Tell Your Most Important Story: Online Children’s Storytelling Workshop

WHEN: SUNDAYS 10:00-11:15AM, MARCH 27-MAY 1

Can adapt meeting start time to suit the needs of the group.

WHERE: ZOOM

WHO: CHILDREN AGES 8-12

COST: FREE

Registration is closed.

Janet LeRoy and Racquel Sutherland will lead this online, 6-part workshop series for kids ages 8 to 12. Participants will have the opportunity to tell their stories in a safe space and learn to use storytelling as a means of conveying their experiences, values, and culture.

The instructors will: tailor the workshop to the unique skills and needs of participants, help them build skills for success through modelling and constructive feedback, and instil a respect for the power of stories told out loud and shared from the heart.

Goals for child participants include: exploring stories from many cultures, using different techniques to learn a story, enhancing observation skills when listening, providing supportive feedback to other tellers, and developing their own unique way of telling. Participants will build skills and confidence through participation in the Oral Art of Storytelling.

The culmination of the workshop series will be participation in an online storytelling concert. Participants will present tales to their learning circle and invite a friendly audience.

Past participants have expressed that learning the skills of storytelling has:

  • increased their self-confidence,

  • enhanced their skills in public speaking,

  • developed their ability to work as part of a team and also independently,

  • expanded their creative imagination, and

  • provided them with new dramatic skills.

About the Workshop Leader: As co-chair of the Children’s Storytelling Festival, Janet LeRoy co-founded the children’s storytelling workshop in 2016. She believes the art of storytelling empowers children to safely explore and develop their voices. Janet tells in festivals, schools, libraries, community centres, day camps, and tea shops. She leads Story Time at the Wakefield Library. Racquel Sutherland has been an actor, storyteller, dancer, and educator for many years in Jamaica, England, and Canada. Racquel dedicates her life to her two beautiful daughters and is guided by the Marianne Williamson’s quote, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”. Racquel is excited to lead her first Children's Storytelling Workshop with Ottawa StoryTellers.

Help support this free programming by making a donation

Donations are accepted via canadahelps.org or by sending an e-transfer to ostbusiness@ottawastorytellers.ca (no password required). Please add a note with your donation that it is for the Children’s Storytelling Workshop.