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Available from your nearest T.A.L.E.S. Chapter

"Call Your Neighbours In"

A TALES Calgary CD available from Anne Cowling, cowlinga@telus.net $15

Recorded live on Saturday, March 21, 2009 at the Unitarian Church of Calgary with

Frank Rackow and Quartet - "Consensus" (Greg O'Neil, Nynne Collins and Annie Phillips).
Jan McLean - "Moving" Jan comes from a storytelling family and works in the oil patch as an engineer when not sharing stories with T.A.L.E.S. and her choir events.
Orunamamu - "The Porcelain Vase" An elder storyteller from Rockridge, California, Orunamamu travels widely to storytelling festivals across North America when she is not on her porch passing the time with strangers or visiting her son in Calgary.
Karen Gummo - "Neighbours to the Rescue" (a tribute to grandmother Dagny, 100) Active storyteller in schools and communities around Alberta and president of T.A.L.E.S., Karen finds many mentors in her wanderings through the neighbourhoods of her life.
Lawrence Chrismas - "Vince and Frankie, Two Old-time Coal Miners."Storyteller, mining historian, geologist, author, and photographer. TALES and Storytellers of Canada member.
Cassy Welburn - "Lugalbanda, the Little Prince of Uruk" (the first recorded story) Cassy is a storyteller and poet who shares her work at many T.A.L.E.S. storycafe events and in schools, museums, churches and community centres around Alberta.
Louis Soop - "The Girl Who Married the Morning Star" An elder of the Blood Tribe, Louis has worked many years to preserve and celebrate stories and artifacts to honour his Blackfoot Culture. He has traveled widely sharing his stories and teaches Blackfoot at Red Crow College, Standoff.
Mary Hays -Long time member and past president of T.A.L.E.S., Mary teaches storytelling in Calgary and in Olds, where she is known for her many dramatic productions of Alberta history.

TALES on the wind...

$20.00

Stories told by Alberta storytellers

Stories take to the four winds as they soar from teller to listener to teller to listener. The oral tradition invites us to join the journey, as invoked with those familiar words,
"Please tell me a story... Open your ears...
Surrender yourselves to the power of the wind.
Let it carry you to worlds familiar and strange..."

Featured Storytellers: Karen Gummo, Renée Englot, Maria Teresa Hopkins, Kerry McPhail - Hayden, Lisa Hurst Archer, Lawrence Chrismas RCA, Kathy Jessup, Cassy Welburn, Sylvia Hertling, M. Jennie Frost, Ginger Mullen, Mary Hays and Louis Soop, Lorrie Lipski - Musician

TALES on the Wind - 2 CD set is available from TALES members and TALES Chapters.

Supporters:

The Ranaghan Foundation,
TALES - The Alberta League Encouraging Storytelling

TAILS ON A LINE Pin

$ 12.00

A gift for every occasion

Designed by Storyteller Karen Gummo - Fish tail, peacock tail, tiger tail, monkey tail and the mighty dragon tail
2.5 inches " by 2.5 inches

Under The Wide Blue Sky - Alberta Stories to Read and Tell
$17.00

Under The Wide Blue Sky - Alberta Stories to Read and Tell

Edited by Lisa Hurst-Archer and published by Red Deer Press in 2005

A volume of short stories written by Alberta storytellers to celebrate the oral tradition,
including orginal stories, retelling of folk tales and family stories.