Consider Attending Story North

Just got the latest advert from StoryNorth, The annual SC-CC AGM and Conference. This year it will be in Yellowknife, NWT 26-29 May.  More info from Peg Hasted, Patricia Houston or Al Fowler.

Award Winning Guild Member

Congratulations to Victoria Storytellers Guild Member, Sylvia Olsen, who won the Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing for her book, "Working With Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater."

The B.C. Historical Federation's annual award recognizes the best non-fiction book representing an aspect of British Columbia history. "Working with Wool" has also been nominated for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. (This notice appeared recently in Victoria's Time-Colonist Newspaper.)

Listeners of the World, Unite!

Photo by Katherine McGinnis

"Listening to a story is not a passive experience. It is an action-filled colorful event in the theatre of the mind. Storytelling, by its nature, is an audience-involving art form. As the storyteller's narrative, shared in words and gestures, is perceived by the listener, vivid images are created in the listener's imagination. Costumes, scenery, characters, come to life with as much complexity and detail as the creative listener devises. Even when the teller shares stories with a large group, there is an intimacy and an immediacy to the art form that bonds the teller and the listener as the journey of the tale unfolds...Since the imaging on the part of the listener is rooted in their own personal imagination, the transfer of the tale is both a group event and a highly intimate exchange between the teller and each listener. There are as many stories being heard as there are ears to hear the teller."

- From "Joining In. Some Thoughts on Audience Participation" by Heather Forest

For details of what's happening at this year's annual conference of the Storytellers of Canada- Conteurs du Canada, check out Al Fowler's storytelling blog #yyjstoryteller.

Kim Weitkamp in Penny Candy Love

SATURDAY JUNE 4th 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
A humorous look at life, love and other quandries with:
KIM WEITKAMP - HUMORIST, SINGER/SONG WRITER, STORYTELLER

Grace Lutheran Church, 1273 Fort St. (Northeast of Moss St.)
Tickets: Advance $15.00 and $20.00 at the door
Tickets Available from: Chronicles of Crime, 1057 Fort St.
Munro's Books, 1108 Government Street
Ivy's Bookshop, 2188 Oak Bay Ave.

Kim Weikamp is an award winning performer who shares original stories and songs at theaters and festivals across the continent. She is a master at building bridges from story to song to story. Her album, Penny Candy Love, recently won two World Storytelling awards. Victoria storytellers who have experienced Kim's warmth and extraordinary ability can't wait to share her awesome talent with you.

For more information, contact publicity@victoriastorytellers.org or call 778-433-0979