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  Performances - upcoming
The storytelling scene is busy, with lots of performances coming our way in the next while. There are tales being told at the new Shenkman Centre, a festival at the Cumberland Museum, nights of mystery at the Billings Estate Museum, storytelling for children at the Library and Archives of Canada, and the Tea Party continues to be a gentle location for an evening of telling and conversation. In the upcoming months the Fourth Stage series will kick off again for another season of wonderful tellers.		  
 

Stories at the Shenkman

October 8: Kim Kilpatrick & Alan Shain, Hatching the Dragon: stories of personal and social barriers, of laughter, pain, and discovery. Through stories around disability, Kim and Alan take us from childhood fantasy and schoolyard bravado to university halls and first time romances.

 

November 13: Gail Anglin, Jennifer Cayley, Daniel Kletke & Ellis Lynn Duschenes, The Odyssey. The Odyssey has a special importance in the Ottawa storytelling scene, being the first epic that made it to the stage with over a dozen tellers partaking. Gail, Jennifer, and Ellis Lynn were part of that adventure in the 90s.
 
     
 
photo of old fire engine, and link to the Cumberland Museum festival information

Cumberland Heritage Village Museum Storytelling Festival October 23-25, 2009

Three days of telling!
Friday and Saturday 7pm - 9pm.
Sunday 1pm - 5pm

Telling will happen in the in various locations, buildings, around the Museum.
 
     
 

Billings Estate Museum: A Murder Mystery October 22, 23, & 24, 2009

The Ottawa StoryTellers have been creating and performing this event for over 14 years. Pat Holloway has been a variety of characters, from respectable farmer, to unhappy ghost. Each year this Hallowe'en event has been so successful, audience had to be turned away.

The story: It is April 27, 1900. The day before, much of Ottawa and most of Hull had been devastated by a great fire. Reports say 14,000 were left homeless, but remarkably only seven died. When an eighth body is found newly-buried in the Billings' graveyard locals begin to ask "whodunit?"

For tickets call Billings Estate Museum: 613-247-4830
photo of Billings Estate with a link to the webpage describing the event
 
     
 
link to the Storytelling for children page

Once Upon A Story Storytelling for Children
Special Guest: Kevin MacKenzie
Sunday November 8th, 2009 1 - 4pm
Free Admission courtesy of TD Canada Trust

19 Tellers and Drummers and a Clown
National Library and Archives
395 Wellington (there is lots of free parking on Sundays)

The Ottawa Storytellers are again hosting a Sunday afternoon for families. There will be magic telling for all ages ...preschoolers to teens. And as well as refreshments, book table and crafts there will be performances by The Baobab Tree drummers, and clowns. And thanks to the TD Canada Trust generous sponsorship, admission is free! So help get the word out and come along yourself.
 
     
 

Speaking Out/Speaking In
NAC, 4th STAGE

December 3, 2009 - Jennifer Cayley, Ellis Lynn Duschenes, Ruth Stewart-Verger, Old Frost; Tales from a Nordic Hearth

January 21, 2010 - Marva Blackmore and Anne Nagy, The Jaguar Lives; Tales of the Mayan People

February 18, 2010 - Kim Kilpatrick and Sherri Yazdani, Let the Games Begin;: Stories of the Ol***ics

March 18, 2010 - Mike Burns , A Thousand Welcomes;: Stories of Ireland

April 15, 2010 - Dale Jarvis, Not in My Time, and Not in Your Time; The Folktales of Newfoundland

May 19 and 20, 2010 - Gail Anglin, Tom Lips and Musician Mary Gick, For the Love of Pete;: Stories and Songs from the Life of Pete Seeger

June 17, 2010 - Dogs - Mary Wiggin and Jan Andrews, To Say Nothing of the Dog

7:30pm
$15, $12 seniors and students; $88 season pass, 4 shows for $50
 
     
 

Quebec's Intercultural Storytelling Festival in collaboration with
The Organic Storyteller presents
Yukon Storyteller Ivan E. Coyote

'Chest Air' Ivan's work tackles the difficult subjects of family, class, gender identity and social justice, and she brings to it the silver tongue of a master storyteller, an eye for the beauty in what makes us all human, and an ear for the hilarity of life and love.

Admission: $10
Monday, October 19th, 8:00 p.m.
The Black Sheep Inn
420 Riverside Dr. Wakefield, Quebec

 
     
 
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