Selected Performances

Storytelling at the MIM


Fight of the Valkyries 

A tale of two women who love the same man
Hint -- it does not turn out well

Phoenix Fringe Festival

Experience Norway! 2014: Trolls Trolls Trolls, Tricksters and Heroes
Children Brave and True, Tales of the Vikings

Experience Scandinavia! 2015
Trolls and cats. A Finnish water troll. A brave Danish Hare-Herder.

Experience Scandinavia! 2017
Tales of Fire and Ice 

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Mojave National Preserve Conservancy
Star Party

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A wonderful opportunity to travel deep into the Mojave Desert National Preserve in order to tell stories about deserts and stars to people who love deserts and stars (and food and telescopes and parties and friendship) in June of 2015. Highlight story: The Myth of Phaeton, what else?

And who could forget the great Gila Bend Shrimp Festivals
(We were on the main stage the next year)

Many stories ... many places

Up South Mountain!

• South Mountain Environmental Education Center Moon Hikes

One Big Family: Women, Warriors, and Fools in Celtic and Norse Story

• Myth Informed with Laura Rutherford, South Mountain Community College, Phoenix 

I don't play with balls!

• AZ Storytellers Project, The Newton at Changing hands, Phoenix

Land of Mogollo

• StoryRise, Avondale

Enough is Enough

• National Storytelling Conference Western Showcase, Mesa

Piltdown Philharmonic

• AZStorytellers Project, Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix
• Out of the Box Storytelling, Mesa
• Wardrobe Malfunctions, Community Christian Church, Tempe

Guðrún's Revenge

• Train Wreck in Progress, Trunk Space, Phoenix
• La Lloronathon, South Mountain Community College, Phoenix

‘Vacuation Day

• Arizona BestFest, Phoenix
• Arizona State University Museum of Anthropology, Tempe 

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White Rock white rock

• Stories of Fire, Community Christian Church, Tempe
• StoryRise, Avondale

Völsung Story: Signy, Brynhildr and Guðrúnr

• Prescott College, Prescott
• “Myth Informed,” South Mountain Community College

The Story of Sigmund and Signy 

• “Myth Informed,” South Mountain Community College

Myth Mob!!

From 2008 - 2011 Harriet and three of her South Mountain colleagues performed together as a Fringe storytelling ensemble. The tellers worked together to weave stories from their own traditions into a performances that featured myth, music, and mayhem.

Myth Mob performances include:
Three Goddesses and a Guy (Phoenix Fringe Festival), Big Girls Who Fight (South Mountain Community College), Fire and Ice (Scottsdale Center for the Arts),You Don't Own Me (South Mountain Community College) and Commander in Chief to the Fourth Power