The Telling Room

WHAT'S NEW AT THE TELLING ROOM

Student Writers and Readers Meet!

Learn about our new statewide digital offering: SWARM!
The Telling Room Goes Digital!

The Telling Room is now offering new and innovative ways to reach our community virtually. Click for updates!
Show & Tell 2020
Premieres October 2, 2020
Our virtual literary cabaret fundraiser will showcase stories across mediums from a variety of storytellers. Join us!
Student Voices

Our black and brown students have been telling us how they’re feeling, right now. In response, we’ve collaborated with our students to turn over our most visible current platforms, our social media, and monthly newsletter, to them in a new online series called The Voice of a Pride. We feel these are the most vital voices to hear at this moment in time. Through upheaval or calm, we believe in the power of human connection and the relatability and resolve that can come from it.
Help Us Amplify Youth Voices

We know there are many organizations doing urgent work to address antiracism and the pandemic that need financial support right now. Please, those of you who are able to do so, keep the love flowing and keep giving to all the causes you care about so we can all be stronger together. We can't do our work without you—and we are so grateful for every gift.

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The Telling Room has gone virtual until it feels safe for our staff, volunteers, teaching artists, students and community to gather. Like many of you, we've been actively following the progression of COVID-19 in Maine, in other parts of the country and across the globe. In the interest of following guidance from local, state and federal authorities regarding measures that best promote public health, we have suspended our daily in-person operations until further notice. Please visit our ProgramsPrograms page for more information and to learn about our virtual programming.

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