WILDCARD! at Teneral: Opening Night
Join us for the first WILDCARD at Teneral Cellars as we kick off our new storytelling home together.
Now at Teneral Cellars Tasting Room every third Wednesday
WILDCARD! is our monthly participatory storytelling night, a welcoming place where anyone can step up to tell a true, personal story out loud in front of real humans.
And we’re excited to share that WILDCARD! has found a new home.
Starting in May, we’ll be gathering every third Wednesday at Teneral Cellars Tasting Room, a beautiful space in Midtown Sacramento that feels like it was made for stories, conversation, and community.
Wine and storytelling are both about slowing down and paying attention, and we think this new partnership is going to be something special.
What WILDCARD Is
This isn’t stand-up or poetry. This isn’t a polished mainstage show. It’s something in between: open, focused, and genuinely fun to be part of.
Audience members are invited to put their name into the NOT HAT, and 10 storytellers are drawn at random each night to share an eight-minute true story.
There’s no theme, so the night becomes what we all make of it: funny, tender, surprising, sometimes all of the above.
Some people tell their first story here.
Others test new material, stretch their storytelling muscles, or enjoy being part of a room where stories matter.
Each night includes
🎤 Participatory storytelling (names drawn from the NOT HAT)
⭐ A featured storyteller
🍷 Wine and a welcoming gathering space
🧡 A supportive audience that wants you to succeed
Stories are true, personal, and told without notes. They can be funny, heartfelt, awkward, or unexpectedly beautiful. Eight minutes is perfect. Perfection is not required. (But we are timing you this year!)
About WILDCARD!
WILDCARD! is hosted by Keith Lowell Jensen, with Amy Bee as storyteller-in-residence, and produced by the In a Nutshell team.
We’re building a real, in-person storytelling community here in Sacramento, and you’re invited to be part of it, whether you tell a story or come listen.
Put your name in the NOT HAT.
Or cheer for the people brave enough to do it.
Either way, you belong here.