Lattudes Storytelling Festval 1

JUNE 21-22, 2014

Victoria Park, Kitchener
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torytelling is a catch-all
term for what organizatons
do to explain their work,
to appeal to donors, to inform
boards of directors. We have
learned it is hard to argue
with someones story. Its
hard to diminish someones
experience, or to deny that they
had an experience that directly
contradicts your viewpoint.
Watch the news. The people
who cover events, share
informaton in whatever format
or present the news are no
longer news reporters; theyre
storytellers. The ones who do
communicatons and marketng,
as I do for a living, arent spin
doctors anymore; theyre
organizatonal storytellers.
Im a writer. Its something I
wanted to do from an early age. I
remember stepping of the school
bus at my elementary school
when I was 11 and thinking I
wanted to be two things when I
grew up: a jockey (because I was
light as a feather and crazy about
horses) and a writer. There is an
element of skill and natural ability
in both, but for me, the desire to
be a writer, though forgoten for
many years, turned out to be the
path forward.
So, that explains in part why Im
drawn to storytelling.
This year at Lattudes, were
looking ahead, not just to this
weekend, but to next year 2015
MAKING SENSE OF LIFE
THROUGH STORIES
is when we celebrate our 10
th

anniversary. Im prety proud of
that. Every year we do things just
a litle bit diferently, refning our
event and how we organize and
execute it.
Our volunteers work hard every
year to pull of great arts-based
storytelling events; there is
nothing else quite like it in this
region. By saying that, I dont
mean there isnt storytelling
in the region. Boy, do we have
storytelling!
A rich culture of storytelling has
been nurtured over many years,
thanks, in no small way, to the
eforts of Mary-Eileen McClear,
whose Story Barn in Baden was
the site of guild meetngs and
monthly open storytelling. Now
located in the Buton Factory
in Waterloo, Stories Aloud
and those guild meetngs stll
occur, and the dedicaton these
storytellers have had to the art of
storytelling is nothing short of a
blessing for an organizaton such
as ours.
Creatng partnerships in
the community is one of our
strengths. The fruit of those
partnerships is sometmes
programming for the festval, but
really its a way to help people in
the community learn to tell their
own story.
Come join in our story, and
connect with your own narratve.
Were glad you came.
Lori-Ann Livingston is founder of
Lattudes Storytelling Festval.
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OUR WORDWEAVERS
CAROLYN
BLACKSTOCK
is intrigued by
history, and
is well-known
for her blog
about the Berlin
Cook Book in
2012, and the Galt Cook Book this
year. The cookbooks contnue to
reveal stories and new journeys
for her. She has many years of
historical interpretaton experience.
365dayswiththegaltcookbook.
wordpress.com
CENTRAL FREDERICK FAIRY DOORS
is a grass roots
movement that
encourages
people to
walk in their
neighbourhoods
and engage with the propertes they
pass. CRISTIN OSBORNE and LAURA
PEART-McBRIDE bring the magic of
the litle doors to our stage. htp://
centralfairies.yolasite.com/
ISABEL CISTERNA
is founding artstc
director of Neruda
Productons, a
social innovator,
community
organizer and
cultural programmer. No stranger
to stories, Isabel brings some of her
favourite ones to the stage.
www.nerudaarts.ca
MIKE FORD is a
Juno-nominated
Franco-Ontarian
solo artst who
has released four
acclaimed albums
of Canadian
history-inspired
songs. He performs
in French and
English across Ontario in middle and
high schools. He is known to many
for his former life in the folk/rock/
vaudeville band, Moxy Frvous, with
whom he headlined festval stages
all across North America and Europe,
and sold over a quarter-million
albums.
www.mikeford.ca
RUKHSANA KHAN
was born in Lahore,
Pakistan, and raised
in Dundas, Ontario.
Her down-to-earth,
humourous style
informs the stories
she tells of India,
Persia, and the Middle East, as well
as her own, tackling at tmes serious
subject mater with a light touch.
SONJA MALTON
was born and
raised in Kitchener,
and returned to
her hometown
afer a year-and-
a-half in Toronto,
atending the Randolph Academy for
Performing Arts. With a background
in musical theatre, she learned guitar
on a whim and began writng songs
to beter communicate with herself.
Now she is sings to communicate
with others, and tell her stories to
whomever chooses to hear.
MURRAY ALZHEIMER RESEARCH
AND EDUCATION PROGRAM
(MAREP) is a research organizaton
in the Faculty of Applied Health
Sciences, University of Waterloo that
integrates research and educatonal
actvites to improve dementa care
practces in Canada.
ORGANIC GROOVE is a collaboraton
of inspired, inspiring, compassionate
people with great big hearts and
open minds. Organic Groove Ricky
Neu, Gerima Harvey-Fletcher, Troy
Larabie, Kat van Lammeren and
Jonny Riddim is an all-percussion
group that facilitates drum circles
and performs their own drum songs
and global rhythms on instruments
from around the world.
www.organicgroove.ca
TYSON REMERS
is a local yoga
and meditaton
teacher who loves
hearing, reading
and telling stories
using a variety of
media. With a novel
currently underway, Ty writes, sings
and plays guitar, and has writen
several story-songs that help tell a
greater story, much like a musical or
rock opera.
COURTNEY
RIDDELL has
been a childrens
entertainer for
more than 10
years and loves
to pass on her
love of music
and dance. She
also works students at First Light
Theatre Company in Guelph,
where they learn drama through
workshops, classes, and theatrical
productons while building skills
in communicaton, risk-taking,
commitment, leadership and
cooperaton.
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8Lattudes Storytelling Festval Lattudes Storytelling Festval 9
DAN YASHINSKY is a
defnitve Canadian
storyteller, author,
and community
organizer who
founded the
Toronto Festval of
Storytelling in 1979,
and co-founded the Storytellers School
of Toronto. He is the editor of four
collectons of Canadian storytelling,
and received the frst Jane Jacobs Prize
in 1999 to honour his contributons as
a storyteller to Torontos cultural life.
Talking You In, a piece he created with
composer/musician Brian Katz, toured
to the Barbican (London), Natonal Arts
Centre (Otawa), and festvals in Wales,
Holland, and Canada.
dan_yashinsky@hotmail.com
MARY McCULLUM BALDASAROS
love of language,
voice, and story
fnd expression in
teaching French as
a second language,
storytelling, actng,
and playwritng.
She tells stories
regularly at the Buton Factory, and
has performed in schools, libraries, the
Toronto Storytelling Festval, Lattudes
Storytelling Festval, and Heart & Hand
Festval.

CAMPFIRE CREW is multple award-
winning childrens recording artst
ANDREW Too Tall QUEEN and
his songwritng partner, KAREN
STILLE. They invoke the magic and
memories of summer camp through
their musical interactve storytelling
performances, share old favourites,
and create original kids music that
inspires silliness and singing.
www.campfrecrew.ca
The FUNKY MAMAS have been
putng the fun in funky since 1998
with their winning combinaton of
folk, funk, bluegrass and blues. The
Guelph quartets gentle harmonies,
and gleeful good humour captvate
children and adults alike. The Funky
Mamas are Georgia Urban, Chantal
von Maydell, Tannis Maynard-
Langedijk and Kate Vsetula.
www.thefunkymamas.com
SARAH GRANSKOU and SARAH
MARSH are also known as SARAH
2

THEATRE Company. Together they
bring a performing arts project
featuring puppets, local children,
and stories writen by the children
and Sarah Granskou, a seasoned
storyteller who draws from her own
Nordic heritage through music and
story. And there will be a folk song
or two.
JAN SHERMAN is an Anishnaabe
Mets woman, mother, storyteller,
drummer and singer, and a member
of the Guelph Aboriginal community.
Jan has been gathering stories into
her heart and sharing them since
she was a child. Her traditonal First
Natons storytelling has taken her to
California, Kauai, and Australia.
Expect to partcipate when you share
Circle with Jan!
KEVIN SYLVESTER
is an award-
winning
illustrator, writer
and broadcaster
based in Toronto.
His series, The
Neil Flambe
Capers, won the 2011 Silver Birch
award for Ficton and the Silver Birch
for Non-Ficton in 2012 for Dont
Touch that Toad, which he illustrated
for Cathy Rondina. He has also been a
broadcaster with CBC Radio in Canada
for years. Kevin is on our cofeehouse
stage telling stories about strange
moments in sports, and doodling at
the children and youth stage. www.
kevinsylvesterbooks.com
BRAD WOODS
has told stories at
festvals, theatres,
cafes, churches,
prisons and pubs.
He tells folk tales,
literary classics and personal stories.
He has told all over North America and
the UK, for all ages and in every type of
venue imaginable. He is thrilled to be
returning to the
Lattudes Storytelling Festval and
really excited to be sharing the stage
once again with the Funky Mamas!
JOJO WORTHINGTON is an
independent artst
from Waterloo
known for her avid
songwritng on the
ukulele. Currently
enrolled in the
music industry
arts program at
Fanshawe College in London, JoJo
recently released her third album and
is one of three fnalists selected to play
Mariposa Folk Festval this July.
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LATITUDES BOOK STALL: You will fnd
books by some of our storytellers,
CDs by some of our musicians, and a
few other bits and bobs, including our
guidebooks for the Made in Kitchener
digital storytelling tour of downtown
Kitchener.
BADEN GUILD OF STORYTELLERS
hail from Cambridge, New Hamburg,
Guelph, London, Burlington,
Brampton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Elmira,
and Baden. Since 1989, the guild has
been the forum for those who wish
to work together to learn more about
the art of storytelling. The guild meets
on the second Friday of the month,
from September through June, at 7:30
p.m. in the Buton Factory in Waterloo.
www.thestorybarn.ca
Look for a Lattudes storytelling tent
at KULTRUN on July 11-12 in Waterloo
Town Square. Featuring performances
by Rukhsana Khan, Jay Wilson, Kevin
Suton, Janice Lee, Adwoa Badoe and
Sarah Granskou.
A free festval, Kultrun energizes the
public square with a line-up of local,
natonal and internatonal artsts
who draw on traditonal forms and
expressions to create excitng new
hybrid styles of world music. Kultrn
is also a family-friendly celebraton of
diversity with workshops, actvites,
and programming for all ages.
www.nerudaarts.ca
KW POETRY SLAM is a monthly
series of community-building spoken
word poetry events held in various
venues in Kitchener and Waterloo.
By bringing together diverse artsts
in Kitchener Waterloo, the KW
Poetry Slam builds a strong arts
community by hostng a monthly
scored slam that sends a team to the
Canadian Festval of Spoken Word.
www.kwpoetryslam.com
MADE IN KITCHENER: personal
stories from our industrial past is
an interactve documentary created
by Dwight Storring, in partnership
with the City of Kitcheners arts and
culture unit and Lattudes for the
citys 100
th
anniversary of cityhood,
celebrated in 2012.
Made in Kitchener combines
selected interviews from an archive
of oral histories collected as part
of the City of Kitcheners Industrial
Artfacts Project with other archival
material and contemporary photos
and video. Through the lens of
personal stories, people describe
their working lives. Pick up a free
guidebook at our book stall. Prepare
to walk, and prepare to engage with
the past in an innovatve way.
JANICE LEE is a
singer-songwriter,
poet, actor, and
actvist rooted
in Kitchener,
Ontario. She
currently
performs music
and poetry solo,
and with her band, Janice Lee and
the Free Radicals. She is a head
organizer and spoken word poet
with the KW Poetry Slam. In June
2012, she received a Leading Edge
Waterloo Region Arts Award for her
community-building through the
arts. www.janicejolee.ca
SHEILA DIEMERT spent a summer
paintng murals at a hostel in
Tanzania, east Africa, which
became a turning point for
her. The experience illustrated
the importance of art as a
communicaton tool, uplifing while
telling a story. Her paintngs capture
and convey emoton, personality
and spirit. In additon to installatons
in Tanzania, Sheila maintains a
residence and studio in Kitchener-
Waterloo. Her exhibit is located at
Jubilee Drive and Heins Avenue.
Anywhere Gallery
Everywhere Artist
childrens activities
J
oin local artsts at our Anywhere
Gallery, Everywhere Artst site
near the childrens stage. The kids
(and you!) can make art and become
part of one big outdoor gallery
exhibiton through the weekend. This
unique gallery is all about using your
community as a blank canvas. On
Saturday, let your kids get creatve
with the ART INNOVATORS, a drawing-
based program using new and
varied art media and a mult-cultural
curriculum. On Sunday, join LAURA
PEART-McBRIDE in some fairy-door,
story-based crafs.
ALEX VAN GAALEN was born in
Utrecht, the Netherlands. He moved to
Kitchener with his family in 2007. He
started paintng in 2003 and is a self-
taught artst working in a classical and
realist manner. He gets his inspiraton
from his multcultural family and is
interested in people with interestng
features which has resulted in several
portraits. He works in oil and pastel.
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CONTACT US
@latitudes_story
/latitudesstorytellingfestival
info@latitudesfestival.com www.latitudesfestival.com
519-498-2048
www.madeinkitchener.ca