Featured are ten local artists sure to make us laugh, cry, and revel in word art. Also joining the event are guests at the Open Mike!  Check out the program as of today:

BENEFIT SHOW
*Marilyn Mayer Culpepper – Never Will We Forget
*Charles Thornton – storyteller
*Nancy Allen – poet
*Lee Sayles – I Have Nothing to Say
*Becky Payne – poet and storyteller
*Laura Apol – Crossing the Ladder of the Sun
*Silvana Alfaro – poet
*Tim Lane – Pure Pop, director of (SCENE) Metrospace
*Logic – organizer of Spitfire Poetry Slam and Open Mic, Nu Poet Collective
*Christine Pereira – poet

OPEN MIKE
*Chey Davis – Bad Dog Behavior
*Rosalie Sanara Petrouske – A Postcard from my Mother
*Shirley Bradley – Lansing Storytellers
*Margaret Beard – poet
*Aaron Curtner – visual artist, poet
*Melissa Dey Hasbrook – the land, once called DeWitt; HerStories organizer

On March 27 at 4:00pm, join the HerStories Benefit Show & Open Mike! This finale event of the month-long series is a fundraiser for the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing.

The details are coming together for an amazing ensemble of performances and author readings. Here is the growing list of contributors:

• Silvana Alfaro (Vagina Monologues ’08)
• Nancy Allen (co-founder Words of Hope and Healing)
• Laura Apol (author Crossing the Ladder of the Sun)
• Marilyn Mayer Culpepper (author Never Will We Forget)
• Tim Lane (poet, painter, & Scene Metrospace director/curator)
• Becky Payne (Words of Hope & Healing ’09)
• Christine Pereira (Women in the Arts Festival ’08)
• Lee Sayles (Women in the Arts Festival ’07-’09)
• Charles Thornton (storyteller extraordinaire)