Frogtown Storytelling Guild Presents Tellabration! 2014 featuring Jane Fink

TOLEDO, Ohio - Oct. 17, 2014 - PRLog -- On Friday, November 7, 2014, the Frogtown Storytelling Guild will celebrate its 14^th year of Tellabration!—a spoken-word concert of "stories for grown-ups"—with Ann Arbor, MI storyteller, Jane Fink. The Frogtown Storytelling Guild is pleased to welcome Jane for this special evening. The concert will be held from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Maumee Indoor Theater, 601 Conant St, Maumee, OH 43537. Tickets are $10.00 each and available at the door.

Jane Fink is a member of the Ann Arbor Storyteller's Guild. She tells stories, along with other members of the Ann Arbor Storyteller's Guild, once a month at the Crazy Wisdom Tea Room (Ann Arbor, MI). In November 2013, she participated in the Ann Arbor Tellabration!. In February 2014, she performed at the 27^th Annual Storytelling Festival, which was held at the Ark (Ann Arbor, MI). In May 2014, Jane was a guest storyteller at the Howell Opera House (Ann Arbor, MI) at the invitation of Jeff Doyle, a renowned Ann Arbor humorist and storyteller. Jane also uses her storytelling gifts in other settings such as in the adult and the children’s ministries of the Dexter United Methodist Church (Dexter, MI). For the 2013 Christmas season, she wrote and told stories for the church's Advent program. When not working on stories, Jane makes and sells a line of gourmet granola products, and she enjoys “hanging around” her 13 wonderful grandchildren. In addition to all of this activity, Jane is an artist of figurative works and uses graphite, acrylics and oils to paint and draw her creations. “I am very excited about telling stories at the Frogtown Tellabration!” Jane enthuses. “I believe that listening to and telling stories is the true stuff of life. Since I was six years old I have been telling stories in one form or another to any one willing to listen. I would call my stories ‘slices of life’."

In 1988, the first Tellabration! concerts were performed at six locations in the state of Connecticut. J. G. Pinkerton, the originator of Tellabration!, envisioned the event as a way of fostering and maintaining the art of storytelling. It was a great success and in the following year Tellabration! concerts soon spread to other states. In 1990, Tellabration! became a national event with the help of the National Storytelling Association. Its popularity continues to spread and now thousands of storytelling groups worldwide produce Tellabration! concerts.

The sponsor of Toledo's Tellabration! 2014 is the Frogtown Storytelling Guild. Sharing the spotlight with Jane Fink will be talented members of the Frogtown Storytelling Guild, which consists of Marion Hallauer, Pat Lora, Glenda Miller, Tari Miller, Michael Moore, Regina Patrick, Odessa Rowan, Ken Solo, and Ken Wielfaert. The stories of the Frogtown Storytelling Guild members span the oral tradition: folktales, wisdom tales, legends, romantic sagas, humorous accounts, and personal narratives that explore the richness of the human condition.