True Stories Told Live Toronto

I sit down with every storyteller in advance and I am PARTICULARLY excited about the line up for this month. Some real smashers in there.

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Union Christmas Market shows, they were so fun! The last one was in the LITERAL snow, so thanks in particular if you were one of the brave souls listening outside that night!

The next show will be Tues Jan 26th. If you want to get a reminder of it in your inbox, join our very infrequent mailing list, here: http://yym.ca/tstslto1.

Happy Holidays and early Jan and we’ll see you then!

True Stories Told Live is coming to Union Station Holiday Market!

Our favourite storytellers will be telling one of their favourite stories around the fire pit, at the Holiday Market currently outside Toronto Union Station.

Fridays, 6.30 – 7pm. Free!

Featuring:

Sage Tyrtle, Zebulon Pike, Chris Graham, Erin Rodgers,
Rick Jones & David Keystone

Hosted by me, Marsha Shandur of Yes Yes Marsha.

Come along and bring your friends, for a toasty, story time!

The Toronto Union Christmas Market takes place on the plaza on Front Street, in front of Union Station. The fire pit is to the right hand side as you’re facing the market.
(Between Bay and York Streets.)

See you there!

Final show of the year! Come and warm your insides with some wonderful stories

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Tues Nov 24th @ The Garrison, Dundas St West @ Ossington Ave.

Doors open 6.45pm, stories start 7.30pm sharp.
(latecomers admitted very quietly)
We’ll finish around 10pm

FREE ENTRY (no tickets required)

Storytellers for this month:
Rebecca Tracey
Breena Beans
David Keystone
Li Ro
Danielle Lemieux

Hosted by Marsha from YesYesMarsha.com

It’s a really lovely night, friendly and warm. There is a 20 minute interval, but quite a few people come on their own with a book or something, so if you fancy doing that, you won’t be the only one.

If you want to come early and grab some food, The Lakeview diner (est 1932) is a few steps away, with the best shakes (I love banana-vanilla) and sweet potato fries in Toronto. Also, The Garrison has tacos. TACOS.

Free entry. You’ll need to get there early to get a good seat (latecomers have to stand at the back).

To join our very infrequent mailing list, go to: http://yym.ca/tstlto1

See you there!

Marsha

Get ready for a teeeeeeeerrrifyyyyyyyyyyyiiiiiiiiing* night of ghost, Hallowe’en and spook-related (mostly) true stories!

After the roaring success of last year, we decided to bring back the wildly popular GHOST Stories Told Live!

This time we have EIGHT storytellers, telling (mostly) true stories about eerie things that happened to or near them (or to one of their relatives). Featuring some of True Stories Told Live’s favourite previous storytellers, and a few new faces.
COSTUME OPTIONAL (which means: I’ll be in one, but you don’t have to).

Facebook event HERE – would be SUPER if you could RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1293647117328504/

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GHOST STORIES TOLD LIVE

Tues Oct 27th @ The Garrison, Dundas St West @ Ossington Ave.

Doors open 6.45pm, stories start 7.30pm sharp.
(latecomers admitted very quietly)

FREE ENTRY (no tickets required)

Spoooooooooky Storytellers for this month:
Nisha Panchal
Meryle Evans
Sage Tyrtle
Rico Rodriguez
Vidhi Gupta
Chris Graham
Laura DiGirolamo
Zebulon Pike

Hosted by me, Marsha from YesYesMarsha.com

Free entry. You’ll need to get there early to get a good seat (latecomers have to stand at the back).

For a reminder of this (and future shows), please join our very infrequent mailing list here: http://yym.ca/tstlto1

Seeeeeee yooooou theeeeeeeeere!

xMarsha

L-R: Christel Bartelse, Joanna Tence, Amish Patel, Brian Finch, Sage Tyrtle, Graham Isador, Marsha Shandur

Thanks so much for coming!

Here are the links from the Sept show. Thanks SO MUCH for everyone who came along – and to our wonderful storytellers and AMAZING Team TSTL.

Christel Bartelse​ (Thailand story) can be found here:
http://christelbartelse.com

Brian Finch​’s AMAZING storytelling show is Dare Storytelling​.
More here: http://www.darestorytelling.com

Sage Tyrtle​’s new storytelling show is here: http://storieswithstakes.com/

Joanna Tence​ has a Facebook page here:https://www.facebook.com/JoannaTence, and a Bandcamp (where you can hear THE ep!!), here: https://joannatence.bandcamp.com

Graham Isador​ runs the WONDERFUL Pressgang Theatre​ and Pressgang show at Handlebar: https://www.facebook.com/pressgangtheatre

Finally, Amish Patel​’s facebook page is Fade to Brown​, his website is http://fadetobrown.com, and the comedy show he mentioned (which is headlined by one of my favourite stand ups, Mark Little​) is Tues Oct 20th at The Drake, here: http://www.thedrakehotel.ca/happenings/2015/10/20/comedy-underground-feat-mark-little-k-trevor-wilso/

Thanks again for coming along! If you’d like to become a CHAIR MASTER, drop me an email to marsha@yesyesmarsha.com

Next show is Tues Oct 27th – GHOST Stories Told Live. Details here soon, or join the infrequent mailing list, here: yym.ca/tstlto1

See you then!

xxMarsh

We’re back!

Facebook event HERE if you’re on FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/484402918406625/484402925073291

It’s still kind of summer!! What a lovely way to spend the end of it, sitting in a cosy crowd, getting the feel the weird juju alchemy of being in a room full of people all getting to have the same experience, through hearing it in a story.

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Tues Sept 22nd @ The Garrison, Dundas St West @ Ossington Ave.

Doors open 6.45pm, stories start 7.30pm sharp.
(latecomers admitted very quietly)
We’ll finish around 10pm

FREE ENTRY (no tickets required)

Storytellers for this month:
Christel Bartelse
Brian Finch
Joanna Tence
Graham Isador
Amish Patel

Hosted by me, Marsha from YesYesMarsha.com

It’s a really lovely night, friendly and warm. There is a 20 minute interval, but quite a few people come on their own with a book or something, so if you fancy doing that, you won’t be the only one.

If you want to come early and grab some food, The Lakeview diner (est 1932) is a few steps away, with the best shakes (I love banana-vanilla) and sweet potato fries in Toronto. Also, The Garrison has tacos. TACOS.

Free entry. You’ll need to get there early to get a good seat (latecomers have to stand at the back).

If you want a reminder about this show (and future ones), join our very infrequent mailing list by clicking on this sentence.

See you there!

Marsha

PS if you’re curious to know what I do the rest of the time (and/or want to know how I pay my rent), want to find out how I can help you craft YOUR amazing story or just want some free advice and email templates, you can learn more about my views on how to tell a compelling story and do networking that’s actually FUN, over at YesYesMarsha.com.

We’re taking a little break for the Summer, but will be back on Tues Sept 22nd.

In the meantime, you can
(a) Check out some of the other AMAZING storytelling shows in Toronto (Sage Tyrtle has a very comprehensive list on her site, here: http://tyrtle.com

and/or

(b) Watch some stories from past shows, in the news feed below, or over on our YouTube channel, here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVohgpFM6u3n__OUAXmPOpQ

If you’d like to get a reminder about the next show, you can join our (pleasantly infrequent) email list, here: http://yym.ca/tstlo.

For those who came along to the June 30th show, here are all the links:

Our musician Joanne Morra can be found at http://www.joannemorra.com, and her residency is 1st Thurs of every month at Gate 403 Bar & Grill in Roncy.

Jen Cook (badass MacGyver biker) is actually an incredible vocal coach, who works both with professionals and people who’ve just always wanted to sing, at: http://www.dirtroadvocalstudio.com

Thanks also to Waleed Kattan, Elliott Allen and Coco Zimmerman!

If you were inspired by my stories of volunteering at the Adult Day Centre at West Toronto Support Services, you can find out more about volunteering here (and please spread the word! We have a lot of outings in summer (WHICH ARE SO CUTE), so need lots of volunteers):
http://wtss.org/volunteer.

The amazing storytellers who did 1.5 min sets are doing Fringe shows, here
Graham Isador (“Happy birthday dear…Customer”)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1589692204651899/

Jon Bennett (tried to put the balls in too/acid in the parson’s tea)
https://www.facebook.com/events/766250106830055/

Sam S. Mullins (show he almost scrapped has been NOMINATED FOR A BLOODY COMEDY AWARD)
https://www.facebook.com/events/813723895376677/

No Lights No Lycra Toronto (dancing in the pitch black) is every Monday evening at Dovercourt House, find out more by joining the group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1374770642847403/.

Have a LOVELY Summer and we’ll see you on the 22nd.

xxyyMarsha

(this last photo by Connie Tsang, from her spectacular Instagram account, that you can find here: @conniemtsang)

Anna Willats talks about the ins and outs of creating a lesbian family, back in the bad old days of the 80’s.

Anna was invited to come and tell a story because she is involved with Groundswell Community Justice Fund. Thanks to all who donated on the night of the show. If you would like to find out more about the incredible, game-changing work that Groundswell does, look here:
http://groundswellfund.ca

Quick reminder that our next show is Tuesday Sept 22nd.

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