Join us for a night of local literature and exuberant storytelling. Better get to rehearsing your memorable stories!

Sharon Hoseley joins us on January 31st for the inaugural monthly night of TelLIT at the Tasting Room spotlighting a local author/storyteller while also welcoming audience storytellers to participate with their own rehearsed oral stories. Sharon will present the story in her mother's voice from "A Bridge Named Susan". This is a tale of persistence and survival during the great depression on a stick ranch between Culdesac and Ruebens in a musty, old army tent with 6 feet of snow and frigid temperatures of -15°.

After our author’s presentation, roles get reversed as we invite members of the audience to perform a rehearsed 3-5 minute story that goes along with the given theme. Works can be fiction or non-fiction and either original pieces or credited to the writer at the beginning of the presentation. The author will be joined by another judge from the community to score the storytelling on engagement, appropriateness, flow of presentation and non-verbal body language. The winner of each month’s TelLIT storytelling events during 2020 will be invited to compete in the Storytelling of Champions event on January 3, 2021.

Theme: Surviving Winter - Persistence Through Harsh Conditions

When: Last Friday of every month from 5:30-7:00 pm at the Jovinea Cellars Tasting Room

For more information about the rules and logistics of participating in this event, please click here.