Will Tellabration happen this year?
YES!
We are excited to find a way.
We have many ideas and would love to hear yours. It is time to get started!
We, at the Connecticut Storytelling Center make our livings being creative. We also pride ourselves with being flexible and willing to go the extra mile. Turns out these are the perfect skills needed for Tellabration! this year.
Tellabration! is an international celebration of story. It is a long-standing tradition with us at CSC, with its goals of introducing and celebrating the art of storytelling to all ages and providing storytelling events to a wide variety of venues at prices that everyone can appreciate. All our venues find Tellabration to be an exciting and enriching addition to their program offerings. In collaboration with the Connecticut Storytelling Center, each Tellabration! can be customized to appeal to an organization’s specific mission and audience.
Tellabration! is also a fundraiser for the CT Storytelling Center, as our tellers donate their services for this event, so that all money raised goes directly to the Connecticut Storytelling Center to help us with our other programs, like literacy programs for the very young, etc. Tellabration! is a win/win/win program!
We are excited to work with you to solve social distancing challenges. We have a few ideas and would love to hear if you have solutions for your site that we could talk about. Work with us! We can figure this out! Who knows? We may create solutions that stick around long past this pandemic!
Before:
In non-pandemic years, a storyteller or two would come to your venue and perform live.
Venue could be a library, community center, senior center, theater, home, church, bookstore, historical society, museum, or school etc.All of that is still true!
Now, a live performer could come if your site can do that!
We have other options, too. Let us work together!
We are interested in your ideas!
NOW, in 2020, we could offer:
A live performer, or two.
A taped performance you could access online
A live online performance with audience participation
(With Zoom or your platform choice)
An online workshop with audience participation
Does your audience need a structured venue to express themselves creatively?
We can do that and create their own online group performance.
BONUS: You could have multiple tellers for one low price.
Traditionally Tellabration! has only been in November. This year is an exception!
We cannot wait to figure this out with you!
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 the fall. I will be contacting you in a short time to answer any questions or talk about creative strategies.
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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Who is your audience?
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 Tellabration! Twist that 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 releases 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