It's been a long time returning, but Beyond the Border is finally back and happening this weekend. In less than 20 minutes I'll be heading off to tonight's fun. Looks good for the weather holding out for tomorrow, but Sunday looks like it'll be a wet one. Oh well, not the first time. Just glad to finally have our storytelling festival back. I hope ( Read more... )

Things could have started better, let's face it. By Thursday I was left with a lot to prepare. I was off to Birmingham for the weekend and I still didn't have my tickets. I needed to go out and find a tripod for the camcorder and generally make sure that everything was set since I wouldn't have much time between coming home from Newport to grabbing ( Read more... )

Last night marked a year since me and Guy drunkenly stumbled into the monthly storytelling at Milgi's (every third Tuesday of the month) and I got up and told a story. Since then I have been every month and have only not told a story maybe three or four times when the floor spots were otherwise taken. I've probably told more stories at that event ( Read more... )

Today I told my first story in a school before an audience of 6 to 7 year olds. Fortunately they were very well behaved and seemed to enjoy my story and the stories of everyone else who told one ( Read more... )

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So looking through my PDA I stumbled upon an event I'd put in there some time last year when my Dad suggested it to me: the Toronto Storytelling Festival. He'd suggested it tentatively and, like me, promptly forgot all about it. The date I had was the end of April. Knowing that my folks had booked another trip to Japan at the end of March to ( Read more... )