Thursday, October 22 to Sunday, October 25, 2009
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. Thank you for joining us for our first-ever FOOL!
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, and is delighted to be co-directing, with Lisa Pijuan-Nomura, the first FOOL – festival of oral literatures. 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 doing research on listening with the support of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship (Ontario Arts Council).
Lisa Pijuan-Nomura is a multidisciplinary artist who believes that no matter what media she works with, she is a storyteller. Upcoming events include storytelling as part of Toronto Stories at Theatre Passe Muraille in December. She is also pleased to have her story collages on display in her first solo art show, Sleeping Cats and Other Stories. You can see these at the wonderful Wise Daughters Craft Gallery in the Junction. Lisa is pleased to help others in their creative endeavours as a creativity coach. And of course, she is tickled pink to be co curating the first ever FOOL with Dan. For more info about Lisa and her many happenings, please see www.girlcancreate.com