Tellabration! ™

Our Storytelling Festival concludes with a whole lot of tale-spinning!

Tellers from the South Bay Storytellers and Listeners will be joining us to share their 35th annual Tellabration™ event. Join us to listen, or perhaps to contribute a tale, yourself!

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, now taking place on the 4th Tuesday evening of each month at Menlo Park Library!

This is one of nine events in the 11th Annual Menlo Park Storytelling Festival. Join us for one event, or the whole series!

• Sun. Sept. 27 | Clara Kamunde: Afri-Crafty Tales | Belle Haven Library | All ages |
• Sat. Oct. 3 | Roopa Mohan presents Kasturba Gandhi | Menlo Park Library | Adults & teens |
• Sun. Oct. 18 | Hana Baba: Folktales from Sudan | Belle Haven Library | 6-Adult |
• Tues. Oct. 27 | Storytelling Meetup | Menlo Park Library | Adults & families |
• Thurs. Nov. 5 | John Weaver: Pumpkin Tales | Menlo Park Library | 4-Adult |
• Thurs. Nov. 12 | StoryFest! | Zoom | 6-Adult |
• Sun. Nov.15 | Storytelling Workshop | Menlo Park Library | 10-Adult |
• Mon. Nov. 16 | Jeff Gere: True Supernatural Tales of Hawaii | Menlo Park Library | 9-Adult |
• Sat. Nov. 21 | Tellabration! ™ | Menlo Park Library | 5-Adult |

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, Nov. 21, 2026, 1-3 p.m.
Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park, CA

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