Sunday, June 16, 1:00pm Musical Story Studio Hosted by Sarah Abusarar and Cassie Norton Regent Park Community Centre, 402 Shuter Street Tickets: Free Musical Story Studio aims to share our love of music and story creation with everyone, especially those who may not see themselves represented in mainstream art and music. They believe that it […]
Sunday, June 16, 2:00pm Jan Blake’s Children’s Stories Featuring Jan Blake Regent Park Community Centre, 402 Shuter Street Tickets: Free
Sunday, June 16, 11:30am Stories from Many Lands: Celebrating Cultural Diversity with the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program Featuring Maria del Carmen Ordonez, Lynda Margaret Howes, Guita Movallali, Vijaya Agrawal, and Seema Walia Regent Park Community Centre, 402 Shuter Street
Sunday, June 16, 3:00pm Emerging Tellers and Open Mic Hosted by Dan Yashinsky Featuring Festival Elder Celia Barker-Lottridge with Brandon Lista, Walquiria Reis and Adham Husseini Regent Park Community Centre, 402 Shuter Street Tickets: Free
Sunday, June 16, 4:30pm Festival Closing Featuring Carmel Whittle Regent Park Community Centre, 402 Shuter Street
Monday, June 17, 10:00am, doors open at 9:30am A Post-Festival Gathering: In Conversation with Jan Blake The Stop Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street Tickets: $10 Join renowned storyteller Jan Blake (UK) as she leads a conversation about her varied experiences as a storyteller.
Families are rich with material for storytelling, and telling family stories can bring you closer to your history, and 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.
This course is presented online during the following dates and times:
Thursday, September 12, 2024 | 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Thursday, September 19, 2024 | 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Thursday, September 26, 2024 | 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Thursday, October 3, 2024 | 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Are you interested in learning how to turn a memory or anecdote into a more substantial story about your life as a member of the LGBTQ2S+ community or an ally? Jeffrey Canton has been telling personal stories for nearly 30 years as well as teaching ways to give them the shape and power they deserve. Now you can join him for this “teaser” for his course, Voices Seldom Heard: Telling and Preserving LGBTQ2S+ stories that Storytelling Toronto will be offering later this fall. Participants should bring a photograph, a small object or piece of memorabilia that you connect with your being LGBTQ2S+
Are you curious about storytelling? Would you like to learn from the comfort of your own home? This beginners’ course will help you to 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 which 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 in every class, you will get supportive feedback. Each week, you will learn about a new aspect of storytelling through lecture, discussion and hands-on experience.
Lynn is a patient and experienced instructor who knows how to make an online class fun. A professional storyteller herself, she has told stories to everyone from toddlers to seniors, indulging in her passion for folktales and for stories from Canadian history.
In this course we’ll explore the elements of earth, air, fire, and water in storytelling. These elements appear in nature, in ourselves, and in the temperaments of story characters human and non human. Grounded reliable ones, flighty unpredictable ones, fiery characters who inflame situations, watery ones who can quench the conflict. With playfully deep exercises involving gentle movement, writing, and drawing we'll experience these elements within ourselves, around us in nature, and in stories. Developing tellers can strengthen foundations and experienced tellers can deepen skills and expand perspectives.
If you’ve already taken a beginner’s storytelling course*, and would like to widen your repertoire, develop your confidence, and have more opportunities for telling, Storytelling II: Next Steps is for you. You will choose a personal or traditional story you want to work on and have the opportunity to hone your storytelling skills through practices including, story mapping, role playing and connecting with voice. Each participant will have a chance to tell their story and receive constructive and helpful feedback.
PREREQUISITE: Storytelling I: First Steps Into the Art of Storytelling OR equivalent experience.
This two-session workshop will focus on guided improv exercises to help you build confidence in your storytelling ability and loosen your inhibitions. Through a variety of interactive games and exercises, you’ll gain inspiration to be more spontaneous, find your authentic voice, and as a result, develop a deeper connection with any story, personal or traditional, that you choose to work on in the future. You’ll learn how to take risks and fail–but gracefully, and with wild abandon. And you’ll have fun!
