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2009 Festival Events
Storytelling month kick-off events
Monday, October 26, 2009
Things That Go Bump with Anne Rutherford (pdf)
6:30–7:30 p.m.
Hollywood Library
Served by TriMet
Take a walk on the spooky side! Enjoy a show of chillers and thrillers told with ghoulish gusto by master storyteller Anne Rutherford. Anne mixes original and vintage horror tales with spooky songs to tingle your spine and tickle your funny bone. Read about Anne Rutherford.
Recommended for ages 10 and up.
Admission is FREE, but space is limited. Tickets will be given out 30 minutes before the event is scheduled to begin.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Things That Go Bump with Anne Rutherford (pdf)
6:30–7:30 p.m.
Hillsdale Library
Served by TriMet
Take a walk on the spooky side! Enjoy a show of chillers and thrillers told with ghoulish gusto by master storyteller Anne Rutherford. Anne mixes original and vintage horror tales with spooky songs to tingle your spine and tickle your funny bone. Read about Anne Rutherford.
Recommended for ages 10 and up.
Admission is FREE, but space is limited. Tickets will be given out 30 minutes before the event is scheduled to begin.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
This Oregon Life: Stories About Your Oregon Experience (pdf)
1–2 p.m.
Central Library, U.S. Bank Room
Served by TriMet
Featuring the Portland Storytellers Guild.
What is your Oregon story? Whether you are new here or your family has lived here for generations, come and share stories about your Oregon experience.
Join us to hear stories and tell your own. Of course you can just show up to listen, but it's much more fun when you participate! Please keep stories to 5 minutes; no reading or performing; think "beginning, middle, end."
Recommended for teens and adults.
Admission is FREE, but space is limited. Tickets will be given out 30 minutes before the event is scheduled to begin.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Cringe Down Memory Lane (pdf)
6:30–7:30 p.m.
Hollywood Library
Served by TriMet
What were you thinking?! Dig up your agonizing old love letters, angst-ridden diatry entries, school essays, yearbooks and more to read out loud. Share memories from your teens and twenties–the more embarrassing, the better.
Five minute maximum.
Recommended for adults.
Admission is FREE, but space is limited. Tickets will be given out 30 minutes before the event is scheduled to begin.
Festival events
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Tales of Wonder and Wisdom: An Evening with Rafe Martin (pdf)
6:30–7:30 p.m.
Hillsdale Library
Served by TriMet
An author and a storyteller, Rafe Martin draws on a range of stories that delve deeply into myth and the mysterious realms of the imagination. His stories draw from complex and evocative Irish love tales and myths, original tales of the Animal Dreaming, stories of the Buddhist tradition, eerie Japanese ghostly tales as well as powerful Native American narratives. Join Rafe for an evening of insight and suprises–expect laughter, magic, mystery, love, anguish, and vivid exploration. Read about Rafe Martin.
Recommended for teens and adults.
Admission is FREE, but space is limited. Tickets will be given out 30 minutes before the event is scheduled to begin.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Southern Air: An evening with Donald Davis (pdf)
7 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Mittleman Jewish Community Center
6651 SW Capitol Highway, Portland, OR 97219
Served by TriMet
Donald Davis was born in a Southern Appalachian mountain world rich in stories. He grew up hearing gentle fairy tales, simple and silly Jack tales, scary mountain lore, ancient Welsh and Scottish folktales and nourishing true-to-life stories of his own neighbors and kin. For Donald, a reitred Methodist minister, storytelling is a way of giving and living life. A review in the Wilson Library Bulletin says Donald's performances are "...absolutely hilarious and unpredictable as well as emotionally reviving." For Donald Davis storytelling "...is not what I do for a living...it is how I do all that I do while I am living." Read about Donald Davis.
Recommended for teens and adults.
Admission: $10
Tickets on sale beginning October 15 at Belmont, Central, Hillsdale, Hollywood, and Midland libraries; Library Administration; Annie Bloom's Books; and at the door. To order tickets by mail or for more information, call 503.988.5402.
Friday, November 20, 2009
The Next Best Thing: An Evening with Antonio Sacre (pdf)
7 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Laurelhurst Club
3721 SE Ankeny St. Portland, Oregon 97214
Served by TriMet
Antonio Sacre, an award-winning solo performer, storyteller and author, delights audiences with touching and humorous bilingual stories, as well as challenging solo theatrical performances.
Using four stories, three characters, two languages and one flip chart, Sacre delves into the rich territory of his Cuban and Irish upbringing to uncover all of the answers to life's greatest mysteries: Why does every family have one crazy uncle, and how does he fit one million baseball cards in his bedroom? How can the Cuban art of seducing a woman help your love life? Is there ever a proper time and place to use the phrase, "Tally Ho?" How much gold is there in the world, anyway? If you can't have all you ever dreamed of, what is the next best thing? Read about Antonio Sacre.
This performance contains adult content and language. Recommended for adults.
Admission: $10
Tickets on sale beginning October 15 at Belmont, Central, Hillsdale, Hollywood, and Midland libraries; Library Administration; Annie Bloom's Books; and at the door. To order tickets by mail or for more information, call 503.988.5402.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Family Matinees
Recommended for ages 5 and up.
Admission is FREE, but space is limited. Tickets will be given out 30 minutes before the event is scheduled to begin.
11 a.m.
Will Hornyak (pdf) at Hillsdale Library
Antonio Sacre (pdf) at Sellwood-Moreland Library
Donald Davis (pdf) at Central Library
Eth-Noh-Tec (pdf) at North Portland Library
2 p.m.
Anne Rutherford (pdf) at Northwest Library
Will Hornyak (pdf) at Midland Library
Antonio Sacre (pdf) at Hollywood Library
Donald Davis (pdf) at Gresham Library
Eth-Noh-Tec (pdf) at Holgate Library
3:30 p.m.
Anne Rutherford (pdf) at Belmont Library
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Tapestry of Tales Tellabration and Finale
7 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
First Unitarian Church
1011 SW 12th Ave., Portland, Oregon
Served by TriMet
Communities around the world gather on the same day to listen and share stories in Tellabration. Come celebrate a world of stories with Donald Davis, Eth-Noh-Tec and Antonio Sacre.
This performance will have sign language interpreters.
Recommended for ages 8 and up.
Admission is FREE.