Ottawa Storytellers Present – A House Divided: Stories and Songs of the American Civil War
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A House Divided: Stories and Songs of the American Civil War
featuring Gail Anglin, Paul Hornbeck, Daniel Kletke, & Tom Lips
NAC’s 4th STAGE, January 19, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $20 from NAC Box Office or ticketmaster.ca
The American Civil War is one of the most talked about conflicts in modern history. With slavery, nationalism, and changing economics at its core, this war saw brother fighting brother. Tonight, we hear stories from both perspectives – North and South, framed with the stirring songs that were sung by soldiers and those who waited for them back home.
Performers:
Gail Anglin has a deep interest in history and relishes turning research into storytelling performance. She loves stories that illuminate the past and songs that still carry the emotions of the men and women who once sang them. She has written her own material for this show, and writes and performs local stories at the Bytown Museum and Billings Estate National Historic Site. Gail has performed in festivals and schools, and on radio and TV, offering a wide range of material from children’s shows to epics. A talented musician, Gail particularly enjoys singing the alto harmony to Tom Lips’ tenor melodies in programs such as the well-received Pete Seeger show that played in Ottawa and Toronto. In addition to being a teller, Gail directs the “Spirits of the Times” murder mysteries and the spring Chautauquas (Victorian tent shows) at the Billings Estate.
Gail’s relatives fought on the Union side in the Civil War.
Ottawa Storytellers Presents New Series
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OTTAWA STORYTELLERS present a new series, Encore! West, at Collected Works, 1242 Wellington Street
Dysfunctional Royalty, October 7, 7:00 p.m., with Gail Anglin, Anne Nagy and Phil Nagy
Enjoy stories and songs about a gaggle of kings, queens and royal children, both real and fictional. This lot never quite made it as people you’d want to sit down and have a cup of tea with but they make delightful subjects for some fascinating stories.
Moby Dick, November 4, 7:00 p.m., with Dean Verger, Storyteller
The year was 1851. A large tome had just been published portraying the whaling industry, the society of the day, and one man’s obsession. But it became the victim of unlucky timing because the year before a whale had sunk a ship, with all hands. It was not until the 20th century that Herman Melville’s, Moby Dick, found its audience. Now enjoy Dean Verger’s adaptation in an 80 minute storytelling with musical embellishment.
Sail Around the World with Stories at the 2011 Children’s Storytelling Festival
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Story Yoga for Kids* – Tania Frechette
Tania Frechette’s passion for yoga began a decade ago. She is a trained yoga professional at the highest level (ERYT-500). Tania loves to teach people of all ages. Her approach to yoga is creative and fun. www.yogaland.ca
Yogini Went To Sea – Join a yogini for an adventure to the sea. We will transform ourselves into different sea creatures, have fun surfing big waves and row some boats. (1pm to 1:30pm)
The Zoo – Let’s go to the zoo! Have fun with your animal friends. Jump like a monkey, roar like a lion, walk like heavy elephant, hiss like a snake and much more. (2:30pm to 3pm)
*Please bring a yoga mat or large towel.
Read more on the Ottawa Storytellers website: World with Stories at the 2011 Children’s Storytelling Festival
Ottawa StoryTeller Events for September 2011
OST Presents the Following for September 2011
September 1
Ottawa StoryTellers Story Swap:
Open Stage Night
7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street
Room 156
Free admission
Ottawa StoryTellers offers Story Swap, an open stage night, on the first Thursday of every month at Library and Archives Canada (Room 156). This is an opportunity to experience the art of storytelling for the first time or for new storytellers to practice before an audience. The evenings also include stories by experienced tellers so that new tellers can learn the art. People are welcome to come and listen, but anyone wishing to tell a story should register on arrival with the evening’s host, and s/he will be given a time slot. Stories should be no longer than ten minutes and must be told, not read. They may be traditional stories, folk tales, literary stories, or personal stories.
September 13
Passages: Coming to Canada
Lynda Joyce and Ruth Stewart Verger
Stories and Tea
The Tea Party, 119 York St.
7pm-8:45pm
Pay what you can
September 17
Encore! To Say Nothing of the Dog
Jan Andrews and Mary Wiggin
OYP Studio at the Shenkman Centre
7:30pm
$15/$12 Students and Seniors
The noble canine, man’s best friend: we’re tired of the stereotypes! Tonight we’ll tell stories about dogs both good and bad, and we plan to shove the sap aside and have a few good laughs as well!
September 27
Ordinary Escapes/Extraordinary Escapades
Clea Derwent and Kim Kilpatrick
Stories and Tea
The Tea Party, 119 York St.
7pm-8:45pm
Pay what you can
Ottawa Storyteller Events: August 2011
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OST Presents the Following Events for August, 2011:
August 4, 2011
Ottawa StoryTellers Story Swap: Open Stage Night
7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Room 156.
Free admission
Ottawa StoryTellers offers Story Swap, an open stage night, on the first Thursday of every month at Library and Archives Canada (Room 156). This is an opportunity to experience the art of storytelling for the first time or for new storytellers to practice before an audience. The evenings also include stories by experienced tellers so that new tellers can learn the art. People are welcome to come and listen, but anyone wishing to tell a story should register on arrival with the evening’s host, and s/he will be given a time slot. Stories should be no longer than ten minutes and must be told, not read. They may be traditional stories, folk tales, literary stories, or personal stories.
August 4 and 18
Stories at the Bytown Museum
7pm-8pm
Bytown Museum, 1 Canal Lane Ottawa Ontario K1P 5P6
Ottawa has many stories to tell! The murder of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, the Stoney Monday riots and the fire at the Booth Lumberyard to name a few. The Bytown Museum hosts a Story Series by the Ottawa StoryTellers as part of their free Thursday night programming this summer.
Every Friday Night in August
Campfire and Storytelling at the Billings Estate National Historic Site
7pm-8:30pm
$6 per person, $10 for two, $16 per family, tickets at the door
Billings Estate National Historic Site, 2100 Cabot Street
Bring the family or come alone and roast marshmallows over an open fire and then enjoy stories of all kinds. There will be stories for adults and also separate stories and songs for children, and each Friday there will be new stories and new storytellers.
August 9
Tales for a Hot Summer Night
Phil Nagy and Jimmy Frickey
Stories and Tea
The Tea Party, 119 York St.
7pm-8:45pm
Pay what you can
August 23
Small Town Tales
Leah Sander and Sherri Yazdani
Stories and Tea
The Tea Party, 119 York St.
7pm-8:45pm
Pay what you can
For more information on our programming, visit www.ottawastorytellers.ca
Join the Ottawa Storytellers facebook group to get invites to our events, or follow us on Twitter @ottawastory.
OST programming is supported by the City of Ottawa, the Ontario Arts Council, Heritage Canada and Canada Council for the Arts.
Ottawa Storytellers Events for July 2011
[Source: Ottawa Storytellers press release]
July 7
Ottawa StoryTellers Story Swap: Open Stage Night
7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Room 156.
Free admission
Ottawa StoryTellers offers Story Swap, an open stage night, on the first Thursday of every month at Library and Archives Canada (Room 156). This is an opportunity to experience the art of storytelling for the first time or for new storytellers to practice before an audience. The evenings also include stories by experienced tellers so that new tellers can learn the art. People are welcome to come and listen, but anyone wishing to tell a story should register on arrival with the evening’s host, and s/he will be given a time slot. Stories should be no longer than ten minutes and must be told, not read. They may be traditional stories, folk tales, literary stories, or personal stories.
July 7 and July 21
Stories at the Bytown Museum
7pm-8pm
Bytown Museum, 1 Canal Lane Ottawa Ontario K1P 5P6
Ottawa has many stories to tell! The murder of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, the Stoney Monday riots and the fire at the Booth Lumberyard to name a few. The Bytown Museum hosts a Story Series by the Ottawa StoryTellers as part of their free Thursday night programming this summer.
July 7: Ruthanne Edward and Gail Anglin.
July 21: Ruth Stewart-Verger, Donna Stewart and Kim Kilpatrick
July 12
Live, Love, Laugh
Lisa Virtue, Ruthanne Edward, Katherine Hunt
Stories and Tea
The Tea Party, 119 York St.
7pm-8:45pm
Pay what you can
July 26
Summer Time! Super Tales!
Robert Collins, Christine Joyce
Stories and Tea
The Tea Party, 119 York St.
7pm-8:45pm
Pay what you can
For more information on our programming, visit www.ottawastorytellers.ca
Join the Ottawa Storytellers facebook group to get invites to our events, or follow us on Twitter @ottawastory.
OST programming is supported by the City of Ottawa, the Ontario Arts Council, Heritage Canada and Canada Council for the Arts.
Ottawa’s Pirate Adventures share their bounty with The Children’s Wish Foundation!
Avast me hearties! Pirate Adventures is proud to announce their partnership with the Children’s Wish Foundation. On May 29th from 10 am to 4 pm Pirate Adventures in partnership with the Ottawa StoryTellers invites you to come out to Mooney’s Bay, located by Hog Back Falls, for a memorable charity event and some swashbuckling fun! There will be numerous activities for both children and adults alike: face painting, a barbeque, storytelling, children’s games, contests and 45 minute adventure sails! All proceeds will go to the Children’s Wish Foundation.
Ottawa StoryTellers Events for May, 2011
May 5 | Ottawa StoryTellers Story Swap: Open Stage Night
7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Room 156.
Free admission
Ottawa StoryTellers offers Story Swap, an open stage night, on the first Thursday of every month at Library and Archives Canada (Room 156). This is an opportunity to experience the art of storytelling for the first time or for new storytellers to practice before an audience. The evenings also include stories by experienced tellers so that new tellers can learn the art. People are welcome to come and listen, but anyone wishing to tell a story should register on arrival with the evening’s host, and s/he will be given a time slot. Stories should be no longer than ten minutes and must be told, not read. They may be traditional stories, folk tales, literary stories, or personal stories.
May 10 | Music in my Life
Kim Kilpatrick and Lynda Joyce
Stories and Tea
The Tea Party, 119 York St.
7pm-8:45pm
Pay what you can
May 19 and 20 | My Words Fly Up: Stories About and From Shakespeare
Gail Anglin, Daniel Kletke and Leah Sander
7:30 pm, NAC 4th Stage, tickets at the NAC box office
$20/$12 students and seniors
The plays of William Shakespeare are some of the most recognized literary works of the English speaking world. Within these great plays, there are stories that make us laugh, stories that make us cry, and stories that inform our culture, from high art to the latest romantic comedy at the movie theatre. Tonight, stories from and about the Bard are presented in a new way: decide for yourself who the real Shakespeare was, find out what happens when Hamlet is transported to Africa and Iago is sentenced to community service. Frolic with the faeries, sigh with the lovers, and laugh at the rude mechanicals! With Elizabethan music on the recorder and guitar, arranged and played by Andrew Huggett and Toby Kiesewalter. Not the Shakespeare you learned in school!
May 24 | It Could Have Been Me
Kathie Kompass and Nancy Morris
Stories and Tea
The Tea Party, 119 York St.
7pm-8:45pm
Pay what you can
May 27 | The Spirits of the Times
ONE NIGHT ONLY! 7:00 p.m.
Billings Estate
Tickets are $15 (incl. admission to the museum) and are available from the Billings Museum (613-247-4830)
Come back with us to 1902, when a Chautauqua troupe visited Ottawa and set up its tent on the grounds of the Billings’ estate. From the 1880s to 1930’s, Chautauquas were North America’s most popular form of what we now call “edutainment” – education and entertainment – for adults. It was radio that eventually spelled the demise of the Chautauqua, but in its day it was unrivalled.Our Chautauqua has several world-renowned speakers, such as, the intrepid African explorer Nehemiah “Crikey” Persimmon, the famous games mistress Eliza Ross, that well-known Methodist cleric Reverend Murdoch Troome, and the British musical hall sensation Rodney Ramsbottom, all accompanied by a specially commissioned brass band!
May 27 | Once Upon a Slam
7:00 pm, Mercury Lounge Underground (aka Bar 56) 56 Byward Market,
$7 cover charge for listeners (slam participants get in free)
Once Upon a Slam is Ottawa’s new monthly story slam series! A story slam is much like a poetry slam, except for it features narrative stories of all kinds. Each performer has 5 minutes to TELL a story (and we do mean tell, no reading). Judges are randomly selected from the audience to give a score to each story. Highest score of the night takes home all the marbles. Fairy tales, ghost stories, personal stories, whatever kind of story you like, as long as you tell it in your own words. There are 8 spots available, doors open at 6:30PM. After the Slam, stick around for feature performer Luna Allison.
For more information on our programming, visit www.ottawastorytellers.ca
Join the Ottawa Storytellers facebook group to get invites to our events, or follow us on Twitter @ottawastory.
OST programming is supported by the City of Ottawa, the Ontario Arts Council, Heritage Canada and Canada Council for the Arts.
Once upon a Slam!
April 29 at 7:30 p.m., Once Upon a Slam, Ottawa’s new monthly story slam series (the last Friday of every month) at Mercury Lounge Underground (aka Bar 56) 56 Byward Market.
$7 cover charge for listeners; slam participants get in free.
A story slam is much like a poetry slam, except it features narrative stories of all kinds. Each performer has 5 minutes to TELL a story (and we do mean tell, no reading). Judges are randomly selected from the audience to give a score to each story. Highest score of the night takes home all the marbles. Fairy tales, ghost stories, personal stories, whatever kind of story you like, as long as you tell it in your own words. There are 10 spots available, sign up starts at 7:00 p.m.
Following the slam, we will have a special one-hour show, featuring professional storytellers. This month, from Italy, we feature Paola Balbi, Davide Bardi in Sex and the city 1300 : Erotic Tales from the Middle Ages in Italy!
A selection of stories from the Decameron, delivered with a funny, modern and straight language, blended with music and madrigals. Sexy, deliriously funny, but also sometime touching and personal, “Sex and the city 1300” is a patchwork of old erotic tales given to the audience with a contemporary and straight language. Paola and Davide with humour, enthusiasm and poetry the timeless story of “how life goes”…and also some of their own personal thoughts about it.
Contact:
Patrick Holloway
Coordinator of Publicity and Marketing
Ottawa StoryTellers
PR@ottawastorytellers.ca
patrick.holloway@sympatico.ca
Ph.: 613-322-8336
Ottawa StoryTellers April Events
OST Presents the Following Events for April, 2011:
April 7
Ottawa StoryTellers Story Swap: Open Stage Night
7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Room 156.
Free admission
Ottawa StoryTellers offers Story Swap, an open stage night, on the first Thursday of every month at Library and Archives Canada (Room 156). This is an opportunity to experience the art of storytelling for the first time or for new storytellers to practice before an audience. The evenings also include stories by experienced tellers so that new tellers can learn the art. People are welcome to come and listen, but anyone wishing to tell a story should register on arrival with the evening’s host, and s/he will be given a time slot. Stories should be no longer than ten minutes and must be told, not read. They may be traditional stories, folk tales, literary stories, or personal stories.
April 12
The Frozen Thames
Phil Nagy and Mary Wiggin
Stories and Tea
The Tea Party, 119 York St.
7pm-8:45pm
Pay what you can
April 21
Love Stories
Jan Andrews and Jennifer Cayley
7:30 pm, NAC 4th Stage, tickets at the NAC box office: $20/$12 students and seniors
Love sweeps over us in tidal waves; it creeps up on us, catching us unawares. It breaks us, binds us, stirs us more deeply than anything else in all our living. Heights and depths. Join two of Ottawa’s best-known tellers in their particular version of love’s possibilities – tumultuous and sweet. The stories may begin in the steamy, lusciousness of youth, but t…hey will carry you onwards: to an Irish lover’s epic journey; a promise that may destroy all caring; a marriage where everything that can go wrong does; a slightly unusual way of dealing with separation; a finding of each other in old age.
April 26
Moby Dick
Dean Verger
Stories and Tea
The Tea Party, 119 York St.
7pm-8:45pm
Pay what you can
April 29
Once Upon a Slam
Featured Performer: Paola Balbi and Davide Bardi – “Sex and the City 1300″
7:00 pm, Mercury Lounge Underground (aka Bar 56) 56 Byward Market, $7 cover charge for listeners (slam participants get in free)
Once Upon a Slam is Ottawa’s new monthly story slam series! A story slam is much like a poetry slam, except for it festures narrative stories of all kinds. Each performer has 5 minutes to TELL a story (and we do mean tell, no reading). Judges are randomly selected from the audience to give a score to each story. Highest score of the night takes home all the marbles. Fairy tales, ghost stories, personal stories, whatever kind of story you like, as long as you tell it in your own words. There are 10 spots available, sign up starts at 7PM, show starts at 7:30PM. This month, OST will be presenting featured teller Paola Balbi. Paola Balbi is a passionate Italian storyteller who creates a rich tapestry of stories from her native land. She is a member of Raccontamiunastoria, Italy’s leading storytelling company in Rome.Tonight, with performer Davide Bardi, she presents “Sex and the City 1300 : Erotic Tales from the Middle Ages in Italy!” This set features a selection of stories from the Decameron, delivered with a funny, modern and straight language, blended with music and madrigals. Sexy, deliriously funny, but also sometime touching and personal, “Sex and the City1300” is a patchwork of old erotic tales given to the audience with a contemporary and straight language. Paola and Davide tell these stories with humour, enthusiasm and…and also some of their own personal thoughts.
For more information on our programming, visit www.ottawastorytellers.ca
OST programming is supported by the City of Ottawa, the Ontario Arts Council, Heritage Canada and Canada Council for the Arts.
