Ottawa StoryTellers: Call for Volunteers!

Ottawa StoryTellers is looking for volunteers for its 2016 Children’s Festival. The Children's Festival of Storytelling depends on volunteers to make it a success. Volunteers meet and greet children and their parents, help get the audience settled, hand out programs, and assist the tellers with small tasks as required. As a Children's Festival volunteer, you get to listen to many different tellers perform all kinds of stories for children ages 4 to 12, so the Festival is lots of fun and a great learning experience! Last year's Festival entertained over 300 children and their parents! This one-day event takes place on Saturday, November 5, 2016 at the Nepean Public Library, 101 Centrepointe, Ottawa. High school students can volunteer with their parent's / guardian's permission. If you are interested in volunteering for Ottawa StoryTellers Children's Storytelling Festival, we'd love to hear from you. For more information contact Colette Laplante at colette-vol@ottawastorytellers.ca. Your help is always appreciated.   Upcoming Ottawa StoryTeller Events:Two for the Road: Together Wherever We Go 7pm on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, at The Tea Party,  119 York St, Ottawa With Betty Bennett & Angelica Ottewill Pass the hat donations accepted Being Colourful in a Black & White World 7pm on Tuesday, November 22, 2016, at The Tea Party,  119 York St, Ottawa With Jacqui Du Toit Pass the hat donations accepted Walking in a Winter Wonderland  7pm on Tuesday, December 13, 2016, at The Tea Party,  119 York St, Ottawa With Lynda Joyce & Kim Kilpatrick Pass the hat donations accepted Speaking Out series of 7 shows: Oatcakes and Heartaches – Scottish Tales Carried Over the Ocean written & performed by Kathie Kompass, Marta Singh & Mary Wiggin 7:30pm on Thursday, December 15, 2016 at Academic Hall, University of Ottawa Of Canada’s twenty-three Prime Ministers, fourteen are of Scottish heritage. Scottish roots run deep in this land, and the stories are many of heartbreak and heroism, determination and unmatchable strength of purpose that sustained the Scots in the new world. Enjoy an evening of traditional Scottish storytelling telling the tales of those who settled such communities as Glengarry, Perth, and Renfrew, all named after a distant homeland. The whole family will enjoy fanciful tales of fairies, goblins, and wee imps told to children and adults to remind them of a homeland an ocean away.