The Baden Storytellers’ Guild began in 1989 as one of the services offered by The Story Barn in Baden. It was a direct response to interest expressed by participants in workshops offered by Mary-Eileen McClear, the Founder and Director of The Story Barn.

While the initial goal was to have a time and place to hone storytelling skills, the Guild soon began to accept and seek out engagements which would take storytelling into the Community.

Video is from the last Stories Aloud at The Story Barn.

In 2012 local regulations made it no longer feasible to keep The Story Barn going as a public venue. Luckily the Waterloo Community Arts Centre, a.k.a. Button Factory Arts, in Waterloo, offered us a wonderful home under its roof.

We recorded Voices in the Trees CD in 2012.

When Covid hit in 2020, we moved to Zoom, and welcomed tellers and audience from afar. We also held Guild-only outdoor in-person events during the summers.

In the Fall of 2023, we returned to Button Factory Arts for the good-weather months for Stories Aloud, and online for the months with questionable driving. Guild meetings continue to be online.