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