Saints, Sinners & Tricksters Evening Event
March 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
A Celebration of International Storytelling Day
(Hybrid event = in person and online, preregistration required)
Join us for sweet & savoury stories for International Storytelling Day! Come out and celebrate – stories build bridges and change lives! Appropriate for children 14 and up plus adults to 105! Story themed nibblies and steamy beverages served! Bring your own stories for the tellers’ bonfire at Sky Story B & B afterward.
Location: Sky Story Studio, 103 1st Avenue, Val Marie, SK
Follow-up bonfire at Sky Story B & B, 305 1st Avenue
$20 cash at the door OR $15 online
Etransfer to admin@skystory.ca
Featured Storytellers
Madonna Hamel is a writer-performer based in Val Marie, SK. She has traveled North America with her one-woman shows. She won columnist of the year for her weekly column Pop89, New York’s Best Radio award for her CBC Radio documentary on Lhasa de Sela and first place in Prairie Fire’s CNF contest. She is also a regular contributor to the likes of The Globe & Mail, Saskbooks, and Freelance magazine. She holds an annual summer workshop for young writers and has been facilitating workshops for years.
Kevin ‘POETIK’ Wesaquate is the founder of the Indigenous Poetry Society. A multi-disciplinary Indigenous arts leader, he works remotely from his home studio as a ‘Virtual Artist Teacher’ for Northern communities for the Taking IT Global, Connected North Program. Kevin has represented Saskatoon at the Canadian Individual Slam in Vancouver and has participated in the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW). From Piapot First Nation, Kevin learned the value of a community – sahkihitok (love one another)
Joseph Naytowhow is an award winning Plains/Woodland Cree (nehiyaw) singer/songwriter, master storyteller and voice, stage and film actor from pakitahwâkan-sâkahikan Sturgeon Lake First Nation. He is renowned for his unique style of Cree/English storytelling, combined with original contemporary music and traditional drum and rattle songs. He currently serves as Cultural Advisor for the University of Saskatchewan College of Law.
