Friends of the Guild

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Button Factory Arts, officially the Waterloo Community Arts Centre, is the home of the Baden Storytellers’ Guild. The WCAC exists to promote all forms of art programs in the community including: performances, classes, workshops, special events and art exhibitions. The WCAC offers programs for children, youth, adults and seniors of all artistic disciplines and level of achievement from amateur to professional at affordable costs.

The Guelph Guild of Storytellers is a team of storytellers committed to championing all forms of storytelling as part of Guelph’s rich culture. through events, promotion, advocacy, and education. They host a number of events including Tales from the Hill at the Guelph Civic Museum in the winter, Tea ‘n’ Tales at the Guelph Enabling Gardens in the summer, and Under the Magic Ash: Family Friendly Event. Baden Guild members have told at all of these events.

Storytellers Canada – Conteurs du Canada (SC-CC) is a national organization which supports the art of oral storytelling through its storytellers and its story listeners. It is one of 17 National Arts Service Organisations (NASO) of the Canada Canada Council for the Arts (CCA). Among its projects are Story Save: Saving the voices of the elders, one story at a time. Guild-member Stephanie Holt, mentored by Judy Caulfield, was the 2023 recipient of SC-CC’s Emerging Storyteller Award.

Storytelling Toronto supports creative work in the art of storytelling. They offer courses for storytellers at all levels; promote and subsidize the work of storytellers in education; publish Pippin, a quarterly newsletter, and produce the Toronto Festival of Storytelling.