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Bill Mckell - Building a Storytelling Festival from the Ground Up.

Jun 20th 2007BillMcKellEpisode List & Festival Organizing

Press Play to listen to Building a storytelling festival from the ground up Episode podcast on June 19th, 2007

by Bill Mckell interviewed at 7 PM EST, May 30th, 2007.

Creating the Southern Ohio Storytelling Festival in Chillicothe has been an interesting journey. I guess it began when my wife and I started attending the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN when our daughters were quite young. When they became old enough to enjoy attending storytelling festivals, we were reluctant to invite them into the “get away” weekend we enjoyed in eastern Tennessee each year. So we searched for an alternate festival to which we could take them. We found the Cave Run Storytelling Festival near Morehead, KY and began taking them there. After attending a couple of years, my wife and I wondered if we could do something similar in our hometown of Chillicothe. The art and tradition of storytelling seemed a natural complement to the Continue Reading »

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A Smaller Voice Can Make A Loud Sound by Kevin Cordi

Jun 7th 2007Kevin D. CordiArtistic Marketing & Childrens Story & Extra Articles & Festival Organizing

Kids Involvement in Tellabration
By Kevin D. Cordi

For Peggy O’Sullivan. As a producer for over nine Tellabrations I want to share with you what has lately spiced up our Tellabrations. It is the sound of little voices with larger ones, in others words, I have had the privilege of helping direct a completely student organized Tellabration.

For the last three years we have made our Tellabration thematic. Our theme last year was “From the Trails to the Tales, The Gold is still in California.” Over 200 student performers and five adult professional storytellers share in the celebration of the stories of California. We had a four-year-old open the Continue Reading »

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