Re-Awakening Storytelling Symposia

Re-Awakening Storytelling through Hut Tales

Sunday, October 23, 2011 @ 3pm
Newton Cultural Centre (13530 72nd Avenue, Surrey, BC)
Free

Come to experience storytelling from all over the map, story dances, participate in workshops and hear the stories behind some African costumes. With special appearances by Guinean drummer Koca Dioubate and the dancer Jacky Essombe.

For more information please call (778) 571-1667 or (604) 721-2184 or Email: africanstages@gmail.com. Donations will be thankfully accepted.

Re-Awakening Storytelling: Igniting oral art as a positive and effective community building tool.

Monday, October 24, 2011 from 8:30am to 4:00pm
Roundhouse Community Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC)
$20 per person. Group rates available - email us to find out.
Lunch and coffee will be provided
To secure your registration and make payments please email: africanstages@gmail.com
Please, RSVP by October 10, 2011.

Is Storytelling a dying art?

Ground-breaking symposium pledges to find the answer

On October 24, 2011 master storytellers, artists and community members will gather to explore the art of storytelling and how it can be re-introduced to modern society. “Storytelling must be kept alive, if not, we will lose an entertaining and historical learning tool” says Comfort Ero, artistic director of African Stages Association of BC (ASABC) - a group that uses the performing arts as a teaching tool. In an effort to re-awaken storytelling as a tool for teaching and fostering communal values, ASABC is launching its first Storytelling symposium in Vancouver. Participants will take part in an exciting mosaic of activities such as storytelling through graphic arts, dance, and visual arts. It will also be a forum for learning and practicing story-telling skills.

Ero, an experienced storyteller, classroom teacher and a mother of six believes that “storytelling is an effective and entertaining way of communicating otherwise boring and mundane lessons to children at home and at school.“ It is for this reason her group decided to pursue this symposium with the hope that interest in the art of storytelling would be revived. The symposium is open to the general public and no prior skill in storytelling is required. “Parents of children having difficulty teaching their children, classroom teachers, community and child care educators, students and those who are simply interested” will each find their ground at this symposium says Ero.

For more information, including a list of all participants, please click here