Events
What’s Your Story?
Balzac's Powerhouse 29 Powerhouse Street
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaThis two-day intensive, and hands-on workshop will guide you through turning a moment from your life into a story that truly connects. Whether you’re brand new to storytelling or looking to sharpen your skills, we’ll help you shape, structure, and bring your story to life, from the first spark to a story that stands on its own feet.
$300
Replay Story Fest Opening Night: Taken by Surprise
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaIn 2016 we started Replay Storytelling… and ten years later we've grown in ways we couldn't have possibly imagined.
Join us for the opening night of Replay Story Fest with true stories of curveballs, chaos, and coincidences.
Featuring stories from Michael Salvatore, Madhu Aurora, Justin Shaw, Michelle Marie, Johanne Pelletier, Paul de Tourreil, and Ava Val!
$20 – $25Workshop: Finding the Heart of Your Story, with Chantal Lim
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaIn this workshop, Replay's Associate Artistic Director Chantal Lim, will help you discover and find the heart of your story, bringing your story focus and guiding you to finding a deeper meaning.
$60Workshop: Arts Intertwined with Storytelling, with Anto Chan
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaIn this workshop, InnerGenerational's Anto Chan, will support you in bringing more of your true self to the stage by weaving together your unique talents with the art of storytelling. Participants will explore how different performance styles such as spoken word, music stand up comedy, movement, or other creative expressions, can intertwine with personal narrative to create compelling and authentic stage pieces.
$60Between Us, with Christel Bartelse and Joanne O’Sullivan
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaWhat happens when two veteran storytellers who barely knew each other keep getting invited onto the same stages, and keep telling eerily similar stories from their lives?
What began as a bit of side-eye and a quiet “who is that, anyway?” has evolved into a shared story told between them.
Between Us brings together two seasoned storytellers and queens of the solo show who, after developing a friendship over the years, compare notes on womanhood, fertility struggles, loss, and life’s adventures. Sometimes they agree. Sometimes they don’t.
It’s funny, honest, and just a little bit scrappy—in the best way.
$20 – $25InnerGenerational: Aligned ArtiFacts
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaThrough spoken word poetry, music, comedy and narrative stories, we explore the artifacts passed down through familial bloodlines, complicated silence and ancestral memory. InnerGenerational: Aligned ArtiFacts is a multidisciplinary storytelling showcase featuring Anto Chan, Janice Jo Lee and Hannia Cheng.
Aligned ArtiFacts examines the emotional heirlooms we inherit; resilience, survival strategies, unspoken grief, tenderness, discipline, expectations, humour and asks…what happens when we consciously align with our healing and release what no longer serves?
Blending wit, vulnerability, and lyrical depth, our showcase invites audiences into an intimate excavation of intergenerational trauma, cultural identity, and reclamation.
$20 – $25Workshop: Improv in Storytelling, with Paul Hutcheson
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaIn this workshop you'll explore how improvisation can support the storytelling process, helping you think on your feet, stay present, and respond more intuitively to your audience. You’ll learn how to embrace uncertainty, take creative risks, and trust your instincts, all within a supportive and welcoming environment.
$60Workshop: Creating Your First Storytelling Show, with Christel Bartelse
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaCreating your first storytelling solo show is a big task, and in this workshop you’ll gain invaluable insights into how to start shaping your ideas into a compelling solo performance. This workshop offers hands-on guidance and discussion, on the creative process, producing your own work, and preparing it for performance and touring.
$60Workshop: Queering Your Story: telling 2SLGBTQIA+ stories, with Queers in Your Ears
Learning how to craft and shape a story can be a transformative experience. For people who feel marginalized or oppressed, sharing stories is a way to be heard and listened to, feeling valued for who we are or who we have become. Queers in Your Ears knows from our work over almost three decades as storytellers that as members of the LGBTQ2S+ community, we need to find ways to share how we see our lives and place in the world.
$609 Lives, 8 Near-Misses: Life Lessons from Near-Death Events by Paul De Tourreil
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaA car crash full of kids.A knife-wielding madman.True love, pernicious patriarchy, and the perils of both.
Swiss-Indian ninja Paul Shanker De Tourreil is a kung fu cat with nine lives, but after decades spent careening through bizarre, often comical misadventures, he’s down to his last life…
$20 – $25
