Workshop: Queering Your Story: telling 2SLGBTQIA+ stories, with Queers in Your Ears

Learning how to craft and shape a story can be a transformative experience. For people who feel marginalized or oppressed, sharing stories is a way to be heard and listened to, feeling valued for who we are or who we have become. Queers in Your Ears knows from our work over almost three decades as storytellers that as members of the LGBTQ2S+ community, we need to find ways to share how we see our lives and place in the world.

Workshop: Story and Structure, with Paul Aflalo

In this workshop, Replay's Artistic Director, Paul Aflalo will teach you how to structure and edit your stories and turn them into vibrant, compelling narratives that keeps your audience on the edge of the seats, wanting and needing to know what happens next!

Workshop: Creating Your First Storytelling Show, with Christel Bartelse

Creating your first storytelling solo show is a big task, and in this workshop you’ll gain invaluable insights into how to start shaping your ideas into a compelling solo performance. This workshop offers hands-on guidance and discussion, on the creative process, producing your own work, and preparing it for performance and touring.

Workshop: Improv in Storytelling, with Paul Hutcheson

In this workshop you'll explore how improvisation can support the storytelling process, helping you think on your feet, stay present, and respond more intuitively to your audience. You’ll learn how to embrace uncertainty, take creative risks, and trust your instincts, all within a supportive and welcoming environment.

Between Us, with Christel Bartelse and Joanne O’Sullivan

What happens when two veteran storytellers who barely knew each other keep getting invited onto the same stages, and keep telling eerily similar stories from their lives?

What began as a bit of side-eye and a quiet “who is that, anyway?” has evolved into a shared story told between them.

Between Us brings together two seasoned storytellers and queens of the solo show who, after developing a friendship over the years, compare notes on womanhood, fertility struggles, loss, and life’s adventures. Sometimes they agree. Sometimes they don’t.

It’s funny, honest, and just a little bit scrappy—in the best way.

Workshop: Arts Intertwined with Storytelling, with Anto Chan

In this workshop, InnerGenerational's Anto Chan, will support you in bringing more of your true self to the stage by weaving together your unique talents with the art of storytelling. Participants will explore how different performance styles such as spoken word, music stand up comedy, movement, or other creative expressions, can intertwine with personal narrative to create compelling and authentic stage pieces.

Spontaneous True Tales

Five storytellers, each with a wealth of experience in improv, take the stage to share true, personal tales—completely unprepared and off the cuff. What could go wrong?

Featuring performances from Chantal Lim, Sachin Sharma, Marcel St. Pierre, and more!

The Perp, The Victim, and The Witness by Zebulon Pike

It's almost certain that many of Zebulon Pike's teachers thought his life would be full of interactions with the police. As a misunderstood child, Zebulon very early on embraced the life of a scofflaw. Not an outright criminal, but someone who never felt the rules applied to him. His teachers were right, but not in any way they imagined, or could have prepared him for. The Perp, the Victim and the Witness is a show about how the rules of society will alter your life whether you want to have anything to do with them or not.