Frank Basile's Emerging Stories: "What We Carry: Stories of Care, Legacy, and Becoming" featuring Sheila Spencer

Frank Basile's Emerging Stories: "What We Carry: Stories of Care, Legacy, and Becoming" featuring Sheila Spencer is an original storytelling performance that weaves together personal narrative, poetry, humor, and reflection to explore identity, family, caregiving, legacy, and the quiet moments that shape who we become. Through stories spanning generations, Spencer invites audiences to discover the unexpected connections between memory, responsibility, love, and letting go.

Grounded in lived experience yet universal in its themes, this performance celebrates the power of story to reveal who we are, honor where we've come from, and imagine what we want to pass on. With warmth, honesty, and humor, What We Carry reminds us that the stories we inherit—and the ones we choose to tell—have the power to transform us.

Audiences will laugh, reflect, remember their own stories, and perhaps leave carrying something a little lighter than when they arrived.

About the Artist

Sheila P. Spencer…