Story Swap shines new light on world with Tuesday program in Port Angeles
Published 12:01 am Monday, November 10, 2014
PORT ANGELES — “The World in a Different Light” is the title of storyteller Colleen Squier’s Story Swap program Tuesday at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.
Admission is free to the swap, which will start with Squier’s tales at 7 p.m.
A refreshment break follows at 8 p.m., and the evening wraps with an open-mic section from 8:15 until 9 p.m. to give more storytellers a chance to step up.
Squier, a recent transplant from Seattle to Sequim, studied storytelling with Port Angeles’ Cherie Trebon and has appeared at Seattle’s Northwest Folklife Festival three times.
She has shared stories at church, parties and bookstore storytimes, and won the third-place trophy at the Liars Contest last June in Port Angeles.
Colleen now is a member of the Story People of Clallam County, which sponsors the monthly Story Swaps.
Be they personal reflections or traditional folk tales, “stories tell us who we were, who we are and who we will be,” she believes.
Listening also exposes us to new experiences, Squier added, hence the “world in a different light” angle.
For more about the free Story Swap held every second Tuesday of the month at the Port Angeles Library, visit www.ClallamStoryPeople.org or phone Chris at 360-452-8092.
