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Current Season (2023-2024)

Stories Aloud Open Mic Storytelling for Adults
– Second Friday of Each Month, 8pm

Sept, Oct, Nov 2023 – Live at Button Factory Arts
– 25 Regina Street South Waterloo, ON.
Dec 2023, Jan, Feb, Mar 2024 – Zoom
Apr, May, Jun 2024 -Live at Button Factory Arts

We are at BFA ($10) while the weather is good for driving, and online (free) during the winter. Bring along a mug for hot apple cider.

Each evening is a once-only experience, with a potential mixture of traditional, literary, original, and spontaneous stories, told by heart, and expressed in prose, poetry, or song by tellers experienced and novice.

You are welcome to come to listen. If our story charm should work its magic, you are welcome to share a tale. Please rehearse your story with a friend a week before, and keep stories to under 10 minutes, unless you make prior arrangements with the host for the evening.

Guild Meetings

4th Friday of the month, currently online, for practice, business, and mini-workshops.

Talk to a guild member if you are interested.

World Storytelling Day, Evening Adult Concert
Saturday March 23, 2024

Details TBA.

World Storytelling Day, Daytime Family Concert
Saturday March 16, 2024

Details TBA

Fall and Spring Workshops

Twice per year. Timing varies.

A mix of Guild-only and public workshops. Past topics have included Exploring Narrative Suspense with Dan Yashinsky, The Art and Pleasure of telling Family Stories with Celia Lottridge, Playing Inside Story with Bob Barton, The Story Circle, with Bob Tadman, and The Journey of the Storyteller with Marylyn Peringer.

For other storytelling events in Ontario, see the calendar at Storytellers of Canada – Conteurs du Canada.

See our Diary for previous events.

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Possible Future Events

Introduction to Storytelling: A Beginners’ Workshop

Bring your enthusiasm and your willingness to learn. Each participant will have opportunity in the workshop to learn and share a story. If you have a folk tale or other story you’ve been wanting to share with an audience, we’ll talk about choices of stories as well.

Contact us if interested.