Don’t Miss: Listen To Your Mother at Providence Public Library

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

 

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For the first time ever, Mother's Day in Rhode Island will be celebrated on stage. Providence is one of 24 cities across the US hosting writer/blogger Ann Imig's nationally celebrated reading series, Listen To Your Mother. The critically acclaimed stage series has been featured in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and on local NPR stations.

Listen To Your Mother

Listen To Your Mother is a national series of live readings by local writers in celebration of Mother’s Day. Born of the creative mind of Ann Imig and the work of mothers who publish online, each production is directed produced and performed by local communities for local communities. 

The first ever performance in Rhode Island–and the inaugural show for Providence–will take place on Saturday, May 4 at 2:00pm at the historical Providence Public Library Auditorium.

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Listen To Your Mother is a live stage production of local writers reading their original stories about motherhood–inspiring, humorous, contemplative pieces will be read by 14 cast members from Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

The team behind the mothers

The Local Directors/Producers Team, Moms and bloggers Laura Rossi Totten and Carla Molina Martins are very excited about the show and have announced the cast and local sponsors including:  Rhody Mamas, Rejuvaderm, Haute Tags, Egan Images, Tong Collection and Ian Travis Barnard Photography to name just a few.

Moms (and dads!), grandparents, aunts, uncles, and anyone who has a mother, is a mother, or hopes to be a mother are invited to the 90-minute performance.

To learn more about the show and cast, visit the Providence Listen To Your Mother website here. To reserve tickets, visit Providence Tickets via Brown Paper Tickets

Listen To Your Mother Providence Co-Directors & Co-Producers

CARLA MOLINA is a writer who’s work has appeared on Latina.com, SpanglishBaby, BuyHer and most recently Vida Vibrante. Carla, a Jersey girl gone New England, makes her home in Rhode Island where she enjoys being a cheerleader for local small businesses and an advocate for family fun through her blog Petit Rhody. An avid reader and movie goer, Carla spends her non-writing time homeschooling her two bilingual daughters, writing children’s books and drowning in tea. Deeply passionate about motherhood and raising daughters, you can follow her writing on mothering our daughters and mothering ourselves at her personal blog All of Me Now.

LAURA ROSSI TOTTEN is a blogger, proud Mom of girl-boy twins, social media addict, and a PR expert.   Before owning her own public relations agency, Laura worked in New York City at Random House, Viking Penguin and W.W. Norton.  Laura’s blog My So-Called Sensory Life was named a “Top 25 Most Inspiring Families Blog” by Circle of Moms and a 2010 Babble Top 40 Nominated Mom Blog.  Laura is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, Moonfrye.com (celeb Punky Brewster’s site), and Circle of Moms and appears in the  book Make Mine A Double: Why Women Like Us Like To Drink (Or Not)  (UPNE).  Her writing has been featured on local NPR, Psychology Today, NJFamily.com, SheWrites, and in The Chronicle of Higher Education among many other publications, sites, and blogs.

 

 
 

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