Category: Past Events

Facilitator: Shoshana Litman Date:  Sunday November 18, 2018 Time: 2-4 p.m. Venue: In Shoshana’s home at 1250 Rudlin Street. Cost: This workshop is a gift to VSG members and is free. Advance registration: Secure your place by emailing Shoshana  litmanshoshana@gmail.com Workshop description: To celebrate our Guild’s 30th anniversary in 2019, we’re planning to bring our…

Facilitator: Rachel Muller Date: Saturday, September 15, 2018 Time: 2 – 3:15 pm Venue: 2811 Prior Street, Victoria (on #4 bus route)   Cost: This workshop is a gift to VSG members and is free. Advance registration: Secure your place by emailing Jennifer ferris.stories@gmail.com Workshop description: A great storytelling experience requires three elements: a skilled teller,…

Some tellers from VSG and from Nanaimo told a few times at the Duncan Library last year.  It worked out well enough that I’m extending an invitation to all of you to participate … it is the usual format – a story of any length up to 12 minutes.  There is a general theme for…

Briane Nasimok, Toronto storyteller and comedian, will be appearing in Victoria Fringe Festival http://intrepidtheatre.com/shows/confessions-of-an-operatic-mute/. We have the opportunity to meet Briane and share stories: Tuesday, August 28 at 7:30 pm at 2811 Prior Street, Victoria. Please join us with a story and/or a listening ear, a small dessert. Please RSVP ferris.stories@gmail.com or 250 818 3389  

September 5th,from 7 pm, Shoshana is hosting an open house/open Cellar at her house for members to gather to check out the library and perhaps share some comestibles and some recommendations. For more information contact Shoshana at litmanshoshana@gmail.com or stories@maggidah.com.

April 21st – Helmcken House at the Museum – Catherine Sheehan and Moira Walker will be telling stories from 2 – 3 pm and again from 3 – 4 pm. This is the last of the Helmcken House Saturday afternoon sessions for this season.

April 21st – Marva Blackmore’s workshop – “Telling What You Know” – finding and crafting personal stories. – 9 am – 4 pm – $75 (half the usual price of this workshop) at Fern St. – register with Lee Porteous – leeporteous@shaw.ca – This workshop is now full but you could have your name added…

An inspiring workshop featuring music and stories by Buddhist Storyteller, Author & Hang Player, Margo McLoughlin, Classic Folk Trio, The Lake Men and Canada’s First Ordained Maggidah (Jewish Storyteller), Shoshana Litman. • Sunday April 15, 2018 from 10:30 a.m. to noon • UVic’s Multifaith Chapel • Admission is Free The Lake Men live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy3B4kARGX4 Margo’s…

Show: A house concert of stories performed by the always wonderful Margaret Murphy Date: Friday November 14, 2014, 7:00 pm Cost: $10 For more information please contact Shirley at sroutliffe@shaw.ca or 778 977 0800 Workshop: Join professional storyteller Margaret Murphy in a fun, relaxed and interactive workshop on the craft of sharing story. Learn where…

TAKE THE FEAR OUT OF IMPROV… a workshop presented by Jennifer Ferris   DATE: Sat Nov 23rd TIME: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm LOCATION: 657 Harbinger Avenue COST:  $20.00 REGISTRATION & INFORMATION: Shirley Routliffe – sroutliffe@shaw.ca – 778-977-0800 Imagine standing in front of a group and telling a story that is totally new to you –…

Check here for major events   March 20, 2018 – World Storytelling Day – Theme: Wise Fools March ~ 25, 26 or 27th – Kathy Kompass and Mary Wiggin – Oat Cakes and Heartaches: stories from Scotland Storytellers of Canada – Conteurs du Canada – Conference – July 4-8, 2018 in Peterborough, Ontario    …

Hosted by Sandra Johnson, the season’s first gathering welcomed a goodly number of first-time listeners from near and far and a fine variety of stories. Cat Thom and her sister Megan – dba. “Juniper Tree” – combined their talents of storytelling and song to the accompaniment of a guitar to present the story of Magus…

Early Bird registration is now open for the Forest Storytelling Festival in Port  Angeles October 19th, 20th and 21st, 2012 Peninsula College Port Angeles, WA A Special Pre-Festival Workshop Telling Personal Stories Two-Time Grammy Winner Bill Harley Details and the registration form can be found at: http://www.dancingleaves.com/storypeople/

Hosted by Diane Gilliland, the May gathering of the Storytellers’ Guild  had a full roster of tellers both guild members and newcomers who brought added poetry and forceful delivery to their offerings.  Diane’s lively outgoing way added much to the enjoyment and Margo McLoughlin once again enhanced the atmosphere by playing her hang between stories.…

Our April meeting, hosted by Jacquie Hunt, had a full roster of tellers.  Their lively presentations kept the audience engaged with both laughter and food for thought. Jaya Scott, a young teller who is competing in the Performing Arts Festival opened the meeting with a spirited story of a young girl’s way of countering her…

Please join us on Monday, May 21, 2012  for another round of wonderful stories at Fern.  1831 Fern St. (Park on Begbie) Doors open at 7:15 P.M..  Stories begin at 7:30 with a tea break complete with delicious cookies and goodies around 8:30 and another round of stories until about 10:00. Admission $5.00 non members;…

Please join us on Monday, April 16, 2012 for another round of wonderful stories at Fern.  1831 Fern St. (Park on Begbie) Doors open at 7:15 P.M..  Stories begin at 7:30 with a tea break complete with delicious cookies and goodies around 8:30 and another round of stories until about 10:00. Admission $5.00 non members;…

Friday, March 16 – Sunday, March 18 – Storytelling for Re-inventing the World, a weekend workshop with Margo McLoughlin at the Haven Institute on Gabriola Island.

Celebrate Trees in Story and Song Victoria Storytellers’ Guild and partners are joining tellers around the world to celebrate World Storytelling Day with a World Storytelling Festival March 18 – 20, 2012. Read on for information about concerts and community outreach. Three great concerts: March 18, 2012 – First Metropolitan United, Quadra & Balmoral.  Entrance…

Mark your calendars now for the PowellsWood Storytelling Festival 2012. It will be held at PowellsWood in Federal Way, Washington http://www.powellswood.org/a-northwest-garden/ July 13-14. Workshops on Friday, July 13 by Donald Davis and Eth-Noh-Tec. Telling on Saturday by Donald Davis, Eth-noh-tec, Alton Chung, Joe Hayes, Debra Harris-Branham, Norm Brecke, and The Whitman Story Sampler. 10-4:30 each…

Comfort Ero and Jennifer Ferris are doing a workshop on storytelling for beginners as part of the Puente Theatre symposium on Embracing Diversity and the Practice of Inclusive Theatre in a Changing Society. 17-21 Nov 11. For more details go  to  http://www.puentetheatre.ca/

The October 17 meeting of the Victoria Storytellers’ Guild was hosted by Lee Porteous and featured seven tellers. Margo McLoughlin’s story “Hugging the Corners”, a  family saga of father’s car racing and mother being the family photographer to capture all the excitement, opened with the terse and exact instructions father gave when teaching Margo to…

CALL FOR PAPERS by 31 Jan 2012 2012 is the bicentenary of the publication of the first volume of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen [Children’s and Household Tales] by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. As this groundbreaking collection moves into its third century, this conference explores the trajectory of the Grimm phenomenon in Britain and the English-speaking…

October 1  from 10:30 – 1:30 At the Esquimalt Branch Library. Peg hasted, Faye Mogensen and Jennifer Ferris are telling.  

Our warm host on Monday evening, September 19, 2011 was Anne Forester. Margo McLaughlin provided gentle music on her Hang drum between stories.Jacquie Hunt led off with a Spanish story told in the first person so effectively that we felt transported to Madrid, where it took place, to witness, with her, the distress of the…

It was my great privilege to represent the Victoria Storytellers Guild (VSG) at the recent 19th Storytellers Conference in Yellowknife, NWT called Story North. Here are a few of the highlights. As the Air Canada flight began it’s decent into Yellowknife one could see large snow covered areas and it was apparent we had arrived…