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2017 Storytelling Festival Invitation by Dan Yashinsky ..................... 1 Editorial by Dawne McFarlane ............................................................................... 3 Threads at the Textile Museum by Michelle Tocher ................................ 4 Take Courage, My Love by Suzanne Banay Santo .......................................... 5 Dennis Mann 1942-2016 by Ranald Thurgood ........................................... 6

Carol Farkas by Molly Sutkaitis ............................................................. 7 Between Teller and Listener by Sage Tyrtle .............................................. 8 Boo! At the Barns ............................................................................................. 8 Too Many Religions by Glenn R. Brown ............................................................ 9 Events ......................................................................................................................... 10

Vol.20, No.4

Director’s Invitation To:

The 2017 Toronto Storytelling Festival by Dan Yashinsky The 2017 Toronto Storytelling Festi-val (www.torontostorytellingfestival.ca) will un-fold March 24 - April 2. Over ten days a mix of local, national, and in-ternational artists and tradition-keepers celebrate the arts of voice and story. Storytellers' Camp, led by Bob Barton, keeps evolving. This year's Camp features two afternoons of traditional Metis and Chippewa Cree storytelling with Ron Evans; explorations of storytelling and social justice with two great African-American tellers, Charlotte Blake Alston and Karima Amin; a work-shop on using humour to tell stories of disability (Alan Shain); a workshop by Marsha Shandur and Sage Tyrtle, two of the city's pioneers of the true story scene; and much more. I'm particularly happy that Michael Pestel and Katherine Payne will be with us for Camp and other programs at the festival. Katherine is one of the first biologists to listen to the songs of the humpback whales, and went on to study elephant communication in Zimbabwe. Michael (who happens

to be one of my oldest friends from California) is coming to tell stories - and play music - about his experienc-es communicating through music with birds. And Kung Jaadee is joining us from Haida Gwaii to speak about what it is like to reconnect with her ancestors and her language, and why it matters to keep lis-tening to the voices of those who are no longer here.

At Harbourfront Centre on April 2, it’s a day of family storytelling to celebrate Canada's 150th anniver-

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**NOTA BENE**

PIPPIN is the newsletter of Storytelling Toronto

The Storytellers School of Toronto is a registered, non-profit organization that provides a creative home for a community of storytellers,

listeners, and story-explorers. Our mission is to inspire, encourage and support storytelling for listeners, tellers and those who have not yet heard. Since 1979 we have been providing courses and workshops; holding gatherings, festivals and events to celebrate and present the art of storytelling; supporting the creative work of storytellers; and producing publications about storytelling and storytellers.

Pippin Editor Dawne McFarlane

Design/Layout chris cavanagh

Listings Marylyn Peringer

Program Leaders Festival Director: Dan Yashinsky

Resident Teachers: Marylyn Peringer, Lynda Howes StoryFusion Cabaret: Heather Whaley and the Backseat

Balladeers

Website: [email protected]

Board of Directors 2017

Office Director Cristina Pietropaolo

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(formerly Storytellers School of Toronto)

Ph: 416-656-2445 Fax: 416-656-8510 www.storytellingtoronto.org

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sary. We've invited storytellers from many cultural backgrounds - immigrants and refugees - to share their folktales and personal experi-ences by way of honouring Canada as one of the world's greatest cross-roads cultures. Kristin Wardetzky, a storytelling friend from Germany, talks about the way stories can "decolonize the imagination." In a world filled with advertising, "alternative" facts (aka deliberate and bombastically-

delivered lies), and infinite distrac-tions, the festival is a good place to rediscover reverie, wonder, and the ability to create your own mind-movies. The voices of our storytell-ers can sometimes be lost or un-heard in modern life. That's why we're gathering to listen to and share stories. The festival is a place to explore how and why we need to listen to voices that can be lost amid the in-stant downloads, rush hours, and 24/7 hurry of modern life.

Festival Invitation cont`d

Sarah Abusharar Karen Blair Beth Cox (Treasurer) Kelley Prendergast

Paul Robert (President) Leanne Saldanha Molly Sutkaitis

Every Friday night

since 1978 storytell-

ers and listeners

have been gathering

in downtown Toron-

to. Each evening is

hosted by an accom-

plished storytell-

er. Anyone is wel-

come to tell a story.

Every Friday night is

unique.

Time: 8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. 2 Sussex Street, Toronto. www.1001fridays.org

Suggested donation: $5.00 Innis College Café

(corner St. George, one block south of Bloor St. W. St. George Subway - St. George St. exit)


The sun is returning. The longest night has come and gone and the ancient festivals warmed us. We gathered together, lit candles, and shared stories. Stories of light in the darkness. Death and rebirth. The return of the sun, and with it the fertility of the earth who feeds us. Mother Earth. The longest night was known in northern Europe as “Mother’s Night;” it was the night that the Norse goddess Frigga gave birth to Bal-dur, the young sun. She gave her blessing to birth-ing women. Frig-ga wove the clouds, as well as the fates of hu-mankind. When she shook out her blankets it snowed on earth. Across north-ern mythical skies, female reindeer drew the sleigh of the sun goddess at Winter Solstice. Apparently male reindeer shed their antlers in winter, and ant-lers are central to the images. People depended on the Deer

Mother for their survival. Sami peo-ple call the sun goddess Beaivi. She is associated with motherhood and fertility. Women in eastern Europe wove images of the horned deer mother into their sacred textiles. From a Hungarian Christmas folk song; “Oh wondrous headed doe...Amongst its horns it carries the light of the blessed sun...” Her mag-nificent antlers, like a tree of life, are

shown carrying birds, the sun, moon and stars. As we light candles of remem-brance in this issue for storytellers Dennis Mann and Carol Farkas, we can take comfort in the stories they brought to the tree of life. Now we turn our faces towards the returning sun, the lengthening days, and the Toronto Storytelling Festival- one of the signs of spring we celebrate together.

Om Yggdrasil by Frølich —The world tree Yggdrasil. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Om_Yggdrasil_by_Fr%C3%B8lich.jpg

EDITORIAL

The Returning Sun


by Michelle Tocher We’ve been offering Threads at the Textile Museum for four years, and every year, we dive into a different story. The stories are often not well-known, and I like to choose the one with a strong ‘wish to be explored.’ I think it was Norm Perrin who once said, “Sometimes a story comes along, sits down in the living room and asks ‘what’s in the refrig-erator?” That happens with me all the time, but for Threads I find myself having to go out on the doorstep and ‘call’ for a story. I usually start ‘calling’ sometime in January, well before the event in the spring. I don’t know which one will come to me. I’m always engaged with fairy tales and folk tales, so there’s a big clamor going on inside. But the one with the still, small, persistent voice is usually the one that ‘wants to be told.’ This year, that story was “The Girl Fish,” from Catalonia in Spain. I found it in Andrew Lang’s Orange Fairy Book. It wasn’t in great shape. I thought of it as a net with holes that needed to be mended but it also had the power to do some mending. “The Girl-Fish” has a lot to do with mothers losing daughters and the world losing its queen. It begins when a charming but willful young girl catches a fish and ignores the fish’s appeal to be put back in the water. The girl brings the fish home in the net, but when her mother hears that the fish spoke, she orders her daughter to put it back in the water. The daughter says, “What power does a fish have over me? Cook the fish, mother, or I shall be very cross!” The girl soon discovers what sort of power a fish has over her. The moment she tastes the

cooked flesh, she turns into a fish and leaps out the open window into the passing stream. The story took us all with her, into the deep sea, to meet the Queen of the Fishes. She lived in a coral castle with all her maids who had been turned into fishes. She had lost the power of her crown and had

been doomed, with all her maids, to live under the sea and “be fished.” Threads is a great way to get a taste for my methods of interacting with fairy tales, and I very much ap-preciate the collaboration and sup-port of Lynda Howes and Marylyn Peringer who know the value of en-countering stories this way. The workshop allows people to enter the story and have their own experi-ence of it. With guidance they draw out their own material and then share it in whatever way best suits them artistically. They might retell part of the story through a charac-

ter’s point of view, write a dialogue or a monologue, dance or vocalize a moment. Through everyone’s unique and personal contact with the story, we learn things about the tale, our-selves, and one another. After spending a day exploring the story and finding our personal connections to it, we gathered to share our material. A part of me al-ways wishes that we could capture what happens on video because we are witness to so much magic. Just to give you a glimpse: we saw two of the participants perform a “net dance” that expressed casting, cap-turing, and mending the net. We saw the giant in the story come to life in a stunning improvisation. We heard from the “girl-fish” in several ways. One was a beautiful monologue of her experience in the sea, told in story and dance. The other was a story told about how the girl comes back to reconcile with her parents who had lost her. We saw and heard the point of view of the prince’s horse and the strange and magical toad who is the agent of transfor-mation in the story. All these per-spectives were thrilling to witness and to consider together, as a group. My own connection was with the queen who had lost her crown to the giant. I wasn’t the only one to connect with her and those who of us who did contacted a profound well of grief, and also of insight. For me, this story is very much about the loss of the speaking, organic world and our respect for the femi-nine soul. The theme is very current, needless to say, and the story drops us a line of hope for recovery. All in all, it was a privilege to of-fer the experience to such an ani-mated and reflective group!

Threads at the Textile Museum


by Suzanne Banay Santo Sometimes it is inap-propriate to be too direct. When was the last time our doctor said to us, “You are going to die.” Is it true? Of course it is. Howev-er, that utterance may not be the most skillful path to build-ing rapport. Likewise, we may need to ap-ply skill to working with our own psy-che. Dreams speak to us through images, and stories are told to us in phrases which include both ordinary and special language. “Once up-on a time…” imme-diately signals to us that we are going on a journey to a place we inhabit through imagination. It opens a door in our psyche to an exploration which might other-wise be too blunt or coarse. In the late autumn we face the darken-ing season. To what degree we encounter it depends on many circumstances, in-cluding how much space we allow for contemplation. We may need companions as we venture forward. Supportive figures can emerge from

stories, as well as others drawn to-gether to share personal experience. This season I have been working with La Calavera, an emanation of ‘She Who Knows When it is Time

for Something to End.’ During an afternoon workshop at Maureen Rae’s cozy and wel-coming yoga studio on November 5th, with Peter Lutek’s skillful musical support, I told this very special story and guided participants through a meditation on the cycles of breath. This opened a space for us to journal with carefully designed prompts. Threads of meaning in our writ-ings formed the basis for a simple choreo-graphic process. In a quiet process of mir-roring and echoing, we found resonances with each other. Isn’t this at the heart of finding com-munity? Isn’t this at the heart of discovering that we are not alone? At this time and place in Toronto, when we are finding and forging a new culture, we must take courage. We must find ways to be togeth-er as we let go, even when we cannot quite know where we are going. Take Courage, My Love, Take Cour-age. We have each

other, those who seek meaning. We have each other, those who find meaning. Take Courage. Suzanne Banay Santo can be found at www.suzannebanaysanto.com

Take Courage, My Love: Symbolic Language and the Cycles of Life


Dennis Mann November 29, 1942 - Oct. 8, 2016

In the mid-to-late 1980's, when 1001 Friday Nights of Storytelling was looking for a new home, we landed for a time at Bathurst United Church. One night, a couple arrived who I'd never seen before, though some others had. Both told hilarious personal-experience stories that had me laughing as hard or perhaps harder than I ever had at 1001 Nights. If I remember rightly, she told a mother’s tale of visiting her student daugh-ter in less than respectable digs in the city. He told of a huge, friendly dog that chased a burglar in one car door and out another, only wanting to play with him. Dennis Mann and his wife, Mary Jean McCloskey, again began at-tending Friday Nights, as they had before my time, becoming two of my fa-vourite story-tellers. They lived in Brougham, Ontario, a rural community, now surrounded by Pickering. Over time, Mary Jean at-tended Friday Nights less frequently. However, Dennis became an active participant, regularly making the long drive due to his love of hearing and telling stories. Dennis was an excellent racon-teur. His storytelling style was like that of my Maritime friends and rela-

tives, who spend a great deal of time telling stories of their own experi-ences or of the doings of those in their communities, past and present. Such telling is not unique to the re-gion. Still, Dennis did have “down-east” roots (New Brunswick and New England). His father was reput-ed to be another outstanding story-teller, and Dennis's fine delivery, excellent timing, and choice of sto-ries came not from study, but from

immersion in a storytelling culture. This master of traditional story-telling was sometimes not appreciat-ed in the Toronto storytelling scene, so I recruited him, along with Meryl Arbing, to perform with me in sets called Kitchen Table Stories. We sat at a table with a pot of tea while telling stories, as we might in a country kitchen. Our practices con-sisted of gathering around my kitch-

en table in Toronto, telling stories, while getting used to interacting with each other, as my young daugh-ter, Brigid, provided an audience. These Kitchen Table sessions at both the Toronto Storytelling Festi-val and Helen Porter’s April Fools Festival drew good crowds that pro-vided considerable feedback. One middle-aged woman told us that she felt as though she had just been pre-sent at something that she'd heard

of all her life but hadn't been able to attend. Dennis was the star performer of our group. While Meryl and I always knew more or less what we’d be tell-ing, Dennis was spontaneous, sometimes relating a story we’d heard a number of times, but often providing a brand new tale, forcing us to change our ap-proach or find a new segue into our next story. Dennis’s approach made our story-telling performanc-

es much more “real”, like the con-versational storytelling situations that we were re-creating. I was amused to hear him on a storytelling program on CBC, which, like our performances, pretended to be based on a home visit and impulsive storytelling. However, the show was highly regulated. Producers instruct-ed storytellers to, for instance,



“make your story seven minutes long” (try it – it’s not fun). With Dennis on the show, the host lost control. Dennis told stories as he would while having breakfast with his buddies at his community's restau-rant. It was too real for the pro-grammers and host. In 1991, I moved to Newfound-land to further pursue folklore stud-ies. Dennis continued to participate in the storytelling scene, performing at Friday Nights, various festivals,

and regularly at the Pickering Muse-um where he was an active volun-teer. In recent years, ill health from Parkinson’s ended his performing. Sadly, Dennis was also greatly affect-ed by the death of his daughter, Denise, a few years back. Dennis Mann was a warm, caring man. At his funeral, people testified to his great physical strength, tech-nical skills (he could make anything), storytelling abilities, and kindness. He was interested in and attentive to my children, giving my daughters

handmade cast-iron trivets, which they value highly. So I bid farewell to a dear friend and outstanding story-teller, who died long before we’d hope. I’m sure that all members of the storytelling community extend their sympathy to his wife Mary Jean and her family, of whom he was im-mensely proud. Dennis’s passing cre-ates a great loss to our community.

Ranald Thurgood Ottawa

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It is with great sadness that the Sto-rytelling Toronto Board of Direc-tors announces the passing of Carol Farkas on October 29, 2016 Carol Farkas was a proactive and passionate member of the Storytelling Toronto Board of Directors from 2012 until her last day. She sat on the Awards and StoryTent committees, and devoted much time and effort to these projects. "Carol came into my life through Storytelling. It was shortly after her husband died, that she was advised to take up the Art of Storytelling. She did so with great enthusiasm. She invited a group of us to meet at her home where we discussed ways of bringing the art of Storytelling to others. Carol arranged for us to tell at Providence Villa, Christie Gar-dens and other Seniors’ homes. 1001 Friday Nights of Storytelling was a popular venue where Carol delighted her listeners as she shared her stories. Her energy will be sadly missed." -- Molly Sutkaitis, STT Board Member

Carol Farkas Storyteller, Medical Anthropologist and STT Board Member


by Sage Tyrtle “Who speaks a language other than English and wants to volunteer?” Half the class raises their hands and I pick one young woman. “Okay, now who likes to make things up?” The class laughs and points at one young man who is a powerhouse perform-er and I wave him up to stand with the woman. I turn to her. “So I’d like you to talk about anything you want, in your language. Be sure to be really invested – even though we don’t know what you’re saying, we should be super interested.” And to the young man I say, “Now, you are go-ing to pretend you can translate what she’s saying. Tell us the story she’s telling.” The woman begins to tell, and even though the class has no idea what she’s saying they lean forward to watch her animated face and ex-

cited voice. The man pretends to translate, and they go back and forth over and over, the story getting wil-der, and what no one in the room knows is that the woman has begun to continue the story in her language as the man pretends to translate it, using the same location and the same characters. And then I say to her, “Okay! Now end the story!” and when she has I switch to him and he pretends to translate her eyes get really big and she says, “BUT THAT REALLY IS HOW I ENDED THE STORY!” and the class gasps and applauds. I get goosebumps (also I immedi-ately want them to get married, be-

cause then when people were like, “How did you meet?” that would be their story) and that’s how powerful stories are. That’s how strong the connection is between teller and listener.

(image from CC Commons- author Tina H.)

Between Teller and Listener

Once again Storytelling Toronto tellers were a hit for Boo! At the Barns, an annual Wychwood Community event bring-ing hundreds of neigh-bours and friends to-gether to have fun on Halloween!

Photo: Heather Whaley, Molly Sutkaitis, Lynne Torrie, Sarah Abu-Sharar, Rico Rodriguez and Sage Tyrtle.

Boo! At the Barns


A story from Glenn R. Brown One day the very young angel, an opinionated sort, grumbled while dusting the celestial throne. “Don’t know why God allowed more than one religion! Causes nothing but trouble!” The young angel had said this daily for many months now, and apparently it had become time To Do Some-thing.

Suddenly the throne room was changed into an enor-mous chamber - white walls, floor and ceiling. In the midst of the room was a single, enormous, very bright light on a large pedestal. So bright it was that one al-most couldn’t see. “Walk over to one of the walls,” said a voice. The angel did so. “Can you see the break between that wall and the next?” So bright was the wall that the young angel had to squint, and felt along the wall for a break. Eventually

the angel found the break and called out “Found it!” “Now, can you see into the break what is behind the wall?” “No, it is totally black shadow. The light is too bright.” The light went out. The young angel could see nothing, and felt afraid. Light returned, but now in the form of several smaller globes of varied designs on pedestals. They were much less bright, and scattered around the room. “Now walk over to a wall, and tell me what you can see,” said the voice. The young angel did so. Now, be-cause the light was gentler on the eyes and came from several direc-tions, the young angel could see. Behind one wall there was another, and things were in storage there. The young angel began to describe what was there. The voice interrupted: “Yes, now you can truly see, can’t you?”

A Story

Too many religions?

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The 1000 Islands Yarnspinners host Stories at the Spitfire Café on the second Tuesday of the month, 7pm, 10 Victoria Avenue, Brockville. Bring a story, song or poem. Excellent coffee and sweets. Info: Deborah Dunleavy, (613) 926-5510, or [email protected]

Due to long-term renovations in their usual venue, The Peterborough Storytellers are presently an itinerant band who still gather to share stories in meetings, workshops and house concerts. www.facebook.com/peterboroughstorytellers

The Guelph Guild of Storytellers meets at 7pm on the second Wednesday of each month at the main branch of the Guelph Public Li-brary, 100 Norfolk St. Open mike for 5-minute stories. Experienced tellers with longer stories are encouraged to contact us in advance for a spot on the program. Info: Sandy Schoen, (519) 767-0017, [email protected], www.guelpharts.ca/storytellers

Belleville Storytellers meet on the 1st Thurs-day of each month at the Belleville Public Li-brary, 254 Pinnacle St, at 6:30 pm. Info: Micki Beck, [email protected]

A roster of Toronto storytellers host Bread and Stories alternate Saturday mornings 11am - 1pm at the Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St. In winter we’re indoors at the Story-telling Toronto office, Suite 173.. Open to story-tellers, listeners and those who like to “talk” story. Come and be mentored as you try out new or familiar stories. Info: Donna Dudinsky, [email protected]

1,000 Friday Nights of Storytelling continues every Friday evening at 8pm at the Innis Col-lege Café, Sussex Ave. and St. George St., Toronto. Cost $5. Open to all who wish to listen or tell. (416) 656-2445, www.1001fridays.org

Storytelling Circle meets every Tuesday at 2:15pm at #6 St. Joseph Street, an artistic re-source centre for people at a crossroads in life. All are welcome. Info: Molly Sutkaitis, (416) 239-1345

Stories Aloud meets on the 2nd Friday of the month at the Button Factory, 25 Regina St. S. Waterloo. 8pm. Info: Open storytelling, cost $5. Info: Derek Brisland, [email protected], (519) 634-9128

The Baden Storytellers Guild meets on the 4th Friday of the month, at the Waterloo Com-munity Centre, 25 Regina St. S., Waterloo. Info: Derek Brisland, (519) 634-9128. [email protected]

The Ottawa Storytellers meet for their Story Swap on the first Thursday of the month, 7pm at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Welling-ton St, Room 156, free admission. Info: [email protected]

The Dufferin Circle of Storytellers meets the 1st Thursday of the month, 7:30pm. Info: Nan-cy Woods, (519)925-0966

The Brant Taletellers Guild welcomes tellers and listeners to its monthly gatherings Septem-ber to June, 7 – 8:45pm, on the first Wednes-day at the Station Coffee House and Gallery, besides the Brantford VIA Station. Visitors welcome. Fair Trade.coffee, Steam Whistle beer, wine and snacks can be purchased dur-ing meetings. Info: [email protected]

The Durham Folklore Storytellers meets every 3rd Thursday, 7:30-9:30pm in the Sen-iors Day Activity Room, Northview Community Centre, 150 Beatrice St. E., Oshawa. Info: Kathleen Smyth, [email protected] or www.durhamfolklorestorytellers.ca

Cercle de conteurs et conteuses de l’Est de l’Ontario se réunit pour une soirée de contes décontractée style “Café” au Salon Richelieu du MIFO, 6600, rue Carrière, Orléans. Venez faire plaisir à vos oreilles en partageant et en écoutant contes, legendes et bonnes histoires. Entrée libre. Contribution volontaire suggérée. Informations: Laurent Glaude, (613) 859-1978, [email protected]

The Hamilton Storytelling Circle meets at Temple Anshe Sholom, 221 Cline Ave N.,

Hamilton. Info: BarryRosen, [email protected]

The Montreal Storytellers Guild meets the 4th Tuesday. of the month at the Westmount Library. Info: Christine Mayr, [email protected]

Storytelling Toronto's Storyfusion Cabaret fea-tures Lorne Brown and Eve Goldberg in Songs and Stories for a Winter's Eve, Saturday Janu-ary 21, 8 pm at the CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst St. $17 in advance, $22 at the door. Tickets: story-tellingtoronto.org/events/

2 Women Productions presents Stories from the Ages: Redux; four Sunday evenings of wonder tales at Peter Devine's Room, 73 Clar-ence St. Ottawa, 7 to 8 pm. Come early for food and drink. Suggested donation: $10. Jan. 8: Jan Andrews, The Ghoul's Fair Foster Child and Katherine Grier. Vasilisa the Beautiful; Jan. 15: Kim Kilpatrick, Teig O'Kane and the Corpse and Jacques Falquet, The Handless Maiden; Jan. 22: Kate Hunt, The Snake Prince and Jennifer Cayley, The Golden Apples of Lough Erne; Jan. 29: Tom Lips, TheTale of Judge Lu and Anne Nagy, The Pigeon's Bride. In-fo:[email protected]

The Ottawa Storytellers present Stories and Tea at the Byward Market's Tea Party Café, 119 York St. on alternate Tuesdays, 7 - 8:45 pm. Suggested donation: $5.Jan. 24: Joanna Smith and David Merleau, Postcard Tales; Feb. 14: Maria Sabaye Moghaddam and Marie Bilo-deau, Dance Stories; Feb. 28: Ruth Stewart-Verger and Donna Stewart, Things Aren't Al-ways What You Expect; March 14: Elaine O'Reilly, Kathie Kompass and Kim Kilpatrick, Tea With Bea (Potter); March 28: Murray McGregor and Robert Woods, Clever Folks and Acadian Women. Info: [email protected]

EVENTS — Winter 2017

Every effort has been made to present current information. Sometimes the completion and delivery of Pippin is subject to the volunteer hours available to produce it.

GATHERINGS

PERFORMANCES


The Mosaic Storytelling Festival takes place on 4 Sundays at St.David's Parish Hall, 49 Donlands Ave. Toronto (at Donlands subway). PWYC, $5 suggested donation. Jan. 29: Diana Tso and Bernice Hune; Feb. 12: Michael

Etherington and Ruth Danziger; Feb. 26: Djennie Laguerre and Sharada Eswar; March 12: Kim Kilpatrick. Info: (416) 466-3142, www.mosaicstorytelling.ca The Toronto Storytelling Festival runs from March 24 to April 2. Storytellers Camp is back, with workshops and story talks by our national and international guests. Info and early bird registration: www.torontostorytellingfestival.ca

Storytelling in a Box: The Art of Narration With Puppets, April 22, 10 am - 4 pm, at Lillian H. Smith Branch, Toronto Public Library, 239 College St. Facilitators: Mariella Bertelli and Mary Anne Cree. Fee: $90 early bird, $115 after April 15.

STORYTELLING TORONTO

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This newsletter is made possible in part by a grant from the Ontario Arts Council’s Literary Festivals and Organizations Operating Funding.

The Storytellers School of Toronto gratefully acknowledges the support of the following government agencies:

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