FUNDRAISER: ON BEING A 21st CENTURY HOMERIC BARD

NEW DATE: Sunday, April 7, 2024, 2:00 pm | Tickets $20

Join performance storyteller, podcaster, and author Jeff Wright as he shares stories of his bardic journey, from the disastrous first time he stood on the stage and attempted to “sing Homer” through to his current challenge of navigating Homer for contemporary audiences. Part-lecture/part-story, Jeff’s talk will be full of hilarious anecdotes, horror stories, insights gained, and even some provocative questions.

The event will consist of a one-hour presentation by Jeff Wright and thirty minutes of conversation and audience questions. Refreshments will be served.

This fundraiser is a house concert (east end of Ottawa, Beacon Hill). The address will be listed on your ticket purchase confirmation email.

***There are 2 tickets remaining for this performance. Please email Caryn at mad@ottawastorytellers.ca if you are interested.***

About Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright is a live-performance storyteller, a podcaster, and an aspiring author. Jeff’s passion is telling the stories of Achilles, of Odysseus, of Helen of Troy, and of the famous Trojan Horse, in contemporary, conversational language.

Jeff’s two podcasts - Trojan War: The Podcast, and Odyssey: The Podcast - enjoy massive followings, with well over a million global downloads. In January 2020, the Society for Classical Studies awarded Odyssey: The Podcast its prestigious FORUM PRIZE, as the best public-facing contribution to the classics, in any medium, created in the previous year.

Jeff’s live shows have delighted thousands of Ottawa high school students, and thrilled adult audiences as far-flung as Boston, New York City, the Aegean Sea (on a cruise ship), and Oxford, England.

Jeff’s “Leadership Lessons” workshops integrate the joys of Homeric epic, with insights from contemporary behavioral economics and leadership theory: Leadership Lessons from a Bronze Age War, and The Odyssey: A Parable of Failed Leadership.

Jeff is currently on the cusp of publishing his first full-length book, Helen, Some Heroes, and a Horse.