Enrich your characters! Explore how to bring characters to life through wording, voice, dialogue, and sentence structure.

In person: Idylwylde Library, 8310 88 ave NW, Edmonton (near Bonnie Doon Mall)
Time: Sept 17 @ 7:00 – 8:45 pm
Cost: Free!
Please register with Ruth at ruth.sewartverger@gmail.com

An Introduction to StoryTelling Workshop
Everyone has a story. Now, how do you make that story something people want to listen to? Bring an idea or an anecdote- that you would like to share with others. We will workshop it.

Date: April 21, 2024
Time: Noon - 1:30 pm (or come at 11:40am with your own brown-bag lunch!)
Location: SSUC (10740 19 Ave NW, Edmonton) - Small hall
Registration: Contact ruth.stewartverger@gmail or call (613) 986-8402
Donations to Storytelling Alberta gratefully accepted .

Save the date for Great Storytelling! The wonderful Pearl-Ann Gooding will be sharing personal, family and family history stories on the afternoon 2pm (doors open at 1:30pm) of April 13, 2024 at Southminster-Steinhauer United Church (SSUC), 10740 19 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB
For tickets https://www.edmontonarts.ca/event/three-apples-fell
For more information contact ruth.stewartverger@gmail.com

Come travel with Pearl-Ann as she takes you on her exploits where she discovers that "Home is really where her story begins!"  Sometimes the worst experiences make the best stories ... or so she tries to tell herself as she goes through them.  Just as Irma Bombeck said, "There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humour and hurt."  Three Apples Fell ... In My Backyard and Beyond is a collection of stories that Pearl-Ann has either lived through or researched in her family or community.

 Pearl-Ann Gooding has been telling stories and recognized professionally since 1995 both provincially and nationally.

World Storytelling Day – Building Bridges

Do you have a story, or an anecdote about building a bridge- physically or metaphorically? Come share your tale in a small group and celebrate the oral art of Storytelling. Participants are invited to share a short story or anecdote on the World Storytelling Day theme: Building Bridges

 The world holds a lot of conflict and division. Reaching out and communicating can help to heal the divides. And, listening to stories is fun!

Location
Idylwylde Library Branch, EPL
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
7 pm – 8:30 pm

Cost
FREE - due to support from Storytelling Alberta- Edmonton Chapter, Edmonton Public Library, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Registration link:    https://forms.gle/81ADdqugzXhiEPYG8

StorySwap Canada, our new National online Storytelling event, is open to everyone with ears to hear, and a story to tell. The story swap is a weekly event, hosted each Sunday afternoon throughout the year by different regions of Canada. The first of each month will be hosted by Bethany and a co-host/technician.

As we learn to live with Covid 19, much of storytelling is reverting back to in-person telling. But what happens to the online community which has flourished over the past few years?

In the interest of keeping and growing the connections, friendships and community that has developed online in Canada, a group has come together and organized StorySwap Canada. This group of volunteers consists of storytellers from almost every Canadian region. We welcome Canadian storytellers as well as those from all over the world.
We are supported by Storytellers of Canada – Conteurs du Canada.
So...save your Sunday afternoon and share your yarns and tales.

Our new Zoom home: https://tinyurl.com/StorySwapCanada
Details, as always, on the SC-CC calendar:
https://www.storytellers-conteurs.ca/en/events-calendar/online-events.html
Tune in every Sunday
Times:
1-3 PM British Columbia (PST)
2-4 PM Alberta (Mountain Time)
3-5 PM & Manitoba (Central Time) & Saskatchewan
4-6 PM Ontario and Quebec (EST)
5-7 PM Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI (NST)
5:30-7:30 PM Newfoundland (NST)
UK 9-11 PM (GMT)

We all have stories from our lives that are waiting to be told! This workshop will offer inspiration and activities to draw out your true-life stories in a supportive and entertaining way.

Presented by Storytelling Alberta with funding from Alberta Foundation of the Arts.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/anG4REwx6Gnt6nmb6

If you have Questions or prefer to register by email, please contact ruth.stewartverger@gmail.com