Events
Workshop: Creating Your First Storytelling Show, with Christel Bartelse
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaReplay Story Fest WorkshopsCreating 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
Replay Story Fest WorkshopsLearning 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 – $25BEST of True Stories Told Live!
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaFor over 13 years, True Stories Told Live Toronto has been delighting audiences. Now, our city's largest and longest-running true storytelling show brings five of the best true stories they've ever had.
Hosted by Marsha from YesYesMarsha.com, expect to laugh, cry, and do that thing where someone says something that moves you and so you put your hand on your chest and go, "Mmmmm"
Featuring stories from Erin Rogers, Lamia Gibson, Micha Happie Edwards, and more!
$20 – $25The Story Collider: Searching
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaLife is full of questions—but what happens when the search leads somewhere unexpected?
Join award-winning podcast The Story Collider for their live storytelling show where Scientists and storytellers will take the stage to share true, personal stories about the moments that sent them searching. From surprising discoveries to life-changing realizations, these stories reveal the curiosity, uncertainty, and humanity behind science. Funny, moving, and deeply relatable,
The Story Collider transforms science from something you learn about into something you experience. No lectures. No slides. Just great stories about science and the people behind it.
$20 – $25What’s Your Story? a Student Showcase
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaAfter a six -week workshop, 11 storytellers will take the stage sharing moments from their lives—giving you a glimpse of who each of them are.
Featuring stories from Carsen Cassell, Kate Cohen, Steve Austin, Joy Aziza, Cam Garbutt, Diane Janisse, Kriti Jindal, Glaister Leslie, John Lueck, and Karin Fekko!
$20 – $25Replay Storytelling: Unexpected Moment
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaOur stories, much like us, evolve has we grow. What one story meant years ago, can find a whole new meaning today.
Join us for Unexpected Moments—true stories of tangles, twists, and turns.
Featuring stories from Ronit Rubinstein, Kalpesh Phodkar, Leslie Hetherington, Aditya Tawde, and more!
$20 – $25Is This Yours? by Al Lafrance
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaIs This Yours? Is a tale about seeking out unusual heroes, reconnecting strangers with their past, and the search for meaning in other people’s garbage. It’s a storytelling show that takes us deep into the brain of an optimistic board game inventor, and reveals all the ups and downs of creative life in a capitalist state. Simultaneously, life-altering human interactions experienced by the narrator are weaved throughout, emphasizing the need for human connection.
$20 – $25Funny Stories Only with Listen to This!
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaFinding the humour in every story is what this show is all about. Encouraging storytellers and comedians to step out of their comfort zone and deliver truly funny and entertaining stories in a unique mash-up of styles.
Storytellers will embrace the funnier aspects of their stories, while comedians will present their story in a structure quite different from what they're used to, for a unique showcase of surprising, personal, and hilarious stories.
Featuring stories from Phoebe Taylor, Asaf Gerchak, Pooja Joshi, Jonathan Barrie, Ritisha Laungani, and Carlos from Scarborough!
$20 – $25In Progress: Keith Brown is Magic / Paul Hutcheson is a Nice Guy
Burdock Music Hall 1184 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Ontario
CanadaIn Progress gives you a sneak peek into the makings of a new solo storytelling show, working through process of creation.
Keith Brown explores what lead him to becoming a magician and storyteller, touring shows around the world.
Paul Hutcheson is a Nice Guy. At least thats what he's been told. Find out if it's true in this work-in-progress.
$20 – $25
