Storytelling Arts of Indiana Employee Directory

Performing ArtsUnited States2-10 Employees

Storytelling Arts of Indiana (SAI) enriches, connects, and entertains through the art and experience of storytelling. We accomplish these goals and instill the value of storytelling in everyday life by offering: 1. Professional storytelling performances, 2. Youth and senior outreach, 3. Historical storytelling programs to ensure that stories of our past remain alive and 4. Events where community members participate by sharing their own personal stories. Now in its 34th year, SAI produces a full season of storytelling performances at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center.  Our programming also reaches out and touches the lives of Hoosiers directly with the following activities:

1. Weekly bedside storytelling at a local children's hospital.

2. Monthly "As I Recall Storytelling Guild" meetings, where stories are shared by people like you.

3. Summertime performances in 15 day camps in Marion County.

4. Liar's Contest open to Indiana residents during the Indiana State Fair.

5. Frank Basile Emerging Stories Fellowship and Premiere, an annual fellowship given to an Indiana storyteller to create a new story for adults.

6. Sharing Hoosier History Through Stories Series, an Indiana storyteller is commissioned by SAI and the Indiana Historical Society to develop a story based on Indiana History.

7. If These Walls Could Tell Series, an Indiana storyteller is commissioned by SAI and Indiana Landmarks to develop a story based on restored buildings.

8. The Life Stories Project in collaboration with Freetown Village and the Indiana Historical Society, individuals record their family stories, the stories are archived in the oral history collection at the Indiana Historical Society.

9. The monthly Indy Story Slam in collaboration with Freetown Village.

10. Hear of Stories: The Life and Afterlife of Incarceration in collaboration with Trusted Mentors and St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Indianapolis.

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