Gleaning Facebook: Expanding Rome's Storytelling Festival

Chetter Galloway

Esther Culver

Anthony Vinson

When Debby Brown talked about storytelling she wanted four things for Northwest Georgia:

1. opportunities for our people to hear first class national storytellers

2. opportunities for kids to be involved in storytelling

3. opportunities for local tellers to have good audiences and develop their craft.

4. opportunities for regional tellers to have good audiences and develop their craft.

For 2017 we have expanded the Big Fibbers Storytelling Festival with those goals in mind.

1. We have two "big name" tellers coming: Natalie Jones and Carol Cain, both of whom have long experience in regional and national storytelling circles.

2. We have enlarged our Debby Brown Young Tales program to include ten schools and over 200 club members and an audience in the thousands of kids.

3. We have added two performances to our schedule which will give an additional seven local tellers an opportunity to tell.

4. We have invited three regional tellers --- Esther Culver, Chetter Galloway, Anthony Vinson --- to be parts of the two new programs. In addition our Big Fibbers Contest will, for the first time, include several out-of-state tellers.

I'm getting excited!