The 6-Minute Memoir: Women Talking

Stories of hope and heartbreak, reinvention and resilience.

Featured storytellers are:

• Kanien'kehá:ka and Scottish storyteller Madeline Wilson Shaw, president and executive producer of Indian & Cowboy Creative Media
• Governor General's Literary Award finalist and a Toronto Book Award finalist Sheila Murray (“Finding Edward”)
• Journalist and editor and sailor Julie Charles, who enjoys fishing for both mahi-mahi and story ideas
• Award-winning photographer Debra Friedman, who has just completed her memoir, Second Coming: Sex, Love, Loss and Longing at 70
• Actor, singer, playwright and producer Tricia Williams, a founding member of the Obsidian Theatre Company, Canada’s leading culturally diverse theatre company
• Queer award-winning author (“The Call is Coming From Inside the House”) and Modern Love essayist Allyson McOuat
• Award-winning playwright, actor, songwriter/lyricist, and arts facilitator, Lisa Randall, whose recent solo show Sister Sophia Kicks the Habit named one of “10 shows not to miss” in the Hamilton Fringe
• Owner of Hamilton’s De La Sol Yoga Studio, Katie McClelland shares her story of addiction and recovery at schools and conferences
• Hamilton-based artist, writer, human rights advocate, and founder and executive director of the Sex Workers’ Action Program Hamilton, Scarlett Gillespie is running for mayor of Hamilton in this year’s municipal election
• Retired nurse Terry Beninger, who enjoys the lively rhythm of her tap shoes, the pull of travel and the comfort of well-worn books and, most recently, experimenting with writing the stories of her life

Hosted by writer & memoir coach Anne Bokma.