Message from the Founders

Lynne Duddy and Lawrence Howard, along with members of our Founders’ Circle, Board of Directors, and Narrative Network, want you to know that we are concerned and care about your health and well-being.

Lawrence Howard and Lynne Duddy, Founders

Portland Story Theater has a big vision: to advance, inspire and expand our community narrative, one story at a time – and in doing so, preserve and promote the ancient art of storytelling in a way that enriches modern life, allowing and encouraging people to be vulnerable and present in ways that are crucial to the full expression of our humanity.

We are happy to refund your prepaid workshop fees. If you have purchased tickets through Nordic Northwest, please contact them directly for a refund.

Our love and support goes out to those who have been affected at this time.

Finally, if you are sheltering in place and looking for something to do, please visit our YouTube Channel or our iTune channels: Urban Tellers and Urban Tellers Backstory. We’d love it if you’d leave a review or a rating, or spread the word by sharing with your friends and family. Thank you!

And until we meet again, May The Narrative Be With You!®

Nansen of The North

This year, Lawrence Howard takes the Armchair Adventure north, to Norway and Greenland and the East Siberian Islands, to Svarlbard and Spitzbergen and Franz Joseph Land. This year the story goes all the way back to the 1890’s, to the father of polar travel: the one and only Fridtjof Nansen.

Fridtjof Nansen,
Father of Polar Travel

2020 Nansen of The North

Nordia House, Portland, Oregon
Saturday, April 4, 2020
POSTPONED until Saturday, October 17, 2020
[Tickets]

Club House, Crooked River Ranch
Central Oregon
POSTPONED until 2021

For more information, please visit Lawrence Howard’s Armchair Adventure page.

Nordia House

Urban Tellers® event at Nordic Northwest’s Nordia House has been POSTPONED until Saturday, November 21, 2020 with an Immigrant & Refugee special edition.

The beautiful Nordia House!

If you are an immigrant or refugee and are interested in telling a personal story, please contact us at 503-284-2226. We would welcome people from the Nordic Northwest membership to be a part of this unique experience.

Urban Tellers® Special Edition gives people in Portland’s immigrant and refugee community a chance to identify, develop and perform their own true stories in front of a live audience.

Urban Tellers® shows give people an inside look into the heart and soul of our community. Urban Tellers® brings together people to share stories of our mutual human experience.

Urban Tellers®
POSTPONED until 20221

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