The Living Room Story-time for Grown-ups
Schedule
Sat, 06 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Life In The City | Austin, TX
The Living Room Story-time presents�THE "FORBIDDEN" STORIES this coming Saturday, September 6, 2025 at 7:00 pm.MEET THE STORYTELLERS
TONY HATCH is the co-founder of Awakened Amara, a sacred intimacy community he leads alongside his wife, Cris. Together they create heart-centered spaces rooted in Tantra, sacred sexuality, and deep connection. With 10+ years of experience in health and holistic wellness,Tony guides others into embodied awareness and relational healing. Based in Austin, TX, they offer immersive events, sacred play containers, and conscious coaching for individuals and couples. As a devoted student of intimacy, Tony is known for creating safe, transformative spaces where people feel seen, held, and free to explore the depths of their truth.
KATE CALDWELL is a performer and writer with a BA in Theatre and Dance from UT Austin. She has been in a litany of plays, sketch troupes, and storytelling shows over the years. She is an editor and curator at heart, and finds purpose in uncovering unexpected connections. Most recently she served as the artistic director for Testify, a storytelling show until 2021, when she had a baby but still had to work full time doing marketing and communications in the sustainability sector. She's still figuring out that whole "balance" thing. We'll see. (she says)
LAURIE ELLINGTON is a trauma-informed coach, storyteller, and sacred mischief-maker who helps people explore love, sex, and self-expression beyond the norm. As founder of Poly-Coach, she supports individuals and couples navigating Open Relationships, Tantra, Conscious Kink, and Embodied Liberation. Laurie’s lived journey spans the Peace Corps, Dominatrix training, ancestral healing, and the transformative edges of pleasure. She holds a deep permission field where nothing is too much and everything belongs. Based in Austin, TX. Learn more at www.poly-coach.com (https://gmail.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4ab680bf968a6f83e3bd4f33&id=a688f357b8&e=ff531fb658).
TED MENSCHER has worked in residential real estate for over 25 yrs. With a BS in Marketing and an MS in Organization Leadership he started out working for large banking and lending institutions, then in 2015 started his own real estate investment company where here continues to help people with their residential real estate needs. He has also had a very active spiritual journey through out his life including entering the Catholic seminary, attending indigenous spiritual ceremonies, and currently going through a 3 year program of initiations through The Foundation of Shamanic Studies.
Ink artist JIMMY GEORGE has been writing, recording and performing music for over 40 years. Since 1999 he has shared bills with various artists including Tom Petty, Tim Reynolds (Dave Matthews Band), Bob Schneider, Dave Alvin, Joe Ely and Carlos Santana in venues ranging from Austin City Limits to countless smaller venues. He owns and operates The Roost Studio, a full service production recording, mixing and Mastering studio in the Austin Hill country.
Hostess AMPARO "Ampie" GARCIA-CROW is a director, producer, playwright, filmmaker, songwriter and retired professor of Theatre and Creative Writing. She designs and presents experiential, spiritual and cultural events in a variety of performances, workshops and special events. Her children (and her first grandchild born in 2024) are her greatest accomplishments. Her memoir PROPHECY OF MY UNDOING was released this March.
