Hosted by Ellie Dvorkin Dunn.

  • 7:00 – 7:30: *Reception featuring Queens “Here & Gone” artwork by Yelena Tylkina
  • 7:30 – 9:00: Switched-up Storytelling inspired by the archives of the Greater Astoria Historical Society

*Drinks and snacks available for purchase.

Storytellers (as pictured above):

  • Lakshmi Gandhi
  • Dan Jessup
  • Rosalie Chandler
  • Olena Jennings

Follow @noyoutellit on Insta to learn more about the artist, storytellers, and Queens “Here & Gone” history.

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The Greater Astoria Historical Society is the place to learn and celebrate Long Island City and its neighborhoods. Learn more at astorialic.org.

This project is supported by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, Statewide Community Regrants Program (formerly the Decentralization program) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and administered by Flushing Town Hall.

This project is made possible (in part) with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.

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May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

Grove 34 (3183 34th St., Astoria)

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Next Show! “Here & Gone”

May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

SAVE THE DATE for our next show at Grove 34 in partnership with The Greater Astoria Historical Society.

For this special QUEENS show, our four storytellers are working with the NYTI team to create modern-day true tales inspired by the rich and, at times, unknown history of the borough.

Want to tell your “Queens & Me” story? Join our own Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons for a personal writing workshop at Sunnyside Arts on 4/21. Open to writers of all levels! More info and register here.

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May 18 2023 @ 7:00PM

Grove 34 (3183 34th St., Astoria)

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Symphony Space Success

“No, YOU Tell It! is a treasure of a show. You have to witness it to really get how special it is. Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons assembled a team that puts so much heart and soul into guiding storytellers of different ages, races, genders, and backgrounds to swap stories, so that the performers are in each other’s shoes, as the saying goes. The result is hilarious and heartwarming, but also, such a profound experiment in fostering empathy. Everyone in the room, storytellers, show producers, and audience members, have an unforgettably moving evening of entertainment together, and that special sort of connecting of people going on in the show really is something to be cherished.”

– Kevin Allison, RISK!

Story partners Kevin Allison and Najah Imani Muhammad. Photo credit: Russ Rowland

What an incredible night at Symphony Space last week! We’re still on Cloud 9 and couldn’t be more grateful to everyone who made the night a success by attending in person, via the livestream, and/or donating. Check out more “College Try” photos on Facebook or Instagram.

Hey, while you’re there, why not LIKE or FOLLOW?

Special shout out to all who helped us provide free student tickets to high school juniors. We had a wonderful pre-show college essay jumpstart workshop, and the students loved the show!!

Want to help No, YOU Tell It! provide more opportunities for future storytellers and students? Click here to make a tax-deductible donation.

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I can’t think of a better way to kick off our 11th year! Thank you again from all of us at No, YOU Tell It!

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The College Try and Then Some!

Left to right: Dion Flynn, Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons, Brett Felder, Ellie Dvorkin Dunn, Najah Imani Muhammad, and Kevin Allison. Photo credit: Russ Rowland.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
Thanks to everyone who came out or watched the show on the live stream.
We had a great time, and we hope you did too!
Thank you to our storytellers for sharing their words and those amazing performances.
Thank you to our host, directors, and creative team!
Thank you, Symphony Space, for the amazing space and for being an amazing host.
AND we raised $500 for Bottom Line, thanks to your generosity!
Didn’t win a copy of our anthology? Grab a copy here. Until next time, friends!
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