NEWS RELEASE
STORYTELLING ORILLIA
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For almost 36 years Arts for Peace has been bringing folks together for a peaceful summer afternoon of music, crafts, discussion, storytelling, bubbles and community.
Started by members of Project Ploughshares Orillia, the sunny festival on the grounds of the Stephen Leacock Museum has been honouring peacemakers from here and from around the world since 1983.
Now it’s time to honour Arts for Peace, with a story circle hosted by Storytelling Orillia and the Orillia Museum of Art and History, on Sunday, April 28 from 2-4 p.m. at the Orillia Museum of Art & History, to share stories about Orillia’s longest-running local festival.
Arts for Peace is the reason the folk band Alex got started. It was also the impetus behind Mayumi Kumagai’s Arts for Peace Fiddlers and was the venue where many local young musicians first played.
It’s also the home of peace crane folding, peace fairies, circle dancing, clay creations, box-building, and a dragon! It has the best t-shirts, in perfect colours every year.
An enduring myth is that it never rains on Arts for Peace. If you have never attended this gentle family day, come and hear about it now. If you have come faithfully, come and tell us all something you remember.
Peaceful organizers like Margaret Ford, Lorna Bolden, Lisa Gillette (who promises to bring her guitar), Gord Ball and Don Evans will be ready to start the telling, before we pass stories around the circle. Others will be joining in.
What do you remember of Arts for Peace? If you have another festival experience dear to your heart, we want to hear about that, too.
Come to tell or come to listen. All are welcome, of any age.
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