Bottle Lamp Tales | Jan Blake | Signature Series

Name: Bottle Lamp Tales | Jan Blake | Signature Series
Start: 2025-10-23T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-23T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Arts Court/Cour des arts

Schedule

Thu Oct 23 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Arts Court/Cour des arts | Ottawa, ON

Bottle Lamp Tales
Teller: Jan Blake
Thursday October 23 at 7:30pm
Arts Court Studio | 2 Daly Ave
Tickets: https://www.ottawastorytellers.ca/jan-blake-bottle-lamp-tales
In Jamaica, at the end of a village bonfire, children were sent home alone after dark, leaving the parents to tell stories by the fire. The children were given bottle lamps, made by stuffing a rag into a bottle filled with kerosene. After an evening of hearing stories about duppies and boo hags, the children’s walk home was filled with terror, as will yours be after this evening of scary stories for adults.
Meet the Teller
Jan Blake is a storyteller, consultant, mentor & plenary speaker who has been performing world-wide since 1986. Born in Manchester, UK to Jamaican parents, Jan specializes in folktales and myths from the Caribbean, West Africa, North Africa, and the Arab regions.
Always innovating within the form she has a well-earned reputation for dynamic and generous storytelling - appearing at most major international storytelling festivals - leads storytelling workshops for schools and universities and has been a contributor to BBC Radio programmes.Career highlights include storyteller in-residence at Hay Festival, the Viljandi International Folk Music Festival in Estonia and TEDx Warsaw & Tedx Manchester.
She has developed relationships with several major organizations, including the National Theatre - where she spent a decade as the Storytelling Consultant - BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Royal Geographical Society; Natural History Museum; Barnardo’s UNHCR; IATEFL and The British Council.In 2011, she was the recipient of the biannual Thüringer Märchen Preis, awarded to scholars or performers who have devoted their lives to the service of storytelling, the first non-German to be awarded the prize.