Storytelling event at UD Nov. 17The University of Delaware will present its third annual Tellabration, an evening of storytelling for adults, at 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17, in Bayard Sharp Hall, Delaware Avenue and Elkton Road, Newark. Cost is $5 for the general public and $3 for students with a UD ID. Nearly a dozen storytellers will perform, telling stories that range from ghost and folktales to jokes and family heritage stories. Participants will include current students and others who have taken UD’s “Storytelling for Beginners” course, taught by Ed Okonowicz, local storyteller. Tellabration is an international event, held throughout the world on the same evening—the Saturday before Thanksgiving–each year. The event is designed to encourage the art of storytelling, with a network of storytelling enthusiasts bonded together in spirit at the same time and on the same weekend. Tellabration originator J. G. Pinkerton envisioned this international event as a means of building community support for storytelling. In 1988 the event was launched by the Connecticut Storytelling Center in six locations across the state. A great success, Tellabration extended to several other states the following year. In 1990, the event expanded nationwide under the umbrella of the National Storytelling Network. By 1997, there were Tellabration events on every continent but Antarctica. This third annual campus event is sponsored by the Zeta Omicron Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society in education. Following the program, there will be a social hour including refreshments, door prizes and an opportunity to mingle with the tellers. For more information, call (302) 831-2319 or send an e-mail to [acase@udel.edu].  |