Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald, May 15, 7 PM, Livestream/Live Audience

Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald presents Hope Windle on Sunday, May 17 at 7 PM, livestreamed on Youtube from Green Kill.

Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald presents Hope Windle on Sunday, May 17 at 7 PM, livestream/live audience, broadcast onYoutube from Green Kill. 5 dollars. For tickets, go here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/words-carry-us-with-betty-macdonald-may-15-7-pm-livestreamlive-audience-tickets-334064524987

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Hope Windle

Hope Windle laughs, cries, and wonders why. She has always made stuff and created venues to share stuff.

Hope has been reading aloud to audiences since her Massachusetts Speech and Debate League state-wide award-winning rendition of “Horton Hears a Who” in 10th grade. She continued reading to her classmates, on the “Green Eggs and Ham” Bedtime Story Hour on Connecticut College radio. She received her MFA in the visual arts from University of California, Davis and a teacher's certificate from Studio in a School and Pratt Institute. 

While working for an educational software company in Silicon Valley, Hope produced the Source, a documentary about women surfers now digitally archived in the Getty Museum and curated by Miranda July. As the Pilgrim, she became the first Hudson Valley Broads Regional Arm Wrestling League - BRAWL champion while raising money for local nonprofits. With Betty MacDonald and a devotion of volunteers, she created Deep Six, Day of the Dead a successful evening of readings acknowledging Death for the benefit of Circle of Friends for the Dying, Hudson Valley Death Cafe and local hospice. 

Weekdays, she directs the SUNY COIL Center, internationally connecting students, professors, and administrators to work on projects local and global, acknowledging their differences, while finding commonality.

During Covid, Hope took notes as her 88-year-old Aunt Joy discussed aging, and her desire to leave the planet. Hope will share reflections of that time with Joy on Words Carry us with host Betty MacDonald.

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Betty MacDonald

Writer/actor Betty MacDonald contributed to the writing of and performed in TMI’s “What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting.” Her essay “Before Roe v. Wade” appears in the anthology Get Out of My Crotch!  Her work is included in the anthologies 80 Things to Do When You Turn 80, Open House, and Better with Age. Betty has read frequently at Spoken Word, a monthly gathering of writers and readers in Kingston, NY, and at TMI Project events in Rhinebeck, Woodstock, Kingston, NY. She presented her essay "First Love" for Read650 at the Cell Theatre in New York City. She performed “First Love” again for Read650’s Best of event at Vassar College. Her Read650's Mother's Day presentation, "Daughter of Twins" is available on YouTube. Also, on YouTube her reading of her essay "Not Jewish Enough" from Read 650's event Jew-ish.  Betty hosts Words Carry Us, a series of Live Stream readings, interviews, and conversations from Green Kill in Kingston, NY. 
 
Following her early career as radio personality Tiny Lee, she became a sculptor working in Porcelain. In addition, for many years she was a correspondent for the travel industry which sounds great but wasn't because she’d rather stay home and finds travel uncomfortable and exhausting. For more than 35 years, storytelling has influenced Betty's work as a performer with Community Playback Theatre, an improvisational acting company in the Hudson Valley.

bettymoonmacdonald.com

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