SPRING
May Guild Show
7:30 pm Saturday, May 10th
Slumgullion Stew, served for your listening pleasure!
The Portland Storytellers Guild invites you to whet your appetite for delicious stories with a simmering stew of entertaining tales.
Enjoy a flavorful medley of narrative, yarn, chronicle, and pishogue. Gently cooked over time to bring out the taste of a succulent casserole gently spiced and blended with a varied mixture of cooks’ secret ingredients.
Tales prepared to savory perfection by story-chefs Wink Harner, Chuck McConnell, and Eric Foxman.
About the tellers:
Wink Harner
A multilingual storyteller, Wink Harner performs in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English, with some Quechua and Nahuatl thrown in. She studied and performed with the South Mountain Community College Storytelling Institute in Phoenix AZ. Wink crafts all types of stories; favorites are ones with humorous twists, unexpected outcomes, or flat out lies. First a professor of languages, now a professor of adaptive technology, a trombonist, and, of course, a storyteller.
Chuck McConnell
Chuck McConnell became a storyteller, “simply by living”. Soon after moving to Portland in 2010, he joined the city’s rich storytelling scene, first in audiences and later, on stage. He’s a retired association manager. Immediately before moving here, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine.
Eric Foxman
Having found pleasure in tales over the years, Eric Foxman now enjoys sharing them with others: from folk tales to humorous insights into life itself (often at his own expense); from literary stories to historical accounts of little known people and events. Eric treats his listeners to the unexpected through the spoken word.