For folk guitarist Deirdre Flint, life's disappointments feel just a little less stressful when she can smile at them and get her audience to do the same.

"It makes your experience and your world seem easier when you see people laughing about things, like you not making the cheerleading team," Flint said.

She, along with a fellow musical satirist John Forster, will be performing an Acoustic Brew show at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Center for Well-Being in Lemont. Tickets for the show are $10.

Flint said she began her creative experiences as a child, when she hoped to one day write a book. With little motivation to compose more than 20 pages, she stumbled upon a more suitable medium to express her thoughts -- music.

Flint became a fifth-grade teacher and turned to guitar in the hopes of writing songs to help the children remember their lessons. She said she was careful not to overdo the performance and lose the children's attention.

"There's a fine line between cheesy and lousy when a teacher picks up a guitar," Flint said. "I knew I had to make the songs funny so the kids would retain the information."

This preliminary writing encouraged her to turn to more adult material, which has resulted in a CD's worth of music. Though still substituting in schools around Philadelphia, Flint said she is leery of bringing her guitar into class. The temporary pedagogical jaunt does, however, give her the chance to feel more comfortable dealing with unfamiliar situations, she said.

State College is not one of these situations, though. The satirist said she has performed a number of times locally and always looks forward to the chance to return.

"The people just seem so smart there," Flint said. "They get all the subtle jokes and laugh a lot. It's always a great time when I play there."

Forster also expressed his excitement to make his first trip to Centre County. The New York resident performs mostly in his own area, staying close to his family when possible, he said. He also travels to other college areas, including his own college haunt, Harvard University.

"I love college audiences," Forster said. "You get the feeling the kids have read a newspaper and can be engaged."

Along with fellow performers, including actress Jane Curtin, Forster acted in a satirical show in 1968, an experience he called "intoxicating." After his graduation, he returned to New York, where he developed a career working in theater and musical production.

Simultaneously, he said he wrote comedic songs, some about politics and most about love and sex. The styles of the songs tend to reflect their subject matter, a technique he said he drew from theater.

With a new, yet-to-be-titled CD ready for release, Forster said he was unsure from where his inspiration continues to come. "These things just occur to me -- it's a little warped," Forster said. "I've stopped trying to fight it."