Ohio Storytelling Guilds and Organizations
Frogtown Storytelling Guild
Toledo’s Frogtown Storytelling Guild gathers monthly Sept-June in area branch libraries. Tellabration! is our major production focus each year drawing audiences of 125+. We participate in area storytelling events and gather to share stories and grow in the art of storytelling. Contact: Pat Lora, 419-841-5608 or email mplora@bex.net or Condessa Croninger, 419.262-3212 or email cm.croninger@sev.org. Look for us at http://frogtownstorytellers.googlepages.com/home
Greater Cincinnati Storytelling Guild
To maintain the Power of Story. Meets 3rd Thursday monthly - except August. 7:30 p.m. Provide public programs and forum for tellers. Farbach-Werner Nature Preserve 3455 Poole Road, Cincinnati, OH 45251, 513.385.4811. Contact: Sandy Messerly, 513-984-8348, sandy.m@fuse.net
Ohio Order for the Preservation of Storytelling (O.O.P.S!)
Founded in 1986, O.O.P.S! goals are to perpetuate the art of storytelling, host an annual conference, identify and promote storytellers, and to work as a networking agent for various state storytelling guilds/groups. Contact: Chris King, (216) 991-8428, chris@creativekeys.net, http://www.OOPStorytelling.org
Storytellers of Central Ohio
This site describes the Storytellers of Central Ohio. It includes links to member and other sites. http://www.socotales.org/
Western Reserve Association for the Preservation & Perpetuation of Storytelling (WRAPPS)
We have approximately 80 members in almost all cultures & walks of life who tell their tales in many venues. We have a great deal of "wonderful" tellers (worth listening to). Contact: Donna Marie Kuczynski, 440-988-2307, dmkstory@erienet.net
Voices Across America Youth Storytelling Project
A national, soon to be international, program to interconnect youth storytelling across the country and world. Contact: Kevin D. Cordi, 559-587-0309, kctells@youthstorytelling.com, www.youthstorytelling.com