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Performances

Storytelling – A vibrant Art

Current  Season in Production

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Around the Hearth Fire!
The Mouse At The Manger and Other Christmas Stories
New Frontiers- Fertile Ground for Stories
Teens - Imagine What They Can Do
Two Honest Guys...and One Liar
Planes & Boats &Trains
Finding Your Way
Wisconsin Wonders
Journeys_ Real and Imagined

 Guild shows only $15

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All live shows will be at the Artichoke Cafe, 2007 SE Powell, in Portland.

Enjoy our monthly First Saturday Performances and our PSG EXTRA shows highlighting a single teller. All registrants for the virtual January show and the Guild Extra shows will get an email the day after the performance with a link to watch the recording during the following week.  This is a bonus second chance, or if you missed the evening, you get to enjoy the stories at your leisure.

Want to tell a story? Improve your craft?

Check out our story swaps and workshops

Our plan is for story swaps, workshops and most shows to be live.

All Guild Extra shows will be virtual using zoom

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Brick Fireplace

7:30 pm Saturday, Dec. 9th
Live at the Artichoke Cafe

AROUND THE HEARTH FIRE!

What better place to meet with family and friends, as the clock embraces the winter nights? Humankind has met here since the beginning, telling stories and myths to dream on, stiffen our resolve, and melt our hearts.

December

Tellers: Trish Anderson, Brian Rhor, and John Wylder
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5 pm Saturday, Dec. 16th    Guild EXTRA Show
Virtual Performance on zoom

THE MOUSE AT THE MANAGER
&
OTHER STORIES OF CHRISTMAS

Storyteller Ken Iverson tells his original story, The Mouse At The Manger, a retelling of the Nativity story, along with other of his favorite stories of Christmas to prepare us for our Christmas celebrations.

December

Teller: Ken Iverson
Artichoke
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5 pm Saturday, Jan. 13th
Virtual Show on Zoom

NEW FRONTIERS:
Fertile Ground for Stories

Four Portland Guild Members who tell stories nationwide as professional storytellers meet via the magic of the internet. From Alaska, Georgia, and Oregon,  they will regale you with stories of limitless bounty!

January

Tellers: Chetter Galloway, Ingrid Nixon, Anne Rutherford, and Norm Brecke.
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5 pm Saturday, Jan. 20th   Guild EXTRA Show
Virtual Performance on zoom

TEENS – IMAGINE WHAT THEY CAN DO

From folk lore to recent history, teens will find themselves in life-changing circumstances you’d never expect.  And they get through those situations in ways that will surprise you. If you have ever wondered why we don’t go directly from childhood to adulthood, these stories will help you answer that burning philosophical question. 

January

Teller: Eric Foxman
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7:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 10th
Live at the Artichoke Cafe

TWO HONEST GUYS and ONE LIAR

When does truth become a lie and a lie, truth? Six stories of childhood adventures, travels in Alaska, and the puzzles and absurdities of the modern working life will make an evening of truth, wonder, and ...well....

February

Tellers: Alton Takiyama-Chung, Chuck McConnell, 
and Mike Devenney
Artichoke
Anne Penfound Storyteller

5 pm Saturday, Feb. 17th GUILD EXTRA Show
Virtual Performance on zoom

PLANES & BOATS & TRAINS
Stories from Pockets of Time. Episode #2

Sailing a boat on the seven seas, riding the rails along the coast of Italy, flying the airways home and back again, are all ways to move from one point in time to another.         

Travel can be an adventure, a necessity, a revelation. It is often an exhausting, exhilarating, infuriating mix of emotions.

February

Tellers: Anne Penfound and special guest Maura Doherty
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Rustic Metal Structure

7:30 pm Saturday, Mar. 9th
Live at the Artichoke Cafe

FINDING YOUR WAY

Sometimes we turn away from our own best intentions. Other times we must step off the path that everyone expects of us. Occasionally, we find unexpected redemption. And sometimes we discover that we’re just not as smart as we thought.

March

Tellers: Steven Henegar, Kriya Kaping, and Ken Iverson

Live link now available!

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5 pm Saturday, Mar. 16th  Guild EXTRA Show
Virtual Performance on zoom

WISCONSIN WONDERS
Tales from the Badger State

An evening of captivating stories ranging from remote, small town Hayward to urban Milwaukie.

March

Teller: Patrick Gannon
Register

Link not yet available.

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Forest Road

7:30 pm Saturday, Apr. 13th
Live at the Artichoke Cafe

JOURNEYS – REAL AND IMAGINED

Journeys can take us into darkness.  And bring us back out again.

April

Tellers: Eric Foxman,Rick Huddle, and Valentina Ortiz
Register

Link not yet available.

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5 pm Saturday, Apr. 20th  Guild EXTRA Show
Virtual Performance on zoom

To be announced....

Details coming soon

April

Teller: Mike Devenney
Register

Link not yet available.

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7:30 pm Saturday, May 11th
Live at the Artichoke Cafe

THE CRONES PRESENT
Winking at Life’s Challenges

Who knows how to handle the silly, serious, bizarre, or bawdy challenges that life throws at us better that those who have survived them --and lived to tell the tales?

May

Tellers: Pam Maben, Julie Strozyk, Barb Fankhauser, and
Anne Penfound
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Link not yet available.

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5 pm Saturday, May 18th  Guild EXTRA Show
Virtual Performance on zoom

To be announced....

Details coming soon

May

Teller: Alton Chung:
Register

Link not yet available.

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7:30 pm Saturday, June ?
Live at the Artichoke Cafe

FESTIVAL of STORIES
more to be announced....

Details coming soon

June

Tellers:
Register

Link not yet available.

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