Bumpkintale: Where Stories Help and Art Connects Us All

🌾 What is Bumpkintale?

Bumpkintale is a global creative organisation built around creativity, storytelling, activism, and mental health support.
It’s a place where underrepresented voices are heard, artists are protected, and personal truths are transformed into collective strength through art, music, film, writing, photography, and more.

At its core:

"We help those who help others—by giving them a safe, judgment-free space to create, rest, and connect."

🧭 Our Mission

  • To tell stories that were never heard - because no one dared or could translate them.

  • To protect artists - especially those most vulnerable to public pressure, cancellation, or burnout.

  • To blur creative boundaries - encouraging actors to write, musicians to paint, dancers to direct, or whatever you want to try.

  • To create a worldwide support network that’s always there if help is needed - with our 24/7 multilingual “911 Hotline.”

🧱 Our Pillars

  1. 911 Hotline & Mental Health support
    A 24/7 emotional first-aid line for creatives and supporters - someone always ready to help, in your language.
    Focused on preventing burnout, cancel culture harm, and emotional isolation. You can talk to someone who has already lived through it.

  2. Activist Storytelling
    We shine light on untold, often taboo truths through every medium imaginable.
    Our stories are shared, translated, and transformed into books, music, films, and more.
    (Think “art as activism,” but soft, personal, and healing.)

  3. Creative Freedom Without Fear
    Members can experiment beyond their public persona.
    No judgment, no image control, no expectation - just space to be and if wished for 100% anonymity.

🌍 Who We Are For

  • Artists who’ve faced or know someone who has experienced online backlash, media overexposure, or fear of speaking out

  • Creatives who want to support others, but need a place to rest and be supported themselves

  • People who have stories that don’t “fit the mold”

  • Outlaws, marginalized voices, and anyone longing to be heard in their own way

💛 What Makes Us Different

  • The “Idiot Clause”: You can be kicked out for selfishness - but never for failure.

  • No hierarchy. Everyone, from a Grammy winner to a kid with a poem, is equal.

  • Safety-first structure. NDAs, full anonymity options, and financial fairness (70% of story earnings go to the storyteller).

  • Global Reach. Members from diverse languages, genres, and life experiences come together here.

  • It's not for profit—it’s for people. Always.

🫶 Why Now?

Because:

  • Artists are burning out trying to save the world.

  • Audiences are desperate for truth and beauty, creativity over business.

  • Stories are still being lost in translation—literally and metaphorically.

Bumpkintale connects all of that.
It’s a living, breathing movement—and it’s just getting started.

 

Welcome to Bumpkintale

This is how it all started. A few pages from my notebook:

Main pillars of Bumpkintale

 

 I.     911 Hotline:

  • Helping people ( them)

  • 24/7 hotline

  • Tell the truth- anti-cancelling

  •  To have someone have your back

  • Talk with others who have had the same experiences/ fears/struggles

  •   To help people who usually help others

  •   Show the world that those people exist

       

II.     Tackle issues not talked ( enough) about- Storytelling meets activism

  •   Turn the world upside down

  • Tell& translate stories people are afraid of telling

  •   Translations

  •   Make knowledge wwas

  •   Refugee

  •   Bumpkintale stories ( origin stories)

     

III.     Creative freedom all around

  •   Interaction, change & support

  •   We know totally different people

  •   Translate it not just into languages but also into other media

  •   Give artists more freedom and a wider range

 

How do we choose people

 

  •       They already have these values

  •       Might have hardships or are likely to get them

  •       Can listen and are empathic

  •       Make you feel like talking to a friend

  •       Have valuable advice

  •      They can teach

  •       They have the je ne sais quoi

  •       All around the world

  •      Open to different topics and views

  •       Trustworthy

  •       Refereed by someone who’s already in

Introduction

What we do:

  •       Bumpkintale (Def):  Bumpkin-someone from the outskirts; Tale- fictional or true story being told = Bumpkintale- Telling of untold and unknown tales

  •       Lisanna Amnel

  •       Anna Möller

What we want and expect:

  •      To make people want to get up in the morning

  •       Creative mindset, open mindset

  •       Engagement/ curiosity for the world and people

  •      Unconventional thinking

  •       A good heart

  •       Have some life experience

  •       No judgment

  •       Empathy

What we offer:

  •       Working for people with people

  •       Public relations without standing in the public eye

  •       Anonymity

  •       No judgement

  •       Global reach ( in work)

  •       Support

  •       Possibility to expand creativity into other media

  •       Safe space

 

How to:

Finances: Profits/ Money:

      Everybody gets the same % income
      10% from the stories we tell goes to Bumpkintale and 70% to the one who’s story it is. The remaining 20% get equally distributed
      Bumpkintale Patreon site
      We choose a charity annually
      If a company wants to fix or polish their image we’re open for donations ( after we made sure they fit the BUmpkintale concept)

Image:

     30% / 70% Organization
     No prejudices
     Everyone gets help, who needs it – no money
     Only what you do counts
     We leave no one behind
     Worldwide network, system usage
      “reader” wishes
 

What suits us:

     Doing of good deeds, which reflect on society and the inner look of the firm /person 
     To help people and to let them know they have someone who has their back
     Telling of stories (your story the story of a friend something that troubles you)
     With: art, music, writing, acting, knowledge

A waterproof contract:

      A lawyer we trust
      The lowest anyone can get money wise is 0%. Of income
      Safety clausal – in English and your language
      Nobody is going to be forced to stay (but as you can only gain something…)
      A safety clausal for me. That your information is safe and nobody is being falsely accused, without proof 
      Punishment for contract breaking or just being a shitty human

Proof that it works and how it is received:

     Test phase until Halloween
     Testimonies (podcast, insta it’s going to be obvious)
     Members

  Idiot clausal:
      Nobody can join and act only for their benefit – be selfish
      No sabotage
      You can be kicked out- which leads to bad publicity, cancellation

Member helpdesk:

     24/7 help and 911 hotline help and problem solving hotline ( in your language), you’ll be connected to someone or to resources that have lived through that problem
     Consistent messages (no spam) to check in on you
     Birthday and holiday presents

Inspiration behind Bumpkintale:

     To be a better person, to understand what we don’t
     To work with people that think differently or likely
     Someone who challenges me and has the same mindset
     As much collaboration opportunities, without the language barrier

So you don’t feel used:

      0% clausal
     You can leave anytime
     Do as much as you want
     911 hotline
     My charm
     Everyone is worth the same there is no hierarchy

What you can imagine Bumpkintale to be:

Nonprofit:

No profit for us but for the people we help
30% / 70% organization

Selfcare:

    Helping people without burning out
     We have your back, give you all the support that you need

Collabs:

    Collaborations with all kinds of people
     We are all of the same importance
     Easier reach
     No language barrier

Justice:

    To make everything more wordly + languages and knowledge
     No more “there is nothing we can do about it”, if we only ever look away and say that,  nothings ever gonna happen