Next Month’s Theme:

I Wanna Be Sedated

Tuesday, June 10, 7p Manuel’s Tavern

Hoo boy. Plenty reasons these days to want to check out. Seems everywhere you look people have their heads in their phones, self-soothing. Alternatively, if rage is not assuaged, it’s coming out in all sorts of unfortunate ways. Do you wish someone would just put you on an airplane. Do you just wanna be sedated?

Tell us about a time you or someone you knew got the happy juice. Did you go all in on Tetris until 2 a.m. for weeks on end until your family had to have an intervention? Did you lose someone to a cult, to Amway, to a highly immersive role playing game? Perhaps you had an epic wisdom tooth experience and then find yourself walking naked down the aisle of a grocery store.

Perhaps you were just a zombie at work walking through a dull life, until suddenly you took a baseball bat to the printer.

We wanna hear your tales of being put to sleep and wake-up calls, of long slogs and harsh realities, of college bongs and unexpected epiphanies.

Whatever your journey, we'll be wide-eyed, waiting for you at Manuel’s Tavern, Tuesday, June 10 at 7p, a delightful routine on second Tuesdays of the month. Come down early for some enlivening food & such, to hang out with other fellow story connoisseurs.

As a reminder, there’s never any pressure to tell a story. We adore story listeners and storytellers alike.

STORYTELLING TIPS:

Find the change in your story. In her show stopper, “Defying Gravity,” Elphaba sings, “something has changed in me.” A story is not a story unless some change has occurred. What's changed in you as the narrator, the circumstances, or the environment? If nothing changes, then it might just be an anecdote. Find the change in your story. As such, every story you tell brings change into the world.