VOXRVA

Vox RVA: Immigrant Stories in Richmond - Part 1 In this episode of VOXRVA, three Richmonders share powerful, funny, and deeply personal immigration journeys that explore what it means to find home in a new place. Emcee Emma Ito frames the event as living history, starting with language teacher Kefu Huang recounting leaving a “small” Chinese city of seven million for graduate school in the U.S., di...

Recorded live at Common House in Richmond, this Vox RVA storytelling night is the second segment of our first event, exploring the theme of “beginnings” through three deeply personal, often funny, and unexpectedly moving stories. Host and MC Reese Williams introduces a lineup that includes VCU podcast professor and audio producer Max Wasserman, veteran storyteller and ad-man Les Schaefer, and Rees...

Everything we do begins somewhere, somehow. These stories show that beginnings can be gruesome or grueling, funny or sad, uplifting or scary.  Professor and podcast host Rich Meagher talks about how he got his start as a storyteller at a poet’s cafe on NYC’s Lower East Side & Producer Meg Lindholm talks about the roller coaster ride she took on the way to her first professional radio job.