Campfire Stories returns to the Modern for it’s 11th season! Join us under the ginkgos in the Modern courtyard every second Sunday to experience this intimate storytelling event. Visit themodernbar.com/reserve now to secure a table!
Campfire Stories is produced by Christian Winn, who has invited collaborators Rebecca Evans, Allison Maier, and Tomas Baiza to curate and host Season 11! We are thrilled for the opportunity to work with this amazing team.
Sunday, August 10
Host: Rebecca Evans
Artists: Tracy Burt, Diana Dinerman, Kirk Read, Matt Bunk
Tracy Burt
As she travels a healing path, tracy burt finds solace and growth through creativity, connection and compassion. Tracy became a tenured professor after a meandering, integrating path as a preschool teacher, actress, domestic violence counselor, improvisor, writer, activist and collage artist. Tracy’s current work in progress and first foray into a full-length novel, Convergent Evolution, explores love when despite all efforts to the contrary, two lovers find themselves caught in intergenerational cycles of trauma. Her chapbook, the light in the dark, the dark in the light, was published in 2020 and updated in 2025. Building community centered around love, transformation, and justice drives Tracy’s presence in the world. When she’s not writing, reading or teaching, you can find her dancing in the kitchen, wrestling with her son or hanging with friends in San Francisco.
Diana Dinerman
Diana Dinerman is a writer and performer, based in Los Angeles. Diana has been called “One to watch” by TribeLA magazine, was featured in Broadway World, The British Comedy Guide and The List UK. Her solo show DETOUR: A Show About Changing your Mind, was invited to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her short film, The Last Word, has premiered at LA Shorts International Film Festival.
Kirk Read
Kirk Read is a writer, performer, teacher, and analog collage artist. He is the author of the memoir How I Learned to Snap, which was an American Library Association Honor Book. His essay was recently published in the book “Witch” edited by Michelle Tea. He created and performed the solo shows This is the Thing and Computer Face, for which SF Weekly called him the “Freak Prince of San Francisco.” He co-leads the Pacific Northwest Collage Collective and facilitates writing and collage workshops. His collage has been published in Cut Me Up, Contemporary Collage Magazine, RFD, and Khora. He recently had a solo art show at Replicant in Portland and co-organized NO/STALGIA, an international collage exhibition with 85 artists. He won a Bronze award in the 2024 Contemporary Collage Magazine awards. He works as a public health nurse, helping homeless folks detox from street drugs. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Matt Bunk
Matt Bunk is a multimedia artist who thinks a lot about empty houses of the American West. Their poetry has appeared in Elsewhere: A Journal of Place, Paper Plane Press, and My _on Mondays. They sound design, direct, act in and otherwise meddle in theater all over the place. You can find their music project All Around Cowboy on all the streaming platforms.
