Performances

Great Green Families: Interactive Storytelling for the Whole Family
at the Minnesota State Fair
Sept 1 and 2, 11am

Open up your imagination as Storyteller Katie Knutson brings you and your family on an interactive, earth-friendly journey. Meet a variety of characters who help and hurt our world, and learn simple things kids and adults can do to help. Minnesota State Fair Eco Experience Stage at 9:30 am on Wed, Sept 1 and at 11:00 am on Thurs, Sept 2, 2010. State Fair admission applies. http://www.mnstatefair.org/

P.J. Stories
Thursday, Sept. 2, 6:30-7:30
Coffee Grounds Coffee Shop
1579 Hamline Ave., St. Paul,

We can’t promise that you will learn to walk like an Egyptian, but storyteller David Zander will introduce you to the fascinating Egyptian culture through story. Join us at the Coffee Grounds as we journey to Egypt.

Cheap Theatre:
“Brains”
Saturday, Sept. 19 at 7:30pm

Black Forest Inn, Festsaal banquet space
9 East 26th St., Minneapolis
Ticket price is $10
Reservations: 612-870-6583 or from performers.
Cheap 2010 Season Pass just $55 (transferable)
Admission includes a beverage

Storytelling by Carol McCormick
“I Love the Fall!”
September 30, at noon

Edinborough Park
7700 York Avenue South, Edina 55435

Stories and songs for preschoolers and their chaperones

St. Croix Story Slams
September 23-26

Move over Moth and Windy City. We’re Taking It to the River.

You get to tell your original, personal story at any of the three venues below.

The topic: The Power of Place.

Five minute time limit. A $50 gift certificate for food or drinks to the winner at each qualifying location. Finalists move on to a Sunday evening slam-off at the Festival Theatre in St. Croix Falls. $100 cash prize to Sunday’s winner. For more information go: www.artreachstcroix.org.

Pick your St. Croix Stage—

Thursday, September 23rd, 8:00pm
The Freight House
Stillwater
$50 Prize

Friday, September 24th, 7:30pm
Tippy Canoes
Osceola
$50 Prize

Friday, September 24th, 8:00pm
Green Mill
Hastings
$50 Prize

Winners Show Down—
The winners from the bars go to the boat

Sunday Evening, 9/26, 6:30pm
Aboard the Taylors Falls Princess paddleboat
$100 Prize

Cheap Theatre:
“Babel”
Saturday, Oct. 16 at 7:30pm

Black Forest Inn, Festsaal banquet space
9 East 26th St., Minneapolis
Ticket price is $10
Reservations: 612-870-6583 or from performers.
Cheap 2010 Season Pass just $55 (transferable)
Admission includes a beverage

Yellow Kings and Darker Things
Thursday-Saturday, October 28-30, 7:30pm
People’s Center Theater
425 20th Avenue South, Minneapolis

Celebrate this Halloween season in a double-bill of spine-tingling tales from two of the Twin Cities’ masters of the macabre!

Death and the deathless. Dragon shadows. Wolf dreams and time machines. Your biological clock is ticking, and founding Rockstar Storyteller phillip low has plenty to say about it in this cabaret of macabre sketches and stories. Quantum Suicide and Other Songs of Death: fondly dedicated to everyone who is dying. Especially you.

WARNING: This show contains profanity.

It is said that the play The King in Yellow is a strange story of such decayed debauchery, that those who read its virulent pages will fall to insanity. Welcome to a futuristic version of 1920 that never came to pass, a cold desolate world imagined by Robert W. Chambers in 1895. Unhappy with this world? Never fear, a Lethal Chamber has just been opened at Washington Square for your suicidal convenience. Tim Uren creates a new adaptation of The Repairer of Reputations.

Cheap Theatre:
“Evangelism”
Saturday, Nov. 20 at 7:30pm

Black Forest Inn, Festsaal banquet space
9 East 26th St., Minneapolis
Ticket price is $10
Reservations: 612-870-6583 or from performers.
Cheap 2010 Season Pass just $55 (transferable)
Admission includes a beverage

Cheap Theatre:
“Distracted”
Saturday, Dec. 18 at 7:30pm

Black Forest Inn, Festsaal banquet space
9 East 26th St., Minneapolis
Ticket price is $10
Reservations: 612-870-6583 or from performers.
Cheap 2010 Season Pass just $55 (transferable)
Admission includes a beverage

Folktales Rising
Fourth Tuesday of every month
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
The Book House
429 SE 14th Avenue

Interested in telling folktales? Interested in listening to them? Join us at The Book House in Minneapolis legendary Dinkytown for an evening of telling and listening to stories that have survived the ages and yet remain relevant today. The group meets in the lower level of The Book House, 429 SE 14th Avenue, on the fourth Tuesday of each month from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Facilitation by Dorothy Cleveland, storyteller, MN State Liaison for the National Storytelling Network, and member of Northstar Storytelling League. Our first meeting is scheduled for April 27, 2010. This group is free and open to the public and is geared towards UM students and adults. It is the first of several collaborations between The Book House in Dinkytown and the storytelling community. Want more information? Email ourbookhouseindinkytown@gmail.com or call The Book House at 612-331-1430.