Events

Events

E.g., 2013-06-26
E.g., 2013-06-26
  • Apr
    18
    Moth Ticket Contest
    Thursday, 12:00PM @ Statewide

    Do you love The Moth radio hour and fancy yourself a storytelling wiz? We're offering ten high school students the chance to see The Moth live in Portland on June 6th for free! Just send us a 250-word statement about why you love The Moth and why storytelling is important in your life. We have ten great seats available, and as an added bonus, contest winners are invited to join us at The TR the following day to meet with a Moth storyteller and producer for an hour long Q&A about what goes on behind the scenes.  Mail your entry to submissions@tellingroom.org and be sure to include your name and email address. Entries will be reviewed by the TR staff and winners will notified by May 30th.

  • May
    16
    Big Night 2013
    Thursday, 7:00PM to 9:00PM @ USM - Hannaford Hall

    Big Night 2013 will be held on Thursday, May 16th from 7-9pm. Plans are underway to make Big Night 2013 another amazing celebration of student writers. We currently have performances penciled in for our two statewide writing contest winners, the Founders Prize recipient, a glimpse of the Young Writers and Leaders theater performance being created in conjunction with Al Miller of The Theater Project in Brunswick, a song from our current songwriting workshop, and and we'll launch our newest anthology Illumination: A Young People's Encyclopedia of Wonder and celebrate its forty-five young authors. Popcorn, lemonade, and creative lobby activities will be sure to please our hundreds of guests once again.

  • May
    18
    Piece By Piece - Portland
    Saturday, 2:00PM to 4:00PM @ St. Lawrence Arts Center

    A collage of interwoven stories by Telling Room students with scenes from a village in Uganda, from the front seat of a sports car, to a crowded airport in Belgium, an ELL classroom, a private school in Haiti, or a kite flying contest in Iraq...tickets at the door, pay what you like, arrive early!

  • May
    19
    Piece By Piece - Brunswick
    Sunday, 5:00PM to 7:00PM @ The Theater Project, Brunswick

    A collage of interwoven stories by Telling Room students with scenes from a village in Uganda, from the front seat of a sports car, to a crowded airport in Belgium, an ELL classroom, a private school in Haiti, or a kite flying contest in Iraq...tickets at the door, pay what you want!

  • May
    21
    Night Owl Workshop
    Tuesday, 6:30PM to 8:30PM @ The Telling Room

    Join fiction writer Charlotte Bacon for Intimate Strangers:  Bringing Your Birth Stories to Life, May 21st, 28th, and June 4th, 6:30-8:30pm. In this three session class, participants will have the chance to write and tell the story of the arrival of the most amazing strangers they have ever met:  their own babies.  Over the course of three weeks with the guidance of a teacher and a midwife, participants are invited to explore and relive the memories and feelings of these unique events and set them on the page. Parents of all kinds, adoptive or biological, brand new or much older, and birth workers of all kinds are encouraged to join. This multi-session workshop is $100, or $70 for TR volunteers. More info here.