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LoveNotes! – the storytelling event created and hosted by author Heather Christie, based on her popular book of the same name – will be performed for three special Valentine’s Day weekend shows on Saturday, February 15 at New York’s Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space (250 West 95th Street, NYC 10025) for its second annual engagement. Shows will be at 2:00 PM, 5:00 PM, and 8:00 PM. In addition, the 8:00 PM show will be available as a livestream. Leading up to the New York shows, there will also be LoveNotes! presentations in Indianapolis, IN (January 31, Ticket Link) and Chicago, IL (February 1, Ticket Link). Tickets to the New York shows are available HERE.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day weekend, LoveNotes! is a one-of-a-kind storytelling event of memoir and music, in which real people share real stories about romantic love in all of its incarnations. The show reveals true stories of first love, last love, and all the love in between – tales from heartbreaking to heartwarming – in which Cupid has shot someone in the heart… and they have lived to tell the tale.

Storytellers for the New York performances include Shreya Ambatti, Bella Bader, Wanda Colón, Tony Crocamo, Kristina Kelley, Ronna Levy, Sergio Lockhart, Brian Lorio, Sandi Marx, Franklin Matthews, Phillip Palladino, Rita Plush, Holly Rutchik, Xuan Zhao, with music by Glen Roethal.

LoveNotes! debuted last year with a sold-out show Off-Broadway and has expanded to three performances this year. The book LoveNotes! – which is published by 71st Street Books, and available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and beyond – features true love stories, journal prompts, and puzzles. The LoveNotes! podcast will be launched later this year.

After a divorce and dating disappointment, Heather Christie found herself in a dark place, questioning whether love was real. Even so, there was a nudge from deep inside that urged her to look around and find the proof of what real love looked like. So she went on the search for evidence of love in other people’s stories. The poets, the dreamers, the lovers, and a lot of regular people answered her call. LoveNotes! was born.

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Heather Christie, the creator of LoveNotes!, is the award-winning author of the Young Adult novel, What the Valley Knows, and the producer/director of the storytelling shows “Listen to Your Mother NYC” in addition to the LoveNotes! shows, books, and podcast. Her essays have been published both online and in print by Salon, Next Tribe, Writer’s Digest, Baltimore Style, Scary Mommy, Elephant Journal, The Good Men Project, Grown & Flown, Baltimore Child, Parent.co<