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Upcoming Shows

January 27, 2008

Naomi Steinberg hosts a review of the upcoming 2008 Storyfeast www.vancouverstorytelling.org

February 10, 2008

Padma hosts Victoria Oginsky, storyteller

Past Shows

January 20, 2008

Padma hosted Linda Cole, therapist and teacher from West Vancouver

January 13, 2008

Jeannie hosted Fleur Jacobs (www.myspace.com/onefierceflowerstudios)

November 25, 2007

Jeannie Mark interviewed Pam and Beth Southwell about the Violet Femmes project, a CD compilation of women artists from around the world

November 11, 2007

Jeannie Mark hosted

November 4, 2007

Padma hosted Mhenowah Stillwaters Faith

October 28, 2007

Jeannie Mark hosted stories, songs and poems

October 14, 2007

Padma hosted Tawney Darbyshire

October 7, 2007

Guest host Andrea Winterbottom talked with Alexandra Oosterom, festival producer of the North Shore Film Festival about the film fest's gala screening on October 20 at the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver. Only in its second year, this film festival showcases independently produced films in which amateur filmmakers utilize their passion, vision and love for this powerful and influential medium while helping others in need.

September 30, 2007

Jeannie Mark talked with Tara Timmers (Victoria, BC) on empowerment and reducing stigma of people with schizophrenia.

British Columbia Schizophrenia Society

September 23, 2007

Andrea Wilhelm hosted a Canadian Voices production: Lecture given by Vancouver Aboriginal youth activist Melanie Mark in the Vancouver Public Library March 2007

September 16, 2007

Robin McNabb & Padma explored the power of the feminine (rebroadcast from December 3, 2006)

September 9, 2007

Padma hosted

September 2, 2007

Andrea Wilhelm explored storytelling with Fathiya Wais

Audio Documentary "Rose Jetté" in Studio XX Project "Histoires Orales"

August 26, 2007

Robin McNabb shared her experiences at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival 2007

August 19, 2007

Jeannie Mark hosted Sandi Mustard who experienced homelessness at a Vancouver Street Retreat

August 12, 2007

Padma hosted Daune Campbell, actress and director of the Shameless Hussy Theatre Company

August 5, 2007

Padma hosted a show on Sound Healing featuring Swedish folk songs with Ingela Bruke and Sarah MacDougall

July 29, 2007

Robin McNabb hosted

July 22, 2007

Jeannie Mark hosted a show full of stories and music

July 15, 2007

Andrea Winterbottom hosted Bonnie Nish, Director of Pandora's Collective talking about the Summer Dream Literary Arts Festival (formerly known as the Summer Dream Reading Festival) which will be held on Saturday, July 21st at Lumberman's Arch in Stanley Park

July 8, 2007

Padma hosted Beth Martlew

July 1, 2007

Robin McNabb hosted a show with music and spoken word

June 24, 2007

Robin McNabb hosted Vancouver storyteller Naomi Steinberg

June 17, 2007

Jeannie Mark hosted singer Geneviève Chassé, performing at the 18th Vancouver Festival d’été francophone at "They sing and tell stories: a gathering of songs, music and storytelling"

18th Vancouver Francophone Summer Festival

June 10, 2007

Andrea Wilhelm hosted interviews with Shirin Kalyan and Jerilynn Prior from the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research in Vancouver.

Film directed by Giovanna Chesler: Period: The End of Menstruation?

June 3, 2007

Padma hosted Vancouver's all women a capella group The No Shit Shirleys

May 27, 2007

Robin McNabb hosted spoken word pieces on Vancouver's Commercial Drive neighbourhood.

May 20, 2007

Jeannie Mark hosted Vancouver writer Anne Stone about her latest novel Delible

May 13, 2007

Andrea Wilhelm hosted Judy Shanley, co-ordinator of the Outward Bound course Women of Courage and initiator of the Urban Women of Courage program

April 29, 2007

Spring membership drive special

Jeannie Mark hosted UBC Forestry student Lisa Ambus.

British Columbia Community Forest Association www.bccfa.ca

April 22, 2007

Spring membership drive special

Robin McNabb hosted stories of organic gardening by Sharon Slack and a story of seeds by Mandalynn Halldorson.

www.cityfarmer.org

April 1, 2007

Andrea Wilhelm hosted Carol Dale and Louise Hager. They co-owned the Vancouver women's bookstore Women in Print which closed in September 2005.

March 25, 2007

Robin McNabb hosted sound artist Soressa Gardner.

March 18, 2007

Jeannie Mark hosted Corinne Lee who told about her experiences travelling in Borneo and studying Orangutans.

March 11, 2007

Andrea Wilhelm hosted Comfort Adesuwa Ero, Vancouver storyteller originally from Nigeria.

www.sc-cc.com/english/bc.htm#comforte

www.africanstages.com/Boardmembers.html#Comfort_Adesuwa_Ero

February 11, 2007

Andrea Wilhelm and Mandalynn Halldorson hosted a show on stories about SEEDS.

Seeds of Diversity www.seeds.ca

18th Annual Seedy Saturday at VanDusen Botanical Garden

One Seed www.quillsquotesandnotes.com/

February 4, 2007

Padma hosted a show on intuitive storytelling.

January 28, 2007

Robin McNabb hosted local storyteller Kira Van Deusen.

Kira performed at the 2007 Vancouver International Storytelling Festival in February: www.vancouverstorytelling.org/festival2007

January 21, 2007

Andrea Wilhelm hosted Nan Gregory, storyteller and writer in Vancouver.

Nan told us two amazing stories: the Icelandic tale "The Girl at the Sheiling" and the Chinese tale "The Ugly Fox Fairy".

Nan will be performing on the upcoming Vancouver International Storytelling Festival between February 2nd and 4th: www.vancouverstorytelling.org/festival2007

December 31, 2006

New Year's Eve with Robin McNabb

December 24, 2006

Christmas Eve special produced by Andrea Wilhelm

December 17, 2006

Jeannie Mark hosted writer and performance artist Amber Dawn (Tralala).

www.arsenalpulp.com

www.sexworkersartshow.com

December 10, 2006

Andrea Wilhelm hosted Isabella Kessel.

Isabella Kessel is home in two countries - Canada and Germany. She works in environmental management and arts management. Currently she manages Vancouver-based singer/songwriter Kate Reid and works as volunteer coordinator for the Vancouver International Storytelling Festival. Isabella is looking forward to getting involved in the the festival circuit in Vancouver - music, film and stories.

www.katereid.net
www.myspace.com/katereidacoustic
www.vancouverstorytelling.org

December 3, 2006

Robin McNabb & Padma explore the power of the feminine

Padma is a poet, storyteller, spiritual counsellor and now a member of The Storytelling Show collective.
www.beautytruth.org

November 26, 2006

Andrea Wilhelm hosted Geni Manuel, Program Manager of CHOICES, a unique project by the Helping Spirit Lodge in Vancouver designed to increase the employability of Aboriginal women survivors of abuse.

http://www.helpingspiritlodge.org/programs/choices.htm

 

November 19, 2006

Jeannie Mark hosted independent recording artist/songwriter/performer Marianne Baker. She plays piano, guitar and flute in addition to singing, rapping, and financing the work. Her last record, Twenty Minutes To Live, is available on iTunes worldwide.

http://www.myspace.com/maribmusic

November 12, 2006

Jeannie Mark hosted local author Cathleen With about her book Skids

November 5, 2006

Andrea Wilhelm hosted Maple Ridge mother-daughter singer/songwriter duo Pam and Beth Southwell - Two Tall Women

www.twotallwomen.ca

www.sonicbids.com/twotallwomenbethsouthwell

www.myspace.com/twotallwomen

October 29, 2006

Jeannie Mark hosted author Tanya Chapman.

Tanya Chapman is a graduate of the UBC creative writing program. Her short story, "Spring the Chick," won This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt. She has had two short films produced and her first book, King, will be released by Coach House books in fall 2006. Tanya has a history of being a bit of a rock chick but continues to fail miserably at karaoke

October 15, 2006

Robin McNabb hosted Tamara Gorrin and
Orrin Hargreave from The Writer's Studio, talking about their participation in this year's Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival.

October 8, 2006

Andrea Wilhelm hosted artist, storyteller, teacher and activist Helen Mintz (www.helenmintz.net).

Her ground breaking work moves seamlessly between past and present, between deep truth and uproarious comedy, bridging oral storytelling and contemporary solo performance. Helen shares inspiring tales of individual and social healing. She shines light into darkness and leaves her audience with a renewed feeling of hope and possibility.

October 1, 2006

Robin McNabb hosted children's storyteller Patty Bailey.

Patty Bailey has been telling stories for more than 30 years in elementary schools, ECE centres, and recreation programs. She has performed throughout B.C. at festivals including Vancouver International Children’s Festival, The Word on the Street, Billy Barker Days in Quesnel, in schools, libraries, and for special events and community service groups. She has been writing children’s stories since 1986, recorded two CDs, and written Readers’ Theatre scripts in English and French.

www.pattybaileystoryteller.com

September 17, 2006

Robin McNabb hosted a show about The Word On The Street with guest Elise Partridge.

Elise Partridge (Vancouver)
Fielder’s Choice
Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and filled with rich evocations of childhood, travel and landscape, this debut collection delivers fresh and strikingly elegiac poems that grapple with their subjects without sentimentality. Partridge is an editor and tutor whose work has appeared in Canadian, American and Irish journals. She will read “Three Women, Nursing Home, Medical Wing.” (Vehicule Press)
Adopted by Mark Milner.

September 10, 2006

Robin McNabb hosted Marni Norwich.

Marni Norwich, a Vancouver-based writer has written on issues of social justice, health, and women. Her writing has been published in the Globe and Mail, the Georgia Straight, Massage, and Herizons magazines, among other publications. Her poetry, prose and short fiction have been published by Room of One’s Own, Insomniac Press, and the White Wall Review with upcoming poems in We’Moon ‘07. She’s been the recipient of Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council grants for fiction and non-fiction, and has written theatre for the Fringe of Toronto Festival.

September 3, 2006

Host Andrea Winterbottom read two of the winning stories from the North Shore Writers Association's 11th Annual Writing Contest
2nd place winner in the fiction category, "Now You See It, Now You Don't" by Bente Nielsen and 2nd place winner in the non-fiction category "The Big Sex Talk" by Jan Redford with music from "Girrls with Guitars" and Brenda Brink.

August 27, 2006

Andrea Wilhelm hosted a collection of stories and songs.

August 20, 2006

Robin McNabb hosted poet, storyteller and spiritual counsellor Padma

August 13, 2006

Andrea Wilhelm hosted Vancouver writer, personal historian, and broadcaster Vera Rosenbluth, author of "Keeping Family Stories Alive: Discovering and Recording the Stories and Reflections of a Lifetime".

Association of Personal Historians: www.personalhistorians.org

The Word on the Street: www.thewordonthestreet.ca

July 23, 2006

Host Andrea Winterbottom and local writer Leanne Padgett reviewed the Summer Dream Festival

July 2, 2006

Andrea Wilhelm hosted Vancouver actress Shana Orlowsky.

Vancouver Playback Theatre: www.westcoastplayback.org

Headlines Theatre: www.headlinestheatre.com
and "Meth, A Province-wide Addiction Prevention Project": www.headlinestheatre.com/Meth/index.htm

Vancouver Theatre Sports League: www.vtsl.com
Urban Improv: www.urbanimprov.ca/urbanwell.htm

Vancouver Actor's Guide: www.vancouveractorsguide.com
Audition List provided by the Vancouver Public Library: www.vpl.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/lit/auditionlist.html
Professional Theatre Training, Studio 58: www.langara.bc.ca/studio58

June 11, 2006

Andrea Wilhelm hosted a show about migration to and from Germany.

German-Turkish writer Emine Sevgi Özdamar (short story "Mother Tongue")
Guest: Cordula Abston

June 4, 2006

Robin McNabb hosted a show on First Weekend Club.


May 21, 2006

Andrea Wilhelm hosted singer/songwriter Deborah Ledon

"We all know there is no rule book for life. Yet, if we slow down a little, take the time to know ourselves well and use that wisdom in a positive way, we can revel in the opportunity to make our own rules as we go. That can make for a journey worth taking.

In the case of Deborah Ledon, a Cuban-born Canadian who revels in making her own rules, the spiritual and musical journey began in Havana and has led, with a few character-building detours along the way, to Vancouver, British Columbia."

May 14, 2006

Andrea Winterbottom hosted Mothers Days stories with the Bolts of Fiction, Story Slam Crew

April 30, 2006

Andrea Wilhelm hosted Manuela Moeller, Public Health Scientist (HIV/Aids and Injecting Drug Use) at the World Health Organization (WHO) and German outreach contact for Coda International.

April 16, 2006

Robin McNabb and Andrea Winterbottom hosted

Eve Ensler's first triumph, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, ignited a movement that has exploded into a global phenomenon. Now she's back, with a show both uproarious and insightful. In THE GOOD BODY, Eve takes an inside look at the outside, exploring the cultures of beauty, food and desire through the eyes of women around the world. After a critically acclaimed run on Broadway, she's bringing this provocative, hilarious and profoundly moving performance to Vancouver.

April 9, 2006

Andrea Wilhelm hosted a show about Codas, hearing children of deaf parents. www.coda-international.org

Coda stories: Tom Bull's request for manuscripts

Coda storytellers: Arlene Malinowski, Sherry Hicks and Michael Velez

Movie "Beyond Silence"

March 19, 2006

Robin McNabb hosted a show on Ani Difranco

March 12, 2006

 

Andrea Winterbottom hosted storyteller Ivan E. Coyote about Ivan's new book "Loose End".

February 19, 2006

Andrea Winterbottom hosted hosting members of the North Shore Writer's Association

January 22, 2006

Andrea Winterbottom hosted the Bolts of Fiction, Story Slam Crew

January 15, 2006

Robin McNabb hosted local Singer/Songwriter Kate Reid

January 8, 2006

Robin McNabb explored New Years Resolutions with stories, songs and spoken word

January 1, 2006

Robin McNabb hosted four stories from the CD How Music Came To The World & Other Stories

December 18, 2005

Robin McNabb hosted interviews and music with female folk trio SONiA - Disappear Fear

December 11, 2005

Guest Host Kristiana Clemens hosts interviews from a fundraising event for PACE

November 27, 2005

Andrea Winterbottom interviewed Ontario writer Bonnie Laing on her debut novel "River Reel".

November 20, 2005

Andrea Winterbottom explores Women's Bookclubs

November 6, 2005

Joanne Willette explored storytelling with the Playback theatre group

October 30, 2005

Robin McNabb hosted storytellers from The 14th Vancouver International Storytelling Festival including; Melanie Ray, Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Betty Krawczyk & Administrative Director, Lenord Stanga

Priscillia Tait hosted interviews from The Shadows Project - The Heart of the City Festival

October 17, 2005

Robin McNabb hosts a Fall Drive Special. Highlights from past guests and a new interview with Melissa Ferrick

September 25/05

Robin McNabb explores "Free To Be You And Me" an album of children's stories

September 18/05

Ingrid Rose hosted 2 women who devote their lives to telling stories in unique ways.

September 11/05

Joanne Willette and Andrea Winterbottom co-hosted Peggy Trendell-Jensen, a writer who founded the North Shore Writers Association in 1993 and launched The Young Writers Club in 2005 and in between was a feature columnist for the North Shore News. Peggy regularly contributes to quilting and parenting magazines and offers her services for all your communications projects on her website at: www.liveandlearn.ca

August 28/05

Guest host, Priscillia interviewed the women from the CHOICES Program

August 21/05

Andrea Winterbottom interviewed Para-Equestrian rider Lauren Barwick and her trainer, Sandra Verda about their trials and accomplishments on Lauren's quest in "Riding for Gold".

July 31/05

Lisa Martin hosted an evening of Bisexual Women's
Stories in honour of Pride Weekend.

July 10/05

Robin McNabb hosted a special on the Vancouver Folk Music Festival *Ticket Give-Aways*

July 4/05

Joanne Willette and Emily Falk hosted Chrystalene Buhler talking about the West Coast Poetry Festival

June 26/05

Robin McNabb hosted Danika Dinsmore, an award-winning writer, performer, and educator.

June 12/05

Ingrid Rose hosts "Woman At Sea" stories from Sylvia Taylor, who will also be talking about risk-taking & unconventional roles

May 29/05

- Exploring Erotica -
Robin McNabb and Lisa Martin hosted local writers Elaine Miller and River Light.

May 15/05

Ingrid Rose with guest host & storyteller Helen Mintz interviewing Kira Van Deusen about Siberian and Inuit storytelling

May 8/05

Join us to celebrate the second anniversary of the Storytelling Show, also to honour all mothers, but the births we’re telling stories about will be of novels. Listen to Caroline Adderson, Morgan Chojnacki, Anna Nobile share with Ingrid Rose how their novels came to be

April 10/05

Anna Nobile hosted author of Saltwater Women, Vickie Jensen. Saltwater Women is a compilation of true stories of women who work on the sea--as commercial fishers, on freighters, for the Coast Guard, etc.

April 3/05

Joanne Willette hosted award winning poet Laura Moran

March 27/05

Robin McNabb has a conversation with Dr. Gerda Wever-Rabehl, author of Inside the Parrot Cage

March 20/05

Anna Nobile and Emily Falk looked at stories about female condoms.

March 13/05

Joanne Willette hosted the Playback theatre group

March 6/05

Ingrid Rose hosted The Plums, a group of 4 writing companions who are full of stories. Music by Sarah Cheevers

February 27/05

Joanne Willette hosted published poet Angela J. Gray.

February 20/05

Robin McNabb hosted an interview with Paula Todd, author of A QUIET COURAGE: Inspiring Stories From All Of Us www.aquietcourage.com

February 13/05

Robin McNabb hosted with Emily Falk and her interviews and stories about women's sexual health. Websites mentioned: Planet Ahead, Options for Sexual Health, Sexuality and U

February 6/05

Mosa hosted a spin show with emphasis on indigenous stories

January 30/05

Robin McNabb explored women's storytelling in local theatre including interviews from Alex Dallas - Drama Queen & Carmen Aguirre - The Trigger

January 23/05

Joanne Willette hosted with songs and stories

January 16/05

Rebroadcast of Sept. 26/04 show - Anna Nobile hosted science fiction and fantasy writers Lisa Smedman and Alyx Dellamonica.

January 9/05

Ingrid Rose ruminating on women & the earth. Ingrid will be reading a story told by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

December 26/04

Robin McNabb hosts with interviews with Emily Pohl-Weary, author of A Girl Like Sugar, as well as from the Jewish Book Festival, including Lynne Kositsky and Seymour Mayne

December 19/04

Anna Nobile hosted stories from Cool To Be Kind; The Kindness Crew is made up of four professional speakers who specialize in injecting kindness and compassion into schools and the workplace.

December 12/04

Ingrid Rose hosted Bonnie Nish & Sita Carboni, writers & founders of Pandoras Collective an exciting arts initiative expect a box of wonderful words & stories.

December 5/04

Mosa hosted a show of youth stories. Guests from Purple Thistle and Youth Artist Kollective

November 28/04

Ingrid Rose hosted 2 writers; Roma Dehr and Alana Montgomerie.

November 21/04

Joanne Willette and Robin McNabb had interviews from the Jewish Book Festival and The Vancouver International Storytelling Festival

November 14/04

Robin McNabb hosted Kathryn E. Shoemaker, illustrator of A Telling Time (Tradewind Books, 2004), written by Irene N. Watts

November 7/04

Morgan Chojnacki hosts; The journeys of three writers, (Kate Bird, Clare Coughlan, and Barb Small) and the production of the anthology Emerge: The Writer's Studio Anthology 2004 that holds some of their stories

October 17/04

Laura Quilici hosted writers from the Anthology, Mamma Mia! Good Italian Girls Talk Back

October 10/04

Morgan Chojnacki hosted Milieu Press, a new Vancouver-based publishing company that is launching its first book, an anthology, on October 19th

October 3/04

Robin McNabb hosted - Coastal Tongue: Women in Spoken Word in Vancouver with guest Laurie Bricker

September 26/04

Anna Nobile hosted science fiction and fantasy writers Lisa Smedman and Alyx Dellamonica.

September 19/04

Joanne Willette hosted 4 memebers of the "Women's Word Writers Group" on which featured the writing of T.F Daniels, will be reading from her book 101 Ways To Avoid Intimacy at the word on the street festival on sunday. Marie Ingram, Hanna Beneveniste and Karen Johnson.

September 12/04

Robin McNabb hosts Lori Henry, publisher of Beauty Magazine, a monthly publication for youth

August 29/04

Joanne Willette hosted hitchhiking stories with guest Angela Crockett.

August 22/04

Laura Quilici featured storytellers participating in kickstART2 -"Extrodinary Lives, Extrodinary Art", a festival celebrating an international culture of disability arts taking place at the Roundhouse Sept. 16-19. Guests included David Roache, Kim Seary, and Karin Watson. Music by Norbury and Finch, Jayne Dinsmore, and Soundscape by Sylvie MacCormac

August 15/04

Robin McNabb hosted a show on Fairy Tales for adults

August 8/04

Robin McNabb hosted a show on Out On Screen. Guests included Miss Cookie Lawhore & Kai Ling Xue

August 1/04

Ingrid Rose hosts "Stories That Burn" with writers Christy Hill and Debbra Mikaelsen

July 25/04

Joanne Willette hosted published poet Angela J. Gray.

July 18/04

Robin McNabb hosted local writer Melinda Johnston

July 11/04

Robin McNabb hosted a show on the women of the Folk Music Festival, congratulations to Gary Musil for winning the draw for 2 Friday night passes to the Folk Music Festival

July 4/04

Joanne Willette hosted storyteller Gretchen (email Gretchen)

June 27/04

Ingrid Rose and Joanne Willette hosted

June 20/04

Robin McNabb hosts Stephan Wehner, Karen I. Stanley and Andrea Schmidt from Traffic Life. Featuring music by local artist Rogr Lee. Other mentioned links include: B.E.S.T., Pedal Power, Red Sara, Critical Mass

June 13/04

Robin and Mosa hosted Spoken Word and songs of women's empowerment with several pieces by Alix Olson

June 6/04

*Anna Nobile - A special one-year anniversary show*

May 30/04

Ingrid Rose hosted with two authors

May 23/04

Robin McNabb hosted stories and songs in honour of Asian Heritage Month

Read "Scavenger Woman" from "The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices" by Xinran Xue

Songs from Matsuri, a collected of works by Japanese Canadian musicians and composers put together by the Powell Street Festival

May 16/04

Robin McNabb hosted Heather Birrell from Toronto who is in town reading from her new collection of short stories, "I know you are but what am I?", at the RAW Exchange reading series.

May 9, 2004

Ingrid Rose hosted Kira Van Deusen who told parts of a Tuvan story called Woman of Steel appropriate for mother's day, it's a story of a heroic woman and her deeds

 

 

 

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