Dates: JANUARY 22 - FEBRUARY 26, 2026 

Time: 7:00 - 9:30 PM

Price: $160 + tax ($144 + TAX FOR MEMBERS)

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This course is taking place entirely online!

Families are rich with material for storytelling, and telling family stories can bring you closer to your history, your heritage and give you a new understanding and appreciation for your family. For this online course, you will choose a story that can be based on people from your family, from your own personal experience in your family, on important places in your family’s history or on particular events that happened in your family.

In this online course, you will learn how to: choose a focus for your story, decide what details to include, and develop a narrative that will make the story a good and important one to tell.

Celia Lottridge has been a part of Storytelling Toronto since the organization began and has taken and taught many of the courses offered. She is particularly interested in helping tellers develop their understanding of a story and perfect skills that will make their telling effective for an audience.

Dates: FEBRUARY 1 - MARCH 8, 2025 

Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM

Price: $160 + tax ($144 + TAX FOR MEMBERS)

This course is taking place entirely online!

Are you curious about storytelling? Would you like to learn from the comfort of your own home? This beginners’ course will help you discover the basics of what makes an engaging tale and how to tell one without notes! We’ll use folktales as a starting point to learn principles you can apply to any other story. You will discover your strengths as you work in partners and small groups. Every class, you will tell a story and receive supportive feedback. Each week, you will learn about a new aspect of storytelling through lecture, discussion, and hands-on experience. By the final class, you will be telling your story to the whole group.

Lynn Torrie is a patient and experienced instructor who knows how to make an online class fun. A professional storyteller herself, she has told stories to audiences of all ages, from toddlers to seniors, sharing her passion for folktales and stories from Canadian history.  

Dates: JANUARY 27 - MARCH 3, 2026 

Time: 6:45 - 8:45 PM

Price: $160 + tax ($144 + TAX FOR MEMBERS)

Renew your sense of wild wonder. Wrap yourself in story as winds howl, stars glitter and snow crunches underfoot in the old growth forest of imagination. Elements of air, fire, water and earth are within and all around us. They are in story characters human and non human. Grounded, reliable ones; flighty, unpredictable ones; fiery characters who inflame situations; and watery ones who can quench conflict. Through playfully deep exercises involving gentle movement, writing, and drawing, we'll experience these elements in stories. For experienced and developing storytellers. Bring a story to work with.

Instructor: Dawne McFarlane

Dawne's Scottish grandfather was a storyteller, and her Celtic ancestors spoke Gaelic. She's actively engaged with global storytelling communities and deeply committed to honouring tradition bearers. She's been a performing artist and storytelling teacher for more than 30 years, across Canada and internationally, in person and online. She served as Artistic Director of the Toronto Storytelling Festival in 2019, 2020, and 2021 and has been a longtime member of Storytelling Toronto. She's a member of Storytellers of Canada–Conteurs du Canada and work in partnership with Earth Story Tellers. With Georgiana Keable Dawne co-authored Fairytales, Families and Forests 

https://www.hawthornpress.com/books/storytelling/fairytales-families-forests/ 

For more information, visit www.dawnemcfarlane.ca

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