Tellabration! ™

Join us at the library for a whole lot of tale-spinning!

Tellers from the South Bay Storytellers and Listeners will be joining us to share their 34th annual Tellabration™ event.

This storytelling event targets adults, but school-age children accompanied by an adult are welcome

Tellabration™ is worldwide event of storytelling created in 1988 by Connecticut storyteller J.G. Pinkerton. The event brings people together and shares the power and joy of storytelling. South Bay Storytellers and Listeners are a network of people in Silicon Valley dedicated to making storytelling a vital part of the community. The group hosts the monthly Silicon Valley Storytelling Meetup.

This is one of eight events in the 10th Annual Menlo Park Storytelling Festival. Join us for one event, or the whole series!

• 11/2: Smiley Stories: Latin American Soul - Belle Haven Library - All ages
• 11/12: Odd Salon and Curiosity Guild - Menlo Park Library - Adults & teens
• 11/15: Tellabration! ™ - Belle Haven Library - 6-Adult
• 11/16: Asian Storytopia - Belle Haven Library - “8-108”
• 11/22: Storytelling 101 Workshop - Belle Haven Library - “7-97+”
• 12/2: Regina Stoops: Coming Out—Again - Menlo Park Library - 6-Adult
• 12/5 - StoryFest - Online - Ages 6-Adult
• 12/7 - Diane Ferlatte: Knick Knack Paddy Whack - Belle Haven Library - All ages

About Storytelling:

• Storytelling is telling stories--without using a book.
• It's an ancient art form that predates libraries, and books, and writing.
• It's not necessarily for children!
• Traditional-style storytelling creates unique images in the mind of each listener.
• According to the National Storytelling Network, "storytelling is the interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener’s imagination. In storytelling, the listener imagines the story.”
• According to the Storytelling Association of California (an organization dedicated to promoting storytelling as a living art form), storytelling is “orally passing on adventures, wisdom, experiences, surprise, history, laughter, beliefs and imagination.”

Saturday, November 15, 2025 | 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Belle Haven Library, 100 Terminal Ave., Menlo Park, CA, 94025
(Join us upstairs in the all-ages library)

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