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Portland Storytellers’ Guild: A Rug, An Arm, and A Scoundrel
November 6, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$10Stories exploring the unexpected.
Wink Harner
A multilingual transplant from Arizona, Wink Harner performs in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English with some Quechua and Nahautl thrown in. First a professor of languages, she is now a professor of adaptive technology, a trombonist, and a storyteller who studied with the South Mountain CC Storytelling institute in Phoenix. Wink crafts all types of stories but favors those with humorous twists or flat out lies.
Edward Hershey
Edward Hershey draws a stories from a bi-coastal life and career in sports writing, news reporting, municipal government, higher education, with stints as an antiques columnist, author of books on baseball and police hostage negotiation, theater president, basketball announcer, and, for 44 years, a mainstay of the George Polk Awards in journalism. His memoir, “The Scorekeeper,” was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award.
Brian Rohr
Brian Rohr (brianrohr.com) is a professional storyteller who has taught and performed at major conferences, festivals, high schools, universities, synagogues and libraries throughout the country. Brian often focuses on the old stories -the myths, folktales, and fairy tales- that can inform us on how to live our lives, helping to make sense and meaning of our own living world.