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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Wandering Workshops & Heart Lifting Folklore – Burlington event
Wandering Workshops & Heart Lifting Folklore
February 19th 2011
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
3455 Lakeshore Road, Burlington
Wandering Workshops
4 Workshops offered: “Every Song Tells a Story: Ballads to teach to children” with Lorne Brown; “Starting with Stories” with Barry Rosen; “History, Herstory, Our Story: Finding and creating historical stories” with Mary-Eileen McClear; and “Origami: Stories Unfolding” with Diane Halpin.
Cost is: $40.00/workshop or 2 for $70.00 Go to www.storywyse.com and click on Events for more details.
HEART LIFTING FOLKLORE
An evening of heart-warming tales and ballads performed by acclaimed storytellers throughout the region
Listen to: Lorne Brown, Diane Halpin, Mary-Eileen McClear, Barry Rosen, Hildy Stollery and Brenda Byers.
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Admission: $15.00 by February 11; $20.00 after and at the door
Check out “events” at www.storywyse.com
St. Marys Storytelling presents “The Lost Art of Listening” with Brad Woods and Kevin Morse
Sunday, February 13th, 2pm at St. Marys United Church Hall, 85 Church St. South.
St. Marys Storytelling, a non-profit arts organization devoted to the art of oral storytelling, is pleased to welcome storyteller Brad Woods as part of their Winter Storytelling Performance Series on February 13th, 2011. Woods will present a program of stories and songs called The Lost Art of Listening accompanied by fellow band-mate Kevin Morse of The Great Wooden Trio.
Brad Woods has told tales at festivals, conferences, theatres, prisons, churches and pubs all over North America and the UK. Brad has recently returned from a ‘Telling and Listening’ tour of Britain and the stories he is bringing to St. Mary’s will be (in part) from that experience. Kevin Morse is a singer/songwriter/guitarist that has written, recorded, and performed everything from from folk to gospel to jazz to good old fashioned fist pumpin’ rock and roll! Kevin recently recorded his first solo CD, a live collection of originals and covers, and this show is part of his CD release tour.Together they bring a unique ‘Rag and Bones’ collaboration of song and story that will leave the audience smiling, humming, thinking and definitely wanting more!
Brad and Kevin represent one-half of The Great Wooden Trio, an acoustic folk band that is a combination of song, story, and music. GWT’s material ranges from original compositions to reworked classics threaded through myths, legends, ballads, and peppered with tales of enlightenment and personal experience, with a healthy dose of embellishment.
The Lost Art of Listening will take place at 2pm on Sunday, February 13th, at the St. Marys United Church Hall at 85 Church St. South in St. Marys. Tickets are $15 in advance, and $17 at the door (includes refreshments). Tickets are available by phone; 519-229-6468, by emailingevents@stmarysstorytelling.org, at Stewart Books in St. Marys, or online atwww.stmarysstorytelling.org This performance is recommended for an older youth and adult audience.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16th, 7pm at St. Marys Anglican Church
Do you know someone who loves storytelling and sees it as a way to build community? St. Marys Storytelling is currently looking to fill some Board positions. Board members meet once a month to plan the yearly Festival the first weekend in June, and the commitment is for 2 years. We would love to have a Youth board member (under 18) and people who have financial/marketing/legal/video skills For more information, please contact Artistic Director Carol McLeod at events@stmarysstorytelling.org, and hope to see you at the AGM on the 16th!
Interview on Storytelling by Start Stratford
photo by Ann Baggley, Start Stratford
Article by Larke Turnbull, photos by Ann Baggley
Note: Recently, Nancy and I were interviewed for Start Stratford, an online arts and culture magazine that provides an insider view to the vibrant arts community in and around Stratford. What follows is an excerpt of our interview with Larke, to read it in its entirety, and to see more of our New Year’s Eve photo shoot at Little Falls, follow the link below – Carol
Once upon a time, the Internet didn’t exist.
Before iPods, television, radios – even writing – information was shared by storytellers. Now, amid all the modern gizmos that provide distraction and entertainment, the ancient oral tradition of storytelling, using only voice and gestures, is thriving. Evidence of that can be seen in St. Marys, where the popular Once Upon A Thames storytelling festival is heading into its eighth season.
Storytelling engages the audience differently from more modern forms of entertainment, said Nancy Vermond, the festival’s founder and first artistic director. “The listener gets brought into the story. … I think it’s partly because it does engage your imagination, whereas if you’re watching TV or if you’re doing some other kind of electronic entertainment, you’re often passive, just observing, and your brain doesn’t get that involved.” Carol McLeod, the festival’s current artistic director, added that in some ways, the storytelling urge fits in with popular social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter, which are basically used to tell people’s stories.
“There are tons of stories out there and we are all storytellers in essence…. In order for people to change and find themselves in this new area of technology we all need to tell stories. We need to find our stories and know what is worth sharing – we need to have a story worth telling.”
To continue reading this article, visit Start Stratford
Festival Founder Nancy Vermond telling a story
Festival Founder Nancy Vermond telling a Story at the 2005 Festival
