Story Club Minneapolis is a live monthly storytelling show featuring both an open mic segment and a curated set of performers from all over the Twin Cities arts scene and beyond. Story Club showcases true, autobiographical stories -- especially stories that are bold, vulnerable, unexpected, and connected to the complexity of our cultural environment. No two Story Club evenings are ever alike, but each month when we wrap up the show, we feel like we’ve witnessed a new, unique little community coming together.
So! Starting at 6pm, audience members are invited to put their names in the hat for the opportunity to tell an up-to-7-minute story onstage (Requirements? Has to be a story, has to be true, has to be about you!). When the show begins at 7, three or four tellers are drawn at random to perform, and they'll be followed by our featured guests. Does this make you want to tell a story? GOOD! (Do it! Do it! Do it!)
Tickets are on a sliding scale from $8 - $15, and are available at the Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater door, or by phone:
(612) 825-8949
or in advance online:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4415211
Story Club’s host and producer is actor/writer Amy Salloway! She’s the creator of the award-winning autobiographical touring solo plays Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?, So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!, and Circumference, as well as the two-person show Entwined. She’s contributed true personal stories to programs on MPR and CBC, and has been both a storyteller and story coach for the hit national podcast RISK! You can take memoir and creative writing classes from Amy through Minneapolis Community Education, and storytelling workshops through The Story Studio. Find out more at Amy’s Facebook page Awkward Moment Productions.
November’s featured performers are Gabriela Santiago and Roy Taylor!
Gabriela Santiago is a writer, performer, and one of the people of color destroying science fiction and horror in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! and People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror! (Available at www.destroysf.com!) Her work has also appeared in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Glittership, Clarkesworld, and other publications. She has performed in the past with Patrick's Cabaret, Raw Sugar and Story Club Minneapolis, and can often be found at OUTspoken. Her Twitter handle is @LifeOnEarth89.
Roy Taylor, Jr. is an actor, broadcaster, playwright, storyteller, voice-over talent, and public speaker. He focuses on any and all opportunities to express the authentic North American Indigenous voice in the performing arts, media and larger community.
Roy has acted with New Native Theatre, Turtle Island Collective, Indigenous Direction and the Northern Spark Festival, and has appeared in productions at Gremlin Theatre and the Guthrie. He hosts and produces a weekly Native radio broadcast program, “INDIGENEITY RISING”, on KFAI - Fresh Air Community Radio - 90.3 FM HD, and contributes to other Native radio programming around the nation. Roy is an enrolled citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, Wolf Band and Pumpkin Vine Clan, and has Choctaw descendency as well. Taylor is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, and resides in Minneapolis.
Doors open at 6:00pm.