Tellabration & Workshop Series

MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Tellabration Workshops: Thursdays at 7 P.M. (10/21, 10/28, 11/04 and 11/11)
Tellabration: 11/17 & 11/18

The Institute Library Story Sharing Group is gearing up for its eighth annual workshop series and Tellabration performance. Experienced tellers and newbies are invited to join.

We begin with four workshops. Each participant chooses a story to tell and prepares it for public telling, with the help of feedback from the other participants. Stories may be of any genre; most of the stories we hear come from the tellers’ own lives, but if you want to share your version of Jack and the Beanstalk that’s fine. At the end, those who choose to do so tell their stories at a public performance, a “Tellabration”, which is one of many Tellabration sites across Connecticut every November.

The story sharing group is informal, friendly, and fun.

Suggested donation is $30 for members and $45 for non-members
Your donation covers four workshops plus the Tellabration. Click here to sign up.

The workshops will be held from 7 PM to 9 PM on four Thursdays, October 21 and 28, and November 4 and 11. The Tellabration will be on the evenings of November 17 and 18; for the past several years we have had too many tellers to fit into one evening, so we are keeping two evenings open this year.

We expect that the workshops will be held in person, observing masking and social distancing, and limiting participation to those vaccinated against Covid. The Tellabration format is still under consideration. Traditionally we have performed in person; in 2020 we moved on line. We hope to resolve the 2021 plan soon.

We are asking workshop participants who can afford it to make a donation to the Institute Library of $30 for members and $45 for non-members. This covers all four workshops plus the Tellabration. If this is a hardship, join us anyway. We do not want to exclude anyone.

Click here or use the QR Code to access the registration form.

For questions, contact the story sharing group coordinator, Arnie Pritchard, at 203-624-2520, apritchard01@snet.net.