It’s time to get started!
We hope your summer is off to a great start. We, at the CT Storytelling Center are busy with summer events and laying the important groundwork for our celebrated fall programs.
We look forward to the possibility of your involvement in Tellabration! this year. Tellabration! is one of our favorite times of year and we are anxious to get started lining up the perfect storytellers for sites all over Connecticut My name is Carol Glynn. I’m a storyteller myself, and I’m helping Ann Shapiro, Executive Director with initial contacts and organization to get the ball rolling. Ann will be kept informed about all discussions and will be taking over in September. I will be contacting you in a short time to answer any questions or talk about new ideas.
My email is Tellabrationglynn@gmail.com, and my phone number is 860-334-3470. I look forward to chatting and planning with you!
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Tellabration!
is a collaborative
effort between The Connecticut Storytelling Center and your organization that
can build interest and participation for both of us. The Connecticut
Storytelling Center supplies the storytellers who perform at your site. It is
important that we schedule your Tellabration! for the audience that is
most appropriate for what you normally do, at a time when your patrons are used
to coming to your facility.
Our storytellers can accommodate audiences of any age: Littlest Listeners (ages
2 – 4), Children aged 5 – 12, Families, or Adults. We have programs that focus
on multicultural folk tales, history, personal life experiences, songs that
tell stories, the environment/nature, or stories tailored to your
organization’s needs.
A noteable twist on Tellabration! will
be of particular interest to children’s
and young adult or family audiences.
Our tellers are not just performers. We are also educators and we have a
great deal of experience working in schools and community settings where we
work with audiences to bring stories to life with audience participation. We can tell stories and have participants act
it out. We can add audience musicians who play sound effects to support other
actors. We have giant tool bags full of improvisational
theater games and group storytelling activities that can be promoted more as an
active role for potential audience members.
Stories are always about listening, but they are often about
participating and contributing. We’d
love to brainstorm with you about your expected audience needs and ways to
attract audience members.
Another exciting twist on Tellabration! will be
of particular interest to Senior Centers and Historical Societies who want to
collect oral history from their members by putting out a call for people to
come on a given date in November to share stories about their town. The
Connecticut Storytelling Center provides a facilitator who will tell a short
story based on Connecticut history followed by an open-ended, but structured
story sharing time with the audience about the town's history as seen through
the people's eyes. The facilitator will prompt the audience’s memory by asking
questions about what it was like when they were children, major events that
they lived through, and changes they have seen.
The Connecticut Storytelling Center will provide:
Bios and photos of your storytellers
Press release for your local publicity
PDF of a poster for your site’s performance(s)
Statewide, general publicity
Audience Building Guidelines
Email blast to The Connecticut Storytelling Center list
Listing of Tellabration! sites on The Connecticut
Storytelling Center web site
Listing of The Connecticut Storytelling Center sites in
Hearsay, The Connecticut Storytelling Center newsletter
You will:
Send press release to local newspapers, radio, cable TV
Email blast to your members, clients, patrons
List your Tellabration! on your web site
List your Tellabration! in your newsletter
Display poster locally
Fees:
Our standard financial arrangement is that each site pays a fee of $400 to The
Connecticut Storytelling Center for our services and two performers.
For a fee of $250, we will provide one teller.
Another way to produce a Tellabration! is to charge admission. Tickets
are typically $10 for adults and $5 for children. Admission fees can be split
between The Connecticut Storytelling Center and your organization.
We appreciate your potential interest in hearing more about Tellabration! We look forward to speaking with you further.
Thanks again,
The Connecticut Storytelling Center