Strange Storytelling Hour – Mothership [Online]
Sliding scale ticketing: $5–25
General 3-Pack: $40
NWFF Member 3-Pack: $24
Proceeds support Emmett, storytellers, and NWFF!
No one turned away for lack of funds, contact rana@nwfilmforum.org.
Northwest Film Forum is SCREENING ONLINE! NWFF’s physical space is temporarily closed in light of public health concerns around COVID-19, but community, dialogue, and education through media arts WILL persist.
• • HOW TO WATCH • •
- Register for a ticket or series 3-Pack through NWFF’s Eventive platform.
- 1 hour before storytelling hour, NWFF will send a Zoom link and password to your registered e-mail address! (Don’t see it? Check your spam filter.)
- If by showtime you do not receive an e-mail with details, please contact vivian@nwfilmforum.org for a quick follow-up. (But please, check your spam!)
Visiting Artist
Participating storytellers:
LA-based comedian Jen Saunderson,
Laura Wachs, a Seattle based poet,
and Michele Francis from Austin!
About
May 2021 theme: MOTHERSHIP. We all have stories about the people that brought us into this world. To celebrate mother’s day, storytellers will share their happiest, or perhaps complicated tales of their relationship with idea and reality of motherhood.
Something strange is back in this multi-episode live event series presented by North Bend Film Fest and Northwest Film Forum, where emerging storytellers recount peculiar tales and bizarre happenings based on their own real life experiences. Each episode features a strange new theme, challenging storytellers to win over the audience with their storytelling skills.
This virtual event series is be hosted by Seattle-based storyteller, comedian and weirdo Emmett Montgomery — NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Seattle Weekly’s Best Comedian 2015, 2017, 2018 and host and curator of the community based “comedy” show Joketellers Union (with Brett Hamil) and the experimental basement/storytelling show The Magic Hat.