In-person storytelling at St. David's
Date: Every Friday Night
Time: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Doors open around 7:30 PM
Location: St. David's Anglican Church
49 Donlands Avenue, Toronto
(across from Donlands Station)
Pay what you can: $5 suggested
New storytellers are always welcome.
Every Friday night since 1978, storytellers and
listeners have been gathering in downtown Toronto for
an open evening of oral stories. Each Friday night is
unique, and everyone is welcome to come and listen,
come and tell. On these nights, we come as listeners and as tellers:
we may ramble on, recite, relate, recount, retell, or recollect;
however, we may never, ever read. You might hear
traditional tales, stories of personal experience, literary stories,
original stories, ballads, or episodes from history,
all told through the human voice.
From March 2020 to November 2022, we met each Friday on Zoom. If you enjoyed our online events and cannot attend in-person, please stay in touch by signing up to our mailing list below and we will keep you posted about online special events that we plan to host every quarter. Our next online event will be on Friday, March 29, 2024.
Would you like to join our mailing list? We'll use it only to send you official email from 1001 Friday Nights of Storytelling, and we won't share the list with anyone else. Just click the mailbox picture to the left, which will open a pop-up sign-up form.
For a calendar of our storytelling
hosts and our special evenings,
click here
or click the
calendar image.
This web site is updated by Anna-Lynn Filice on behalf of the 1001 Friday Nights coordinators. The other coordinators are Pat Bisset, Karen Blair, Susan Ida Boucaud, June Brown, Anna Kerz, Laurie Malabar, and
Carol Ribner.
There are two ways to contact us by email.
The hard way is to manually type our email address, shown below. We know that, if you copy that address into your clipboard, it comes out scrambled when you paste it somewhere else. We have cast a magic spell upon it to ward off the creatures from the other world who harvest email addresses for spam.
coordinators@gro.syadirf1001
The easy way is to click this envelope icon
, which will open a pop-up form that lets you send us a note.
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