{"id":773,"date":"2011-06-15T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellitontuesday.org\/?p=773"},"modified":"2025-03-16T10:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T18:46:42","slug":"july-26-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellitontuesday.org\/index.php\/july-26-2011\/show","title":{"rendered":"July 26, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Kirk Waller<\/strong>, &#8220;Shasta Creek&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Laura Wiley<\/strong>, &#8220;Panic!\u201d (An Excerpt)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Keith Bowers<\/strong>, \u201cdummy: the story of the biggest error I ever made\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dhaya Lakshminarayanan<\/strong>, &#8220;Desperate Vegetarians in Georgia&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The California Poppies<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Foresta Sieck-Hill and Sarah Domenico,\u00a0<\/strong>guitar, egg shaker, harmonica, and vocals<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Performers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><strong>Kirk Waller<\/strong>&nbsp;summons all of his God-given talents and fuses them together &#8211; spoken word, rhythm, music and movement to create an unforgettable storytelling experience. He performs throughout the Bay Area and the United States. This fall he is slated to tell at the National Storytelling Festival for the first time in Jonesborough, Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Laura Wiley<\/strong>\u00a0has studied solo performance at the SF Marsh.\u00a0 Four people affiliated with the Marsh helped her put this piece together from start to finish\u2014Ann Randolph, Mark Kenward, David Ford and Rebecca Fisher\u2014and she is very grateful to them.\u00a0In addition to writing and acting, Laura sings, plays the flute, and paints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keith Bowers<\/strong>&nbsp;is arts and culture editor for SF Weekly. He is a veteran journalist, lifelong visual artist, and occasional performer. His most recent exhibit of photographs and junk sculpture was titled &#8220;Art of Death \/ Art of Life&#8221; at the Actual Cafe in Oakland. He co-founded an East Bay artist group known as ARTSEM. He had a brief but extremely memorable experience performing in an alternative film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dhaya Lakshminarayanan<\/strong>\u00a0is a San Francisco-based stand-up comedienne, storyteller, television host, business consultant, and ubergeek. Before starting in the business of \u201cshow,\u201d she taught \u201cCharm School\u201d at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she graduated (twice). She\u2019s traveled to Cuba as a researcher, worked as a venture capitalist, and taught public speaking in Kathmandu, Nepal. She was the host of the Emmy-winning <em>High School Quiz Show<\/em>, on PBS\u2019s WGBH, which premiered March 22, 2010.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhayacomedy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.dhayacomedy.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>California Poppies<\/strong>\u00a0consist of two native California girls,<strong>\u00a0Foresta Sieck-Hill<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Sarah Domenico.<\/strong>\u00a0Their inspired harmonic reinterpretation of old-timey, trail-o-tears classics, combined with melancholy originals, gently yet playfully lull one through a musical moment, as a path lined with their namesake just might.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories Music The California Poppies:\u00a0Foresta Sieck-Hill and Sarah Domenico,\u00a0guitar, egg shaker, harmonica, and vocals About the Performers Kirk Waller&nbsp;summons all of his God-given talents and fuses them together &#8211; spoken word, rhythm, music and movement to create an unforgettable storytelling experience. He performs throughout the Bay Area and the United States. This fall he is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tellitontuesday.org\/index.php\/july-26-2011\/show\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">July 26, 2011<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-show","tag-28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellitontuesday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellitontuesday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellitontuesday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellitontuesday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellitontuesday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tellitontuesday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/tellitontuesday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellitontuesday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellitontuesday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellitontuesday.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}