SUMMER

Janice Alexander, a retired schoolteacher, finds pleasure in creating with story and also with clay. She joined the Portland Storytellers Guild in 2015, shortly before retirement, and has been telling tales ever since. (Some based in fact, maybe, others maybe not.)

Barbara Fankhauser joined the Portland Storytellers Guild in 1989 and became part of a world of people telling stories for the pure love of it. While she embraces tales from all traditions, it is the great Celtic and Norse epics of her own ethnicity—along with mid-life and elder tales—that take her heart these days. Tales that carry the wisdom we all need to navigate our years with wit, grace and insight.  Reach her at batifank@icloud.com

Eric Foxman has been an active storyteller for almost three decades.  Starting with literary stories, his association with the Portland Storytellers’ Guild helped him deepen his artistic well to include folktales, historic stories and the occasional personal chronical.  With an interest in the ‘that-is-just-unbelievable’ in stories, Eric draws on various resources to bring his audiences a program to remember

Mid-westerner Steven Henegar celebrates the wonderful variety of stories we use to share our lives. He calls up the everyday and the fantastic to discover feelings and experiences that connect us all. The twenty-five year veteran performer and workshop leader blends the easy conversation of his family’s storytelling with incisive imagery and word play shaped by a decade in the theater. Truth & Lies mined from a long life looking around. http://www.stevenhenegar.com