Event

2015 TELLABRATION!tm

Portland Storytellers' Guild is pleased to invite you to an evening of extraordinary stories from an extraordinary storyteller -- Gene Tagaban, "One Crazy Raven," an influential storyteller, trainer, speaker, mentor and performer.
Gene is of the Takdeintaan clan, the Raven, Freshwater Sockeye clan from Hoonah, AK. He is the Child of the Wooshkeetaan clan, the Eagle, Shark clan from Juneau, AK. He is Cherokee, Tlingit and Filipino.
Through storytelling, dance, music, culture and tradition Gene travels nationally and internationally performing, presenting, and facilitating workshops and gatherings on empowerment, leadership, relationship, communication, self-awareness, prevention, spirit and honor to participants of all ages.
Gene is an specialty instructor for the Wilderness Awareness School, president and mentor for the Peacekeepers Society, board member and trainer for the Native Wellness Institute, trainer for Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault mentoring prevention program, He has been a featured teller at the National Storytelling Festival, Kansas City storytelling festival, Bay Area Storytelling festival, St. Louis Storytelling Festival and the Singapore International Storytelling Festival. He has traveled internationally to Taiwan and Venezuela as a US Ambassador to promote good will, and culture. He is featured in the films "Shadow of the Salmon" and Sherman Alexie's "The Business of Fancydancing." Gene was honored to perform with the Dalai Lama in the presence of an audience of 16,000 children at the "Seeds of Compassion" gathering in Seattle, WA and the Nature Conservancy's 50th anniversary with Jane Goodall.