Next Wright House Concert Features Storytellers Matson and Winship

Elizabeth Matson and Jim Winship will be telling stories at The Wright House on March 21 at 7pm.

A performing storyteller since 1987, Elizabeth Matson grew up in her mother’s Children’s Theatre Company and read her way through the fairy tale section of her childhood public library. She is a spinner of tales, weaving magic into her original performances of fairy, folk, personal, and family history tales. Elizabeth brings stories to life with her expressions, movement, and voice. She offers performances, workshops, and story coaching for all ages. She is the co-author, with Stuart Stotts, of The Bookcase Ghost: A Storyteller’s Collection of Wisconsin Ghost Stories (Midwest Traditions, 1996). She holds a MA in Folklore and MS in Library Science. She coaches her library’s teen storytelling troupe, has performed at the Whitewater (WI) Storytelling Festival, and performs virtually with 4 Women Telling.

Jim Winship has been a college professor for over three decades, a Professor of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and also a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia and El Salvador. He has performed as a professional storyteller and has been conducting workshops on digital storytelling since 2009. Jim left full-time employment at UW-W in 2016 to have the time to devote to fully engaging with training opportunities and story-based work. Jim has been trained by StoryCenter in Berkeley, California, the organization that pioneered digital storytelling. He creates digital stories and has conducted five three-day workshops in which college faculty and professional staff members each created their own digital stories. He has facilitated students in creating digital stories both at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater — including a series of stories on race, ethnicity and power — and at the University of Cartagena, Colombia.