Next Month’s Theme: Back to the Future

Tuesday, April 8, 7p Manuel’s Tavern

2025. If you've been around long enough, it feels like a Jetsons year. Already 10 years past the year Michael J. Fox jumped forward into the future. Where is my hoverboard?

In personal storytelling, though, we have the ability to time travel in all sorts of ways. Storytelling guru has this famous trope where he addresses audiences by forecasting he might be about to make a bad decision: "I know. I'm in the future too."

So, tell us about a time, if you could go back and do it all differently, what might have turned out differently? Hit us with your sliding doors, lost loves, and missed opportunities that you've always wondered about.

Alternatively, what are your stories that really only work because of how technology and life were different back then? Did you and your best friend get lost because there was no GPS? Were you stuck in Hungary with only a payphone and no calling card? Did you lose out on a veritable fortune because your mom threw out your baseball cards or comic book collection?

We'll be sitting quite squarely in the present with you at Manuel’s Tavern on Tuesday, May 13 at 7p, as we always do on second Tuesdays of the month. Come down early to order up some grub, and fellowship with other 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.