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Story Tsunami events took place during the winter and spring of 2005. Click on a state or country to get details for an area.

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Canada  

Toronto

Friday, February 4, 8:00 PM
Dan Yashinsky, George Blake, Phyllis Walker, Norman Perrin.

Raised $1,100 Canadian ($885 US)

 

Japan  

Tokyo

Sunday, February 20, 2005
Organization: Japan Storytelling Association

Donated ¥56,600 ($505) to the Pacific Asia Resource Center

Tokyo

Saturday & Sunday, April 23-24
Japan Storytelling Network

Donated ¥21,000 ($187) to UNESCO


 

Singapore  

Singapore

Sunday, January 16, 8:00 PM
MoonShadow Stories

Raised: S$710 (US $433)

Singapore

March 9 through 31, 2005
The Asian Storytelling Network, National Library Board, & the Society for Reading and Literacy

Collected 2100 exercise books for children.

 

United States
Arizona  

Tempe

Sunday, February 6 at 5 pm
Liz Warren, Doug Bland, LynnAnn Wojciechowicz, Janet Means and many others.

Raised $1,700

California  

Auburn

Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 3 pm
Rugh Haplern, Joan Stockbridge, and the Starry River Ceili Band, with refreshments provided by Live Oak Waldorf School.

Raised $866 for Mercy Corp,  Lutheran World Relief, United Methodist Commission on Relief & Unicef

Orange

Saturday, February 26 at 7:00 pm
Laura Beasley, Larry Goldberg, Doris Hand, Mary Ann Newton, David and Diana Whiting, and Linda Whiteside tell stories to raise funds for the American Red Cross and Save the Children.

Raised $505 for Save the Children and the American Red Cross

Palo Alto

Saturday,February 12, 7:00 PM
Southbay Storytellers and Listeners

Raised: $544

San Francisco

Saturday, January 8, 6:00 PM
Eth-Noh-Tec Storytellers

Raised: $823

Connecticut  

Ivoryton

Sunday, February 20 at 3:00 pm
Carol Birch, Karen Josephson, Carolyn Martino with singer-song writer, Krizta Moon, and emcees Isabel Hinman and Bif Carrington.

Raised $740

Stamford

Saturday March 5 at 8:00 pm
Featuring storytellers Carol Birch, JG Pinkerton, Lot Therrio, Dee Saffery, Barbara Jeffries and Kate McClelland.

Raised $1,464

Delaware  

Wilmington

Sunday, February 20 at 1:00 PM
Indian dancer Geeta Mishra with storytellers Tara Defonseka, Michael Forestieri, Kim Graham, Annie Hart, Lilly Marge Hill, Bob Jones, Momma Sandi, Daphne Santosa, and Tahira.

Raised: $2,060 for Oxfam, Mercy Corp, Save the Children, American Red Cross, and American Friends Service Committee.

Click here to read about Delaware Storytellers & Story Tsunami in the news!

Florida  

Dunedin

Sunday, February 13, 2005,
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd and Bay Storytellers Guild

Raised: $900.00

Georgia  

Atlanta

Saturday, January 22, 7:30 PM
Audrey Galex, BJ Abraham, Diane Rooks, Fiona Page, Grace Hawthorne, Martha Tate, Rohan Bayer-Fox, Tersi Bendiberg, Tip Weniger. Poetry Reading: Warren Jacobs. Psalm Recitation: Janice Butt.

Funds raised $4,400 (preliminary) to go to CARE's tsunami relief efforts.

Hawai`i  

Honolulu

Monday, February 21 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm
Nyla Fujii-Babb, Jeff Babb, Dan Seki, Brenda Kwon, Ed Chevy, James McCarthy, Gordon Freitas, Kip McAtee, Mark Lutwak, James Rumford and more.

Raised $1,350

Illinois  

Belleville

Sunday, February 20, 2:00 PM
Location: Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows Belleville, Ill
Organization: St. Louis Riverwind Storytellers

Read about this event in the news!

Raised $775

Champaign

Saturday, January 19 at 8:00 pm
Patricia Hruby Powell

Amount raised: $230

Chicago

Saturday, February 19 from Noon to 3:00 pm
Location: Bettenhausen Recreational Center 8125 W. 171st Street

Raised $247 for Oxfam, Mercy Corps, and Save the Children

Edwardsville

Sunday, February 20 at 7:00
Riverwind Storytellers & First Christian Church of Edwardsville

Raised $300 (some from the sale of CDs in Edwardsville and Belleville)

Indiana  

Munster

Sunday, February 27 at 7:00 pm
Dan LeMonnier, Sriram Sadagopan, Rachel Leinenger, Chris Gloff, and other storytellers to be announced.

Raised $525 for American Red Cross

 

Maine  

See Conway, NH for the closest Story Tsunami event with Maine storytellers Jo Radner, Michael Parent, and others.

Maryland  

Baltimore

Saturday, March 5 at 7:00 pm
Kit Bloom, Mike Franch, Fred Freuthal, Fellisco Keeting, Beth Ohlsson, Chris Potts, Jo Puckett, Barbara Woodey.

Raised $370 for American Friends Service Committee, Tsunami Relief.

Massachusetts  

Andover

Sunday, February 13, 2:00 PM
Lani Peterson, Susan Lenoe, Jane Gossard, Meg Gilman, Nicollette Heavey and Magdalen Cantwell, with music and dance by local high school students, traditional Indian dance by children.

Raised: $1,100

Cambridge

Tuesdays in March 7:00 pm
Storytelling with Brother Blue and Friends

Raised $225 for Mercy Corps

Cohassett

Friday, February 18, 7:30 PM
Jay O'Callahan, Derek Burrows, Andrea Lovett and Bob Reiser.

Raised $1,000 for Oxfam

Read about the Cohasset event in the news!

Cohassett

Sunday, February 20, 2:00 PM
Andrea Lovett, Wiesy MacMillan, Diane Positoina, vocalist Katie Shepard, and harpist Jen Poole.

Raised $1,000 for Oxfam

Read about Jen Poole's contribution to this event!

Danvers

Sunday, February 20, 3 pm
Rob Astyk Meg Gilman Angela Klingler, Merrill Kohlhofer, Andrew Mungo, Alicia Quintano. Hosted by Tony Toledo.

Raised $209 for Oxfam

Michigan  

White Lake

Saturday, April 9 at 7:00, with church dinner at 6 pm
Lois Keel, Loretta Vitek, Rob McCabe, Carolyn Schuetz, Danielle Todd, Karen Czarnik, Pam Dawson, Ron Hinman, & Tracy Selak.

Contributed $175 to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance

Detroit

Detroit Storytelling League In lieu of producing another storytelling event, members of our Detroit Story League today voted to donate profit from Tellabration (held in November) to the Am Red Cross earmarked for tsunami relief.

Contributed $350 to American Red Cross

Minnesota  

Togo

Saturday, March 5 at 2:00 pm
Gloria Anderson-Hegg, Erling Hegg, Casey Aro, Lyn Aro and others from the Tin Cup Troubadours. Music groups will be Casey Aro & Playing Favorites, Bill Maxwell & Friends, Second Chance.

Raised $2,500 for World Vision.

Missouri  

Columbia

Friday, February 4 at 7:00 pm
Milbre Burch, Beth Horner, Larry Brown, Deb Swanegan, Greg Tyler, and Anthony Clark, students from Columbia Independent School, and the international youth choir, Buds Of Peace Choir.

Raised $1,100.

Columbia storytellers in the news

 

New Hampshire  

Portsmouth

Sunday, March 6 at 3:00 pm
Featuring stories by Joanne Piazzi, Meg Gilman, Debra Ballou, George Radcliffe, and Tony Toledo, and music by "Voices from the Heart", a 200-voice women's chorus.

Raised $1,142 for Oxfam, Save the Children, Mercy Corps, and Sarvodaya.

Read about the Portsmouth concert in the news!

Salem

Saturday, February 19, at 3:00
Valerie Brown, Angela Klingler, Tom McCabe, Lauretta Phillips, Joanne Piazzi, George Radcliffe.

Raised $295 for a variety of relief organizations

Conway

Friday, February 18, at 7:00 pm
Jo Radner, Michael Parent, Meg Gilman, Andy Davis, Marion Posner, and Matt Krug will tell stories.

Raised $635 for Oxfam, Mercy Corp, Save the Children, Red Cross

Read about the Conway, NH event in the news!


New Mexico  

Santa Fe

Sunday, February 20 at 2:30 pm
Emily Sartin (National Youth Storyteller Hall of Fame Finalist), Mary Ellen Gonzales, Johanna Hongell-Darsee and dance students, Leah Alexander, Joe Hays, and Sarah Malo.

Raised $1,132 for Oxfam and Mercy Corps.

New York  

Albany

Saturday, February 12 at 7:30 pm
The Storycrafters (Jeri Burns and Barry Marshall), Joe Doolittle, Kent Busman,  Suman Joshi, Ellen V. Secci; music Provided by Joan Horgan and Friends at the College of St. Rose and Nimi Jayaraman and Vishvesh Obla of the Hindu Temple Society. Hosted by Gert Johnson.

Raised $1,314 for AIM for Seva for relief efforts in India and Sri Lanka.

Binghamton

Saturday, January 29, 7:30 PM
Regi Carpenter, Janice Fiore, Mary Ann Karre, Nilsa Mariano, Eileen Ruggieri

Raised $51.00 for Save the Children

Ithaca

Saturday, February 12, 8:00 PM
Regi Carpenter, Martha Hamilton & Mitch Weiss as “Beauty and the Beast”, Katharyn Howd Machan & Eric Machan Howd, Lee-Ellen Marvin Kevin Moss, Ina Mary Warren, Carol Dentes Wilhelm, Blue Jay Woman

Raised $400.00 for Oxfam, Mercy Corps, and Save the Children

New York City

Tuesday, February 8, 7:30 PM
Story Slam, hosted by Andy Borowitz

Raised $100.00

Sunday, February 6, 2006 at Noon John Colligan, Robin Bady, Bill Gordh, Peninnah Schram and other members of the NY Storytelling community.

Raised: $910.00

Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 8 pm
Laura Simms, Milbre Burch, Mary Rachel Platt, Regina Ress, Heather Forest, and others

Raised: $1,330

Poughkeepsie

Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 2 pm
Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi, Muriel Horowitz, Ron Sopyla, Jack Maguire, and Mary Summerlin.

Poughkeepsie, NY event in the news!

Raised $1,750

North Carolina  

Asheville

Friday, February 18, 2005 at 7:30 PM
Connie Regan-Blake, Doug Elliott, Barbara Freeman, Michael "Badhair" Williams, Gwenda Ledbetter, David Novak, and David Holt.

Raised $8,507 (!!) for the Asheville Red Cross Tsunami Relief campaign

Asheville event in the news!
And also in the news here!

Raleigh

Saturday, February 26 at 1:00 pm
Ron I. Jones, Alan Hoal, Marjory Moe, Rebecca Tighe, Claire Basney, Robin Kitson, and Tabla drummer Tava Mahadevan. To benefit Save the Children, Oxfam, and Mercy Corps.

Raised $300 for Oxfam, Save the Children, and Mercy Corps

 
Ohio  

Smithville

Sunday, February 27, 2005 at 2:30 pm
Storytellers included Lyn Ford, Chris King, Janelle Reardon, Thomas "Bear" Burnett, Garrett Hoffman, Donna Fetzer, Chanda Phelan, and Harold and Jonatha Wright.

Raised $2,000 for Lutheran World Relief

Oklahoma  

Bartlesville

Saturday, February 12 from 2 to 4 pm
Nancy Lenhart and Fran Stallings

Raised $25.00

Oregon  

Eugene

Sunday, February 20 at 3:00 pm
Arun Toke, Celeste Rose, Hanna Still, Jo Fanning, Mark Lewis, Penelope Youngfeather, and Yvonne Young.

Raised $340 for Oxfam, Mercy Corps and Save the Children

Read about the Oregon event in the news!

Pennsylvania  

Bethlehem

Sunday, February 27, 2005 from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm
A Storytelling Marathon with Charles Kiernan, Kristen Pedimonti, Lisa Facciponti, Vicky Town, Mary Wright, Kathy Pierce, Vince Green. Kathy Long, Karen Maurer, Tom and Betty Druckenmiller, Robin Reichart, Eva Grayzel, Rick Beck and Larry Sceurman.

Read about the 12-hour Story Tsunami Maration of Bethlehem, PA in the news!

Raised $1,625 for Save the Children

Lancaster

Sunday, March 20 at 2:00 PM
Tapestry of Tales Storytelling Guild

Raised $130 for Mennonite Central Committee.

Lancaster, PA event in the news

Pittsburgh

Sunday, February 20 at 2 pm
Joe Wos at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Raised $150

Rhode Island  

Warwick

Sunday, February 20 at 2:00 pm
Jeanne Donato, Tom Brillat, Mark Binder, Carolyn Martino, Marilyn Meardon, Sally Rae Rogers, and Catfish Jim Gillen.

Raised $832 for Save the Children

Newport

Sunday, February 20 at 7:00 pm
David Mello, Kathy Ryan, Herb Tracy, Anne Marie Forer, and Cindy Killavey.

Raised $125 for Save the Children

Tennessee  

Clinton

Sunday,February 13, 2:00 PM
Janice Brooks-Headrick, Elizabeth Rose, Kathleen Mavournin, Millie Sieber, Katherine Adkins-Robertson and Dianne Hackworth.

Raised $204 for Save the Children

Jonesborough

Saturday, February 19 at 7:00 pm
Elizabeth Ellis, David Novak, Molly Catron, Delanna Reed.

Raised $2,000 for Save the Children

Read about the Jonesborough event in the news!

Utah  

Salt Lake City

Friday, February 18 at 4:00 pm
Sister Maryam Mohammed, with Jose R. Bonilla

Raised $500 for African Refugee Artists Club

Virginia  

Staunton

Saturday, February 12, 2005 at 10:30am
Eve Waters, Sandra Parks, Susan Clark, Elaine McLeod, Mwizenge Tembo, Linda Hartman, Eve Waters, and Joan and Mack Swift.

Raised $120 for American Red Cross relief efforts.

Washington  

Vashon

Sunday, January 23, 2005
Indian crafts, Asian snacks, and special Korean P'ansori storytelling at 5 pm by Lee Shin Ye; funds will go to ASHA.

Raised $1375.00 for ASHA, a non-profit that works in South India

Wisconsin  

Milwaukee

Saturday, February 19, 2005 at 7:00 PM
local area storytellers, Indian musicians, and teen storytellers, coordinated by Key Heyer.

Raised $1,300 for Oxfam