Event Details
Event Date: Feb 4, 2022 - Jun 30, 2022
Location: Arts Court (2 Daly Ave) & Virtual
The artists in the 2021/2022 Signature Series will make you think, make you laugh, make you feel, and make you want to get up and dance! With stories about growing up Indigenous, the environment, the importance of words, navigating the pandemic, and living life to the fullest, there is something for everyone in this exciting season. This all-Canadian season will bring us together with stories when we have been spending so much time apart.
Highlights
This season Ottawa StoryTellers is offering a hybrid of live in-person performances and live stream broadcasts. All performances begin at 7:30PM ET from the Blackbox Studio in Arts Court in downtown Ottawa.
Thursday, October 28, 2021 | Tom Lips with Bystanders: An Enviro-Cabaret
This show is a musical exploration of environmental issues and our all-too-human response to them. Tom Lips will perform original stories and songs, with a little history and science thrown in.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 | Special Presentation in partnership with Qu’ART: Stories Beyond Status
This special presentation will feature a range of creative voices and storytellers sharing their lived experience and personal histories of HIV/AIDS. The evening is co-presented by Qu’ART – Ottawa Queer Arts Collective – in collaboration with local HIV/AIDS service organizations in this lead up to World AIDS Day 2021.
Thursday, February 24, 2022 | Drew Hayden Taylor with White Water Rafting Down the River of Indigenous Humour (No Pun Intended)
Drew Hayden Taylor will take the audience on his personal journey growing up as a single child of a single parent on a small Reserve to a writer who ends up spreading the gospel of Indigenous literature and humour all around the world. BUY IN-PERSON TICKETS | BUY LIVE STREAM TICKETS
Thursday, April 21, 2022 | Ivan Coyote with Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
Join storyteller and the author of 13 books, Ivan Coyote, for an exploration of how words and stories reach across the ether and tether us together and teach us, even in the midst of a pandemic lockdown. BUY IN-PERSON TICKETS | BUY LIVE STREAM TICKETS
Thursday, June 2, 2022 | Kim Kilpatrick with Dangerous Touch: The Adventures of Being Blind in a Social Distance World
We all remember the day when the world shut down. Everything changed, and everyone had to learn how to live according to a new set of “rules” including mask wearing, following arrows on the floor in the grocery store, and most importantly: no touching. Journey with storyteller Kim Kilpatrick as she attempts to navigate this world while blind. BUY IN-PERSON TICKETS | BUY LIVE STREAM TICKETS
Thursday, June 30, 2022 | Gail Anglin and Dawn Xavier-Franklin with The Barrow Gang Buskers in Rockabilly Heartbreaker
Ottawa storytellers Gail Anglin and Dawn-Xavier Franklin will provide the super fun stories while The Barrow Gang Buskers will give us the toe-tappin’ tunes. Celebrate the end of the season with an entertaining and upbeat evening of stories and music! BUY IN-PERSON TICKETS | BUY LIVE STREAM TICKETS
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