What’s Your Story Anyway?
Louise Profeit-Leblanc is offering her series of popular storytelling workshops – this time to seniors (65+) — over four Fridays: Sept. 15, 22, Oct. 6, and 20. Offered at the Centre Wakefield La Pêche in the Library from 10am until noon with a maximum of six participants.
The course is divided into four parts:
- Sept. 15 – Who are you, and what’s your story anyway?
- Sept. 22 – Becoming a great Storyteller
- Oct. 6 – Enhancing your Storytelling skills
- Oct. 20 – Storytelling and your Five Senses
Louise is a master storyteller as well as an accomplished visual artist. Her way of working is to “accompany participants on their journey,” rather than “teach.” Western culture tends to value the written word over the Indigenous oral tradition; this series of workshops will show the power and strength of the Indigenous traditions and ways of being in the world.
Storytellers will participate in a small showing of work on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 29 at 2pm in the Lobby of the Centre Wakefield La Pêche and will receive a small fee from Theatre Wakefield to recognize their contribution as artists in our community.
Louise Profeit-Leblanc “Tsé Itzoh.”
Louise is a member of the Nacho N’yak Dun First Nation of Mayo, in Northeastern Yukon. She is a mother, grandmother and a Story-Keeper. She presently lives in Wakefield, Quebec with her husband Bob.
She holds her stories close to her heart and knows that they have a way of healing what needs to be healed. With separation and loneliness for her homeland and family when she first moved south, she states, “My people’s stories were always with me and when I shared them with my friends and colleagues, I would be transported back home!”
Louise comes from a long line of traditional storytellers and her repertoire consists of ancient traditional stories relative to her homeland and also her own bundle of personal stories, of growing up in her homeland.
Her stories depict how the land was made, how her people lived there and how they survived for thousands of years. Many of these stories make reference to how everything in nature exists in balance but more importantly the stories depict morals and teachings of how we can all learn to live harmoniously with each other, while caring for the land, the water, and all living things.
Friday, Sept. 15 at 10am
