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Please Remember: If you have not had the chance to view a particular performer yourself, we highly recommend that you ask for references and speak to other libraries about the quality and type of performance you can expect from that performer. Libs-OR is typically a good place to ask for input from other Librarians. Last update: January 2009 Adam Miller Bonnie Messinger & Folksinging.org Emily Georges Gottfried P.O. Box 951 The Abalone Kidz Drain, OR 97435 th Telephone :650-804-2049 4648 SW 39 Dr. Portland OR 97221 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 503-768-9065/503-863-7700 Website: Folksinging.org Email: [email protected] Program description: “Singing Through History” Program description: Interactive, multicultural Folk Music Programs songs and stories Audience age level: All ages Audience age level :summer reading programs; Audience size: Any size audience pre-K programs; K-3; 4-6 grade programs; all- Length of performance: 45 – 60 minutes ages family shows Special needs: None Audience size: 1 to 1000 Travel range: Everglades to the Arctic Circle Length of performance: 45-60 min (shorter for Fee: $695 for one school assembly in Oregon, pre-K) $795 for two back-to-back school assemblies in Travel range: Portland-Vancouver Metro region Oregon, $350 for one presentation in a public Fee: $225 library in Oregon Additional costs: mileage beyond the metro area Additional costs: None @ $0.50/mi Seasonal availability: n/a Seasonal availability: open Will you do a single performance in a location? Will you do a single performance in a location? Yes yes

Addie Kay Boswell Actors in Action 3322 SE 68th Avenue Actors in Action, LLC Portland, OR 97206 323 NE Wygent St. Suite 203, Telephone: 503.317.9606 Portland, OR 97211 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 503-762-2911 Website: www.addiekay.com Fax: 503-762-3918 Program description: Author Visit: Reading of the Email : [email protected] book “The Rain Stomper” Website : www.actorsinaction.com includes audience involvement, as the kids help Program description: Interactive Theatre make the thunderstorm. The presentation Audience age level: 4-12 includes information about where ideas come Audience size: under 300 from and how books are made (with book Length of performance: 45 minutes dummies for show!) The final half-hour is Special needs: none dedicated to a writing/drawing project as we Travel range : No range limitations (Travel fee channel our own “frustration” into great story may be applied) ideas. Fee: $250 Audience age level: 4-10 Additional costs: Travel Audience size: 10-30 (can do assembly-style for Seasonal availability: Any larger groups) Will you do a single performance in a location? Length of performance: 1 hour Yes Special needs: Will use a projector if available, otherwise tables and chairs Travel range: 200 miles (more based on travel conditions)

Performers Showcase 1 Fee: $250/presentation or $500/day (up to 4 Fee: $285 for one show within 50 miles of presentations to classrooms and groups) Portland, Oregon Additional costs: Travel fee at the rate of Additional costs: Negotiate travel expenses. $.25/mile Seasonal availability: Year round. Seasonal availability: Schedule is generally open! Will you do a single performance in a location? Will you do a single performance in a location? Yes. yes

Alex E Llumiquinga Al Hirsch Chayag Andean Folk Music Alleyoop 6545 B Ave 2853 21st Ave. W Otter Rock, OR 97369 Seattle, WA 98199 Telephone: 541-961-5186 Telephone: 206-283-3726 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.chayagfolk.com Website: www.alleyoop.us Program description: Spanish and english Program description: 1. Musical Games workshop. 2. The Real Toy Story ( a hands on Chayag dresses in traditional attire displaying the demonstration of ancient and historical toys) lively colors of the Latin and Andean world and Audience age level: Musical Games 2-10; The costumes and instruments. The 45 minute Real Toy Story 5-16 presentation incorporates an overview of history, Audience size: Musical Games 100+; The Real geography, culture and interesting facts about Toy Story 50 South and Latin America while delighting Length of performance: 45 minutes audiences with the interpretations of native Travel range: anywhere in the US Andean Latin tunes. It is interspersed with songs Fee: $350 and dance, traditional story related in a lively Additional costs :travel expenses style and an informal discussion about the many Seasonal availability: all varied instruments that Chayag plays on stage. Will you do a single performance in a location? At the end of the performance Alex plays music yes and takes questions from the audience. On completion of the workshop children and adults have the chance to file past the instruments on Albert Alter their way out. They also get the hands on Albert Alter experience with a few allocated instruments like 5848 SE 18th Ave. "El Bombo" the drum, the goat nail percussive Portland, Oregon 97202 "Chajchas", flutes and rain sticks. Throughout the Telephone: 1-800-537-9772 or program, Chayag incorporates song and dances, 503-235-2415 (office) encouraging audience participation in the true 503-319-4883 (mobile) Andean tradition. Fax: 503-235-2415 Audience age level : Any Level Email: [email protected] Audience size: 10 to 200 Websit e: albertalter.com Length of performance: 30 to 45 Min. Program description: Two shows to offer- Special needs: Electricity, DVD 1. Zany character show featuring audience projector, 2 small tables and water. participation, juggling, mime, magic, object Travel range: 250 miles balancing and rolla bolla. Show can be followed Fee: $150 to $250 depending on distance. by a clown/ circus skills "play shop" -- for an Seasonal availability: From February 2009 additional fee. Will you do a single performance in a location? 2. Classic white-faced pantomime show Yes featuring audience participation. This show explains how stories are created and shared, what mime is, and how all performers use mime Alton W. Chung today. Audience also learns several mime P.O. Box 87931 techniques. Show can be followed by a mime Vancouver. WA 98687 "play shop" for additional fee. Telephone: (360)-882-3581 Audience age level: All ages but best if 4yr-104 Email: [email protected] yr. Website : www.altonchung.com Audience size: No limits. Program description: Storyteller Alton Chung Length of performance: 40-50 minutes grew up with the stories, superstitions, and magic Special needs : None of the Hawaiian Islands. This combined with his Travel range: Entire state. Japanese and Korean roots, gives him a unique perspective to tell cultural tales and personal

Performers Showcase 2 stories with a deep sense of reverence and Angel Ocasio authenticity. Not only does he breathe life into Angel Ocasio’s Comedy traditional Asian folktales with sensitivity and PO Box 820277 deep connection, but he can also touch into the Vancouver WA 98682 fire of ancient Hawaiian legends and tell them Telephone: (360) 260-8557 with passion and respect. Alton also enjoys Email: [email protected] telling true stories of the Japanese-Americans Website: www.angelocasio.com during WWII, but his true passion is telling ghost Program description: komedy 4 da kids is a very stories. Please see www.altonchung.com for funny and high energy one man variety act, detailed program and workshop descriptions. perfectly suited for family audiences. This Alton is an apprentice to Eth-Noh-Tec, and is the wonderfully interactive performance combines recipient of the 2005 J.J. Reneaux Emerging physical comedy, jokes, juggling, object Artist Award from the National Storytelling balancing and magic. Network (NSN). He has performed Available in Spanish & English. internationally. Audience age level: Open Audience age level: 4 - 104 Audience size: Open Audience size: Greater than 1 is usually preferred Length of performance: 45 Minutes Length of performance: Normally 45 minutes Special needs: Open space with wall (or books) Special needs: A public address system for large behind me. groups (over 200 ) Travel range: Open Travel range: Throughout the Pacific Northwest Fee: $300.00 per show. Fee: Call for quote. Workshops also available. Additional costs: Travel expenses may be added Additional costs: Travel Expenses and Lodging if traveling over 50 miles (negotiable). for overnight travel Seasonal availability: Open Seasonal availability: Available year round. Will you do a single performance in a location? Prefer not to perform on Tuesdays. Yes Will you do a single performance in a location? Yes. Anne-Louise Sterry 2017 North Forest Court Alseny Yansane & Andrea DiPalma Canby, Oregon 97013 Won Tan Nara Productions Telephone: (503)-720-6172 or 688 W. 4 th Avenue office (503)266-2442 Eugene, OR 97402 Email : [email protected] Telephone: 541.484.3111 (H), Website : www.anne-louise.com & 541.232.5471 (cell) www.auntlenasez.com Email : [email protected] Program description: Storytelling and Singing Website: www.wontanaraproductions.com Programs for all ages. Anne-Louise's web-site Program description: Experience the joy and lists descriptions of several different programs passion of West African culture through music, that are available. Specific topics for programs dance and song. Public performances, are welcome. Performances can feature Anne- educational demonstrations and workshops for Louise's alter ego Aunt Lena, and partner Bob on kids and adults, master classes and teacher nose flute and kazoo. trainings are available. Audience age level: All Audience age level: kids and adults of all ages Audience size: Limited only by location Audience size: any size Length of performance: 50-60 minutes Length of performance: 30-45 minutes Special needs: Sound system (tech. sheet Special needs: 2 standing microphones, one available) regular, one “shot gun” style microphone, Travel range: No limit amplified CD player, 2 chairs Fee: $350-$400 without arms, a private place to change and a Additional costs: Mileage outside of PDX Metro/ secure place to leave belongings during Accommodation for distant locations demonstrations. Seasonal availability All Year Travel range: can go 200 miles one way Will you do a single performance in a location? Fee: $350-$600 depending on location and Yes scope of event Additional costs: Travel fee Seasonal availability: all seasons, excepting Dec Anne Penfound 1st 2008 - Jan 5 th , 2009 Anne Penfound, Will you do a single performance in a location? Storytelling by Word of Mouth Yes. Multiple bookings are 523 NE Hazelfern Place preferable and are given price breaks. Portland, OR 97232

Performers Showcase 3 Telephone: 503-238-1203 Betsy Stern Email: [email protected] Betsy Stern Kids’ Music Website: See www.portlandstorytellers.org , 6331 Fairmount Avenue #7, www.ya-or.org El Cerrito, CA 94530 Program description: Interactive storytelling Telephone: (510) 684-2295 program, featuring stories in the oral tradition, Fax: (510) 263-5613 poems and songs. Programs include Email: [email protected] multicultural folktales, fairy tales, myths, legends Website: and personal stories which follow a program http://www.betsysternkidsmusic.com theme. Tales are adapted for specific age Program description: Very fun and rhythmic ranges: children, youth, adults and seniors. music from around the world for children ages 0- Stories for the holidays, New Year, Earth Day. I 6 and their grown-ups. I grew up performing with can find the stories to fit your theme. Please call my dad, a pianist and composer, whose music for adult/senior performances, workshops for was published by Disney and used on Captain children or adult. Kangaroo. My dad passed onto me a huge Audience age level : 5 years – Senior citizen repertoire, from Jazz to Blues to World and to Audience size: 5-200 Children’s. I sing in several languages and play Length of performance: 30-60 minutes guitar, requinto, and double bass. I bring Travel range: Oregon, Washington and beyond percussion instruments for the children (and Fee: Please call or Email for current fees grown-ups) to play. I offer interactive programs Additional costs: Cost of craft materials if craft (see my web site) geared for younger children. required. Overnight stay if venue is over two The following program is specific to literacy for hours travel from home. children up to age 6: “ A, B, C, to Z: Especially for Seasonal availability: Year round younger children ,” interactive songs that teach Will you do a single performance in a location? letters, vowels, consonants, word recognition, Yes and reading. I recently released a CD and am on tour nationally this year. Audience age level : 0-6, plus grown-ups Anne Rutherford Audience size: Any Storylab NW, LLC Length of performance: 45 minutes 1014 SE Sherrett Special needs: Working, grounded electrical Portland Oregon, 97202 outlet within 10’ of flat stage or platform; 6' table Telephone: 503-235-2633 for instrument-building workshop. Email: [email protected] Travel range: I perform all over the United States Website: www.annerutherford.com Fee: $350 per show Program description: Anne Rutherford tells lively Additional costs: $2/head for the instrument- tales in interactive performances that fuel the building workshop (the child's grown-up must be imagination, using improv and music to engage present for this workshop) and entertain multi-age audiences. Some original Seasonal availability: Open characters Anne brings to life in her Will you do a single performance in a location? It performances include Clementine Ryder, wild- depends on whether I have other shows booked west adventuress, and Andromeda Quirk, star- in the area. ship captain from the Dewey Decimal System. Anne tells vintage and original stories and has a special love for tales from Oregon and Pacific Northwest history and folklore. Bill Mitchell Audience age level: 5 and up (family) bendmagic.com Audience size: Flexible (depending on size of 20962 Lava Flow Lane performance space) Bend, OR 97701 Length of performance: 45-50 min Phone : 541 350-7457 Travel range: Flexible (based in Portland) Email: [email protected] Fee: Contact Anne for rates. Multiple Website: bendmagic.com performance discount. Creative Program description: Way cool, totally awesome writing/drama workshops also available. magic with an emphasis on fun. Additional costs: Mileage (standard rate) Innovative, wacky props and routines with Seasonal availability: Available year round various books and characters woven into the (weather permitting) presentations. Can be themed Will you do a single performance in a location? ('Catch the Reading Bug', Christmas, Halloween, Yes etc.) or just a way cool, totally awesome magic show. Did I mention it's really, really fun? Audience age level: 3 - 103 Audience size: The more, the merrier

Performers Showcase 4 Length of performance: 45 minutes Length of performance : 30 min - 60 min Special needs: Chocolate, sweet nectar of the (depending on show) gods... Fee: $250 for 30min show; $400 for 60 min show Travel range: Oregon and SW Washington (shows include Q&A and meeting the puppets); Fee: $285.00 $150 per hour for workshops; $50 per hour for Additional costs: Travel expenses, depending on school residencies location Additional costs: May apply for travel Seasonal availability: Year round Seasonal availability: All year Single performance: Depends on location, Will you do a single performance in a location? some locations may require multiple bookings. Yes

Bob Eaton Celeste Rose Bob Eaton - Magician Oregon Fantasy Puppet Theatre 6105 SW 130th Ave. 820 E. 36 th Ave. Beaverton, OR 97008 Eugene, Or. 97405 Telephone : 503-643-2700 Telephone: 541-686-1574 Email: [email protected] Cell 541-543-6956 Program description: Magic show for all ages Email: [email protected] with lots of audience participation Program description: Marionette shows, humor, Audience age level: All ages charm, theme stories, music. Audience Audience size: Any size participation. Length of performance: 40 to 45 minutes Audience age level: Family Special needs: none Audience size: All sizes 30 to 300 Travel range: Anyplace Length of performance: 45 min. to 60 min. Fee: $100 in Beaverton-Portland metro area Special needs: Room to set up a 6’ by 8’ stage. Additional costs : Travel expenses 90 minutes to set up and prepare. Seasonal availability: All year Travel range: 100 miles for basic price. Further Will you do a single performance in a location? with $ for expense of gas. Yes Fee: $ 195. Second show same location same day is $50. Additional costs: Gas expenses. Bruce Orr Seasonal availability: Summer theme marionettes Mudeye Puppet Company from June to August 9615 N Kellogg Street Will you do a single performance in a location? Portland, OR 97203 Yes. Telephone: 503-805-0291 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Charles H Brown Jr. Website: www.mudeyepuppets.org The “Charlie Brown Comedy Program description: The Mudeye Puppet Juggling Show” Company is an educational puppetry arts 6205 NE Failing St. organization dedicated to providing esteem- Portland OR, 97213 building arts workshops, reducing waste, Telephone: (503)281-1039 encouraging creativity through use of reused Cell# (503)490-4417 materials and offering local communities with Fax: (503)281-1039 exciting puppet performances and parades. Email: [email protected] Current performances offered may be viewed in Website: amazama.com the "Programs" section of our website. In the Program description: A comedy juggling show summer of 2008 Mudeye created The that’s fun for the whole family! Insectlopedia Puppet Show for the "Catch the An array of fun and frivolous objects will take Reading Bug" theme for Multnomah County flight as you “Oooh” “Aaaah” and Libraries. All shows have puppets made from clap along. Be prepared to witness some feats reused and recycled materials, with a Q&A and you have never seen before! This program can "meet the puppets" opportunity at the end. We also be combined with the “Amazama Juggling do extensive work in Multnomah County and School” as a block booking with special rate other area schools as "artists-in-residence" and considerations. A great way for audiences to also offer puppet-making workshops. enjoy juggling from both sides! Contact us for Audience age level: Appropriate for all ages details. Audience size: Variable Audience age level: 3 to 103 (we have audio equipment to be able Audience size: 2 to 2000 to perform to large groups) Length of performance: 45 minutes

Performers Showcase 5 Special needs: A higher ceiling is nice but not objects and more to have a musical always needed experience together. Lots of singing, Travel range: Contact us for clapping and massaging the heart. Fee: $350.00 Audience age level: Infants to 5th grade Additional costs: Travel beyond 50 miles will Audience size: 200 require additional cost, each to be determined Length of performance: 45 minutes separately. Special needs: None Seasonal availability: All Travel range: Anywhere Will you do a single performance in a location? Fee: $325 Yes Seasonal availability: Anytime Will you do a single performance in a location? Yes Christopher Leebrick Christopher Leebrick Storytelling 1567 Holly St. Cinda Tilgner amd West Linn, OR 97068 Heather Overby Telephone: (503) 656-9567 Red Boot Duo Email: [email protected] P.O. Box 7 Website: www.allgoodstories.com Welches, OR 97067 Program description: Dynamic performance by Telephone: 503-622-4242 two-time national award-winning storyteller, Email: [email protected] Christopher Leebrick. Drawn from his large Website: www.cinda1.com multicultural repertoire, programs may include Program description: Musical world folk tales, original stories, narrative poetry, appreciation and educational for younger whoppers, and jump tales. Chris also sets the kids - oboe, guitar, harmonica and mood for many of his tales with insruments such shakers. A high energy duo uses their as the harmonica, the tambourine and the musical skills to educate and entertain the eastern cedar flute. Summer programs are young audiences and the adults, too. usually tailored to current summer reading Audience age level: 6 years and younger theme. (Winter holiday programs can include an Audience size: Any size acclaimed telling of “How the Grinch Stole Length of performance: 30 – 40 minutes Christmas”; other Dr. Seuss stories are available depending on children’s attention span in a program called “Celebrate Seuss”; fun Special needs: None spooky stories are available for children and Travel range: Anywhere teens in a program called “Chilly Willies!” ) Fee: $425 Audience age level: 4-104! Grown-ups enjoy the Additional costs: Travel costs if outside program as well. Portland area Audience size: Up to 500 Seasonal availability: Anytime Length of performance: Approx. 40 min. Will you do a single performance in a location ? Special needs: Performance area at least 10-15 Yes feet in diameter; 2 medium-sized tables (approx. card-table size); glass or bottle of water. Travel range: Throughout Oregon Gerardo Calderón and Fee: $200 (possible discounts for multiple shows Cindy Williams Gutiérrez on same day) The poetry and music of Ancient Mexico Additional costs: Travel and lodging fee: Case- PO BOX 1573 by-case basis. Beaverton, OR 97075 Seasonal availability: Year-round Telephone: 503-805-0914 Will you do a single performance in a location? Email: [email protected] Yes Program description: The Poetry and Music of Ancient Mexico - Join poet CindyWilliams Gutiérrez and musician Gerardo Calderón for a Cinda Tilgner journey to the spirit of ancient Mexico. Through a Nana Banana live performance of Aztec-styled poetry and P.O. Box 7 music, this collaborative presentation engages in Welches, OR 97067 a haunting dialogue with “the ones who have Telephone: 503-622-4242 gone before.” The presentation features a series Email: [email protected] of poems written in the mythic voices of Nahua Website: www.cinda1.com poet-princes and princesses accompanied by Program description: A musical Mexican indigenous music. Musical virtuoso entertainment and educational program Calderón performs Mesoamerican rhythms on using lots of rhythm instruments, found water drums, turtle shells and butterfly cocoon

Performers Showcase 6 rattles, and otherworldly melodies on clay flutes Telephone: (971) 570-8932 and wind whistles, to transform Cindy’s poems Fax: (503) 692-8957 into the “flower and song” of the ancients. Email: [email protected] Audience age level: All Ages Website: Under construction Audience size: Any size Program description: Interactive Length of performance : 1 Hour storytelling, creative endless stories, the Special needs: Two chairs and 1 table joy of improvisation and puppetry, a Travel range : All over Oregon and Washington chance to play with dreams and give life Fee: $300 to the inanimate. Additional costs: Travel expenses Audience age level: All Ages. Seasonal availability: Year round Audience size: All Sizes. For outdoors I Will you do a single performance in a location? need an outlet to connect the microphone. Yes I usually carry enough supplies for 25-30 puppets (including scissors, glue and decorations). In order to keep the same The Library Fairy ® price, for larger groups I ask the Hosts Super Showstoppers to provide some recycled materials: P.O. Box 11326 construction paper, old magazines, strings Burbank, CA 91510 etc. and additional adult HELP during Telephone: 310-650-2902 puppet-making time (if there are more Fax: 818-753-9315 than 20 children). Email : [email protected] Length of performance: A 45 minutes Show + 25 Website: www.thelibraryfairy.com minutes Puppet/Craft-making. Program description: The Library Fairy ® flies Special needs: Lots of water and a table. from Los Angeles and Portland bringing with her Travel range: Oregon & Washington. a decade of experience entertaining children. Fee: Cost per show $150 She ignites the love of reading by performing For Libraries & Schools (3 shows) $400 stories in the lively folklore tradition, enchanting Additional costs: Gasoline if farther than 50 miles her audience with narration, chorus, music and from Tualatin, OR meals & hotel theatrical improvisation using an array of props, accommodations if staying overnight. humor and song. She also uses Spanish at times Seasonal availability: Weekdays and the first to tell her many delightful tales. Story Theater is a weekend every month. During summer, evenings highlight of the show as child volunteers help act only. out the some of the stories with fun props. “Be Will you do a single performance in a location? Creative @ Your Library” program features an Yes artful combination of interactive dance and music (drumming) in the stories that inspire creative expression. Miss Fairy’s new full-color children’s Colby Feves book THE MAGICAL TREE AND MUSICAL Radio Disney Portland AM 1640 WIND, integrates reading program theme with a 3030 SW Moody tale sharing the mystical musical language Portland, OR between two true friends in nature, and how they Telephone: 503-222-3866 create harmony. Meet the Author appearances Fax: 503-228-4325 too. Email: [email protected] Audience age level: Preschool- 5 th grade. Website: RadioDisney.com/Portland Audience size: Any Program description: We offer two types of Length of performance: 45 minutes programming: 1. An energetic and engaging Special needs: Small table and nearby outlet. blend of music, song, dance and games that can Travel range: Most areas in Oregon. also be informative. Fee: $250 - $525 (depending on if traveling from 2. A fun and relaxed environment for children to LA or Portland. read (or be read-to) where our talented Multiple shows will be discounted). performers make literature come alive. Seasonal availability: Shows and availability for Audience age level: Up to 14 all seasons. Audience size : Any Will you do a single performance in a location? Length of performance : 45 Mins-90 Mins Yes Special needs: a 20 X 20 space in which to move Travel range: Statewide Fee: Variable depending on programming needs Claudia Renata Osorio Seasonal availability: Year round The NEVER-ENDING Stories Will you do a single performance in a location? 8275 SW Seneca St. Yes Tualatin, OR 97062

Performers Showcase 7 a bronze medal in the International Juggling Association team competition, television appearances, and a feathered role at the Hershey Amusement Park. With Curtis’ Curt Nelson experience and ability to evaluate any audience Slightly Illusional he will customize his show to fit your event 1430 NW Highland Dr. perfectly. Corvallis OR 97330 Audience age level: The program is appropriate Telephone : 541-760-4839 for all ages. Email: [email protected] Audience size: Several hundred people. Website: www.slightlyillusional.com Length of performance: 30-45 minutes Program description: We are dedicated to helping Special needs: Electricity schools and libraries instill a passion for reading Travel range: Oregon and Washington. by presenting fun programs that encourage Fee: $275 reading. “Set Sail: A High Seas Adventure on the Additional costs: Mileage for travel past 75 mi. Creativity Cruise Line” from downtown Vancouver, WA. Ahoy, Mates! “Set Sail” is a high-seas adventure Seasonal availability: Available for booking all using books, magic tricks, puppets, story-telling year. and music. And the treasure we’re after is Will you do a single performance in a location? CREATIVITY! Where will we find it? Where all Yes great adventures start – THE LIBRARY! Some friends who will be joining us on this adventure include a hysterical hippo named Claudia, author Cwerks Interactive Theatre Roosevelt Rat, and everyone’s favorite magic Marian Scadden bunny, Trixie. Don’t get left on dry land – reserve P.O. Box 159 your date today! Dallas, OR 97338 Like all of ours programs, booking schools and Telephone: 503-999-1196 libraries will receive color posters to help promote Email: [email protected] the show and souvenir bookmarks for all the Website: www.cwerks.com children in attendance. Find out why all of our Program descriptions: (please see website for programs receive the same outstanding details on other shows) reactions. Especially for the 2009 Summer Reading Theme: Audience age level: Pre-K through 5th o Mime Loud and Clear. Audience Audience size: From 2 – 550 members learn techniques, act out a Length of performance: 45 – 55 minutes skit, and watch as the mime dons Special needs: None, I bring everything we make-up and performs. (Warning: need audience members generally exit Travel range: Oregon and Washington doing the mime wall; they just can’t Fee: See website. help themselves) Seasonal availability: All year • possibly available only in the Will you do a single performance in a location? afternoon and evening from Yes in certain areas – see website for details. June 22-July 24, 2009 o In the Spotlight. What does it take to be an actor? The actor in this Curtis Carlyle program coaches the audience in www.CurtShow.com several acting skills, puts some 112 w. 21st St #3 children “in the spotlight,” then Vancouver, Wa 98660 performs monologues, acts out a Telephone: 360 909 8753 story, and improvises with audience Email: [email protected] input. Website: www.CurtShow.com
Interactive Plays based on folk tales: Program description: With a style all his own, Puss in Boots, Paul Bunyan, Princess Curtis fuses world class juggling skills and fresh, on a Pea, Tortoise and the Hare, Jack innovative comedy. Curtis offers 10-60 minutes and the Beanstalk, Grasshopper and the of side-splitting comedy, juggling, and audience Ants participation. Curtis is perfect for community
Interactive Programs that combine events, fairs, and festivals. This award winning storytelling and performance: A to Zeus, juggler, snappy dresser, and witty comedian will Greek Mythology; Big Steps, American leave audiences of all ages awe struck and Tall Tales wanting more! Career highlights include Audience age level: about 3 – 12 (Performances thousands of comedy juggling shows, national fit Early Literacy) tours with Do Jump! Extremely Physical Theater,

Performers Showcase 8 Audience size: minimum—small; maximum— David Lichtenstein about 250 Leapin’ Louie Comedy Shows Length of performance: 45 minutes 4301 NE Mason St. Travel range: All over (mileage and travel fees Portland OR 97218 may apply) Telephone and fax: 503 281 5112 Fee : Mime Loud and Clear; In the Email: [email protected] Spotlight, $230.00 each; Interactive Website: Plays, $270.00; Interactive Programs, http://comedytricks.com/readingshow.html $230.00. 20% discount for library groups Program description: Leapin’ Louie: Life, the scheduling five or more shows; must be universe, and other small things scheduled through one person. Leapin’ Louie’s new reading encouragement Additional costs: Mileage (& travel, depending on show is science themed and goes from big to distance) small and back again. Read a Wild Tale: Leapin’ Seasonal availability: All year Louie’s cowboy-themed show has been a huge Will you do a single performance in a location? hit from pre-school to adult at libraries for 8 Yes years. All Leapin’ Louie shows feature high energy comedy for all ages, cowboy rope tricks, and juggling. Encourages reading by Dave Orleans interweaving content and pictures from specific Dave Orleans, The Earthsinger favorite books, from pre-school to upper 7655 SW Leslie St. elementary level. David Lichtenstein has been Portland, OR 97223 performing comedy variety shows around the Telephone: home 503-892-8420, world full-time for 20 years; in 2008 he performed cell 971-533-5548 in the USA, Canada, Guatemala, Spain, Italy, Email: [email protected] Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, France, and Program description: Nature Sing-Alongs Germany. He also is an Oregon certified combine traditional and modern folk tunes, sing- elementary teacher and has kept reading alongs, and original songs to focus on the earth, children’s literature all his life. our relationship to it, and our use of natural Audience age level: age 3 to adult resources. K-3rd program emphasizes plants, Audience size: all sizes animals and people as part of the earth's Length of performance: 50 minutes community. 4-6th program emphasizes basic Special needs: If your space is small, make as natural processes, environmental issues. much space as possible Nature's Treasures : Natural facts and artifacts, Travel range: Planet Earth activities, stories, games and songs, create a Fee: $300 delightful hands-on, minds-on experience with Additional costs: $ .50 per mile one way – over snakeskins, turtle shells, deer antlers, and more, 50 mi. from Portland. emerging from a large treasure chest. Up to 30 Seasonal availability: Year-around people or 1 class, all grades. Related programs Will you do a single performance in a location? include Tree, Insect, & Seashore Treasures. The Yes Giving Tree Revisited , based on the children's story, weaves audience participation songs into the narrative, with an epilogue that broadens the David Rianda theme of the story. K-3rd . What's A Watershed, Dr. Harry Lane, Anyway? The basics of water cycles, rivers, Official Living History Character, estuaries, and our role in protecting water quality. Portland Rose Festival 3-6th . 4140 N. E. Alameda Audience age level: K to Adults & family groups Portland, Oregon 97212 Audience size: From class size groups to all- Telephone: 503-282-2940 school assembly programs Email: [email protected] Length of performance: Schools, 40-60 minutes, Website: Campfire programs, up to 1½ hr. www.rosefestival.org/events/livinghistory/ Travel range: 100 miles from Portland Program description: This is a living history Fee: Lg group assemblies $200.00/program, portrayal of a Portland mayor and medical doctor, first 2 programs $175.00/program, 3 rd and 4 th Harry Lane, serving 1905-1909 and often programs Classroom visits $100.00 per 40 acclaimed as the “Father of the Rose Festival.” minute class Lane, from an Oregon political family and a Seasonal availability: all seasons reformer in the heritage of Tom McCall and Will you do a single performance in a location? Wayne Morse, eventually became a U.S. Yes, within 25 miles of Portland. Senator. Historical events and Oregon “firsts” roughly from the 1880s through 1912, are shared with children and adults alike in an informative

Performers Showcase 9 and interactive manner. This program may be Audience age level: 2-11 done by Dr. Lane as a single performer or with Audience size: Any Georgiana Pittock, founder, Portland Rose Length of performance: 40-50 minutes Society. Special needs: One power outlet Audience age level: Grade 3 through adult Travel range : Anywhere in the Northwest Audience size: Up to 60 Fee: Base price for June through August is $325 Length of performance: 45 minutes for the first show at a location and $150 for an Special needs: Podium, black or white board additional show at the same location on the same Travel range: Oregon statewide, SW Washington day. A sliding scale is always offered for Fee: $235 (single); $400 (joint) Dr. Lane/Mrs. bookings at neighboring library branches that are Pittock scheduled within the same general time frame. Portion of fee supports Portland Rose Festival Pricing is negotiable and is more flexible outside Foundation of the summer months. Additional costs : Travel, lodging outside Portland Additional costs: Travel costs may apply but are Metro, to be neg. often waived if at least 2 or more locations are Seasonal availability: All booked together, depending on the particulars. Will you do a single performance in a location? Seasonal availability: Available year-round - YES - No more than two performances in a better deals over the winter months. day; request staff representation in room Will you do a single performance in a location? Yes, but travel costs are more likely.

Ellen Beier Ellen Beier Illlustration Eric Ode 5453 SW Windflower Drive Deep Rooted Music, LLC Corvallis OR 97333 P.O. Box 1324 Telephone and fax: 541-766-8329 Sumner, WA 98390 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 253-826-2115 Website: wwww.ellenbeier.com Fax: 253-826-2115 Program description: Illustrator demo, talking Email: [email protected] about children's picture books, how I illustrate Website: www.ericode.com them, the process from story to pictures. Program description: Highly-interactive music Audience age level: All school age (adults too) and poetry programs designed for various age starting with 3rd grade levels, using hand motion and movement songs, Audience size: I prefer classroom size call-and-response songs, puppets, props, Length of performance: 1 hour- 1 1/2 hr percussion instruments, fingerplays, and sing- Fee: $350/single visit or $700 day visit (2 shows alongs. Various program themes – music plus activity or question/answers) exploration, winter and spring, early literacy, and Additional costs: Travel/meals outside of National Children's Book Week. Eric creates a Benton/Lane/Lincoln Co. new program each year to meet the Collaborative Will you do a single performance in a location? Summer Library Program theme. Yes Author/Poet/Songwriter visits using music and poetry to focus on the writing process. Eric is available for large group assembly programs, Eric Herman smaller group workshops, residencies, literacy 1105 Thayer Dr. celebrations, and family nights. Ode has been Richland WA 99354 four times recognized with Parents' Choice Telephone: 509-460-7950 Awards and a National Parenting Publications Fax: 509-943-1547 (NAPPA) Honors Award for his original music Email: [email protected] recordings. He is a widely published children's Website: www.EricHermanMusic.com poet and the author of Tall Tales of the Wild West Program description: Eric Herman's "Cool Tunes (And a Few Short Ones), a collection of for Kids" concert is one of the most creative and humorous cowboy poems for kids. entertaining kids' music shows available. With (Meadowbrook Press) Ode is a former non-stop interaction, incredibly fun and engaging elementary teacher of 12 years. songs and a lot of comedy and surprises Audience age level: Multiple programs are throughout, Eric's show has quickly become a available PreK to Grade 6 (see favorite at libraries around the country. Eric's www.ericode.com ) music has been heard nationally on PBS Kids Audience size: No limit as long as the and XM Radio, and his video for “The Elephant participants have a bit of wiggle room. Song” is one of the most popular of all children's Length of performance: Typically 45 to 50 music videos, with over 2 million views on minutes YouTube. Special needs: One sturdy table

Performers Showcase 10 Travel range: Eric lives near Tacoma, WA and Gerardo Calderon travels regularly. Nuestro Canto Fee: Libraries $280 - see website. PO BOX 1573 Additional costs: Mileage beyond 2 hours from Beaverton, OR 97075 Tacoma. Hotel accommodations may be required Telephone: 503.805.0914 for programs at locations beyond 4 hours drive Email: [email protected] from Tacoma. Website: Seasonal availability: Except for October, full www.myspace.com/nuestrocantopdx calendar availability Program description: Leyendas Mexicanas / Will you do a single performance in a location? Mexican Legends Mexico is very well known for Yes. Multiple bookings scheduled on the same its legends, myths and tales. We have legends date or on consecutive days, however, help to since the time of the Aztecs, Mayans, Toltecs, as keep costs down and make better use of my well as legends after the arrival of the Europeans travel time. to the American Continent. We have legends that talk about love, nature, everyday life, etc. During the program participants will learn about Mama Dou and Abdoulaye Thioub geography, history and the different languages Faqura Perku Culture still spoken in Mexico. Nuestro Canto has 913 NE Tyler Ave gathered legends from all over Mexico and has Corvallis, OR composed music especially for the legends we Telephone: 541-765-2830 or narrate during our performances. The length of 541-908-3431 the program is 1 hour. We use mask to Program description: Native African drumming represent different characters, movement Audience age level: 5 to all ages (dance), music and narration. Length of performance: 1 hour Audience age level: Appropriate for all ages Special needs: Microphones, chairs, water Audience size: Any size Travel range: Anywhere Length of performance: 1 hour Fee: $600 Special needs: 1 table Additional costs: Mileage Travel range: All over Oregon and Washington Seasonal availability: Any time Fee: $250.00 Will you do a single performance in a location? Additional costs: Travel expenses Yes Seasonal availability: year round Will you do a single performance in a location? YES Geoff Frasier Geoff Frasier 4925 SW 56 th Ave., #33 Gerardo Calderon Portland, OR 97221 PO BOX 1573 Telephone: (503) 358-2616 Beaverton, OR 97075 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 503.805.0914 Program description: Scottish Gaelic bagpipes, Email: [email protected] traditional song, and storytelling. Program description: Zampoña Workshop Audience age level: All ages. I can also tailor the Educational Goal: This workshop starts with a show to a particular audience. discussion and demonstration of the zampoña Audience size: All shapes and sizes. and its unique sound. Participants are given Length of performance: 1 hour materials and step-by-step instructions to build Special needs: I have 14 years’ experience their own zampoña . Gerardo then explains the working with people with technique for playing this flute. special needs. Historical Background: The Zampoñas are one of Travel range: Planet Earth only, please. the oldest wind instruments used by the Native Fee: $200.00 people from the Andes Mountains in South Additional costs: For locations that are 100 miles America. In ancient times the zampoñas were or more from Portland, OR, made out of different materials: Clay, Copper, $25.00 will be added to the fee to offset travel Gold, Bamboo and Condor Feathers. Today we expenses. Seasonal availability: “A piper for all make the flutes out of Wood, Bamboo and CPVC seasons!” (plastic). Will you do a single performance in a location? Audience age level: Appropriate for all ages Yes. I also do weddings. Audience size: 30 to 40 participants Length of performance : 1 hour Special needs : 2 tables Travel range : All over Oregon and Washington Fee: $150.00 (plus supplies cost)

Performers Showcase 11 Additional costs : Travel expenses Greg and Emily Gustafson Seasonal availability: Year round Border Collie International Will you do a single performance in a location? Performing K-9 Team Yes P.O. Box 1569 Corvallis, OR 97339 Telephone: 503-787-4709 Fax: 503-787-4709 - call ahead to arrange Gideon Freudmann Email: [email protected] 1534 SE 56th Ave Program description: Rescued Border Collies Portland, OR 97215 entertain and educate through demonstrations of Telephone: h - 503 231 7755, sports, skits, and dog-child c - 413 218 7743 interaction. Email: [email protected] Audience age level: All ages Website: www.cellobop.com Audience size: Any size Program description: CelloBop: Dazzling Length of performance: Usual is 45 minutes-but virtuosic electric cello music and fun, light- shows anywhere from hearted songs. one minute- to one hour in length can be Audience age level: 6 - 80 arranged . Audience size: 300 Special needs: Cannot perform on concrete or Length of performance: 45 - 60 minutes gravel Travel range: 100 mi Travel range: Any where Fee: $400. Fee: Custom pricing per show - discounts for Seasonal availability: All multiple bookings. Will you do a single performance in a location? Additional costs: Travel expenses Yes Seasonal availability: All year Will you do a single performance in a location? yes Gordon Munro Firelight Stories 17959 Hazelnut Ridge Road Greta Pedersen Silverton, OR 97381 Accent On Music, LLC Telephone: 503 873-6770 h, PMB 252, 19363 Willamette Dr 503 295-4911 w West Linn, OR 97068 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 503.699.1814 Program description: Storytelling to the rhythm of Fax: 503.699.1813 the drum. The stories I tell include folk tales from Email: [email protected] around the world, animal stories, early Oregon Website: www.greta.net history and early Silverton history stories. Program descriptions: Additional programs are Audience participation is encouraged through available. See Greta's website for details. question and answer during the stories and after. Summer Reading 2009: Making Up Songs Audience age level: Grade school up through with Greta elders. A lively and interactive sing-along in which we Audience size: 10 -200 create and adapt existing songs and stories Length of performance: 40 - 60 minutes, adjusted through music and sign language. We'll also as required explore ways to make musical instruments out of Special needs: All I really need is an outlet for my household objects! The program is adaptable to microphone and speaker, and only need that for each audience: preschool, school age, or a large audiences or large rooms. mixture of all ages. Travel range: 120 miles from Silverton Get Ready to Read with Music Fee: $150 This engaging program for preschoolers and Additional costs: If travel is further than 120 miles kindergarteners promotes literacy and language then I would add mileage, room and board. skills such as phonemic awareness, rhyming, and Seasonal availability: Available year round, but word meaning through songs, movement, and need three weeks notice so I can arrange time off sign language. Quick and easy tips for parents from my day job. and care givers are also included. Will you do a single performance in a location? Audience age level: Summer Reading program: Yes adaptable for preschool, school age, and a mixture of all ages. Literacy: Preschool to Kindergarten. Audience size: 3 to 300 Length of performance: 30 min for preschool programs, 45 minutes for all ages

Performers Showcase 12 Special needs: 6 ft table, chair with no arms everyone can come up & pet animals, touch Travel range: Open skulls, skeletons, shells, heads and hides & ask Fee: Call for quote. Factors include distance, questions. Many of the animals and displays are block booking, etc. different from year to year. Additional costs: Mileage included in quotes. If Audience age level: Youth to the grave. overnight, complementary hotel or home stay Audience size: The more the merrier; many (private room, no smoking) is requested. libraries book 2 programs for large groups. Seasonal availability: All year Length of performance: Flexible to your time, but Will you do a single performance in a location? usually over an hour or longer. Yes, but prices are lower when block booking Special needs: 2-3 8 ft tables or equivalent and occurs outside the greater Portland/Vancouver ice water for the speaker. area. Travel range: This happy herd of reptiles will drag me anywhere!!! Fee: $275 per program Gerardo Calderon Additional costs: More than one program in an Grupo Condor area, not same Library, travel is PO BOX 1573 $25 per location. Motel room requested for Beaverton, OR 967075 overnight stays. Telephone: 503.805.0914 Seasonal availability: All year long, weather Email: [email protected] permitting. Website: www.grupo-condor.com Will you do a single performance in a location? www.myspace.com/grupocondor Absolutely…wouldn’t want interested families Program description: “Somos la musica” - Grupo living in the “boondocks” to miss out. Condor provides a high-energy musical performance of traditional Latin American sounds reflecting Native American, European and African Heather Pearl influences. Through narrative and demonstration 4207 N. Longview Ave of a variety of instruments, students learn how Portland, OR 97217 this lively, beautiful folk music was influenced by Telephone: 503-358-3441 other cultures. Fax: 503-621-1073 Audience age level: Appropriate for all ages Email: [email protected] Audience size: Any size (up to 500) Website: www.nomadictheatre.org Length of performance: 1hour Program description: Mz. Pearl’s Variety Show! Special needs: Table (we bring our own sound A solo clown show filled with physical comedy, system) juggling, magic, dance and word play. The Travel range: All over Oregon and Washington audience is REALLY involved in Mz. Pearl’s Fee: $400.00 single performance show; in their seats, as volunteers, and in a mini- Additional costs: Travel expenses workshop at the end. Holiday or topical Seasonal availability: Year round material can be woven into the show. Will you do a single performance in a location? Audience age level: Great for young children, Yes particularly under 6, but up to 4 th grade and family audiences are excellent. Audience size: Any Mary Esther Hart Length of performance: 45 minutes. Includes Hart’s Reptile World audience participation act at the end. P.O. Box 314 Travel range: negotiable Canby, OR 97013 Fee: $250 Telephone: Bus: 503-759-3513 or Additional costs: travel negotiable cell 503-522-2695 Seasonal availability: All Email: [email protected] Will you do a single performance in a location? Website: www.hartsreptileworld.com Yes Program description: One of a kind, educational & entertaining experience for all ages. We highlight things not mentioned in books or documentaries. Animals include boas, pythons, Henrik Bothe kingsnakes, milksnakes, corns, gophers, The Henrik Bothe Variety Act dragons, monitors, skinks, geckos, chameleons, Address: 818 SE Lambert St turtles, tortoises, tarantulas, other assorted Portland OR 97202 creepy bugs and a non-reptilian “token” guest or Telephone: 503 230 0089 two. WE BRING NOTHING VENOMOUS OR Email: neonman @juggler.net DANGEROUS. Alley the Alligator dresses in Website: www.coolneonman.com “GlamourGator” outfits. After the program

Performers Showcase 13 Program description: A physical comedy show provide a unique, high quality show that with platespinning, unicycling and much more emphasizes the joy of reading and the fun of that is sure to thrill not just young audience coming to the library at an affordable fee. members but also the adult crowd. Audience age level: Any! Audience age level: 5 - 105 Audience size: The more the merrier! I can Audience size: Any size perform for any size audience. Length of performance: 45 min Length of performance: Basic show length is 45 Special needs: Tall ceiling minutes (can be adjusted). Travel range: Anywhere Special needs: For a really large audience, a Fee: $375 sound system is helpful. Additional costs: $50 for more than 100 mile Travel range: I’ll go pretty much anywhere. Seasonal availability: At present open… book Fee: $275 early Additional costs: 45 cents a mile round-trip from Will you do a single performance in a location? my home. Yes Seasonal availability: Summer months are good! Others are ok too. Will you do a single performance in a location? Jason Ropp Yes. Dragon Theater Puppets P.O. Box 6811 Portland, OR 97228 Jeff Defty Telephone: (503)312-5979 1205 Park Avenue Email: [email protected] Eugene, OR 97404 Program description: How To Create A Hero Telephone: (541) 689-9113 (Working title) Email: [email protected] Audience age level: Ages 2 and up Program description: Storytelling: Folktales, Audience size : Up two 300 per show myths, legends, original Length of performance: 40 min tales, audience-participation stories. Special needs: Electricity access for sound Audience age level: Performances for any age- equipment if available group or family programs for all ages. Travel range: Anywhere Audience size: Any. Fee: $300 Length of performance: 30 - 45 minutes Additional costs: + $50/hour travel time outside Travel range: Oregon Portland Metro area Fee: Contact for current rates Seasonal availability: First come, first serve. Additional costs: Travel: $.40 / mile plus Open all year. accommodations if necessary. Will you do a single performance in a location? Seasonal availability: Year-round Yes Will you do a single performance in a location? Yes

Jay Frasier, Comedy, Magician & Balloon Storyteller Jill Trenholm 300 West F Street Jill’s Pail Creswell, OR 97426 810 NE Sumner Street Telephone: 541-895-3909 Portland, OR 97211 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 503-200-9429 Website: www.twistedmagic.com Email: [email protected] Program description: Magic, puppetry, balloon Website: www.myspace.com/jillspail sculpting, storytelling, and juggling -- all tied to Program description: An interactive children’s books that kids will be encouraged to read. music program where kid’s learn about many Some of the highlights will include Chico the rhythm instruments and play along with fun Mind-Reading Chimp, a puppet who will help me original songs. perform a magic routine full of comedy and Audience age level: 3 - 9 audience participation; the story of Jack and the Audience size: 1 - 200 Beanstalk told using balloons as props; and the Length of performance: 30 - 45 min hilarious “Razor Sharp Scarves of Danger” Travel range: 50 miles juggling routine. Since my show is a blend of five Fee: $200.00 first show; $100.00 for second at different performance arts, libraries could have same location another performer - magician, puppeteer, Will you do a single performance in a location? storyteller, or juggler - perform one week and Yes have me come in the next week without the audience saying “I just saw that.” My goal is to

Performers Showcase 14 Jo Alexis Bronstein Seasonal availability: Yes Jo Alexis & Arlie Conner Will you do a single performance in a location? 6917 N. Borthwick Ave. yes Portland OR 97217 Telephone: (503) 522-4919 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.joalexis.com and John Dashney http://www.animalteaparty.com John Dashney Productions Program description: (All programs can be 1932 Chemeketa St NE tailored to suits needs of librarian) Salem, OR 97301 1. “Animal songs and stories” - Young people will Telephone: 503-364-5825 enjoy wonderful stories about all sorts of animals. Email: [email protected] Animal stories are woven into the show Website: www.wicklewoodbooks.com encouraging participation from young audience Program description: Author members. and storyteller 2. “Dance and Wiggle” - The program allows Audience age level: Prefer ages 8 - 15 youngsters to shake, dance and wiggle to some Audience size: variable silly dance songs written by Jo and Arlie. Jo and Length of performance: variable Arlie bring energy and enthusiasm to this Special needs: Help with transportation gathering inspiring a joyful atmosphere and fun (legally blind) for all! Travel range: variable 3. “Invisible Friend” - This program explores Fee: negotiable songs about friendship, both real and imaginary Additional costs: See transportation needs above and the values of loyalty and love. These songs Seasonal availability: Wide open are interweaved with timeless stories about the Will you do a single performance in a location? importance of what it means to be a true friend. Probably Audience age level: All of these: toddlers, pre-k, kindergarten, primary grades 1 and 2; Groups age 1-7 Jon Leffingwell Audience size: 10- 200 Jon the Juggler Length of performance: 30 minutes or 45 minutes 510 East 32 nd Ave. Travel range: 180 miles from Portland for 1 Eugene, Or 97405 performance; if accommodations provided, 300 Telephone: 541-683-3593 miles from Portland. Email: [email protected] Fee: $150/ 30 minutes; $200 for 45 minutes Program description: Juggling, magic, balloon Additional costs: Accommodations provided if animals, face painting travel time is greater than Audience age level: All ages 4 hours one-way Audience size: Any size Seasonal availability: All Length of performance: Can vary between 30 – Will you do a single performance in a location? 45 minutes Yes. Special needs: None Travel range: Oregon Fee: $125 Joel Park Additional costs: $15 for every extra 100 miles of Trails Tails and Company Puppet travel Theater Seasonal availability: All seasons 530 23 rd St NE Will you do a single performance in a location? Salem, OR 97301 Yes Telephone: 503-758-0126 Email: [email protected] Website: www.trailstailsandcompany.com Program description: Various types of puppets Jory Aronson and Morgan Goldberg and shows, workshops and 'Circus Berserkus!' musical reviews. 2145 NE 79th Ave. Audience age level: Preschool and up Portland, OR 97213 Audience size: Any Telephone: 503 251-8888 (also Joyful Learning). Length of performance: Varies 10- 45 mins Email: [email protected] ( mailto: Special needs: CD Player or Tape Deck [email protected] ) Travel range: Salem, Albany, Portland areas Program description: Jory's vast show experience Fee: Shows range from $50 - $250 and musical abilities, and Additional costs: Travel outside Salem over hours distance $50 Overnight stays $100

Performers Showcase 15 Morgan's circus training and performance skills, Special needs: 1 extension cord, 1 2x6¹ table, have welded into a fun and lively new library small sound system for audiences over 30 in program! Children size. will be able to participate in creating a circus: Travel range: To be determined clowning, balancing, training 'animals', and much Fee: $750 per day for one day and up to 3 more. By the end of the show, children will have performances; $600 per day for two days; $500 a clear understanding about the wonders and per day for three - five days. magic of a circus! Additional costs: Mileage from one library to Audience age level: 3 through 10 years old. another. Audience size: any size. Seasonal availability: All year depending on Length of performance: 45 minutes to one hour. touring schedule. Travel range: Week-ends only, and within one Will you do a single performance in a location? hour travel time from Portland. Yes! Fee: $275. Additional costs: mileage. Seasonal availability: open Keeth Apgar & Nala Walla Will you do a single performance in a location? The Harmonica Pocket Yes. PO Box 171 Nordland, WA 98358 Telephone: (206) 355-8239 Joyce Greiner Email: [email protected] 40705 Larwood Drive Website: http://www.harmonicapocket.com/kids Scio, Or 97374 Program description: Equipped with a hula hoop, Telephone: 503-394-3825 a ukulele, some face paint, and Email: [email protected] a suitcase full of simple props and instruments, Program description: Interactive storyteller we serve up a highly-interactive and playfully Audience age level: K - adult educational show. Combining original story- Audience size: Any songs, clever twists on classic American folk Length of performance: 45 minutes - one hour; songs, and a tap dancing ladybug, The workshops and residencies. Harmonica Pocket captures and holds the Travel range: Northwest attention of children AND their parents. Children Fee: Negotiable, usually about $100 per are exposed to our pro-literacy message through performance. "singing books" (which set the texts of children's Additional costs: Travel expenses if more than books such as Dr. Seuss' "One Fish, Two Fish" 100 miles from Scio to original music) and receive a free bookmark at Seasonal availability: All the end of the performance. For more complete Will you do a single performance in a location? information, please visit: yes http://www.harmonicapocket.com/kids . Audience age level: 2-8 and their parents. Audience size: Up to 150 Katherine Dines Length of performance: ~50 minutes Hunk-Ta-Bunk-Ta MUSIC Special needs: Two chairs, access to electricity, 2000 Little Raven Street #1C some space to dance Denver, CO 80202 Travel range: We are from the Olympic Peninsula Telephone: 303/298-7122 in Washington State. Fax: 303/298-7082 We can travel anywhere in Oregon but would Email: [email protected] request that a minimum of 5 programs are Website: www.hunktabunkta.co booked per week. Program description: (6 programs) see website Fee: $400 per program for all programs offered. Content varies. Focus is Seasonal availability: All song writing. Original award-winning songs with Will you do a single performance in a location? LOTS of audience participation including: guitar Due to our home base in Washington State, we and vocals, sign language, global instruments, would request to book a cluster of programs. zany props, call and response, movement and more. Specialty programs including one for babies and toddlers. Ken Iverson Audience age level: 0-family audiences. Teller of Tales Audience size: No size limit. 5-5,000 5220 SE Alderway Ave., Length of performance: 45-60 minutes with 2-3 Milwaukie, Or. 97267 different sets possible Telephone: 502-659-2190 Email: [email protected]

Performers Showcase 16 Program description: Storytelling. Various Laura McCormack performances are available and I 915 SE 31 st Ave. also lead beginning storytelling workshops and classes. Audience age level: 6 – 106, and I’ll make an Portland, OR 97214 exception if you give me a chance to Telephone: 503-504-1382 tell to someone over 106! Email: [email protected] Audience size: 5 -200 Website: Length of performance: Standard performance is http:// www.portlandstorytellers.org/tellers/ LauraM 45 min. This can be varied to meet scheduler’s cCormack.html needs. Program description: Storytelling / song for Special needs: None entertainment & education Travel range: 250 miles, beyond is negotiable. Audience age level: 3 years up to 90+ Fee: $100.00 for one performance; negotiable for Audience size: All sizes multiple performances in same location on same Length of performance: Can do 15 minutes up to date. Storytelling 1 hour workshops are $250.00 for a 3 hour workshop. Special needs: Normally just a chair or stool The workshop fee is negotiable if workshop is to Travel range: No limit be presented in several Fee: Depends on program, length of time, and sessions over a period of time. Workshop can travel ($50 - $120) also be presented over several weeks. Additional costs: Charge for mileage over 20 Additional costs: Travel beyond 30 min. to site is miles away charged at $25.00 hour, this is negotiable. Seasonal availability: Yes Seasonal availability: I am available all year. Will you do a single performance in a location? Will you do a single performance in a location? Yes Yes

Lauretta De Forge Kite Giedraitis DeForge Communications Fools In Paradise 12990 SW Edgewood St 4045 SE Cora St Portland, OR 97225 Portland OR 97202 Telephone: 503-646-9573 Telephone: (503) 775-9039 Fax: (same) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.FoolsInParadise.com Program description: History / demo; piano / Program description: "Handeyi!" (African violin; music from different countries marimba/mbira/hand drums) Audience age level: any age Handeyi means “let’s go” in the Shona language, Audience size: any size and in this case is an invitation to experience the Length of performance: ½ to 1 hour joy of collaborative music-making with Kite Special needs: Piano for piano demo; Giedraitis and Fools in Paradise. Featured are microphone for large audience songs from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Guinea and Travel range: Roughly one hour from Portland South Africa played on traditional hand-made Fee: $65 (negotiable) instruments such as the African marimba, mbira Additional costs: If far away, extra for gasoline (kalimba) and hosho. The audience is Seasonal availability: Don’t want to drive in ice encouraged to participate through lively singing, and snow call-and-response, polyrhythmic clapping and Will you do a single performance in a location? dancing. Yes Audience age level: all ages Audience size: unlimited Length of performance: 1 hour Liz Nakazawa Special needs: electricity for PA 3125 NE 40 th Ave. Travel range: unlimited, additional fee for travel Portland, Ore. 97212 expense. Telephone: 503-282-5343 Fee: $765.00 Email: [email protected] Additional costs: travel - see above Program description: I am interested in reading Seasonal availability: all year poems from Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Will you do a single performance in a location? Oregon , an anthology I edited of Yes 33 Oregon poets’ nature poems set in locations all over the state. I have divided the book into seven ecoregions of Oregon. Please google Powells’ website for a full description. It was a “Staff Pick” of Powells. Ninety-five Oregon libraries currently carry the book.

Performers Showcase 17 Audience age level: High school-Adult Travel range: Can travel all over the States as Audience size: Any long as gas millage is covered for long trips. Length of performance: 45 minutes Fee: $30/hr for teaching; from $300-$1500 Special needs: I would like to bring books to sell performances if that is O.K. Additional costs: food and lodging Travel range: 100 mile radius of Portland Seasonal availability: January-December Fee: $100 Will you do a single performance in a location? Seasonal availability: Spring, summer and fall. Yes Will you do a single performance in a location? Yes Lynette Gail Cubic Aw-some Blossom the Clown 348 Cameo St Salem, OR 97304 Lorna Miller Telephone: 503-364-0650 Lorna Miller, Musician/Singer/Songwriter & Lorna Fax: same, but call first to switch on Miller's Little Kids' Jamboree Email: [email protected] 5120 S.E. Clinton Apt. D, Program description: One of a kind full face, Portland, OR 97206 hands, shoulder, back or cheek art. Balloon Telephone: 503-233-6890 figures or dressing costumes on the child (eg. Email: [email protected] butterflies, bugs, soldiers, pirates). I use the very Website: www.westernhummingbird.com – finest FDA approved face painting makeup. My www.littlekidsjamboree.com kit includes 47 different shades of glitter. I also Program description: Interactive musical program use face painting and balloons to teach “VBS”– for kids and their families using simple rhythm Sunday School. I have been a performer in a instruments, songs, imagination and movement. traveling Ice Show and Garden International Everyone gets into the act. Circus. My passion is giving happiness to Audience age level: Infants to approximately impoverished children in Mexico that live in land seven years of age, but all ages can enjoy the fill/dump areas. Book your memorable program including grandparents. celebration now. Audience size: All sizes - From festivals to Audience age level: All ages, including toddlers, libraries to pizza restaurants (i.e. regularly at birthday parties, teens for prom eye designs and Mississippi Pizza). senior centers. Length of performance: Maximum One hour Audience size: Up close and person works best. Special needs: Sound equipment for vocal and Length of performance: One hour minimum to guitar (can provide my own for a small extra several days for certain events. charge) Special needs: Light source if after dark; space to Travel range: Wide open range set up table/chairs. Fee: $150 - $200 (local). If I provide sound Travel range: Will travel equipment an extra $50 is charged. Fee: Each performance is different. Additional costs: Travel outside Metro area & Additional costs: Charge extra for gas and fee for lodging if more than 200 mi. travel time or hotel if needed. Seasonal availability: Any Seasonal availability: All seasons Will you do a single performance in a location? Will you do a single performance in a location? Yes Yes

Loveness Wesa Lynne Mitchell & Bill Haas Kgotso African Cultural Arts Nam Song & Dance for Children P O Box 11882 841 14 th Street Portland, Or 97211 Washougal, WA 98671 Telephone: 971 570 1620 Telephone: 360-335-9538 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.lovenesswesa.org or Program description: Song & Dance for Children http://www.myspace.com/thebantuz is an interactive program of sing-along songs and Program description: fingerplays, including activity songs, creative African Dance movement and folk dance. Each performance is Audience age level: all ages developed to coordinate with any theme or Audience size: any number, but most preferably curriculum already in place as well as seasonal 10 people or more and holiday/festival events. Bill leads the singing Length of performance: 30mins-1hr with his guitar (and piano if available) while Special needs: 3 chairs without arm-rests

Performers Showcase 18 Lynne leads the fingerplays, movements and Audrey Campbell dance. Mad Science Audience age level: This program is especially 1015 E. Burnside St. designed for children ages 2 – 6, but can be Portland, OR 97214 easily tailored to any age group or family Telephone: (503) 230-8040 (mixed ages). Length of performance: 45 – 60 minutes Fax: (503) 230-8949 Special needs: Enough space for all participants Email: [email protected] to move freely Website: www.madscience.org/Portland Travel range: Single performance available within Program description: Workshops, parties, stage 50 mile range of Portland/Vancouver area. Over shows and events. 50 miles requires multiple performance Mad Science is an international company seeking commitment or additional fee. to improve the science literacy of the world’s Fee: $300.00 plus mileage children through educational entertainment. Additional costs: Additional fee for mileage and From a 1-hour show to a full day of fun you can travel time mix ‘n match Mad Science activities for a truly Seasonal availability: Year-round amazing educational and entertaining Will you do a single performance in a location? experience. A fast-paced Mad Science show can Yes, within 50 mile range entertain up to 400 people, including adults. Also for large groups are captivating Science

Discovery Stations and hands-on Make-n-Take Booths. For smaller groups, up to 30 children, Buddy-Duddy Mad Science parties and workshops will entertain (Lynne Duddy) and educate. Call us to create a customized StoryHarmonic event to accommodate your group size and th 3333 NE 15 Avenue budget. Portland, OR 97212 Audience age level: Ages 5 to 12 Telephone: 503.284.2226 Audience size: 10 to 400 Email: [email protected] Length of performance: Standard 45 to http://www.storyharmonics.com 60 minutes or customized to fit your Program description: Storyteller Lynne Duddy needs. delivers programs that mix story with music, Special needs: Access to water, magic, movement, and puppetry. Lynne delivers electricity. Some shows not appropriate creative, interactive, fun-filled events outdoors. for kids that include Salty-Sally, the Pirate, and Travel range: Oregon her magic Parrot, and for Pre-teens and teens, Fee: Workshops for up to 30 - $129 she specializes in spooky, creepy, scary ghost Shows for up to 400 - $229 stories (oh my!). If you are interesting in attracting Additional costs: Travel fee required adult listeners to your library, Lynne would love to outside Portland/Vancouver metro area present her acclaimed one-woman show, “Dark Seasonal availability: No restrictions Matter.” Visit Buddy-Duddy at StoryHarmonic’s Will you do a single performance in a location? website to see full descriptions of the programs Yes she can bring to your community. Audience age levels: Children, age 8 and under; Teen and PreTeen; Adult/Mature Teen Marco Cortes (depending on program) marcocortes.com Audience size: Unlimited 20128 48 th Ave W. #29 Length of performances: Children 30 Lynnwood, WA 98036 minutes; Teen 45 minutes; Adult 60 Telephone: 206-890-6019 minutes Email: [email protected] Travel range: Oregon | Washington Website: www.marcocortes.com Fee: $200 for each performance Program description: “Cantando y Jugando” Special pricing for sequential same-day Singing and Playing shows in same location. The kids dance and sing to Marco's original Additional costs: Mileage: if over 15 miles music and Spanish versions of familiar songs. outside the Portland metro area. He also brings props and instruments to involve Food and Lodging: if overnight stay is required the kids. There is also a cultural component Seasonal availability: Available year round where he tells a story. Will you do a single performance in a location? Audience age level: Content is geared toward Yes children under age 6, but the show is enjoyable for children of all ages Audience size: around 50 Length of performance: 45 minutes

Performers Showcase 19 Special needs: None Powell’s Bookstore, Lone Fir Cemetery, Travel range: Portland area PittockMansion. Fee: $300 Audience size: Flexible Additional costs: $100 travel fee per trip to Length of performance: 45-60 minutes, with Oregon (available for multiple questions at end encouraged shows without additional fee) Travel range: OR Counties of Washington, Will you do a single performance in a location? Multnomah, Clackamas, Yes Yamhill, Tillamook, Clatsop, Marion, Polk, Columbia Fee: $235. Duo with Mayor Harry Lane is $400. Marlene Azar A portion of the fee supports the Portland Rose Eartha the Ecological Clown Festival Foundation. 7110 SW Stephen Lane Additional costs: None within 50 mi. of Forest Portland, OR 97225 Grove. Mileage thereafter. Telephone: 503-297-8450 (H) Seasonal availability: Year-round 503-936-3376 (Cell) Will you do a single performance in a location? Fax: 503-590-7606 Yes Email: [email protected] Website: www.earthatheclown.com Program description: Using magic and 3 live Melanya Helene and Marc Otto animals, Eartha gives light-hearted lessons about Play After Play water, endangered species, 31 SE 89th Ave. birds, insects, recycling, etc. – but that the real magic Audience age level: All ages – show is adjustable Portland OR 97216 to fit age level. Telephone: 503.772.4005 Length of performance: 45-55 minute show, Email: [email protected] followed by bird interaction. Website: www.playafterplay.blogspot.com Special needs: Power Program description: Play after Play is a unique Travel range: Open theater event in two parts. Play After Play sets Fee: $300 the stage with movement, sound and music; Additional costs: Travel time over 45 minutes bringing multicultural folk tales alive. Our each way is $.50/hour performance style is simple and engaging, with Seasonal availability: All almost no set, costumes or props, allowing Will you do a single performance in a location? children to use their imaginations as they journey Yes with us. After this high quality performance, there's an opportunity for kids to interact personally and play with the performers in a Mary Hutchens gentle non-competitive form called Original Play. Georgiana Pittock Performances alone can be an option if space is Official Living History Character limited or audiences are large. of Portland Rose Festival Audience age level: 2-9 year old 625 Sky Lane Audience size: no more than 50 kids Forest Grove, OR 97116 Length of performance: 45 - 75 minutes Telephone: (H) 503.357.3979 Special needs: need an open space of approx. (Cell) 503.939.7079 15 X 20 feet Email: [email protected] Travel range: Oregon Website: Fee: $200 www.rosefestival.org/events/livinghistory/ Additional costs: A travel fee for locations father Program description: This is a living history than 50 miles from portrayal from a pioneer woman in Portland. Portland. Fee varies depending on distance Georgiana Pittock came to OR on a wagon train involved. at the age of 9. At 15, she married Henry Lewis Seasonal availability: year round availability Pittock, and had 9 children. She is the founder of Will you do a single performance in a location? the Rose Society, gave the first Rose Yes Competition, and was responsible with Mayor Harry Lane for the Portland Rose Festival, beginning in 1907. She founded and supported Mike "Buster" Bednarek numerous charitable organizations and owned Buster's Red Nose Revue the Pittock Mansion. She can perform PO Box 364 individually or with Mayor Harry Lane (Mayor Salem OR 97308 1905-1909). Telephone: (503) 362-7999 (home) Audience Age level: Grades 3 – adult. Have or (503) 508-2490 (cell) performed for over 1600 students in schools, at Fax: (503) 399-5579

Performers Showcase 20 Email: [email protected] Fee: $350 for a single performance, and $600 for Website: www.webclowns.com/buster two. Program description: "A Fool's Tools" is a Additional costs: Travel expenses - can be misguided journey through the mind and soul of shared between two events. the clown. Young and old alike get an inside look Seasonal availability: We are available during all at the art of clowning through a lively interactive seasons. performance of physical comedy, balancing, and Will you do a single performance in a location? illusions, with lots of audience involvement. Yes, I will do a single performance. Appropriate audience age level: Ages 5 to 105 Audience size: 50 to 350 (you get 'em, I'll fit 'em) Length of performance: 35-45 minutes (tailored to Morgan Marie Jordan your audience and venue) 400 Grays Creek Road Special needs: Minimum of 10' x 20' performance Grants Pass, OR area with high ceiling and electrical outlet. 1-2 Telephone: 541-862-2650 hours needed for Email: [email protected] set-up. A separate dressing/off-stage area is Program Description: Storytelling, music, group nice. participation Travel range: Within 3 hours of Salem, although Audience Age Level: Elementary School further is negotiable. Audience Size: Any Fee: $275 plus expenses (and of course, Length of Performance: 20 Min To 40 (Age everything is negotiable) Appropriate) Additional costs: mileage costs within 3 hours of Special Needs: None Salem; additional costs if overnight stay is Travel Range: Depends On Weather. necessary Fee: $150 Seasonal availability: weekends all year; summer Additional Costs: Travel, Accommodations weekdays are possible and negotiable Seasonal Availability: Available Depending On Will you do a single performance in a location? Weather Yes! Will You Do A Single Performance In A Location? Within 60 Miles

Mike Puckett Puckett Family Magic Loretta “Lottie” Brenner Address: 4020 SW 196 th Avenue The Mud Pie Trio Aloha, OR 97007 1435 NW Dixon St Telephone: 503-312-4656 Corvallis, OR 97330 Fax: 503-591-8699 Telephone: 541-753-0442 (home/business) Email: [email protected] 541-740-8737 (cell) – Leave Message Website: www.puckettfamilymagic.com Email: [email protected] Program description: “Reading for Life” - As a Program description: The Mud Pie Trio is upbeat child growing up with dyslexia and as a father of children’s music with a twist, educational, five children, Mike understands the importance of interactive, and fun for the whole family! High- reading and the struggle for some to have a love energy, high-spirited vocal and musical revelry for reading. Through the multi-sensory approach featuring the talents of Loretta "Lottie" Brenner, of illusion, Mike encourages the one who Jeni Wells-Whitney, joined by their cuddly plush struggles with reading and the avid reader to kangaroo “Maddie”. The Mud Pie Trio hails from reach their full potential by reading for fun and Oregon‘s Willamette Valley and performs original knowledge. OR songs and old favorites, and encourages the “Truth or Consequences” - utilizes illusion to audience to sing and play along with the best of demonstrate the cause and effect the choices we folk, blues, country, and rock & roll and a make today can have on tomorrow. generous dash of humor. Interactive children's Audience age level: All ages but mixed music performed on guitar, fiddle, mandolin, audiences of all ages seem best. ukulele, and percussion instruments will leave Audience size: All size audiences will work, you humming a catchy tune and coming back for but just like Mike Mulligan and MaryAnn the more! We integrate participatory musical dynamics change with a larger of audience. selections with "just for listening" selections, so Length of performance: 30 – 45 minutes children and adults experience a wide range of Special needs: I will need alone time before the musical styles. We also talk about the shows for set-up. instruments we play, offer some history and fun Travel range: 150 mile radius, but call if there is facts about them, and compare their sounds. In special event. addition to our regular performances, we also do Sometimes we can couple it with other events in special Teddy Bear Concerts that get children a location if you can be a little flexible.

Performers Showcase 21 playing, singing, and moving with their cuddly Nii Ardey Allotey teddy bears. Nii Ardey Allotey and Ekome Audience age level: 3 – 12 years old, but all ages (African Music and Dance) can enjoy the music! Anansi Beat (Storefront) Audience size: 1 – 200 (or more if festival venue) 3409 SE Belmont St Length of performance: 45 minutes Portland, OR 97214 Special needs: Electrical outlets if we need to use Telephone: (503) 236-8283 our sound system. Email: [email protected] Travel range: May need mileage or a travel fee Website: www.anansibeat.com over 50 miles from Corvallis. Program description: Live performance from Fee: $500 - (negotiable depending on distance, Ghana Africa. Nii Ardey Allotey and his multiple bookings) performing troup Ekome (which means 'unity') Seasonal availability: Primarily Summer invite the audience to experience the multi- Will you do a single performance in a location? layered rhythms of drums, bells, shakers, and Yes voices as they become part of a joyful celebration of the unique culture of Ghana, West Africa. With colorful native costumes and authentic, Nicole Rubel handmade instruments, these dancers and 14720 Albers Way N.E. drummers bring to life the language, folktales and Aurora, Oregon 97002 rich traditions of the Ghanaian people through Telephone: (503) 678-5985 song, movement, call-and-response and lively Email: [email protected] games from the region. The captivating Website: www.nicolerubel.com performance emphasizes the unity of all Program description: The Rotten Ralph program - peoples." (Young Audiences) Can be done for kindergarten all the way through Audience age level: 2-102 fifth-grade audiences to adult. I have a lot of fun Audience size: Small groups or large events with this program. The humor and audience Length of performance: 45 minutes to 60 participation aspects make it a real crowd minutes pleaser. Uses a Power Point slide presentation to Special needs: Open area on ground or on stage introduce children to my crazy Ralph-flavored to accommodate musicians and dance home and studio décor. I like to tell children how movement. important it is to learn to communicate clearly as Travel range: Up to 80 miles from Portland, speakers and writers, whatever their interests. A Oregon Rotten Ralph book is read out loud, usually the Fee: Single performance approximately $850.00 latest Rotten Ralph book on the block. And then I Additional costs: Mileage expense for travel walk through my audience getting ideas for a new outside Portland Metro area. Ralph story. The children give me art direction as Seasonal availability: all year I draw their wild and funny ideas on a large sheet Will you do a single performance in a location? of paper using markers. The program ends with a Yes question and answer session and then a trademark good-bye Rotten Ralph “Meow!” Audience age level: All levels and I love working Heather Pearl and Sarah Liane Foster with kindergartners. Nomadic Theatre Co Audience size: Any size is fine. 4207 N. Longview Ave Length of performance: 45 minutes to one hour. Portland, OR 97217 Special needs: Microphone. An easel and pad for Telephone: 503-358-3441 drawing. All drawings will be left for the library to Fax: 503-621-1073 enjoy. I supply the computer, Email: [email protected] power point projector and cassette tape player. Travel range: Doesn’t matter. Website: www.nomadictheatre.org Fee: $350 per presentation for two or more $400 Program descriptions: “How To Fly” - A fast- for a single presentation. paced, visually stimulating and informative show Additional costs: Gas money if your library is about Amelia Earhart, how man first flew, and over an hour from Aurora. what we can learn from animals who fly. Masks, Seasonal availability: Any time of the year is puppetry, and physical comedy. great. “See-Saw Project: 2 Clowns, 1 Mat, No Exit” A Will you do a single performance in a location? two woman theatrical clown show about Absolutely. friendship, (Known as the “Burrito show” ) Funny, Funny, Funny! Audience age level: Any Audience size: any Length of performances: 45 minutes

Performers Showcase 22 Special needs: requires some space. Can be Special needs: Need long table for our puppets, done outdoors. instruments & posters. Also need an electrical Travel range: negotiable outlet for our small PA system. Fee: $400. Travel range: Approx. 100 miles or less from Additional costs: none Portland and approx. 70miles from Klamath Falls. Seasonal availability: all Fee: $250 for one show; $350 for 2 back-to-back Will you do a single performance in a location? shows; plus permission to sell our CDs to parents yes who ask. Additional costs: $50 mileage/gasoline help for shows over 25 miles from Portland or Klamath Mick Doherty Falls. Oregon Shadow Theatre Seasonal availability: Available all seasons. 2015 NE 54 th Ave Will you do a single performance in a location? Portland, OR 97213-2775 Yes Telephone: 503-282-2165 Fax: 503-249-9520 Email: [email protected] Penny Walter Website: www.oregonshadowtheatre.com Penny’s Puppet Productions Program description: Shadow Puppet Plays with 7142 N. Montana Ave. live music. Seven titles currently available - Portland, OR, 97217 Anansi the Spider; The Green Bird, A Mexican Telephone: (503-282-9207) Story; Jack and the Varmints (an Appalachian Email: [email protected] Jack tale); American Tall Tales: Pecos Bill / Website: www.PennyPuppets.com Bigfoot and the Stink-O-Meter; Puss in Boots, the Program description: Our imaginative shows Creole Cat (set in Louisiana around Mardi Gras); take the audience on a magical, musical journey Thumbelina; and Adventures of Sinbad. packed full of comedy, laughter and audience Audience age level: 4 to 104 participation, blurring the boundaries between Audience size: up to 250 fantasy and reality to create a fun make believe Length of performance: 40 to 50 minutes world where anything can happen and usually Special needs: A Dark Room, 14’ X 14’ does. Many titles to choose from *List of shows performance space, 8’ clearance available upon request.* Travel range: Coast to coast, United States and Audience age level: 0-10, toddler, preschool, Canada elementary and Family Fee: 500 for one performance, block booking Audience size: 5-500 rates available Length of performance: 45 minutes Additional costs: Mileage from Portland, Oregon Special needs: None, I provide everything I need. at current federal rate Travel range: Oregon/ Northwest Seasonal availability: Year round on first-come Fee: $200 for 1 st show, $300 for 2 nd in same basis. See website for schedule. location. (if different show titles for 2 shows add Will you do a single performance in a location? $50) Smaller Venues 30 guests or smaller Yes show - $150 Additional costs: Mileage fee: outside Portland Metro area currently Harris and Terri Thurman Finck If multiple shows in one area are booked it could Kid Tunes, Inc – Galliump! help cut done on costs for everyone 2619 Berkeley St. Seasonal availability: Year around Klamath Falls, OR 97601 Will you do a single performance in a location? I Telephone: 541-883-3982 could do one show - 4 in one day. Email: [email protected] Website: www.kid-tunes.com Program description: Songs and dances by Mom- Phil Crosson Daughter Song Team; very Phil Crosson, the Magician interactive; songs deal with interesting animals; 2419 SE Ermine St. some humorous songs; all uplifting. Albany, Oregon 97322 Audience age level: Flexible. We offer shows for Telephone: 541-981-9062 Birth thru Age 7 and we have Email: [email protected] shows for older children. Website: Audience size: 2 to 200 children www.magician.org/member/philcrossonstage Length of performance: 45 minutes – although Program description: I perform fun and interactive flexible magic shows for children of all ages. Audience age level: Preschool, Elementary, Primary, Middle school

Performers Showcase 23 Audience size: Various Rhys Thomas Length of performance: 30-45 minutes JuggleMania Special needs: I do not perform surrounded 6647 NE Going St. Travel range: Any Portland, OR 97218 Fee: $275.00 per show Telephone: 503-282-1429 Additional costs: Gas Fax: 503-282-1429 Seasonal availability: School season and Email: [email protected] summer Website: www.jugglemania.com Will you do a single performance in a location? Program description: JuggleMania is "Hilarity and yes dexterity" (in the form of comedy juggling and circus tricks). Over the last 20 years, JuggleMania has appeared to laughter and Rachel Foxman applause on cruise ships in the Mediterranean, at Rachel Foxman, storyteller festivals in Japan, by dogsled in Alaska, and at 6614 N. Knowles Ave schools and libraries in America. Rhys also Portland, OR 97217 teaches physics via circus tricks at museums Telephone: (503)240-1780 across North America (as well as in Trinidad and Email: [email protected] Singapore). Rhys is the author of two juggling Program description: Stories for young and old manuals available in English and Japanese. alike from all around the world. Rhys loves books, his life, and watching people Audience age level: 4 - adult laugh. Audience size: No specification. Can play to large Audience age level: Really, truly, all ages. and intimate sized audiences. Audience size: More than zero, less than too Length of performance: 1/2 hour to 45 minutes, many to leave room depending on age group. Length of performance: 45-60 minutes, Special needs: Mic. if it's a large group, depending on library’s preferance Travel range: 50 mile radius from Portland. Special needs: 10x10x10 approximate Fee: $100.00 per session performance area Additional costs: $ .48 per mile 20 miles round Travel range: Sri Lanka (anywhere, if it fits my trip out of Portland schedule) Seasonal availability: All year Fee: $350 Will you do a single performance in a location? Additional costs: Gas if more than 60 miles from Yes Portland Seasonal availability: Anytime, if calendar is open Will you do a single performance in a location? Retta Christie Gladly Retta Christie Trio P.O. Box 17353 Portland, OR 97217 Rich Glauber Telephone: 503-735-2651 PO Box 11112 Email: [email protected] Eugene, OR 97440 Website: www.rettachristie.com Telephone: 541-242-1001 (home) Program description: Classic 541-554-4707 (cell) jazz and western swing. Email: [email protected] Audience age level: All ages. Website: Richglauber.com Audience size: Doesn’t matter. Program description: Music in Action!… a high- Length of performance: Two 45-minute sets. energy, interactive mix of songs, Special needs: Real piano if possible (we movement and comedy, using guitar, accordion, do have a keyboard we can use). voice and some props (scarves, percussion etc.) Travel range: All over the state. The focus is on building community spirit and fun Fee: $700 with additional cost for travel. through music. Additional costs: Audience age level: All Ages If we provide the sound system - $100 Audience size: All sizes extra. Length of performance: Usually 45-50 minutes Travel - depends on mileage – distance. Special needs: Room to move is important, Seasonal availability: Available although if the space is limited, we make anytime our schedule allows. adjustments. But the first request is to clear a Will you do a single performance in a location? large space for community movement Yes Travel range: Oregon and Southern Washington Fee: Negotiable and reasonable Additional costs: Travel stipend for out of town trips

Performers Showcase 24 Seasonal availability: All Seasons Seasonal availability: any Will you do a single performance in a location? Will you do a single performance in a location? Yes Yes

Richard Ritchey Rick Meyers The Reptile Man The Old-Time Music Show P.O. Box 195 2444 SE Grant St. Colton,OR 97017 Portland, Oregon 97214 Telephone: 503-824-6423 ph. Telephone: (503) 522-1124 Fax: same for fax Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.rickmeyersmusic.com Website: www.oregonreptile.com Program description: A delightful blend of Program description: 60 min. program using 15- historical information, playful dialogue, audience 18 live reptiles! Exciting and interactive! participation, and pioneer music featuring Educational and humorous! unusual instruments and household items such Audience age level: Ages 5 yrs. thru adult. as the musical saw, jewsharp, limberjack, Audience size: 10 to several hundred spoons, noseflute, washboard and washtub bass, Length of performance: One hour programs as well as banjo, guitar, autoharp, and ukulele. Special needs: One 6 - 8ft. table, electricity, and The show illustrates the high level of creativity shade if outside. used by our pioneers to make music and how we Travel range: South to Roseburg,, north to can enjoy that same music in our lives today. Portland, up to Seattle, WA, Audience age east level: to AllBend,OR, ages enjoy west this to show.the Oregon It coast! Fee: $300.00 one program, $175.00 each can also be modified to suit any special additional program, audience, event, same or location,theme. same day. Additional costs: Travel charges may apply. Audience size: Any size Seasonal availability: All year round. Length of performance: 45-60 minutes as Will you do a single performance in a location? requested Yes Special needs: 1 chair without arms; electrical outlet for sound system Travel range: Statewide in Oregon, Washington, Rick Huddle & Idaho Rick Huddle Fee: $235 per show; negotiable for block- 7235 N Fenwick Ave booking. Portland, OR 97217 Additional costs: Travel for shows more than 20 Telephone: 503-720-0397 miles from Portland and lodging for shows Email: [email protected] requiring one or more overnight stays. Website: www.rickhuddle.com Seasonal availability: Year-round Program description: A vibrant presentation of Will you do a single performance in a location? stories, songs, and interactive games. Pulling Yes from folktales, contemporary fiction, and true life, Rick’s stories focus on personal awareness, self- acceptance, and diversity. Audience members Rickie Birran are drawn into singing along with songs Sir ReadAlot/ReadAlot Theater accompanied by guitar. Games and story PO Box 71606 “stretches” keep young listeners involved by Eugene OR 97401 letting them get up and move around, while Telephone: (541) 510-9384 creating a kinesthetic experience for all. Rick has Email: [email protected] been a selected performer at the NW Folklife Website: www.sirreadalot.com Festival, Portland’s Tapestry of Tales Festival, Program description: A Reading enrichment Hearing Voices (Washington Co), and the Bay program combining the arts of acting and Area (SF) Storytelling Festival. He has toured storytelling with the discipline of oral shows from the San Francisco Fringe Festival to interpretation to bring reading and literature to the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, DC. life. Audience age level: 3 - 99 Audience age level: For all ages Audience size: any Audience size: For any size group Length of performance: 30-50 minutes Length of performance: 45 min Special needs: none Travel range: Travel range: any Fee: $500 for a ReadAlot Theater; $300 for a Sir Fee: $250-400 ReadAlot Additional costs: travel, lodging if outside of Additional costs: mileage greater Portland area

Performers Showcase 25 Seasonal availability: Available anytime for any number of performances. Roger Coles Will you do a single performance in a location? Roger Coles Storyteller Yes PO Box 2831 Portland, OR 97208 Telephone: 503-282-4031 Rob Tobias Email: [email protected] Maximo Productions Website: www.portlandstorytellers.org 1925 Adams Street Program description: I tell original stories I write Telephone: 541-343-0595 myself, personal stories, strong women and fool cell: 541-517-7906 wisdom stories. There are programs about Email: [email protected] children’s perspectives, growing up in the sixties Website: www.robtobias.com and updated and feminist fairy tales. Program description: Rob Tobias presents folk Audience age level: 3 - adult classics and original compositions designed to Audience size: 5 - 100 engage and entertain young audiences. Activities Length of performance: 45 min. – an hour include singing, playing, moving and engage Travel range: Greater Northwest improvisationally in the creation of songs and Fee: $150 an hour – packages available for stories. multiple tellings or telling and workshop/in- Audience age level: all ages service. Audience size: I have performed for as many as Additional costs: Outside Portland/Vancouver 400 kids at assemblies... area, mileage @ $.55/mile Length of performance: 30-60 minutes Seasonal availability: All seasons – Special needs: Sound for large audiences particularly summer and summer library Travel range: 2-3 hour drive programs. Fee: $100-$200 Will you do a single performance in a location? Additional costs: Gas Yes Will you do a single performance in a location? sure Sarah Stein Same Robert Rubinstein 2937 NE Flanders St. Robert Rubinstein Portland, OR. 97232 90 E. 49th Avenue Telephone: (503) 230-7079 Eugene, Oregon 97405 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 541-344-8176 Website: www.sarah-stein.com Email: [email protected] Program description: Storytelling: original stories, Website: RobertRubinstein.net folk tales, Jewish Tales. Includes lots of Program description: I perform a wide range of participation traditional tales from different Audience age level: All ages, esp. children countries and cultures. Stories could focus on a Audience size: Not relevant specific theme. Theatre game workshops for Length of performance: 30 min. to 45 min. students and adults as well as workshops on how Special needs: Maybe a mike to learn to tell a tale and teach others to tell. Travel range: Portland and suburbs; Vancouver, Audience age level: Five years old through adults WA. Audience size: Ten to 300. Fee: $75 to 100 Length of performance: Usually 45 minutes- 1 Additional costs: Travel if more than 30 min. trip hour; workshops may be 1 hour or longer. Seasonal availability: October through 2009 Special needs: Mike - preferably lapel, a quiet Will you do a single performance in a location? area and comfortable setting Yes for the audience. I prefer to NOT be on a stage. Travel range: 150 miles from Eugene Fee: Depends on the program and length: William S. Anderson usually $200 for 45 minutes to an hour plus Illusions of Anderson mileage 640 N Ivy St. Additional costs: Room and board if I must stay Canby, OR. 9701 over-night Telephone: 503.481.7074 Seasonal availability: All-year, but winter range Email: [email protected] will be limited possibly by weather. Website: www.illusionsofanderson.com Will you do a single performance in a location? Program description: Magic & Illusion - William yes Scott Anderson, one of the highest rated entertainers on the West Coast, is a special

Performers Showcase 26 breed of performer. William combines the art of Length of performance: 30 min. Magic, with the Theater of Illusion, and then adds Travel range: None his unique Sense of Humor to create an Fee: $165 astonishing performance everywhere he goes. Additional costs: Travel over 50 miles from Whether he is performing his out of this world Corvallis slight of hand for a small crowd, his 1 man Seasonal availability: Any time cabaret, or his Las Vegas style production for a Will you do a single performance in a location? theater of thousands, your entertainment is Yes GUARANTEED! Visit our website for videos and complete show descriptions!! Audience age level: 5 and up Audience size: 1 to 3000 Steve Taylor Length of performance: 30 minutes to 2 hours BookSteve.com Special needs: Stage PO Box 822002 Travel range: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, N. Vancouver, WA 98682 California Telephone: 360-687-7891 Fee: $500 to $6500 Email: [email protected] Additional costs: Travel costs will be determined Website: by distance. www.BeCreativeAtYourLibraryShow.com Seasonal availability: Year round Program description: Colors, Comedy and Will you do a single performance in a location? Creativity abound as Steve Taylor Yes celebrates his 21st straight year of offering reading-motivation programs to Pacific Northwest Scott Perry libraries with the "Be Creative At Your Library Perry Puppetunes! Show!" Using comedy magic, ventriloquism and 3511 40th Ave. SE tons of audience participation, Steve celebrates Albany, OR 97322 the vastness of children's imaginations through a Telephone: 541-619-3403 colorful, playful and creative comedy show, all Email: [email protected] centered around reading books and using your Website: www.pbsmusic.com library! If you want huge numbers signed up for Program description: Songs and puppets (with your summer reading, reserve the creative ventiloquism) - lots of fun and talents of "magical-ventriloquist" (and book-lover reinforcing positive character traits for kids. and author himself) Steve Taylor! Audience age level: Ages 3-8 Audience age level: Pre-K to 6th Grade and their Audience size: 10 to 400 families Length of performance: 35 minutes (or so) Audience size: The more the merrier! Special needs: Ventriloquism I do requires a Length of performance: 40 to 45 minutes sound system - I bring my own if needed. Special needs: None, except for electricity Travel range: Anywhere in Oregon - Over 100 Travel range: Oregon & Washington miles from Albany requires mileage Fee: $395 per presentation (discounts offered for reimbursement multiple shows at same library and library Fee: $225 systems) Additional costs: Mileage if over 100 miles from Additional costs: Travel fee to some areas (see Albany. website for more info) Seasonal availability: Weekends throughout year Seasonal availability: Available year round and - and summers any day. especially during Summer Reading (yay!) Will you do a single performance in a location? Will you do a single performance in a location? Yes. Of course!

Steve Peterson Minor Miracles Magic Tasi Keener 29414 S.E. Becker Dr. The Paradise of Samoa Corvallis, OR 97333 4867 13th Ave NE Telephone: 541-757- 6548 Keizer, OR 97303 Email: [email protected] Telephone: (503) 463-7184 Website: www.minor-miracles.net Fax: (541)967-7097 Program description: Comedy magic with Email: [email protected] puppets(Rocky Raccoon and Bosco the Website: www.paradiseofsamoa.com Bodacious Bunny) Program description: Polynesian dance and Audience age level: 5-10 yrs. entertainment, including Samoan Fire Knife Audience size: 1 - 500 Dance, representing Samoa, Hawaii, Tahiti, New

Performers Showcase 27 Zealand (Maori), and Tonga. We do an Will you do a single performance in a location? interactive dance as well. Absolutely Audience age level: All ages, although participants range from 4 yrs to 71 yrs. Several of the dancers are in their teens. Thomas Schroyer Audience size: Depending on the facility ....we Rhythmic Opera have performed for up to 800 people, but (and) Tommy Twimble generally 100-200. 2019 SE 43rd Ave Length of performance: Each show is 40 min Portland, Or 97215 with a seven minute fire knife show. Telephone: 971.570.6687 Special needs: Dressing area and Email: [email protected] fire extinguisher Website: rhythmicopera.com (and) Travel range: From Southern Oregon to Seattle. tommytwimble.com Fee: $250 Program description: Rhythmic Opera : Thomas Additional costs: DNA fascinates his audience weaving musical Seasonal availability: All Seasons - performance, story, myth, and history with the Will you do a single performance in a location? unlimited possibilities of rhythm. From the oldest Yes drum in the world, "the frame drum" to the most peculiar one, the hubcap, Thomas demonstrates how rhythm can be found just about anywhere. Terry Hess Hear and learn about traditional instruments from Pioneer Living the Middle East and India. Various rhythms are 23 High Meadow Drive explored through call and response and rhythmic Lyle, WA 98635 voicing. This program is highly interactive and Telephone: 800-468-4753 engaging with movement, clapping, and Email: [email protected] everyone has an opportunity to play the drum. Website: www.pioneerliving.org Tommy Twimble : Physical theater, comedy, Program description: Totally hands-on. They can mime, and music retelling the old classics in the play with hand-made folk toys, modern world. Using rich symbolism, accordion, grind up corn into cornmeal, card and spin wool rhythm, hat throws, peculiar noises, and old world and make friendship bracelets, wash clothes on a sensibilities, Mr. Twimble adventures into the wringer, bead a necklace to take home etc. new world. Audience age level: Pre-school to adults Audience age level: all ages Audience size: 150 Audience size: all sizes Length of performance: One hour Length of performance: 30-40 minutes Special needs: None Special needs: Larger audiences may require PA Travel range: Oregon, Washington and California system Fee: $195 Travel range: everywhere except maybe the Additional costs: None Sahara Desert Seasonal availability: All year Fee: $175 Will you do a single performance in a location? Additional costs: Travel Costs Yes in Oregon and Washington. Need two shows Seasonal availability: all seasons in CA Will you do a single performance in a location? Yes. I also offer discounted group bookings.

Terry Jordan 2461 Marylhaven Place Tim Alexander Lake Oswego, OR 97034 Alexander, Master of Marvels! Telephone: (503) 699-1743 4707 NE 68 th Ave. Email: [email protected] Portland, OR 97218 Program description: Drawing from folk tales and Telephone: 503 331 8542 personal stories, programs are designed to meet Email: [email protected] the needs and theme of your group. Website: www.parlorofwonders.com Audience age level: All ages Program description: Audience size: Any Award Winning Magic Show! Length of performance: Any amount of time up Classics and original tricks. to 60 minutes Sleight of Hand, Levitation, Live Bunny Audience Special needs: None Participation, 19 th Century Styling, Music Travel range: Anywhere “Let Reading Ignite Your Imagination” Fee: $50 - 125/ hour Audience age level: Additional costs: Travel Seasonal availability: Year-round

Performers Showcase 28 4-104. 3 year olds may enjoy the color, costume, performances and workshops in New Zealand, bunny, etc., but isn’t everything like magic to a 3 Australia, Alaska, New ork, Colorado, year old? Washington, California and Oregon. Fire juggling Audience size: Depending on the nature is an OPTION at OUTSIDE shows for libraries of the venue, the show can entertain that are interested. Fire juggling is not an option upwards of 500 people. at indoor shows, and is never done without prior Length of performance: Approx 45-50 minutes discussion and agreement. Juggling (various Special needs: This show is not designed skills, call for more info) workshops for up to 50 for outdoor performances, unless there is participants available, all equipment provided. an optimal stage situation. I have other Audience age level: Appropriate for the options for outdoors- a smaller show, full range of ages (infants to adults). and/or Strolling Magic! Audience size: Unlimited Travel range: Pacific Northwest Length of performance: Typically 30-50 minutes Fee: $250-350 Special needs: Electric at performance site for Additional costs: After 30 miles r/t, 50 cents per outdoor shows or indoor mile A room for the night after a 175 mile trip is shows with more than 100 audience members. requested. Travel range: Unlimited, although Distances Seasonal availability: Year round greater than 100 miles from Will you do a single performance in a location? Eugene may cost extra. Yes Fee: $300/show, bulk discounts available Additional costs: Distances greater than 100 miles from Eugene may cost extra. Tim Giugni Seasonal availability: Anytime. Il Teatro Calamari Will you do a single performance in a location? 1232 W. Zinfandel Lane Yes. Saint Helena, CA, 94574 Vicki Hannah Lein Telephone: 707.963.8259 1160 NW 36th Street Email: [email protected] Corvallis, OR 97330 Website: teatrocalamari.com Telephone: 541 752-6933 Program description: Many exciting Email: [email protected] performances and fun workshops that use Website: www.stepintoyourgreatness.us puppetry, masks and physical theater. Program description: Interactive original songs to Audience age level: Performances are all ages, teach compassion and perseverance. with extra special 18 month to Audience age level: Kindergarten though sixth 3 years of age performances by request. Audience size: 300 or less Workshops start at 6 years of age. Length of performance: 30 to 45 minutes Audience size: Pack 'em in. Special needs: A sound system if it is a large Length of performance: 30, 45 & 90 minutes. audience Special needs: Chocolate or coffee. Travel range: Two hours from Corvallis Travel range: West Coast Fee: $1000 Fee Range: Shows start at $350, but multiple Additional costs: Mileage bookings/performances of 3 shows or more in a Seasonal availability: All year 150 mile area bring the cost down. Will you do a Discount:single performance Heavily reduced in a location? library show when library helps Seasonal availability: May and June are the least yes expensive months as I am touring Washington schools at that time. End of July to the middle of August. Will make special trip for 5 Kathryn Claire and Victor Johnson performances in a week’s time. P.O. Box 398 Will you do a single performance in a location? The Dalles, Or. 97058 Yep. Telephone: 541-298-7031 Email: [email protected] Website: www.victorjohnson.com Tom Yahner Kathryn Claire.net Tom Question Program description: American Roots music for 130 McClure Lane kids and families Eugene, OR 97404 Audience age level: All ages Telephone: 541 736-9743 Audience size: Any size Email: [email protected] Length of performance: 30- 60 minutes Program Description: A BIG, family-oriented depending on age levels vaudeville/circus show with stiltwalking, juggling, Special needs: Power to site, Shade helps if audience participation and comedy. Tom outside summer show. Question has presented hundreds of Travel range: Northwest

Performers Showcase 29 Fee: $500-$1000. Multi show discounts, solo Telephone: (541) 302-2848 performances available Email: [email protected] Seasonal availability: Year Round. Holiday shows Website: www.truthtales.com available Program description: Audience participation Will you do a single performance in a location? stories from one of the following themes, or a Yes theme of your choice: --Tales from Oregon history and the Oregon Trail--Environmental Tales--Multicultural Folktales from around the World--Stories of Peace and Justice Will Hornyak Audience age level: Preschool - Adult Will Hornyak Storyteller Audience size: 250 rd 11375 SE 33 Ave. Length of performance: 45 min. to an hour Milwaukie, OR 97222 Special needs: Microphone for group, preferably Telephone: 503/697-5808 a clip-on mic Fax: same Travel range: Anyplace in Oregon Email: [email protected] Fee: $150 for one performance, $75 for each Website: willhornyak.com additional performance Program description: Three programs Additional costs: Mileage, accommodations for 1. Storied Oregon: From Nez Perce coyote tales distances over 150 miles (homestays are fine) and pioneer legends, to tall tales of music loving Seasonal availability: Unavailable October 27 to bears and true tales of beloved heroes, Will December 5, 2008 th Will you do a single performance in a location? celebrates Oregon’s 150 Birthday year with a Yes program of stories all born and bred in the Beaver state. Program is adaptable for all ranges. Zephyr Brown 2. The Adventures of Medio Pollito Journey Amazama Juggling School with the brave but unlikely hero, Medio Pollito 6205 NE Failing St. (Half Chicken!) from Mexican oral tradition as he Portland OR, 97213 sets off to meet the king and find his fame and Telephone: (503) 281-1039 fortune. This bi-lingual Spanish-English Fax: (503) 281-1039 participation storytelling program includes other Email: [email protected] participation fables and folktales from world oral Website: amazama.com traditions. Appropriate for all ages. Program description: Come learn to juggle! We 3. The Story of the Magic Box From Chinese offer a comfortable hands on setting to explore fables and Jewish folktales to Russian fairytales, the joys of physical movement and co-ordination. Native American myths and beyond, this program Feel your self confidence and esteem grow as of participation stories for all ages draws from a you learn skills while having fun! This program wide variety of cultures and story genres. An can also be combined with the “Charlie Brown energetic and engaging performance with a high Comedy Juggling Show” as a block booking with level of audience involvement. special rate considerations. A great way for Length of performance: 50 minutes audiences to enjoy juggling from both sides! Special needs: None Contact us for details. Travel range: Entire state of Oregon Audience age level: 3 thru 103 Fee: $300 per program (two for $500 same day Audience size: Good for all sizes. All that is and site) required is space. Additional costs: $ .50 cents per mile if more than Length of performance: 45 minutes to 1 hour 25 miles outside of Portland area. $100.00 per Special needs: Enough space to allow free day food and lodging costs (or home-stay movement to all accommodations) if overnight stay required. Travel range: Contact us for travel Seasonal availability: All year requirements Will you do a single performance in a location? Fee: $350.00 Normally, yes. I ask for assistance in booking Additional costs: Travel beyond 50 miles requires other performances in the area (schools, extra fee. Each decided on individual basis. community centers, retirement communities, Seasonal availability: All pubs, coffee houses) if the location is a Will you do a single performance in a location? substantial distance from Portland. Yes

Yvonne Young Teller of Truth Tales 1185 McLean Blvd. Eugene, OR 97405

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