Storytelling Troupe
Storytelling in a tipi, an on-campus experience to live in the memories for a lifetime. Stories for adults, students and teachers. Stories of nature fit your science curriculum and for your outdoor learning area. Stories of Texas history that will bring it alive for your students.
Keywords: Storytelling
Eco-stories
Texas history
Interview Q&A
How long have you been in business?
Tipi Tellers started with a grant from Texas Parks and Wildlife about 12 years ago. The Phoenix Storytelling Tipi is an off-shoot of the original organization with a slight shift in emphasis towards eco-telling and history. We do use stories from all cultures to tell all sides of the bigger story of the planet and its people.
What is your primary product or service?
We tell stories for the purpose of educating people, especially children, about the environment, the earth's wide variety of people, and the importance of respect for all living things. We aim at building a feeling of relevance through understanding the interdependence of all things and reverance in all interactions each day.
How did you first become interested in your line of business? (if owner) - What is your background? (If owner or store manager)
Our storytellers come from a broad background of experience. Librarians, certainly, as they have much exposure to the stories that come from many cultures. Historians, as they believe that history just may repeat itself, so knowledge of it is most valuable. Naturalists, as they recognize the importance of preserving our environment for future generations.
How do you differentiate yourself from other businesses in your category and area?
Storytellers are often indivuduals telling stories. Storytelling is considered a performance art, a great entertainment. Our goal as a troupe of tellers is to combine that with educating current and future generations about the earth and its people. We strive to help connect youth with nature and subscribe to the philosopy presented in No Child Left Inside. Fact is, we all need to reconnect.
How many locations do you have and do you have plans to expand?
As Americans, we view the tipi as Native American. The fact is that nomadic tribes all over the world use the tipi design so that they can move about to wherever they need to go to sustain themselves, their culture. In that spirit, we use the tipi to that we can to where the stories need to be told about the world's cultures in a venue that brings the listeners closer to the earth.
Provide detailed directions to your location
We are not a store front or an office. Please contact us at 940 381-3071 or PO Box 122676 Ft. Worth, TX 76121-2672, or tipi@tipitellers.org and we will come to you.
What type of payments do you accept?
Pricing for a program at a school, business, festival, etc. is based on the desired length of the program. We do 1/2 day and full day programs. Payable the day of the program. If overnight travel is required, lodging, meals, and mileage may be additional.
Which areas do you service?
K-12 schools, teacher inservice workshops, local festivals
Who owns your company or runs daily operations?
As we are a non profit 501c3, we have a board.
What are your hours of operation?
always open, just contact us
What is the best compliment anyone can give you?
Something that changed because as a result of hearing stories in the tipi - a new view of something in nature, a new understanding of a culture,i.e. that a good time was had and something was learned.
What is your favorite quote or Bible verse?
Everything old is new again.