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Daily Schedule October 18     



9:30 AM
To 12:30 PM

Life Story: Turning Time Into Tales  
A 3 Hours Workshop


 
Ivan E. Coyote Ivan E. Coyote   Yukon
Author and storyteller Ivan E. Coyote's work tackles the difficult subjects of family, class, gender identity, and social justice, always with the silver tongue of a master storyteller, an eye for the beauty found in what makes us all human, and an ear for the hilarity of life and love. Ivan's first love is telling stories to a live audience.
 
WORKSHOP WITH IVAN E. COYOTE

Join award-winning short-story author and storyteller Ivan Coyote in this workshop designed to help you take your real-life experiences and wisdom, and craft them into stories. No storytelling experience required
Montréal Call for Life Story Workshop Location
(514) 524-0669 Information and reservations
10/18/2009 $30     |   $25 Members of Mtl Storytellers Guild



2:00 PM
Moving Tales  African Shape-Shifter Stories

 
Jan Blake Jan Blake   UK-Jamaica
Jan Blake is one of Europe's leading storytellers, performing world-wide since 1986. She was born in Manchester, of Jamaican parentage, her home education very much rooted in Jamaican folk culture. She is now actively teaching, organizing, touring, and telling stories "that need to be told" from Africa and the Caribbean.
 
Internationally acclaimed British-Jamaican storyteller Jan Blake brings her warm voice, dynamic stage presence and humour to these stories of mystery and magic, in a program of African stories about shape-shifters.

Family show (Age 8 and up)
Westmount Westmount Library
4574 Sherbrooke St. WEST, Westmount
(514) 989-5299
10/18/2009 FREE  [Reservations recommended]



8:00 PM
Stories of Love and Sex  

 
Jan Blake Jan Blake   UK-Jamaica
Jan Blake is one of Europe's leading storytellers, performing world-wide since 1986. She was born in Manchester, of Jamaican parentage, her home education very much rooted in Jamaican folk culture. She is now actively teaching, organizing, touring, and telling stories "that need to be told" from Africa and the Caribbean.
Ivan E. Coyote Ivan E. Coyote   Yukon
Author and storyteller Ivan E. Coyote's work tackles the difficult subjects of family, class, gender identity, and social justice, always with the silver tongue of a master storyteller, an eye for the beauty found in what makes us all human, and an ear for the hilarity of life and love. Ivan's first love is telling stories to a live audience.
Alan Shain Alan Shain   Ontario
Through stories around disability, Alan Shain take us from childhood fantasy and schoolyard bravado to university halls and first time romances... He uses humour to expose the absurdity of his experiences, educating at the same time as he entertains.
Stéphanie Bénéteau Stéphanie Bénéteau   Québec
Stéphanie Bénéteau has been telling stories professionally since 1994. She is a lively and dynamic teller with a large repertoire for young audiences, though she enjoys telling to all ages. She has two young daughters who critique all her new stories and a mixed-up cultural heritage that includes French Canadian, American and Italian
 
From the Arabian Nights to First Nations traditions, from Jamaica to the Yukon with a detour through London. On a mule or in a wheelchair, on farms and in skyscrapers, people have been loving and telling stories about loving for a very long time. Come and have your fancy tickled by these erotic stories from all over the world.

Hosted by Stéphanie Bénéteau
Montréal Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
3755 Botrel St., Montréal
(514) 872-2157
10/18/2009 FREE |  Passes available at Maison de la Culture






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