May’s Story Café
Monday, May 13, 7:00 pm ET | Elaine O’Reilly and Anne Schmitz with A Bit of This and a Bit of That.
Join us for Story Café at The Hollander Gastropub, located at 65 Holland Ave.
Story Café is a Pay-What-You-Can event, and donations are accepted in person, via canadahelps.org, or by sending an e-transfer to ostbusiness@ottawastorytellers.ca. Suggested donation: $5.
About this month’s storytellers:
Elaine O’Reilly has been a member of Ottawa Storytellers for 13 years. She enjoys telling to both adults and children and even teens. Elaine has worked on many initiatives to support other tellers behind the scenes, and on the Ottawa Children’s Storytelling Festival. She tells at community centres, seniors’ residences, museums, and schools when such venues are available. She loves to distill entire histories and biographies into engaging tales and also tells literary and personal stories.
Anne Schmitz thought that she was a writer and that the world is a story, but could not quite feel the story live in her pages. In 2011 she joined Ottawa Storytellers and found that pages are not necessary. Anne supposes that stories are how humans learn and shape our world with both good and ill will. In her telling, sometimes she uses the ingredients of her varied life experiences or her family’s history; sometimes, she likes to make word pictures of the oldest of tales. Anne works to ignite in others her love of the spoken.
About Story Café
Join us for an evening of storytelling featuring Members of Ottawa StoryTellers at Story Café on the 2nd Monday of the month at 7:00pm at The Hollander (65 Holland Ave. in Ottawa).
Story Café is a Pay-What-You-Can event, and donations are accepted in person, via canadahelps.org, or by sending an e-transfer to ostbusiness@ottawastorytellers.ca. Suggested donation: $5.
Story Café is coordinated and hosted by Anne Schmitz.
Upcoming Story Café performances
Monday, June 10 | Susan Ida Boucaud with Beyond Green Gables Stories of love and belonging by Lucy Maud Montgomery
We are seeking storytellers for our 2024-2025 Story Café season
If you are interested in putting together an hour of storytelling, either by yourself or with a partner, send us the following details of your show:
1) The name and email address of each teller.
2) At least two preferred dates (Story Café runs from September to June)*
3) The theme of your evening, a title, and a tagline (for promotional purposes).
4) Confirmation of a paid OST Membership.
*NOTE: Story Café occurs on the second Monday of the month. With Thanksgiving and Remembrance Day falling on that day, OST will work with the storytellers to move the date to either the week earlier or later.
Please send your proposal and any questions to the current Program Coordinator and Host, Anne Schmitz, by email at annemuryo@gmail.com