From our friends at Storytelling Alberta's Calgary Chapter: World Storytelling Day Café: Building Bridges - One Story at a Time

A note from our World Storytelling Day Project Coordinator, Jennifer Cayely:

IT’S NOT ONLY VIRUSES THAT BRING THE WORLD TOGETHER

World Storytelling Day Grants

Virus or no, this has been an extravagantly beautiful fall; warm and bright with the colours more brilliant than they have been for years. While we are of course moving towards winter now, we are also moving nearer to the spring on the other side of it. With that spring comes World Storytelling Day (WSD). If you don’t know about WSD there’s more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Storytelling_Day  

Like everything else at the moment, the whole situation is a bit complicated. The WSD theme has not been announced yet though it is expected in a week or two. The regular deadline for WSD grant applications will consequently need to be changed, probably to around Dec. 1, 2020 with notification by Jan. 1, 2021 depending on exactly when the theme is clear.

In the meantime, I would encourage you to look at the information about the SC-CC,WSD grants. https://www.storytellers-conteurs.ca/en/recognition-and-awards/world-storytelling-day.html

Start dreaming, planning, thinking now!

The Canada 150 Fund

The goal of the Canada 150 Fund is to create opportunities for Canadians to participate in local, regional, and national celebrations that contribute to building a sense of pride and attachment to Canada.

A limited number of high impact, large-scale projects that are national in scope will also be supported through the Canada 150 Fund as Signature Initiatives.

Eligibility details

Eligible funding recipients under the Canada 150 Fund include the following types:

• Canadian not-for-profit organizations, including corporations, trusts, cooperatives and unincorporated associations;
• Canadian business corporations, including partnerships, trusts and joint ventures where projects are non-commercial in nature;
• Canadian schools; and,
• Canadian municipal governments and their institutions.

Federal departments, agencies and institutions, Provincial and Territorial governments and their institutions, private individuals and political parties are noteligible under the Canada 150 Fund.

Call for Auditions - Owl Was a Baker's Daughter: Folk Tales That Inspired Shakespeare

The deadline for event grants for World Storytelling Day has been extended to January 3rd! Get your proposals in soon!

Each year, communities across Canada participate in World Storytelling Day, a global celebration of storytelling. Working with a theme, events are held on or around the Equinox, with concerts for young and old. This year's theme is stories about "Strong Women"

Click here to learn more about applying: https://www.storytellers-conteurs.ca/en/recognition-and-awards/world-storytelling-day.html

SC-CC is thrilled to announce a special, limited-time holiday sale of our StorySave CDs! 

• Each CD sold at 30% off the original price, while quantities last
• All shipping costs within Canada, waived
• On line orders received after Dec 7 cannot be ensured delivery within Canada before Dec 24 2015
• Orders by personal cheque cannot be guaranteed timely shipping for the holidays, but we will try our best. (Make cheques out to Storytellers of Canada)

World Storytelling Day 2015 – Wishes

From 2pm to 4pm

at the Sandy Hill Community Centre located at 250 Somerset Street EAST near the University of Ottawa.

March 20th event out of the Village of Storytellers project in Toronto and leading off activities for the Toronto Storytelling Festival.

“If Wishes were Horses…”, featuring Burlington Storyteller Bob Tadman and Carol Leigh Wehking, from Cambridge.