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Brantford Storytelling Festival
Brantford, OntarioEsquimalt Children's Literacy Festival
Barbara Sisson - (519) 756-0727
Website:www.tales.bizbrant.com
Email: taletellers@bizbrant.com.
Last held: Oct 13, 2007
eVOCative Festival of Oral PerformanceNow in its 5th year, this free festival features storytelling, contests, crafts and a free children's lunch to make this the perfect day for families to explore the magic of books and to inspire a life long love of reading.
Contact: Vicki Klyne, Community Services Programmer, Township of Esquimalt
(250)412-8511
vklyne@esquimalt.ca
www.esquimalt.ca/recreation
Last held: Oct 14, 2007
Festival du Conte West Brome, Quebec - third weekend of AugustThe eVOCative Festival is an international gathering of artists celebrating storytelling and oral performance, organized in conjunction with The Oral, the Written, and Other Verbal Media conference at the University of Saskatchewan. eVOCative will treat audiences to dynamic world-class performances in oral storytelling, song, and poetry in such border-crossing genres as spoken-word, computer-mediated performance, Aboriginal hip hop, dub, and sound poetry. The festival will also host workshops in storytelling, spoken-word performance, and video poem-making.
Last held - June 19 – June 21, 2008 For more information, visit the festival website
https://ocs.usask.ca/evocative or e-mail susan.gingell@usask.ca
Website: www.festivalduconte.ca - trying to get an update on this websiteLe Festival interculturel du conte du Quebébec/ Quebéc Interculturel Storytelling Festival
Contact: Bee Santori sanbo@videotron.ca
Last held: Aug 18-19, 2007
Les principaux événements de ce Festival se déroulent sur l’île de Montréal. / Large multicultural festival takes place every 2 years. The main events take place in Montreal and the surrounding areas.Festival traditionnel de contes et légendes des Trois-Rivières - Trois-Rivières
Organisé aux deux ans par Marc Laberge Courriel : infoFestival@sympatico.ca
Site : http://Festival-conte.qc.ca/
For further information contact Rosalyn Cohen, email address rosebudc@sympatico.ca
Last held: Oct 19 - 26th, 2007
lieu: Jardin des Ursulines,
Trois-Rivières, Qc
info: Steve Bernier - 819.374.0922
courriel: info@contesetlegendes.org
web: www.contesetlegendes.org
Last held: 15-16 septembre 2007
The oldest storytelling festival in Quebec is taking place in the eastern townships in October 2007. The festival proudly celebrates 15 years of storytelling traditions and offers over 40 presentations featuring storytellers from Quebec and other overseas countries. The art of oral storytelling at its best! Visit www.productionslittorale.com for details.Kootenay Storytelling Festival (8th Annual) - Procter, 45 minutes east of Nelson, BC, Canada
info@productionslittorale.com
Last Held: 13 au 22 octobre 2006
See Website as information becomes available: www.kootenaystory.orgOttawa Storytelling Festival
Contact #: 1-888-422-1123 (Barry Gray)
Last Held: July 7 & 8, 2007
Website:http://www.ottawastorytellers.caSt. Marys Storytelling Festival - Once Upon a Thames - St. Marys, Ontario - Sep 5 - 7, 2008
Last held: Nov 3 - 4, 2007
Website:www.stmarysstorytelling.orgT.A.L.E.S. Fort Edmonton Storytelling Festival - Edmonton, Alberta - Aug 31 - Sep 1, 2008
Contact: Carol McLeod carol@carolmcleod@net
For more information, see the TALES website; www.ecn.ab.ca/~talesToronto Festival of Storytelling - Toronto, Ontario - Mar 27 - Apr 5, 2009
18th Festival - September 2 & 3, 2007
Website: http://www.storytellingtoronto.org/Pages/Festival.htmlSt. John's Folk Arts Council Storytelling Festival - St. John's, NL
For more details, when available:Vancouver Storytelling Festival - Vancouver, British Columbia
Website: www.nlfolk.com/storytelling/storytelling.html
Last held - Nov 7-11, 2007
Website: www.vancouverstorytelling.orgVictoria Storytelling Festival - Victoria, B.C.
Email: info@vancouverstorytelling.org
Last held: February 1 - 4, 2008
Last held: Feb 10 and 11, 2006Voices of the Guild - Scarborough, ON
A Storytelling Festival presented by The Guild Renaissance GroupWyatt Heritage Properties Annual Storytelling Festival - Summerside, Prince Edward Island
10 am - 5 pm - Guild Inn Gardens, 201 Guildwood Parkway, Scarborough ON
Last held: Sun, Aug 12, 2007
For more information see website: www.scarborougharts.com/groups/renaissance
Fourth Annual Island Storytelling Festival:Yukon International Storytelling Festival - Whitehorse, Yukon Territory Oct 3 - 5, 2008
Wyatt Heritage Properties presents some of Prince Edward Island’s best storytellers in performance. Various times and locations TBA.
Phone 432-1298 or 432-1296, www.wyattheritage.com
Email info@wyattheritage.com
Phone 902-432-1298
Last held: Sep 14 - 15, 2007
P.O. Box 31722
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory Y1A-6L3
Phone:(867) 633-7550
FAX:(867) 633-3883
Website:www.storytelling.yk.net/
Email: yukonstory@yknet.yk.ca
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