Porchlight Comes to Point Reyes Sunday Oct. 19!

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Porchlight Presents The Sun Will Come Out Tomales

San Francisco’s Longest-Running Storytelling Show comes to Pt. Reyes Stationon October 19, 2025. Join us for an afternoon of personal stories told live onstage as an eclectic group of North Bay locals comes to the Dance Palace. Each storyteller will tell a ten-minute story– without using notes – touching on themes of hope, inspiration, and optimism in relation to the singularly stunning landscape of Pt. Reyes and the surrounding area.

Founded in 2002, Porchlight has curated hundreds of events designed to foster community and connection through the entertaining lens of personal stories. This special Pt. Reyes Station edition features a dynamic group of storytellers – some seasoned Porchlight veterans and some telling stories on stage for the first time, including journalist and Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware, former SF Gate honcho John Coate, Cowgirl Creamer cofounder Sue Conley, drama teacher Lisa Doron, jazz saxophonist Richard Howell, singer/songwriter Virgil Shaw,

Show Details:Porchlight: The Sun WIll Come Out Tomales

Date: October 19, 2025

Time: 2 pm

Venue: The Dance Palace, 503 B St Pt. Reyes Station

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/porchlight-storytelling-the-sun-will-come-out-tomales-tickets-1587984738099?aff=oddtdtcreator

Porchlight was founded by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick in 2002 with the goal of gettingpeople of the San Francisco Bay Area onstage to tell their personal stories. Our residentmusical director, pianist Marc Capelle, keeps time on stage with great showmanship and panache. Porchlight has also produced shows in collaboration with culturali nstitutions such as Litquake, SF Sketchfest, the San Francisco Film Festival, the BayArea Science Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Contemporary JewishMuseum, Texas Book Festival, Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, and the Hay on Wyefestival in Nairobi.

Some of our more well-known storytellers include: Bob Odenkirk, Kamau Bell, David Cross, Dave Eggers, Bobcat Goldthwait, Kamala Harris, Daniel Handler (LemonySnicket), Ken Jennings, Atsuko Okatsuka, Marc Maron, Chelsea Peretti, The AmazingRandi, Boots Riley, Adam Savage, Amber Tamblyn, Meg Wolitzer and Moon Zappa.

Media Contact:Beth Lisick bli...@gmail.com 510.593.1077

Storyteller Bios:

Jack Boulware is author/co-author of three books, and was co-founder of SanFrancisco’s Litquake literary festival. He contributes to Alta Journal, among otherpublications, and is currently working on a novel based on his experiences as atravel journalist. He writes the weekly Substack newsletter, “What Jack BoulwareFails to Realize,” and lives in West Marin.I’m 

John Coate. I’m best known for two things: I was the Community Manager at theWELL where I helped create what Wired Magazine called “The world’s most influential online community” and I co-founded and managed for its first six years, SF Gate, the first big news website.Since then I ran an online game site for teens, worked for some nonprofits, managed a public FM station in Mendocino County, and did some consulting about online communities for the European Commission and the World Bank.Before all that I was an auto mechanic, interstate trucker, carpenter, painter and farmer.I lived communally from age 19-32 as part of The Farm community in Tennessee,Washington DC and The south Bronx in New York. I grew up in the East Bay and NewYork City then moved to San Francisco where I finished high school in 1968. I’mmarried, have numerous kids and grandkids living in Sonoma, Marin, LA and Humboldt.Page 

Growing up in Washington, DC, Sue Conley was inspired to study Political Science andearned her BA degree at the University of Tennessee in 1975. Later, after moving toSan Francisco, she attended the Restaurant Management program at San FranciscoCity College.After practical experience in San Francisco restaurants, Sue moved to Berkeley andco-founded Bette’s Oceanview Diner, a restaurant famous for a vintage jukebox,pancakes made from scratch and a place to meet Berkeleyites from all walks of life.After 11 years at Bette’s, Sue moved to Point Reyes Station and, working closely withStraus Family Creamery to market the first certified organic milk in the west. She then started Cowgirl Creamery and Tomales Bay Foods with her long-time friend, PeggySmith. Through their efforts in collaboration, a network of dairies and cheese makers have flourished in coastal Marin and Sonoma. After making award winning CowgirlCreamery cheese for 20 years, Sue and Peggy sold the business and retired in 2019.Sue remains active in promoting agricultural stewardship as evidenced by her history of board participation in Marin Agricultural Land Trust, Sonoma Agriculture and OpenSpace District, American Cheese Society and the California Artisan Cheese Guild.

Lisa Doron is a rooted visionary, a woman who has chosen the western edge ofNorthern California as the home of her work, her family, and her dreams for over 50years. She is an artist, actor, fashionista and facilitator of connection and magic,gathering people and inviting them to create, commit and PLAY with what matters to them. As a drama teacher for 17 years, she supported young people to develop their creative confidence and connection to the bigger stories of their lives. As a mentor inthe 8 Shields/nature connection community, in particular Weaving Earth, Lisa teaches storytelling as an essential human skill and a healing modality guided by the question:how does who I am and what I do connect me to land, self and others, in that order? Several years ago she created and continues the Wedding Dress Project, year-long excursions with women using fairy tales and handwork as a way of looking into what wet alk about when we talk about love and taking sacred vows. In 2009 she partnered with storyteller/mythologist Martin Shaw, to create the California version of Dr. Martin Shaw's UK School of Myth and Story. The integration of head, heart and hands is at the center of what moves through her work and it is always a lovely muddle.

Richard Howell is an acclaimed saxophonist, composer, producer, and educator whose music bridges cultures and generations. He calls his style “Bridge Music”—a unifying sound rooted in jazz, soul, funk, and global traditions, inspired by the spiritual depth of Coltrane and the rhythmic innovation of James Brown. A cornerstone of the Bay Area music scene, Howell has performed with icons like Etta James, Chaka Khan, MauriceWhite, and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, and has toured globally, from Zellerbach Hallto the Royal Albert Hall. His ensemble, the Richard Howell Quartet, won an Izzie Awardfor a collaboration with choreographer Gregory Dawson. He’s produced albums for Vivendo de Pão and UpSurge!, and helped shape the Mo’Rockin Project’s fusion of jazz, R&B, and North African sounds. A passionate educator, he teaches internationally with JazzTree Education and Oaktown Jazz Workshops while leading his ensembles RHQuartet and Richard Howell and Sudden Changes.

Virgil Shaw is an American singer‐songwriter rooted in the Bay Area, originally from Fairfax, California. He got his start in the late ’80s with the high‐energy speed‐pop band Brent’s TV in Arcata before moving to San Francisco to join the genre‐blending group Dieselhed (1992–2000) After Dieselhed disbanded, Shaw launched his solo career, forming Virgil Shaw & The Killer Views and releasing two critically acclaimed country‐rock albums, Quad Cities (2000) and Still Falling (2002). His songwriting draws on Americana, old‐time folk, and early countryinfluences— shaped by his parents’ love of retro Dustbowl and ’50s folk records. Shaw remains active in the Bay Area, frequently performing and releasing music, including his 2021 album At the Time I Didn’t Care on Rocks In Your Head Records.

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