SAT JUNE 15 / Burnside POWELL’S BOOKS / DOORS 6:00 — SHOW 7:00 — ALMOST SOLD OUT
Hosted & Produced by FRAYN MASTERS & BRIAN S. ELLIS / Music by CHAACH!
BACKFENCE is partnering with Powell's Books during the first ever BOOK WEEK!
We're closing down the Pearl Room to bring you a storytelling event featuring luminous Portlanders telling 8-10 minute true stories based on the theme MISTAKES WERE MADE! There will be a bar with NA cocktails from FOR BITTER FOR WORSE, Full A spirits from NEW DEAL distillery, and other delightful liquids.
STORYTELLERS:
Returning hilarious heartbreakers and audience faves JASON ROUSE Actor, Teacher, Writer and all around sweet person will tell a duo story with COURTENAY HAMEISTER Former host of Live Wire! author of ‘Okay, Fine, Whatever’ and this beautiful and moving Modern Love piece.
GABI DIXSON 5th Strongest Woman in the WORLD (2021-2023),7x World Record holder (grip specialist!), Social Worker, and Wildfang model. Watch this incredible feat of strength, Gabi holding up two columns. Like big, giant, Grecian columns!
ANDREW DICKSON is a host of The Moth, and the author of the book ‘Me & My Family & Me’. You can read more about the book and Andrew in this great OPB piece!
KEVIN MALONEY the author of ‘The Red-Headed Pilgrim’ and ‘Cult of Loretta’. A web developer who’s spent some past hours working as a TJ Maxx associate, organic farmer, electrician, high school English teacher, and teddy bear salesman.
BRIANNA WHEELER is an arts & culture writer in Portland, an avid roadtripper, semi-confident roller skater, novice seamstress, and mother. Her first book, a memoir about identity inheritance & the raid that started the Civil War, ‘Altogether Different’ was published by Korza Books in 2023
EVERYONE WHO BUYS A TICKET RECEIVE 15% OFF BOOKS FOR THE EVENING of THE SHOW!
VIP FOLKS GET RESERVED SEATING IN FRONT ROWS, A TREAT, AN NA COCKTAIL COURTESY OF FOR BITTER FOR WORSE & MORE SWEET THINGS FROM SPONSORS!
For ADA and Arts for All seating email info@backfencepdx.com