By Town Crier Staff Report

Tellabration is an evening of storytelling performances held throughout the world on the same weekend to showcase local storytellers and to promote the art of storytelling.

The local Tellabration is scheduled 7-9 p.m., Saturday, at The Creekside Center, United Methodist Church, 655 Magdalena Ave., Los Altos.

Ten percent of this year’s ticket sales will go to “The Gift of Reading.”

Donation requested are: general admission, $8, student and seniors, $7.

Advance tickets are available at Linden Tree Children’s Records and Books, 220 State St., in Los Altos.

For a free beverage at intermission, bring one or more new children’s books as a donation to “The Gift of Reading.”

Storytellers scheduled for the local Tellabration include several accomplished local storytellers:

Brian Conroy draws on his Irish and Italian heritage while weaving story and music into his retellings of classical tales. Conroy teaches storytelling, writing and theater to middle school and college students.

David Ponkey serves on the board of the Storytelling Association of Alta California.

His tape of world folklore, “Anything Can Happen,” recently won a Parent’s Choice Silver Honor for excellence in storytelling.

Megumi is of Japanese and Caucasian descent and has lived and worked in both Japan and the United States.

She is a bilingual therapist and works in cross-cultural relations. Megumi offers storytelling workshops and tells bilingual stories.

Al Wigger, a retired teacher, is a native son of a native son. He claims to be a believer in simple ways and simple values.

Tom and Sandy Farley have been telling stories in tandem as “Spontaneous Combustion” for 20 years. They organize story programs for Earth Day and at Quaker gatherings.