Asheville Storytelling Circle celebrates 20 years with a cornucopia of tellers and tales

Press release from Asheville Storytelling Circle:

WHAT: Tellabration! A Worldwide Storytelling Event
WHEN: November 22, 2015; 3:PM
WHERE: Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway
HOW MUCH: General Admission $10.

It’s Time for Tellabration! when thousands of people around the world gather in small towns and big cities to celebrate storytelling during the week before Thanksgiving. The international celebration of storytelling, known as Tellabration! serves to build grassroots community support for the age-old art of storytelling. Since its beginning 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 nineteenth year, as Asheville Storytelling Circle hosts the regional event with a diverse line-up featuring tellers drawn from the best North Carolina has to offer. This year the perennially sold-out performance showcases the abundant talent of ASC tellers: Lloyd Arneach, Marvin Cole, Rose Lynn Katz, Gwenda Ledbetter, Sherry Lovett, David Novak, tandem tellers Wayne & Jane Sims, and Donna Marie Todd. A short history of the group will be shared by Sandra Gudger, the Asheville Storytelling Circle founder.

Founded in 1995, Asheville Storytelling Circle is a nonprofit organization dedicated to excellence in the oral tradition by affirming various cultures through storytelling and nourishing the development of emerging and established artists.

Tickets are available on a first-come, first-serve basis to this usually sold-out event, and are available at the door on the day of the concert. Tickets may be reserved in advance for pick-up-and-pay at the door. Information: 828-274-1123 or 828-777-9177.

Tellabration is sponsored by Asheville Storytelling Circle in partnership with the Southern Highlands Craft Guild and the National Storytelling Network.

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