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
Register here

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