FOOL - Festival of Oral Literatures : About

Thursday – Sunday, Oct. 27 – 30, 2011
(and warm-up series: FOOL at the Free Times, Oct. 6, 13, 20)

FOOL – festival of oral literatures is a place where listeners and performers can explore the art of making mind-movies with voice, music, body, and story. We believe storytelling is an ancient and an avant-garde art, with branches in dance, puppetry, spoken word, dub, recitation, hip hop, and theatre. Intimate and direct, the storyteller conjures reverie by giving voice to our collective dreads, dilemmas, and dreams. FOOL is a series of intimate gatherings where artists and tradition-keepers rediscover how to tell new stories for our times.

About the founders

Dan Yashinsky is a storyteller and the author of Suddenly They Heard Footsteps – Storytelling for the Twenty-first Century. He founded the Toronto Festival of Storytelling. He has performed and taught at festivals around the world. In l999 he received the Jane Jacobs Prize for his work with storytelling in the community. He is currently the storyteller-in-residence at The Stop Community Food Centre.

Lisa Pijuan-Nomura is a multidisciplinary artist who believes that no matter what media she works with, she is a storyteller. Lisa is pleased to help others in their creative endeavours as a creativity coach. Lisa is taking a break from FOOL directing in 2011 to focus on her visual arts career. For more info about Lisa and her many happenings, please see www.girlcancreate.com


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	Thursday – Sunday, Oct. 27 – 30, 2011 (and warm-up series: FOOL at the Free Times, Oct. 6, 13, 20) FOOL – festival of oral literatures is a place where listeners and performers can explore the art of making mind-movies with voice, music, body, and story. We believe storytelling is an ancient and an avant-garde art, with branches in dance, puppetry, spoken word, dub, recitation, hip hop, and theatre. Intimate and direct, the storyteller conjures reverie by giving voice to our collective dreads, dilemmas, and dreams. FOOL is a series of intimate gatherings where artists and tradition-keepers rediscover how to tell new stories for our times. About the founders Dan Yashinsky is a storyteller and the author of Suddenly They Heard Footsteps – Storytelling for the Twenty-first Century. He founded the Toronto Festival of Storytelling. He has performed and taught at festivals around the world. In l999 he received the Jane Jacobs Prize for his work with storytelling in the community. He is currently the storyteller-in-residence at The Stop Community Food Centre. Lisa Pijuan-Nomura is a multidisciplinary artist who believes that no matter what media she works with, she is a storyteller. Lisa is pleased to help others in their creative endeavours as a creativity coach. Lisa is taking a break from FOOL directing in 2011 to focus on her visual arts career. For more info about Lisa and her many happenings, please see www.girlcancreate.com