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Credit: FERIALThis month, Patti Smith will be honored with a special award as part of the inaugural “10 Storytellers to Watch” event during the 2019 IFP Week conference in New York City, presented by Variety in partnership with the Independent Filmmakers Project.

According to Variety, Smith will be presented with the Creative Impact in Storytelling Award and will also take part in a conversation during September 19 luncheon celebration.  The event also highlights 10 honorees who are making their mark in creative storytelling fields such as podcasting, graphic novel writing and lyric writing.

“[W]e are thrilled to honor Patti Smith with our Creative Impact in Storytelling Award,” says Variety executive Steven Gaydos. “From her earliest beginnings in the New York City and Paris avant-garde arts scenes of the 1960s, throughout her illustrious career as one of America’s most daring and iconoclastic singer-songwriters, Patti Smith has established herself as a force for intimate, truthful, insightful storytelling.”

In addition to her music, Smith has written numerous books of poetry. Her 2010 memoir Just Kids won a National Book Award.  A follow-up, 2015’s M Train, won her a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album.

Leading up to the award presentation and Q&A session, Smith will play three Midwest concerts with her longtime backing band. She’ll perform at Riot Fest in Chicago on September 15, and then mount a September 16-17 stand at Royal Oak Theatre in Detroit.

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