Doors open at 6:00pm.

Venue website: http://www.bryantlakebowl.com/theater/
Venue phone: 612-825-8949
Event website: https://www.facebook.com/StoryClubMinneapolis/

Tickets are on a sliding scale from $8 - $15, and are available at the door, or by phone: (612) 825-8949 or in advance online: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4330414

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!)

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 Ed, and storytelling workshops through The Story Studio. Find out more at Amy’s Facebook page Awkward Moment Productions..

October's featured performers are Jodie Arnold and Deborah Frethem!

Jodie Arnold just graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire with her Master of Arts in Creative Writing. She writes plays, creative non-fiction, radio dramas and poetry, and has been published in Volume One, Twig, Nourrir Magazine, and NOTA. When she’s not writing, she’s co-hosting a podcast (Tell Me Something Weird, which you can find here, on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/doomsday-murder-cult), hosting a TV show (WisWomen, right here: https://www.facebook.com/wiswomentv/), and drawing comics.

Deborah Frethem has been a professional storyteller for over twenty years, both here in Minnesota and in Florida. She is the author of three books of historical ghost stories, Ghost Stories of Pinellas County, Haunted Tampa, and Haunted Ybor City. She has been a featured teller for True Stories of St. Petersburg, Wordier Than Thou Literary Group, The Tampa Bay Storytellers Guild, The Tampa Theatre, and Florida Story Fest. Here in Minnesota, she tells tales of gangsters and ghosts for the Wabasha Street Caves. You can see more of what she does on Facebook at “Deborah Frethem, Historian & Author.”