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Conference Schedule Highlights

There are so many exciting things happening at the Conference on top of our many wonderful workshops! We want to highlight just a few of them:

Opening Ceremony & Keynote Address from SNOLAB

Thursday, June 1st, at 6 p.m.

‘Studying the universe from deep underground’. There is a science to storytelling and the narrative structure has an important place in science. This talk will cover the story of SNOLAB, the science of storytelling and how the work underway in a deep underground science lab in Sudbury is helping to unravel the history of our universe.

Blaire Flynn is the Senior Education and Outreach Officer at SNOLAB and Juliette Deloye is an Education and Outreach Coordinator at SNOLAB currently pursuing her Masters inApplied Science and Engineering. They work with researchers, educators, students and members of the public to share the research and innovation underway at SNOLAB, Canada's deep underground science laboratory. 

Bilinguish Boys Concert 

Thursday, June 1st, at 8 p.m. 

Join us after the Keynote address and StorySave Album launch for Sudbury’s own Bilinguish Boys! A song and music show with entertainers Stef Paquette, Dayv Poulin and Édouard Landry. These professional musicians combine voices, guitars, repertoires, covers, and a good dose of improvisation that will quickly have you laughing and singing in Bilinguish Boys style. 

Get your tickets on Eventbrite! bilinguishboyssccc.eventbrite.ca $25 each

Note that Conference attendees already have concert tickets with their registration.

‘Berceurs du temps’ Rocking Chair installation: Thursday to Sunday 

This is an interactive rocking chair installation. A gentle immersion into the world of lullabies, ‘Berceurs du temps’ invites you to travel aboard a rocking chair. The installation welcomes visitors in a suspended time-space outside of the surrounding urban bustle. You’ll have the chance to record your own story and listen to the lullabies of others!

As part of the 30th Conteurs du Canada – Storytellers of Canada Conference being held from May 31st to June 4th, 2023, at Place des Arts du Grand Sudbury, under the theme of "A penny for your thought, a nickel for a story.”, the Centre franco-ontarien de folklore and the Salon du livre du Grand Sudbury are happy to welcome the participatory installation of the Montreal-based organization Berceurs du temps presented to the public on June 3rd and June 4th.

A haven of poetic tranquility, BERCER LE TEMPS / LULLING TIME immerses passersby into a world of stories and lullabies. A dozen rocking chairs whisper tunes gathered since the project's inception in 2016, recorded by participants in a mobile studio on site. Their childhood memories feed the living archive that makes the chairs of this participatory installation tell and sing. This experience becomes complete with the addition of a mobile recording studio where the participants are invited to share stories, songs, and childhood memories to in turn power the chairs with their words. To intimate, collective and unifying heritage of the oral tradition of tales and lullabies is then reactivated. Accessible to all, young and old, the installation transforms stories in terms of intercultural and intergenerational dialogue and paints a poetic portrait of a community.

For a full conference schedule, visit our website: storytellers-conteurs.ca/en/conference/Conference-2023-Sudbury/2023-Schedule.html