FYI - The TaleSpin Storytelling Festival is just 2 weeks away; the event
planners are looking for volunteers, which will give you free admission
to the festival.  This is event will bring several national storytellers
to town and will also feature local story tellers.  Call 423-265-0771 or
visit www.talespinfestival.org or www.downtownchattanooga.org to learn
more!  

 

TaleSpin Festival May 12-14

 

posted April 22, 2006 on Chattanoogan.com

 

Tickets are now on sale for the first annual TaleSpin Festival, a major
storytelling event featuring national and regional tellers, in downtown
Chattanooga from May 12 through May 14.

 

Designed to showcase storytellers from various walks of life with themes
that include youth stories, cultural stories, humorous stories,
historical stories and more, the TaleSpin Festival is an event that will
appeal to all ages.

 

On Friday night, May 12, a kickoff event featuring eight national
storytellers and music from the New City Fellowship Choir will be held
at the historic Tivoli Theatre. On Saturday, May 13, Ross's Landing will
be the centerpiece for the festival, with telling occurring under
festival tents throughout the day followed by ghost stories under the
night sky.

 

Then on Sunday, May 14, there will be more telling under tents at the
waterfront, as well as a separately ticketed Mother's Day storytelling
breakfast cruise aboard the Southern Belle Riverboat. National tellers
scheduled for the TaleSpin Festival include Connie Regan-Blake, Gayle
Ross, Andy Offutt Irwin, Kathryn Windham, Angela Lloyd, Doug Elliott,
Bobby Norfolk and Jim Pfitzer. Local and regional tellers will also be
featured on Saturday and Sunday.

 

Following are the ticket prices:

 

$15 Friday at the Tivoli

$45 All three days including the Ghost Stories (not including Mother's
Day

Cruise)

$35 Saturday and Sunday

$20 Single Saturday or Sunday tickets

$25 Mother's Day Breakfast Cruise

$10 Ghost Stories

 

Attendees of the TaleSpin Festival, as well as the general public, may
enjoy the large food court including a dining tent with a musical
performance stage. A tent housing event memorabilia, merchandise from
featured storytellers and a variety of publications from August House
will also be open to the public throughout the festival on Saturday and
Sunday.

 

TaleSpin Festival is presented by UBS and produced by Chattanooga
Downtown Partnership. Other corporate sponsors include Fletcher Bright
Company, August House, UNUMProvident, McKay Used Books and CDs,
Tennessee Arts Commission, Times Free Press, Comcast, The Chattanoogan
and Sunny 92.3.

 

Volunteers are needed on Saturday and Sunday at the event entrance and
ticket sales area, in the storytelling tents, the food & music tent,
hospitality areas, merchandise sales tent and at various other areas
throughout the event site. Volunteers will receive free admission to the
event, a TaleSpin Festival t-shirt, on-site parking and refreshments
throughout their shift. Please email Ann Ball at to volunteer.

 

To purchase tickets to volunteer for the 2006 TaleSpin Festival, please
call 423-265-0771 or visit www.talespinfestival.org or
www.downtownchattanooga.org .

 

 


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