Winnipeg International Storytelling Festival: Saturday Night Storytelling

Saturday Night Storytelling

First hosted in 2006, the Winnipeg International Storytelling Festival features regional, national, and international storytellers, and encompasses a School Program and Public Events in both English and French.

Saturday Night Storytelling Featuring:

ADAM BOOTH

2022 West Virginia Governor’s Arts Awards Folk Artist of the Year, creator of The Heron’s

Journey

https://www.adam-booth.com/

LEIGH-ANNE KEHLER

Winnipeg-based, internationally acclaimed storyteller, playwright and actor

https://leigh-anne.ca/

SCOTT WHITEHAIR

Producer of This Much is True, one of Chicago’s longest running personal narrative series, creator of Story Lab Chicago

https://www.scottwhitehair.com/

ALSO FEATURING

Additional Local Storytellers in collaboration with Winnipeg Story Slam

https://www.winnipegstoryslam.com/

Recommended for ages 12 years and older.

Saturday, May 2, 2026

7:00 pm – 8:45 pm

Fr. Jensen SJ Theatre (Room 100)

St. Paul’s College (University of Manitoba)

Made possible by the funding support of The Winnipeg Foundation, the Winnipeg School Division, the Blankstein Fund for Storytelling Dialogue (University of Manitoba), the Muslim Legacy Fund, and St. Paul's College Foundation. The French Festival is made possible by a grant from the French Second Language Revitalization Program funded collaboratively by the Province of Manitoba and the Government of Canada.

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