Change the World with The Dewberry Tales

The Dewberry Tales needs funds for theater, accessibility, costumes, stipends, and outreach

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Change the World with The Dewberry Tales

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The Show
The Dewberry Tales is a groundbreaking original play that celebrates the tribulations, triumphs, and talents of real people who have defied societal expectations through acts of creativity, courage, grace, authenticity and connection. Through powerful vignettes filled with real-life events, personal monologues, and innovative dance choreography, the Dewberry Tales highlights humanity’s diversity while proving that the things that divide us also create the threads that connect us.

The Dewberry Tales was written for everyone who has felt lost, neglected, misunderstood or just wants to live a happier more fulfilling life. If it sounds like it's for all of us? It is!

With over $250,000 already invested in the creation of this show, we’ve laid the foundation, but we can’t take the next step without your support.

Why the Show Matters:
The Dewberry Tales exposes humanity's greatest weakness, fear, and our greatest strength, human connection. Today’s world uses a system to cover our fear that is rooted in the methodology of care. A process that we have adopted using guilt, charity and the desire to look compassionate as a coverup for our desire to care from a distance. A way to avoid the things we do not want to see or imagine ourselves experiencing, and a way to avoid true human connection. A system designed to arrange human beings by age, income, ability, religion, race, or circumstance cannot care about human connection. In separating people into identities rather than recognizing our shared humanity, we must ask: are we divided by our circumstances, or by the way we choose to respond to them? Are we the dividers? Or can we choose to adopt a system that supports the morals and values that live outside of the construct we now live by.

The Dewberry Tales presents a different way forward, one rooted in truth and connection. The show’s storyline lays the foundation for a better world, a world where humanity’s greatest capacity for change lies in what is already built into us, our resilience, courage, creativity, and our shared humanity. A world shaped not by division, but by connection.

The Dewberry Tales will:
  • Connect the worlds that have traditionally been separate
  • Expose the untruths that plague us
  • Change perceptions
  • Bring people together
  • Dispel fears
  • Show that the "impossible" is possible
  • Celebrate mankind’s humanity

Join us in bringing The Dewberry Tales to audiences of every age and background. The stories will make you laugh, move you to tears, and motivate us to create a single world we all want to be a part of.

Where Your Donation Goes
Your generous support helps us cover essential production costs, including:
  • Theater rental & rehearsal space
  • Costumes, lighting, and scenic design
  • Accessibility services (captioning, ASL interpreters, audio description)
  • Performer stipends
  • Marketing & community outreach
  • Video and audio production for promotional materials

What’s Next
We’ve held two public showings and now are bringing the show to a larger stage to serve a larger, more diverse audience. The first shows received incredible feedback from the community:

"The Dewberry Tales incorporates live music, visual media, singing, dance, poetry, martial arts, and sculptural elements, creating a rich, multidisciplinary language of storytelling. In my experience as a filmmaker and artist, I have encountered no other work that brings together so many artistic disciplines in such a cohesive and purposeful way..."

“The Dewberry Tales is exactly what the world needs now.”

"This show is sent from the Heavens."

From the Creator
"Imagine a world where there are unlimited opportunities for everyone, and everyone is bound by the values and beliefs that bind us and make us all human. This is the world I wanted for my family and this is the world I want for you and yours."
— Melinda Kremer, Author of The Dewberry Tales

Join Us
No donation is too small. Every dollar brings us closer to the stage.
Be part of something beautiful and unique. Help us bring The Dewberry Tales to life, and let’s prove that we are all better together. Thank you for your support!

Organizer

Aubree Marchione
Organizer
Lower Merion Township, PA
American DanceWheels Foundation, Inc.
Beneficiary

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