If you have many storytellers, you could set up the event like a conference.
Each storyteller could work in a small room (perhaps in school classrooms),
with several people telling stories at the same time. The audience would have
a choice to hear one storyteller during each session. Perhaps there could
be three or four sessions, each one half an hour or an hour long. Ask the
storytellers how long they would like for their session.
You could have sessions about the importance of storytelling and sessions
where the audience learns how to tell stories.
You could hold the event outside in tents.
The group members have the responsibility of making sure storytellers are
aware of the schedule, are comfortable while they are waiting, don’t have to
wait too long and have something to drink during their performance.
Be sure to get permission from the storytellers to record the stories that they
tell at the event and later write up the transcripts of the stories.
The process of planning an event like this involves working together as a
group and has many opportunities for developing organizational and language
skills.
Storytelling tent created by the May HakStorytelling tent created by the May
Hakongak Community Library and Cultural Centre in Cambridge Bay.