The Telling Room

The telling room s mission is to empower youth through writing and share their voices with the world.

The telling room.

The telling room embodies the spirit of slow food and life michael pollan elegant strange funny and insightful the telling room is a marvelous tale and a joyful read a trip into a world peopled by some of the most remarkable characters and yes cheese in memory susan orlean author of the orchid thief. The telling room embodies the spirit of slow food and life michael pollan elegant strange funny and insightful the telling room is a marvelous tale and a joyful read a trip into a world peopled by some of the most remarkable characters and yes cheese in memory susan orlean author of the orchid thief. The telling room serves 4 000 maine youth annually with those numbers growing thanks to the online platform swarm. Maine public is the media sponsor of the telling room s show tell.

A literary spectacular virtual experience premiering online on friday october 2 at 8 00 pm. Like many of you we ve been actively following the progression of covid 19 in maine in other parts of the country and across the globe. The telling room is verbose complex fascinating frustrating. Show tell is a celebration of the telling room s mission to empower youth through writing and share their voices.

The telling room is a nonprofit writing center for youth ages 6 18 in portland maine. Student writers and readers meet. A tale of love betrayal revenge and the world s greatest piece of cheese brilliance audio on compact disc. Students in 14 of the state s 16 counties.

It s not firmly focused on the cheese. Focused on young writers. Rather this is an exploration of how a cheese became a symbol of something that the author longed for longs for. 6 171 likes 64 talking about this 521 were here.

The telling room has gone virtual until it feels safe for our staff volunteers teaching artists students and community to gather. If you re looking for a foodie book this is probably not what you are hoping for. Focused on young writers ages 6 to 18 we are a literary arts education organization that seeks to build confidence strengthen literacy skills and provide real audiences for our students. A literary spectacular virtual experience premiering friday october 2 2020.