Discover your inner storyteller (Westmount Examiner)
Seniors circle their waggings at Wakefield, Quebec storytelling workshop (Hull Low Down)
October 1 to November 30, 2011
Registration Period. Libraries, cultural centres and other community groups are asked to recruit and sign up 5 to 10 participants for this activity.
November 2011 to February 2012
Two-day intensive workshop with a professional storyteller. Depending on the group, workshops may take place over one weekend or be spaced out over two non-consecutive days.
March 9, 2012
Deadline for submissions. Each story must include a title and the name of the author. Stories should be emailed to Blue Metropolis at florence.allegrini@metropolisbleu.org
April 18 to 23, 2012
All participants are invited to attend the book launch and screening at the 14th Blue Metropolis Literary Festival, which will be held at the OPUS Hotel in Montréal.
• Target Audience: Anglophone adults from across Quebec
• Language: English
• Duration of Activity: Two days of writing workshops
• Cost: Free
• Partner: Canadian Heritage, Quebec Writers’ Federation
Blue Metropolis, in collaboration with the Quebec Writers’ Federation, presents Once Upon a Time, a project intended to foster an understanding of the contributions that Quebec Anglophones, as a linguistic minority, have made to the cultural diversity of this province and to showcase this rich heritage to the wider Canadian community.
The project invites Anglophone adults from across the province to explore their identity by writing their own original story. Participants will attend an intensive, community-based, 2-day workshop led by a professional storyteller and designed to help guide them through the process of developing, writing and performing their work. All stories will be published in an anthology to be launched at the 14th Blue Metropolis Literary festival in Montreal which takes place April 18 to 23, 2012. At this time, interested participants from each group will also have an opportunity to perform their work before a live audience, and attend the screening of a short documentary film featuring highlights of the evolving project.
