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November Guild Show
7:30 pm Saturday, November 9th
It's Time for Tellabration!™ -
an evening when storytellers across the world entertain audiences with exciting tales.
In Portland, Oregon, The Portland Storytellers’ Guild will host Tellabration!™ for the local community. Featuring 7 of Portland’s finest storytellers.
Our tellers will be:
Will Hornyak, Barb Fankhauser, Rick Huddle, Juliana Person, Ken Iverson, Janice Alexander, and Eric Foxman.
About the tellers:
Will Hornyak
From Russian fairytales and Irish myths to Mexican folktales and Oregon tall tales, storyteller Will Hornyak weaves together a wide variety of oral traditions into spellbinding, thoughtful, well-crafted performances.
Barb Fankhauser
Barbara has been telling stories with the Portland Storytellers Guild since 1989. She delights in 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. Although, spicing up a traditional story isn’t out of the question, either.
Rick Huddle
This is what you get when you let a chemist marry a clown. Rick Huddle is known for his vulnerability, humor, physicality, and presence. His stories expose the tender, laughable and, at times, outrageous collision of inner psyche versus personal relationships. With a background in engineering, theater, improvisation, dance, and music, his work intrigues the mind and touches the heart. He enjoys relating his high-school foibles to adults as much as he likes singing songs about misunderstood midges to grade school students.
Juliana Person
No one was more surprised than Juliana Person herself when she made her storytelling debut by being selected from the audience to tell a 5-minute story during the intermission of a Portland Storytellers Guild show back in 2017. She was instantly hooked and has been eagerly seeking out storytelling opportunities ever since, largely favoring personal tales. Juliana lives in Newberg Oregon with her husband, their one human roommate, and two cat overlords.
Ken Iverson
Ken Iverson entered the Air Force at age 17. Like Cinderella he was trying to escape from an evil step-parent (it worked!). Ken loves how a story can be a bridge, bringing people together. He’s a founding member of the Portland Storytellers’ Guild and is currently it’s President. He began telling stories when postage stamps cost 4 cents! More info at: www.keniverson.com.
Janice Alexander
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, probably not.)
Eric Foxman
Eric Foxman has told stories on both coasts, in Texas, New England, in eastern and western Canada, as well as England and Germany. Eric will share a little known tale out of our Southwest Native heritage.