Story Concerts & Fringe Performances
CONCERTS
Friday Concert – 7:00pm
Featured Tellers:
Michael Parent
Barb Schutzgruber
Yvonne Healy
Rachel Nelson
Kevin Strauss
Emceed by Dick Strader
Saturday Concert – 7:00pm
Featured Tellers:
Pat Coffie
Terry Visger
Mary Lu Bretsch
Joe Jekot
Gwyn Calvetti
Emceed by Karen Czarnik
Sunday Concert – 10:45am
Don Falkos
Carol Kerman
Ellouise Schoettler
Clare Norelle
Meg Gilman
Emceed by Sue Black
FRINGE PERFORMANCES
Thursday – 8:45pm
Don Falkos
Life Sucks: Stories of Who I Am
It all started with Mama's vacuum cleaner and my obsession with Lost in Space – "Danger, Will Robinson!" Mama yelled, "Quit playin' with the Electrolux!" Life was never the same.
Content warning: mild profanity (very mild)
Friday – 8:45pm
Greg Weiss
I Cook, therefore I Eat
Where Art and Food and Philosophy converge...culinary controversy, a cook & tell exposé, unearthing an age-old conspiracy of global proportions...an adventure for the appetite. Come hungry.
Category: Adult; Content warning: Possible Adult Subject Matter & Language
Clare Norelle
Explorations in the borderlands between white and black
stories, rumination, poetic meanderings and an occasional song weaving through the strange terrain of race in America.
Category: adult; no content warnings
Friday – 10:00pm
Patricia Coffie
Keep on Dancing
Dancing through life literally and figuratively--courtships, consummations, and continuations.
Adult/Challenging subject matter. Sexually suggestive but not explicit and no profanity.
Mark Steidl
A Fairy Tale Life
Life events, large and small, are cast in the frame of folk and fairy tales.
Content warning: Adult subject matter
Saturday – 8:45pm
Mary Schmidt
Playing Dress-Up: The Stories and Clothes of Our Lives
You are never too old to play dress-up. Come share the fashions you loved or the fad you would rather forget. Clothes talk. We need to listen, laugh, and learn.
Category: Adult Children of Thrift Store/Rummage Sale/Hand-Me-Down/Bargain Basement/Second-Hand Shopaholics are encouraged to attend.
Content Warnings:
1. Room may smell of old wool and mothballs.
2. Spontaneous tag sale may take place ˆ cash only.
3. P.U.G. is encouraged by not required (Proper Under Garments).
4. Special counseling available for Glamour Don‚t Survivors or Former Fashion Victims (i.e. men who wore leisure suits and the women who loved them).
Joe Jekot
Tales My Father Never Told Me
The performance portrays the adventure of a father finding his own character of manhood through the challenge of raising his son(s). It covers the trials and tribulations of the father/son relationship, as well as the meaningful rites of passage.
Content warning: No foul language.
Saturday – 10:00pm
Michael Parent
"A Beautiful Game" The Mostly True Story of My Connection to the Game of Hockey
Hockey, mill-town culture, father-son issues, religion and sports. Memorable characters -- Michael's Ma and Pa, sportscaster Fred, and factory worker Gaston, who bet whole paychecks on hockey games.
For: Adult and Teens. Content warning: None
Rachel Nelson
Living the Questions
Welcome to the Cabaret of Questions – songs, stories, and poems butt up against questions both personal and political. An experiment combining story, music, and movement. Final questions up to you.
Category: Adult