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Our gathering at Fern on September 20th was hosted by Carol Kenway, ably assisted by puppet Souris, her white mouse, who sat safely on her shoulder through a number of stories about cats !  Pat C. led off with a story of most successful pleas in grandchildrens’ handwritten letters to the Sun God begging for…

                     PORT ANGELES, Washington – “Now There Is This To Tell” is the theme of the Sixteenth Annual Forest Storytelling Festival that will be held on October 15 -17 in the Peninsula College Little Theater in Port Angeles.  It is a rare opportunity to experience professional storytelling…

From: Margaret Murphy   Subject: Fw: Emailing: CultureDaysStoryTellingPosterFinal2010 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:28:23 -0700 Hi Dear Story Friends, Please see the attached announcement about a story/music concert coming up Saturday evening September 25th in Nanaimo. Nanaimo Centre Stage, 25 Victoria Road, Nanaimo  7:00-9:00pm  Doors open at 6:30pm Several Around Town Tellers and Friends are sharing stories of culinary delights from around the world: Laurie Peck, Sandy…

 I have been twice and found it an excellent weekend of concerts, story sessions and workshops. The cost is only $65 US (before Oct 1 – then it is $75 US) which includes everything but a pre-festival workshop.  Four professional tellers from across the USA present the concerts and workshops, with additional stories from selected…

Clifford C Clarke, 6 March, 1933 – 3 September, 2010 Victoria storytelling has lost a storyteller, supporter and producer. Many of us will miss his occasional visits to Fern and the annual Christmas production at Cliffe’s beloved Toad Hall. A paraplegic, due to an tragic accident in 1998, Cliffe succumbed to lymphoma at his home…

B.C. Culture Days: Musical Stories. Saturday September 25, 2:45 to 3:15 p.m. in the Greater Victoria Public Library Courtyard, Downtown Branch. Victoria Storytellers Guild Vice President, Lee Porteous, and Maggidah Shoshana Litman www.maggidah.com hope you’ll join them for this unique cultural adventure. The program, which features B.C. musical talent, runs from 2 to 4 p.m. And it’s…

I can hardly believe that the 18th annual Storytelling Conference of Canada International Perspectives in St. John’s Newfoundland is over.  My heart felt thanks to the guild for the opportunity to attend the conference.  It was 6 full days of stories, music, panel discussions, workshops, dancing and exploring the rocky coastline with 150 delegates from…

Cat Thom and Shoshana Litman during the Theatre SKAM bike ride July 10, 11, 17 & 18, from 3:30- 8:30 p.m.  This “mobile feast of live performances,” features three easy bike routes that start and finish at Cecelia Ravine Park (475 Burnside Road) where you’ll find the box office, bike rentals and refreshments. Bicycle from theatre…

 Storytime! Join us for stories and song presented by local master Storyteller Shoshana Litman (more info about Shoshana here http://www.maggidah.com/). Every Wednesday at 11am!  Please note: as of June, we will have weekly storytimes on Wednesdays at 11am only. There will no longer be weekly Saturday storytimes – these will resume in the fall.  Our July…

Great Swedish Fairy Tales, illustrated by John Bauer (lots of great Troll stories) Celltic Otherworld – stories written and told by Mary Gavan (Vancouver)  “Mary weaves Celtic understanding into domern events using a fine thread of humour.” The Girl Who Cried Flowers – Jane Yolen (Five tales, hauntingly strange and mysterious….poetic intensity of classic folk literature….)…

Recently, VSG member Su Ma was interviewed by Cheryl MacKay on CBC radio (North by Northwest). Turn up your speakers and click here to hear Su Ma’s interview and her adaptation of a traditional Chinese story. Well done Su Ma.

June 14 – the last Stories at Fern for the summer of 2010 – was hosted by Lee Porteous whom we have to thank for connecting us to the Speech Arts Festival and for bringing two young winners from that event to start the evening with delightful, humorous stories. Jaya Scott told us “Eureka and…

Our 17 year old son, Raviv, saw Tall Tales Books  (795 Fort Street) for the first time through the window of a bus on his way home from school across town. “Hey Mom,” Raviv exclaimed one day as we walked together past the store, “You’ve got to check this place out. They’ve even got a…

Guild members mark your calendars now for the annual summer picnic. This mid-summer storytelling and pot-luck delight will be held at Pat Carfra’s residence on Prospect Lake, Sunday afternoon, 25 July 2010. Sorry, but due to space limitations, it’s for Guild members only.

This year two Guild members participated – Sandy Slobodian in the “Religious Reading – Open” class delivered a passage from the Baha’i scriptures and Lee Porteous in the “Story Telling Solo – Open” class presented “Wee Meg Barnileg and the Fairies”. The Guild donated a $50 book prize, which the adjudicator awarded to Jaya Scott,…

Approval has been received from Thrifty Foods for another year of Smile Card benefits. We have from now until May 7, 2011 to raise $1000. The money must be used the “Tides & Tales III” concerts and workshop. Basically, when you load your smile card with money Thrifty’s sends 5 % of that amount to the Victoria…

Another fantastic Stories at Fern. If you weren’t there you missed some great storytelling. editor Janna’s Report Shoshana hosted the May 17th gathering at Fern where the first teller, Sarah aged 9, engaged her audience with charm and aplomb in the telling of Eoin Colfer’s delightful story titled “Captain Crow’s Teeth”. A born storyteller, we…

On 10 May 2010, several of the Guild’s senior storytellers gathered with others at the home of award winning author and storyteller Penny Draper to explore the commonalities and difference between literary and oral stories. It’s not often that Guild members have talked about story rather than tell stories. While it became clear that participants…

Listeners who were lucky enough to attend master storyteller Micki Beck’s performance in Victoria on Sunday May 2 were richly rewarded; they got everything they wished for and more. Her lilting voice carried all who filled the room into the world of story. Beck’s love of literature and Celtic heritage were in evidence as she…

Hosted by our ever gracious Pat Carfra, the evening began in an “unusual” way with dimmed overhead lights and a lit candle on a table in the position of a teller. The audience was asked to concentrate on the candle and to listen while Janna’s “Poem for Six Voices”, beginning and ending “We are the storytellers”…

Our Members have been telling in the community:Lee Porteous and Sandy Slobodian competing in the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival. The Sweet Spot: An Evening of Love Stories, Saturday, February 13, 2010 at Royal Roads University with Diane Gilliland, Jennifer Ferris, Peg Hasted, Faye Mogensen, and Margo McLoughlin. “The Art of Storytelling – a Creative Tool for Communicating” for…

April 20th – beginning 9 a.m. – poetry, storytelling and duologue classes April 21st – beginning 9 a.m. – poetry and solo Shakespeare scenes                   – 1:30 poetry solos, religious reading and a story telling class.   The Honours Concert is on Wednesday, April 28th at 7:30 –…

Storytime at Tall Tales Books, 795 Fort Street, www.talltalesbooks.ca, Wednesdays at 11 a.m. and Saturdays at 1 p.m. featuring Guild members Peg Hasted (Saturdays), Shoshana Litman (Wednesdays) with guest appearances by Sandra Jones and Pat Cafra.Lee Porteous at the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival – Speech Arts – Storytelling – Wednesday, April 21 – 2:45 p.m. at…

Storytelling World Magazine has an awards program for the best stories published in print or CD form during the previous five years. Edmonton storyteller Gail de Vos has just won such an award with her latest book. If you have published a book or CD in the past five years entry details can be found…

Due to popular demand TMAS has returned! (Its that fast in the age of social media…)Coming soon, a link to “TMAS Online” on the front page of our website.The new TMAS will not contain  permanent information, the monthly calendar, or announcements about strictly VSG events. They are already on the website, the calendar and the…

Tell Me Another, Storytelling and reading aloud at home, at school and in the Community by Bob Barton.  Storytelling for Young Adults, Techniques and Treasury by Gail de Vos.  Home to a Place Called Peace – Storytelling Movement Theatre “….one mlan’s journey from revenge and rage to forgiveness and peace.   Eth-Noh-Tec.  T.A.L.E.S. on the wind.  Collection…