WTF! Dan MacKinnon!

Our next WTF! falls on Friday, December 13th so if you are superstitious... you might want to consider sharing a superstition or two; or a song or story about luck, good OR bad.

As for good luck... we are delighted to announce that DAN MCKINNON will be guest hosting the evening. As Dan will be heading off in early January for a two month UK tour, this will be one of your last opportunities to see him, especially as "up close & personal" as we are at Chebucto Coffee :)

I would like to suggest that you bring songs & stories that you feel would contribute to a most memorable send off for Dan. Please don't limit your choices to sweet sentimentality though. Dan would likely prefer to remember us as we really are :)

Margo

WTF! is an artistic outreach program of the Helen Creighton Folklore Society. We meet every second and fourth Friday of the month at CHEBUCTO COFFEE, 6430 Chebucto Road, corner of Chebucto & Kline in Halifax where Mike's extraordinary culinary fare is approaching legendary status. Come early for a bite and stay for the entertainment which starts around 7:00 and goes until 9:00ish. As always... admission is by free-will donation towards the Society's work.

Normal or abnormal hosts: Cindy Campbell Stone and Margo Carruthers of the Helen Creighton Folklore Society: www.helencreighton.org

Storytelling Tell Around!

The Storytellers Circle of Halifax invites you to listen or tell a tale at a gathering on Thursday, October 10th.

Where: Chebucto Coffee, 6430 Chebucto Road, Halifax
Time: 7pm

Come early and get some yummy snacks and a refreshment before the stories start!

Celebrating the oral storytelling tradition by sharing stories face to face.

WTF! Gets Mooned!

Hi everyone,

 

I hope that you all had a glorious lazy summer and are now rested and ready to get back to our Friday frolics at Chebucto Coffee. Our first session of this new season will begin on Friday, September 27th to correspond with the first day of Culture Days. Over the weekend, The Helen Creighton Folklore Society will be offering the following presentations at the Alderney Gate Branch of the HRM Regional Library.

 

Saturday, September 28, 2:30pm - Folk Music of the Maritimes

Kate Dunlay and Margo Carruthers will examine the Creighton collection and others through examples of traditional music styles and folksongs.

 

Sunday, September 29, 2:30pm - Folklore of the Maritimes

Clary Croft will examine the collection of his late mentor - Dr. Helen Creighton - through examples of stories, beliefs and songs.

 

Monday, September 30, 7:00pm - Folktales & Storysongs of the Maritimes

Cindy Campbell Stone will examine the Creighton collection through examples of stories, storysongs and ballads.

 

There was a new moon on September 5th which would have been Helen Creighton's 114th Birthday. So... in honour of Culture Days and Canada's First Lady of Folklore's undisputed place in preserving our culture, WTF! invites you to celebrate this New Moon Month and New Season of WTF! by sharing your "New" songs or tales or "Moon" songs or tales.

 

 Be the first on your block to "moon" What the Folk!

 

Xo Margo

 

WTF! is an artistic outreach program of the Helen Creighton Folklore Society. We meet every second and fourth Friday of the month at CHEBUCTO COFFEE, 6430 Chebucto Road, corner of Chebucto & Kline in Halifax where Mike's extraordinary culinary fare is approaching legendary status. Come early for a bite and stay for the entertainmentwhich starts around 6:30 and goes until 9:00ish. As always... admission is by free-will donation towards the Society's work. 

 

WTF Hosts: Cindy Campbell Stone and Margo Carruthers; www.helencreighton.org

Weymouth Storytellers Circle

Wisdom Begins in Wonder with The Storytellers Circle of Halifax

First gathering of the Fall!