StorySave is a program of Storytellers of Canada/ Conteurs du Canada (SC-CC) dedicated to identifying and recording Canadian storytellers chosen for their artistic excellence and particular repertoire. This year our own Alice Kane has been selected. Some of Alice’s best pre-recorded stories will be transferred to CDs, and widely distributed. To help offset some of the costs of such an enterprise, house concerts have been arranged. The proceeds will go to SC-CC: the Alice Kane project. If you would like to support this project by attending one or more of the concerts, please consider the following list and contact the host.
All contributors are eligible for a charitable tax receipt upon request.
House Concerts: Venues and dates in support of the Alice Kane StorySave Project:
Mariella Bertelli, Mary Anne Cree, Theo Heras and Harriet Mulder present a special performance of Toy Theatre in the old tradition. A Toy Theatre is a Miniature Theatre dating back to the 1800s in Europe. Toy Theatres were performed for family members and guests.
Toy Theatre - A Story from Boccaccio's The Decameron
with musical accompaniment by Cary Fagan
Sunday, February 7
Time: 3 p.m. Toy Theatre and Author Reading, Martha Baillie reading from her novel “The Incident Report”
Alice Kane had a rhyme, a saying or a riddle for every occasion. Her book, Songs and Sayings of an Ulster Childhood, recounts her experience of growing up amid family members to whom these bits of lore were as natural as breathing. Kathleen Bailey and Celia Lottridge will share with you some of Alice's favourites and will invite you to share your own. Rhymes for babies, skipping rhymes, vaudeville fragments, risqué riddles, all are welcome.
Sunday, February 28th
Time: 2 – 4 pm
Suggested donation: $20
284 Bloor Street West (enter from St George Street via laneway opposite the St George subway station)
Refreshments will be served.
A copy of Songs and Sayings of an Ulster Childhood will be raffled off.
In Alice’s footsteps: an entertaining evening with memories of Alice,
Stories and music.
Co-hosted by Mary Anne Cree and Dan Yashinsky with Debora Attack, Kathleen Bailey, Martha Baillie, Mariella Bertelli, Jeffrey Canton, chris cavanagh, Rita Cox, Eithne Heffernan,Theo Heras, Thomas Krzyanowski, Jennifer Schmitt, Joanne Schott, Martha Scott.
Wednesday, April 7
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Suggested Donation: $15
North York Central Library, Auditorium
Glenna Janzen, Carol Leigh Wehking, and Mary-Eileen McClear present:
Alice and the Sword of Power,
a celebration on the 102nd anniversary of Alice's birth with songs, sayings and stories
Sunday, April 18
Time: 2:30 p.m.
$10 (donation creel available for further donations)
The Story Barn, 89 Snyders Road West, Baden
Reservations only
Contact Mary-Eileen McClear for tickets 519-634-8973 or
StorySave is a program of Storytellers of Canada/ Conteurs du Canada (SC-CC) dedicated to identifying and recording Canadian storytellers chosen for their artistic excellence and particular repertoire. This year our own Alice Kane has been selected. Some of Alice’s best pre-recorded stories will be transferred to CDs, and widely distributed. To help offset some of the costs of such an enterprise, house concerts have been arranged. The proceeds will go to SC-CC: the Alice Kane project. If you would like to support this project by attending one or more of the concerts, please consider the following list and contact the host.