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Seacoast Storytellers Tellebration 2015

Seacoast Storytellers invite you to join them for Tellebration, an amazing evening of storytelling.

Saturday, November 21, 2015 from 7:00 – 9:00pm at The Stone Church Music Club on 5 Granite Street in Newmarket, NH.

Eight incredible stories told by talented tellers, all from the New Hampshire seacoast area, who will transport you through your imagination to wondrous places:

  • Debra Ballou
  • Papa Joe Gaudet with Joy Landry signing ASL
  • Shelley Hersey
  • Milo Mark Chamberlain
  • Roxie Zwicker
  • Mi…

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WMSF Quilt Raffle Tickets Available

Tickets are now available for the White Mountain Storytelling Festival quilt raffle.

The approximately 50" x 50" quilt features a mountain scene with someone in a boat fishing and a cabin on the water.

Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5.

For more information, email Lauretta at lphillipstale@comcast.net.

To learn more about the festival, check out the White Mountain Storytelling Festival page.

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NHSA Board Updates

NHSA Board of Directors - boardroomThere have been a couple of changes on the NHSA board this summer due to some unusual circumstances.

  • The board sadly accepted the resignation of Ellen Secci member-at-large. She was a great asset to the board and has been sorely missed.
  • The board recently voted to appoint Papa Joe Gaudet to fulfill her term.
  • President Peter Brodeur took a sabbatical from Presidency for health and personal reasons. He has remained a member of the board and will help wherever he can.
  • Angela Klingler, Vice P…

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New NHSA Membership Levels

NHSA membership - red door - enterTo address the issues concerning our website and to make things even better for our members, the board of directors has designed two distinctive membership levels.

Membership is now two tiered. The first tier is the Basic Membership the second tier is Professional Teller Membership. This takes affect August 15, 2014.

As a professional storyteller you may find that you are listed at the professional level even though you have not actually paid the additional $10. This is happening because we a…

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2014 White Mountain Storytelling Festival

odds bodkin - storytellerThe 4th annual White Mountain Storytelling Festival is coming up real soon on September 26-28th, 2014.

Check out our schedule and lineup of tellers. We know you are really going to enjoy this event. Come help us make this the Go-To-Event of the season. Please join us and bring your family and friends. Our hope is that you will bring 10 people with you or tell at least 20 people about this great event.

This year's featured storyteller is Odds Bodkin. Since 1982, Odds Bodkin has made his living…

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Website Remake

new hampshire storytelling alliance - logoOur website has a new look. It still has some changes to be made but we are very proud of it. We hope you will check it out and make suggestions. We will do what we can to make this website function for our members. It is still the same address. www.nhstorytelling.org.

Granite State Story Swap 2014

Jay O’Callahan wrote that it was the best storytelling event he had attended in a while. He was our featured speaker and did a great job of it. We all came away from his morning session encouraged. We had two story swap circles during the day and a concert of sea stories. Jay told his story "Forged In the Stars" for his afternoon concert.

The food was good and everyone went away just a little more filled up with stories as well.

Our next Granite State Story Swap will be held at the same loc…

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