Guild Update September 29, 2008

Conversations With Anita: An Afternoon with Storyteller and Ballad singer Anita Best

Sunday November 9, 2008 1:30 pm, Fred Douglas Place, 333 Vaughan St. $5.00 Limit of 30

Anita will be talking about her work of gathering and performing traditional material from Newfoundland communities, and will be open to questions and conversation. You will learn about her creative process in dealing with traditional material. Some of you may have heard Anita when she sang with the group Figgy Duff. After coming to our Saturday magic of One concert, enjoy this chance to get up close and personal with one of Canada’s storytelling treasures.

To register for this session, email Kay at: kayfstone@gmail.com



MANITOBA STORYTELLERS GUILD PREPARES TO FLY

We are excited to announce that after two years in the nest, the Guild is finally fledging out. We have a statement of our purposes and objectives, described below, and are starting our own contact list for future information.
In November the Guild will sponsor a workshop presented by New Foundland teller/singer Anita Best, and we hope to offer more regular workshops and classes once we are in full flight.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HEARING MORE ABOUT THE GUILD, YOU CAN SEND YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR FUTURE BULLETINS TO THE ADDRESS BELOW. NO OBLIGATIONS.

Email Kay Stone at: kayfstone@gmail.co

In November 2006, The Manitoba Storytelling Guild was incorporated as a non-profit corporation. In the past year the Guild has sponsored 2 workshops on storytelling, and will be presenting a third workshop in January, 2008. We are a fledging organization that has formed because we see the need for connecting with storytellers across Manitoba, and so we are starting slowly, and carefully.

Our Mandate
* to support and promote the art of oral storytelling throughout Manitoba

Our Objectives
* To teach workshops and courses in the art of storytelling for all levels
* To provide mentoring for emerging tellers
* To actively develop programs such as professional development workshops for use in schools, libraries, and cultural groups;
* To serve as a directory and referral centre for performing storytellers
* To sponsor storytelling events
* to support the gathering of local stories

To date we have organized 3 storytelling workshops, for 2007/08, and one of our members is currently mentoring a young woman who is an emerging storyteller.

Past workshops;
Saturday January 27, 2007
Bring that story to life: Researching and giving voice to historical people and events, presented by Ruth Stewart-Verger of Ottawa and Mary Louise Chown, of Winnipeg, sponsored by the Manitoba Storytelling Guild and Magic of One Productions

Saturday November 24/07
Recovering the STORY from HISTORY
The Manitoba Storytelling Guild and Magic of One Productions presents a workshop presented by our guest tellers, Glenna Janzen and Carol Leigh Wehking, who are performing in the November 23, 2007 Magic of One Concert, "Mail Order Brides and Manitoba Laundry: Stories of Courage"

This 4 hour workshop will investigate ways to put flesh on the skeleton of events, dates, politics, wars which are the history of textbook and news archive. Through examples and exercises, participants will explore finding, researching, extracting, creating, and shaping stories that illuminate history.
Suitable for writers and storytellers.
4 hours $25.00 Limited to 20 participants
Location in Winnipeg TBA

Saturday January 26, 2008, from 12:30 -4:30 PM
Bluebeard's Aunt Never Liked Him:
A Workshop on the use of Character in Storytelling for all levels, presented by Melanie Ray, a well known storyteller from Vancouver who will be in Winnipeg to perform in the January 25 Magic of One Concert The Age of Chivalry: Stories from the Middle Ages

Suitable for writers and storytellers of all levels. 4 hours $25.00
Location: St. Boniface Branch, Winnipeg Public Library, 100-131 Provencher
Wheelchair accessible
Contact Mary Louise 489-6994 for information and to register.