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It's Time for TELLABRATION! - Page 2

© Chris King

If there isn't a Tellabration in my community, what should I do? If your area doesn't host a Tellabration, this would be the perfect opportunity for you and others interested in producing a Tellabration of your own. Anyone can produce a Tellabration event: storytelling organizations and centers, schools, libraries, colleges, museums, performing-arts centers, story-swap groups, story enthusiasts, and others. NSN not only helps new sites with a Manual and Guidebook for only $25, but also by publicizing Tellabration events worldwide. In addition, they offer an updated, camera-ready, Promotional Kit for $15. To find out more information you may visit the NSN website at: http://www.StoryNet.org or call them at 1-800-525-4514.

Sam Yada Cannarozzi from near Lyons, writes of his Tellabration experience in Valojoulx: "19,000 years ago, people perhaps were telling stories on a rainy November 18th evening right near the village where I told in 2000. Valojoulx is a small village of some 800 souls and is just 6 km up the road from Lascaux. This prehistoric site boasts the world's most astonishing cave drawings that date back to the Magdalenian era. ...The performance, including dessert, lasted about an hour and a half and I think the most satisfying comment I heard was from a pharmaceutical salesman who said to me, `How impressive it was to hear the name of our little village mentioned in a worldwide storytelling Proclamation!' And I thought, who knows, maybe 19,000 years hence, that same Proclamation might read, `From Miami to Mombassa, from Texas to Taiwan, and from Valojoulx to - Mars, life forms from all over are gathered together tonight in the joy and anticipation of story!!"

The Proclamation: In the name of storytelling, (the date) is hereby proclaimed to be Tellabration! The Event of Storytelling. At this moment in 40 states and nine countries across six continents from Miami to Mumbai; Perth to Peoria; Texas to Thailand; to (your site), hundreds of audiences are gathered for this Special Event of Storytelling. Therefore, in joy and anticipation ... Let the stories begin!

I hope you can attend a Tellabration this year, but if not, consider hosting a "Drop In" or "Home Party" Tellabration. Just be sure to fill it with stories!

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