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+
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!
This course starts with a deep dive into the power of traditional stories to illustrate how the structure, imagery and language of folk tales can help us to frame and shape our own personal narratives of modern experience. Using stories brought by participants, we apply time-honoured techniques to charm and captivate contemporary listeners, be they in a theatre setting or across the kitchen table.
What do you know of Anansi, the Spider? Come and discover more about this clever/foolish African folk hero—his many names, his origins and his influence in today's world.
With Kesha, you will learn about Anansi through group discussion, but mainly by telling and listening to his wonderful stories.
Preserving personal stories of the unique experiences of being 2SLGBTQIA+ or an 2SLGBTQIA+ ally is one of the most important ways of contributing to the history of the Queer community in Canada. This in-person course offers techniques for taking a memory or anecdote of 2SLGBTQIA+ experience, and shaping and enhancing that story into a polished performance […]
Storytelling is an art form, and storytellers develop their art over all the years they tell stories. This course offers experienced tellers a chance to work on a challenging story with other alike tellers. The story may be traditional, contemporary or personal. Participants will come to the course with a story (or possibly two) with […]
Do you love stories, but hesitate to tell them to others? Could you use some help in getting started within a warm and supportive environment? Then sign up for our weekend, Storytelling I: First Steps Into the Art of Storytelling. You’ll develop listening skills, gain confidence, learn how to give and receive feedback.
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.
Date and Time: Sunday, March 30th from 2:00 - 4:00 Location: St. Matthew on the Plains Anglican Church in the Sanctuary 126 Plains Road, East The Burlington Storytellers' Guild performs for WORLD STORYTELLING DAY, a global celebration of the art of oral storytelling. The theme this year is DEEP WATERS. Admission: $15.00 for the Compassion Society […]
