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  Doors Open: 5PM

  Isabella Newman: 6PM

  Adam Booth: 7PM

  Advance Tickets: $18 | General Admission: $22

  Adam Booth is the 2022 West Virginia Governor’s Arts Awards Folk Artist of the Year. His original stories blend traditional mountain folklore, music, and an awareness of contemporary Appalachia. Career highlights for 2025 include being the featured keynote presenter at the Sydney Australia International Storytelling Conference, being a featured artist for the fourth time at the US National Storytelling Festival, and having his original multidisciplinary program The Heron’s Journey featured on the 2024-2025 Mid Atlantic Arts Touring Roster. 

  As a nationally touring artist, Booth’s professional telling appearances include premiere storytelling and arts events across the United States, such as the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival, Teller-In-Residence at the International Storytelling Center (four times), the National Academy of Sciences, and a commission from the National Academy of Medicine. He was a resident at the Banff Centre Spoken Word program in Alberta, Canada. 

  Education is an important part of Booth’s storytelling practice. He has taught classes and given presentations at Ghost Ranch, John C. Campbell Folk School, the National Storytelling Conference, the Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Berea Appalachian Sound Archives Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Humanities Voices from the Misty Mountains summer seminars and institute. 

  
  Isabella (often known as Izzy) Newman is a twenty-something poet who began sharing her poetry online in 2021. The Act of Falling is her first book, which she self-published and marketed herself with the support of those who love her. Some things that feel like poetry to Izzy are ice cream in the summer, a drive with the windows down, and the beauty of the human experience. By sharing her poetry, Izzy hopes to make at least one person feel less alone, feel a little more love, and be inspired to give that love to others.
  The Act of Falling is a journey through the moments and feelings that define us. The poems—woven together into four stages of feeling—chronicle growing pains, heartbreak, healing, and the choice, again and again, to get back up. The book is meant to be a companion in feeling: an anchor when emotions feel overwhelming, and a reminder that even when darkness feels infinite, there will always be light.