The Baden Storytellers’ Guild meets on the fourth Friday of every month, by invitation:
- to help people develop their telling skills;
- to help develop an awareness of, and appreciation for, storytelling in the community;
- to provide a place where storytellers and story lovers, at all levels, can gather to network, and learn from each other;
- to help tellers achieve levels of expertise as they explore the many aspects of the art of storytelling.
We do this by networking, providing feedback to each other, and having mini learning sessions each month. Members make use of the Guild’s resource library which is housed at Button Factory Arts.
Our members come from Cambridge, Guelph, Burlington, Brampton, Kitchener-Waterloo, and Baden.
Membership is $55 annually, by invitation. For more information, or to attend a few guild meetings before joining, Contact Us , or speak to one of the members.
A typical year with the Guild:
- Monthly Stories Aloud, an open mic night, the second Friday of each month.
We meet over Zoom or in person in Waterloo, depending on the season September through June. (Locations subject to change.) - Monthly guild meetings (for rehearsal, mini-workshops, and a tiny bit of business), the fourth Friday of each month.
- Annual (or more often) workshops with a variety of themes and guest instructors. Past workshops we have enjoyed include Introduction to Storytelling, Playing Inside Story, Bringing History to Life, and The Journey of the Storyteller: The Art and Pleasure of Telling Family Stories. Past instructors include Bob Barton, Celia Lottridge, Mary-Eileen McClear, Randy Penasse, Marylyn Peringer, and Dan Yashinsky.
- Annual Beginners’ Workshop.
- Annual World Storytelling Day Concert (March).
- Appearances at local arts festivals.
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