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

Christine Cohen joins us on February 28th for TelLIT to discuss "The Winter King", her first novel. Join us at the Tasting Room to be entertained as we spotlight a local author/storyteller while also welcoming audience storytellers to participate with their own rehearsed oral stories.

Truth in Myth:
The word myth usually means something that isn’t true, that couldn't have happened. "It’s only a myth." Hades never stole Persephone, there’s no scientific evidence for it. Osiris could not possibly have died and rose again, nobody does that. But when we approach a myth this way, we’re asking the wrong question. These stories were never meant to be measured on scientific scales, but to speak to something universal, a wisdom bigger than all of us. We see examples of this wisdom in every culture, in every story, in every myth.

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 of "Truth in Myth". 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: Truth in Myth - Universal Themes of Truth

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.