Tell Me Your Story - 2025 Annual Retreat

A Retreat for Storytellers

Find an appreciative audience for your stories, learn storytelling skills, and mingle with friends at beautiful Sylvan Lake! 

Download the full brochure here
Registration opens April 1

Fri Sept 19th

5:00 - Registration

6:00 - Light Supper

7:00 - Welcome and Announcements - with SA President Doreen Vanderstoop

7:15 - Indigenous Land Acknowledgment and Welcome - with Cheryle Chagnon-Greyeyes

8:00 - 10:00 - Tellaround (Story Circle)

Sat Sept 20th

8:00 - 8:45 Breakfast

9:00 - 12:00 - Workshop - Story Creation
- with Rob Malo

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 3:30 Workshop: Twisted Tales - with Bethany Ellis

4:00 - 5:00 Indigenous teachings - with Cheryle Chagnon-Greyeyes

5:30 - 7:00 Supper

7:00 - 9:00 Tellaround (Story Circle)

9:30 - 10:30 Night Owl Stories and Songs

Sun Sept 21st

8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 - 9:30 Clean Up, Pack Up

9:45 - 11:45 Tellaround, Storytelling Alberta Awards & Button Campaign

Noon - 12:30 Closing and Round Dance - with Cheryle Chagnon-Greyeyes

12:30 - 1:00 - Lunch and Fond Farewells

Registration Includes

  • Single and shared rooms (limited single rooms; not guaranteed)

  • Shared washrooms

  • Large lakeside sauna

  • Opportunity to purchase new and used resources

  • Silent auction

  • Two Saturday workshops

  • Indigenous teachings

  • Three Story Circles

  • All meals and snacks Friday night through Sunday lunch

  • Beautiful wooded area, lake and comfortable lodge

Registrants are required to provide their own bedding and towels.

Camp Kuriakos Centre

5-39317 Range Road 24

Lacombe Country, AB

Ph: 403.746.2702

Map is available online at https://kuriakos.ab.ca/about/contact-us