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June's Storytelling Circle at the Crow's Nest, Thursday, June 12th, $3
Thurday, June 12th, 2008
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The Crow's Nest, off the War Memorial steps, Duckworth Street, St. John's
Hello all! June is here, and that means we are starting off the summer with some great stories. This month's storytelling circle will feature guest storyteller Cindy Campbell from Nova Scotia, plus a chance for you to tell your own stories (or just sit back and have a beer).
Free storytelling workshop, Friday, June 13thFriday, June 13th, 2008
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Lantern, Barnes Road, St. John’sEver want to collect and tell your family stories? Want to learn how to interview family members, preserve the oral stories, and weave together family facts and experiences into tellable tales? Join storyteller Cindy Campbell from Nova Scotia for this workshop that will help you create or re-create stories to pass along to the next generation. A Family Stories Workbook will be provided to help get you started.
About Cindy Campbell, Workshop Leader
Cindy is a storyteller, born and raised in Nova Scotia with roots in Prince Edward Island. She heard her first oral stories as a child while sitting around her grandmother’s kitchen listening to the adults talk. These were snippets of stories about people, events and community history. As an adult, she became interested in storytelling when she attended the 3rd Annual National Conference of Storytellers of Canada/ Conteurs du Canada in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1995. Soon, she became fascinated with regional stories and histories, family stories and personal stories. Cindy has performed at festivals, conferences and special events all across the country. In 2006, Cindy toured the Gaspe Region as a Storyteller for CASA and was a traveling Storyteller for the TD Canadian Children’s Book Tour.
In 2006, Cindy was project manager for the Youth In Storytelling Initiative which encouraged the use of Storytelling in the schools, encouraged youth to collect their family stories, and the final stage was a Family Storytelling Contest. This project was in partnership with The Storytellers Circle of Halifax and Pier 21 National Historic Site. Cindy is also working on a Community Stories project for Cole Harbour Heritage Farm where the information from taped interviews are woven into stories. She is the Provincial Representative for Storytellers of Canada/ Conteurs du Canada, Coordinator of the Storytellers Circle of Halifax, and Storytelling Liaison for the Helen Creighton Folklore Society. In Halifax, from November 14 -16, the Helen Creighton Folklore Society will host the 2008 Conference for the Canadian Society For Traditional Music. Cindy is co-chair of this conference along with Clary Croft.
FREE Workshop, limited seating, participants must pre-register.
Register by fax (709-739-5413) phone ( 709-739-1892 ext 3) or email info@heritagefoundation.ca
Canadian Librarian Association and Halifax Public Libraries present:Mahone Bay, NS
Storytelling as a Major Communication Tool - with speaker Gail de Vos
A good story can do more than just entertain; it can help spread your message more effectively than most traditional communication tools.
Wednesday, Mar 26 7:00 pm
Helen Creighton Room, Aldernay Gate Library
60 Alderney Drive
DartmouthCost: CLA members $10
For more information see poster or contact Anne at 902-424-2078
Non members $15
Students $10
Mussel and Storytelling Festival, May 17-18th
Featuring SC-CC members Cindy Campbell, Clara Dugas, Claire Miller and Linda Winham
For more information, visit the website:http://www.mahonebay.com/IndianPointMahoneBayMusselFestivalMahoneBayNovaScotiaCanada.html
BEAVER HATS & BAG PIPES
Amazing & sometimes true stories & songs from new Scotland Award-winning author and storyteller Deborah Dunleavy presents her newest collection of Scottish Canadian stories and songs on Thursday, May 22, at 7 PM at the Brockville Museum.
“When the Scots came to Canada, whether it was by way of the Hudson Bay Company or because they had been forced from their land, they brought with them their kilts and their bag pipes, their stories and their songs, and their fierce determination and grit.” - Dunleavy.Deborah pays tribute to the Scottish settlers with haunting ballads from Nova Scotia and humorous lumberjack songs from Ontario and Quebec. She weaves in true accounts of the brave men and women who left the homeland in search of love and adventure. And she spins delightful folk tales that came over on the hearts and the lips of the Scottish ancestors.
Joining Deborah for the premier performance of BEAVER HATS & BAG PIPES is Celtic music ensemble AVALON. From Cape Breton to Hudson Bay with stops in Lanark and Glengarry Counties this is a musical and storytelling journey well worth taking.
Deborah is the recipient of the Anne Smythe Travel Grant from The Toronto School of Storytellers. This grant covers Deborah’s travel to Scotland this coming June where she will study with world renowned teller and bard, David Campbell. As well Deborah is invited to tell her stories in Edinburgh, Dundee, Glasgow and Wigtonshire.
This performance of BEAVER HATS & BAG PIPES is in support of Deborah’s tour to Scotland.
7:00 pm - Thursday, May 22, 2008
At the Brockville museum – 5 Henry Street
Tickets - $10 at the door
Information: (613) 342-3463 www.deborahdunleavy.com kgp@ripnet.com
See Ottawa Storytellers http://www.ottawastorytellers.ca
For Ottawa storytelling events at the National Art Centre, visit the Fourth Stage website, and follow the link to Community Programming
English events
French events
Toronto Festival of Storytelling
For details of this exciting week see the Website: http://www.storytellingtoronto.org/Pages/Festival.html
For many more events in Toronto see the Storytellers' School of Toronto website
Choredelle - The "Old Masters Concert" April 11 - May 25, 2008
with Leslie Robbins-Conway & Paul Conway, Voyageur Storyelling, with Anne Little, PianoFriday, April 11th, Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts (www.hcarts.ca), 8:00 pm
Saturday, April 12th, Guelph Youth Music Centre (www.gymc.ca), 8:00 pm
Sunday, April 13th: Kitchener Registry Theatre (www.registrytheatre.com), 2:00 pm
Friday, May 23rd, London Aeolian Hall (www.aeolianhall.ca), 8:00 pm
Saturday, May 24th, Paisley Town Hall, Bruce County (www.sunsets.com/paisley/townhall.htm), 8:00 pm
Sunday, May 25th, Owen Sound Leith Church. Grey County (www.leithchurch.ca), 2:00 pm
For more details see poster or Website: www.voyageurstorytelling.ca
Cathedral Village Festival Storytelling Concert: Tuesday, May 20
The Story Emporium CJTR 91.3 FM Regina Community Radio - Ongoing or on the web. www.cjtr.ca (Click Tune In on the menu bar.)DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE - The Story Emporium is broadcast LIVE: Saturdays at 9:00 am CST and rebroadcast Thursdays at 10 am.
Tune In - The World-Famous Story Emporium Welcome to the world of Story, Creative Imaginings and Thoughtful Considerations.
Saturday, May 10 repeat Thursday, 15, 2008:
We celebrate - everything. The arrival of Spring, the brave and struggling leaf buds, changing tones of rabbit fur - and Mother's day.
A tribute to Mother: A sunset story.
Historical tale: The On to Ottawa Trek.
Legendary interpretation: The Stone Gatherer
A New Tale: The Woman of Fire
PLUS: SOME TUNES, A BIT OF BLARNEY and whatever else falls off the story shelf or out of the story barrels.
LAST BLAST: This is the final live broadcast of the season. Stayed tuned over the lovely summer days for repeats of previously aired laundry/programs. Happy Camping!
Storytellers of Canada - Annual Conference Jul 2 - 6
See webpage
eVOCative Festival of Oral Performance - June 19 – June 21, 2008
The 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.
The Festival has two main shows:
• A Performance Cabaret featuring Montreal-based spoken-word and movement artist Catherine Kidd, sound poets bill bissett of Toronto and Adeena Karasick of New York, and Toronto-based dub artists ahdri zhina mandiela and d'bi.young.anitafrika,
7:30 p.m. Friday, June 20, Oak Room of the Park Town Hotel, Saskatoon.• A Crow Hop Café featuring performances from local Cree singer and storyteller Joseph Naytowhow; Métis writer Maria Campbell; Anishinabe poets Kimberly Blaeser of Milwaukee and Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm of Cape Croker, Ontario; Cree-Métis poet and stand-up comedian Neal McLeod; and a dynamic group of young, local hip hop artists,
7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 21, Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company, 228 – 20th Street West, Saskatoon.For more information, visit the festival website https://ocs.usask.ca/evocative or e-mail susan.gingell@usask.ca
Download poster
T.A.L.E.S. PROVINCIAL RETREAT - May 2-4, 2008
Sunnyside Retreat Centre, Sylvan Lake Alberta
Special Guest: Dan Yashinsky
Earlybird Registration Deadline March 31st!
Retreat info and Registration details are now available on the TALES website www.ecn.ab.ca/~tales
Click on "Events"
For special events sponsored by T.A.L.E.S. Alberta, see the T.A.L.E.S. Alberta website www.ecn.ab.ca/~tales
For regularly occurring events and story cafes in Alberta see SC-CC's Swaps page, or the T.A.L.E.S. Alberta website www.ecn.ab.ca/~tales
See also the Western Word Weavers website:
http://www.islandnet.com/~wcww/events.htm
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
... and for those travelling south
The Bay Area Storytelling Festival!
Across the bay from San Francisco, California The 23rd Bay Area Storytelling Festival is coming up soon, May 17 and 18, 2008 at Kennedy Grove Regional Recreation Area in El Sobrante!
See website for more info. www.bayareastorytelling.org/schedule.html
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