Tellabration! A Worldwide Storytelling Event
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| Charleston, SC, performer, Tim Lowry |
Staff Reports
It’s Time for Tellabration! when thousands of people around the world gather in small towns and big cities to celebrate storytelling during the last weekend before Thanksgiving.
The international celebration of story-telling, known as Tellabration! serves to build grassroots community support for the age-old art of storytelling. Since its inception in 1988, the annual observance has grown into one of the most impressive collective events in the history of the modern storytelling revival.
Citizens from Asheville and surrounding areas join the global
Tellabration! spirit for the sixteenth year, as Asheville Storytelling
Circle hosts the local event Sunday, November 20, beginning at 3 p.m. at
the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The outstanding and diverse event once again showcases accomplished
storytellers, and features the well-known Charleston, SC, performer, Tim
Lowry, renowned for telling stories “Of the People, By the People, and
For the People.” The line-up includes Asheville Storytelling Circle
members: Sherry Lovett, Nancy Reeder, Ed Sacco, and Wayne Sims as Emcee.
General Admission is $5. Proceeds enable area storytelling events and
activities. Tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis, and
are available at the door on the day of the event. For more information
call (828) 667-4227 or (828) 777-9177.
Tellabration! is sponsored in partnership with the Southern Highlands Craft Guild and the National Storytelling Network.
Directions to the Folk Art Center
From Interstate 40 East: Take Exit 55 to Highway 70. Turn left and go
about one mile to the Blue Ridge Parkway. Go underneath the Parkway and
exit right onto the Parkway entrance ramp. At the stop sign, turn left
(north) onto the Parkway. Go approximately one-half mile to the Folk Art
Center on the left.
Asheville Storytelling Circle
Founded in 1995, Asheville Storytelling Circle is a nonprofit
organization dedicated to excellence in the oral tradition by affirming
various cultures through storytelling while nourishing the development
of emerging and established artists.
