StoryNorth Conference

STORYNORTH SCHEDULE DETAILS

Storynorth is the 2011 annual conference of the Storytellers of Canada-Raconteurs du CanadaIt will be held 26-29 May in Yellowknife, NWT.

COMMUNICATIONS Workshop -Thursday, May 26 9:00am 5 pm –

For all those trying to share information about the Art of Storytelling with the general population. This workshop is being offered free to members of SC-CC. Facilitator: Inga Petrie of Strategic Moves communications consulting organization. To non-members: $500.

http://www.storynorth.ca/

Détails: STORYNORTH
Storynorth est la conférence annuelle de Storytellers of Canada-Conteurs du Canada. Elle se tiendra du 26 au 29 mai prochain à Yellowknife, TN-O.

Atelier COMMUNICATIONS – jeudi 26 mai 09:00 de 17:00
Animatrice: Inga Petrie de l’organisation Strategic Moves. Pour tous ceux qui souhaitent  partager des informations sur l’art du conte avec la population en générale. Cet atelier est offert gratuitement aux membres de SC-CC.  Pour les non-membres: 500 $.

Ruth Stewart-Verger
Outreach Committee, Ottawa Storytellers
Co-past-president, Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada
613 722 8402
ruth.stewartverger@gmail.com

Dinner at a discount

Folks, the Lion of Stouffville, where we are holding the next Storytelling Evening is offering a 10% discount on all meals the night of the event. So if you want a night out with dinner ( at a discount) and hear some great stories join us at the Lion on Tuesday the 25th, See you there. Just tell Joe you’re with the storytelling group.

Listing on Canadian Storytellers

Earlier this week the organization Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada listed Vita Fabula as one of its regional storytelling groups.  You can find the listing here.

StoryJam – what else?

I stumbled across an interesting site dedicated to the art of storytelling. StoryJam is a group of professional storytellers, with backgrounds in education, child development, business, psychology and writing. They’ve developed a program that allows teachers and group leaders to introduce storytelling to young people as a classroom or group activity.

It’s great idea to give kids the tools and confidence to be able to tell the stories of their lives.

The storytelling theory

A friend of mine tipped me off to this YouTube video. Its by Professor Brian Sturm who presents storytelling as a way of organizing information, conveying emotions, and building community. I had not really ever thought about his ideas but they do make sense.

Sit back and enjoy it…

Another storytelling event – be there!

Our next gathering is soon upon us. We will be meeting on May 25th at 20:00 at the Lion of Stouffville. You can see the meeting information here and you can get a copy of our meeting poster for May here.

If you wish to tell a story we ask that you contact our coordinator, to do so please leave a comment on this post. Contacting us will allow us to arrange the agenda so you will have time to participate.

Storytelling process

In a four part series Ira Glass, radio journalist, host of NPR’s This American Life,  and storyteller supreme tells us how to tell a story. We’d given you a link to part one in a prior article but never gave links to the whole series. We like to correct that now. Here are the full listing of parts;

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Just one more story…

Telling stories to kids is a wonderful way to increase your storytelling abilities and encourage them in the oral tradition of the family narrative. In a recent article in the Calgary Herald kids sounded off with their preference for story telling;

Storytelling ranked higher than television or video games among pastimes for kids…

I can recall vividly the times I made up stories with my kids after becoming tired of repeating someone else’s books. While I remember the basis of many of the stories, alas I have forgotten the plot. Most of my stories were connected with an object in my child’s room. A kite, a toy, or a letter they had received would inspire me to weave a wild tale of adventure and most importantly coincidence and irony.

Teach your children well.

1001 Stories

For those of you who frequent the Toronto scene there is a storytelling venue called the 1001 Friday Nights.

I have not attended as I just stumbled across it but am interested in going. The storytelling night has gone on every Friday since it started in 1978.

April meeting—get your story ready

Our next gathering is soon upon us. We will be meeting on April 28th at 20:00 at the Lion of Stouffville. You can see the meeting information here and you can get a copy of our meeting poster for November here.

If you wish to tell a story we ask that you contact our coordinator, to do so please leave a comment on this post.