Thank you to all who joined us at Paint the Town Read: The Telling Room’s 20th Anniversary Bash!

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 was an evening filled with friends, food, stories, classic Telling Room activities, and music (with a dance party courtesy of DJ Jon) at Brick South as we honored 20 years of our community empowering young writers and lifting up youth voices. For this literary-eleganza-extravaganza. we invited our community to celebrate in their most creative attire, inspired by favorite books, authors, characters, and genres, or don their finest red regalia—and our community did not disappoint. Thank you all for showing up for youth voices this fall and for over twenty years!

We hope you’ll enjoy the highlights below from this special night (captured by Dave Dostie) and please feel free to share.

Photos by Dave Dostie


Our Paint the Town Read
Host Committee

Meg & Rob Adams
Androscoggin Bank
Kyo Bannai & Craig Schneider
Aimée & Mark Bessire
Sarah Clarke & Xander Berkeley
Peyton Black
Iris Blasi
Emily Drain Bruce
Nancy Butman
Center for Arts and Ecology at the Desert of Maine
Tyler Clements & Lily King
Susan Conley & Tony Kieffer
Joe Conway & Jenny Dougherty
Sara Corbett & Mike Paterniti
Sara Crisp & Gregg Lipton
Chelsea & Noah DeLorme
Dhiroobhai C. Desai (and in honor of Shashikala Desai)
Rajiv Desai
Tanuja Desai Hidier & Zoé Rani Hidier
Christina & Simon DeYoung
Patty Dodd
The Douglas-Faddis Family
Susanna & Rich DuBois
Shari Elder
Jes Ellis
Kristen & Bob Farnham
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
Taffy Field
Sean T. Findlen & Amy A. Tessendorf
Catherine Fisher
The Reverend Anne Fowler
Hallie Flint Gilman & Ned Flint
Matt & Jessica Grondin
Anja Hanson & Derek Pierce
David Hembre & Jill McGowan
Mary Herman & Angus King
Erin & Penny Houghton
Lissa Hunter & Kirby Pilcher
Mary Baumgartner Jones
Emily & Spencer Jones
Cricket & Angus King III
Karla Knight & Eric Hannelius
Celine & Chris Kuhn
Paige Kuhn
Mindi Laine & Tom Haushalter
Libby & Mike Lauze
Annie Leahy & Mike Carey
Charlie Miller
Winky Lewis & Alex Millspaugh
Mary Allen Lindemann & James Hoban
Ben & Beth Lowenstein
Meredith McCarroll & Jeff Christmas
Jolene McGowan, Matchstick Communications
Molly McGrath
Meeghan McLain & Joel Antolini
Priya Natarajan
Sally & Tom Newhall
Matty Oates
Maria Padian
The Poets Corner
Christopher & Cheryl Powell
Christopher Price
Catherine Richards & Bob Olney
Seth Rigoletti
Christine Burns Rudalevige
Heather Shields & Lee Lindenau
Onnolee & Larry Smith
Kate Snyder
Donna Simonetti
The Stevens Family
Kathleen Sullivan
Jordene Trueh
Desi Van Til & Sean Mewshaw
Kristin Kellogg Valdmanis
Diane and Paul Yasek
Alice & Geoff Wagg
Debbie Weil & Sam Harrington
Sandi & David Whiston
Breda & David White
Bob Zager & Molly Juhlin
Anonymous


Thank You to Our Corporate Sponsors

 

Book Sponsors

 
 
 

Paragraph Sponsors

Stanza Sponsors

Sentence Sponsors

Word Sponsors

The Telling Room’s 20th Anniversary Event Planning Committee

Matty Oates, Chair, Board Member
Joe Conway, Board Member
Sara Crisp, Board Member
Tanuja Desai Hidier, Board President
Rylan Hynes, Staff
Amy Kimball, Staff
Celine Kuhn, Advisory Board Member
Molly McGrath, Community Member
Sally Newhall, Community Member
Emily O’Neil, Staff
Kristina M.J. Powell, Executive Director
Sarah Schneider, Staff
Sonya Tomlinson, Staff
Stacey Ventimiglia, Staff
Sandi Whiston, Community Member