Confabulation

Stories: quick as we can tell them!  More!
Our annual Shortest Story extravaganza took place at the Centaur Theatre on January 13, 2023
The storytellers in Part 2 are:

1. Mike Pellegrin
2. Michele Luchs 
3. Julia Haney 
4. Ariel Shirker 
5. Yigal Judah 
6. Nisha Coleman 
7. Francesca Esguerra 
8. Myriam Ennajimi 
9. Sherwin Tija 
10. Jimmy Chow
11. Amanda Perry 

If you want to watch the show, you can do that right here

And while you're on our page, please subscribe to our YouTube channel for more stories  @confabulationstories

Stay in the loop with all of our upcoming live shows by subscribing to our newsletter www.confabulation.ca   We'll be announcing next season's themes later this summer.

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montréal and the Canada Council for the Arts for their continued support.

Produced and hosted : Matt Goldberg and Deb Vanslet
Post production: Deb Vanslet 

Stories: quick as we can tell them!
Our annual Shortest Story extravaganza took place at the Centaur Theatre on January 13, 2023
Follow along, guess the storyteller! Here's the show order for part 1: 

1. Matt Goldberg 
2. Claire Sherwood 
3. Zahraa Chorghay 
4. Vadim Gran
5. Erica Schmidt
6. Deb VanSlet 
7. Alexia Cote 
8. Myke Wilder 
9. Johanne Cadorette 
10. Lukas Rowland
11. Johanne Pelletier 
12. Naika Joseph
13. Emma Lanza  

If you want to watch the show, you can do that right here

And while you're on our page, please subscribe to our YouTube channel for more stories  @confabulationstories

Stay in the loop with all of our upcoming live shows by subscribing to our newsletter www.confabulation.ca   We'll be announcing next season's themes later this summer.

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montréal and the Canada Council for the Arts for their continued support.

Produced and hosted : Matt Goldberg and Deb Vanslet
Post production: Deb Vanslet 

This episode features a story by Lea Beddia from our Good Date/Bad Date show in March 2022 at the Centaur Theatre in Montreal. Stay tuned after the story for an interview with Lea about, among other things, the intersection of her writing life and her storytelling life.

Lea is a high school teacher and the author of two young adult novels. She is a compulsive reader and coffee drinker, and loves stories of family and childhood. You can follow her on social media and check out  her website at www.leabeddia.com

For more stories, please subscribe to our YouTube channel @confabulationstories

Stay in the loop with all of our upcoming live shows by subscribing to our newsletter www.confabulation.ca   New themes for a new season will be announced this summer!

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montréal and the Canada Council for the Arts for their continued support.

Produced and hosted : Matt Goldberg and Deb Vanslet
Post production: Deb Vanslet 

This episode  features Juliana Léveillé-Trudel, host and producer of Enfabulation, a French-language storytelling show in Montreal. Juliana also produces the Enfabulation podcast. Her featured story was told live on the Mainline Theatre stage in 2017.

From June 22, 2023 to February 16, 2024, six Enfabulation shows will be part of the CAM on Tour program, a program that has been spreading the arts across the island of Montreal for 40 years.

For a schedule of Enfabulation's summer tour, check out www.enfabulation.ca or go to their FB page.
Check out their podcast, wherever you do your listening.

For more stories, please subscribe to our YouTube channel @confabulationstories

Stay in the loop with all of our upcoming live shows by subscribing to our newsletter www.confabulation.ca   And if you see a theme that inspires a story, pitch it here!

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montréal and the Canada Council for the Arts for their continued support.

Produced and hosted : Matt Goldberg and Deb Vanslet
Post production: Deb Vanslet 

This episode features a story by, and an interview with, Keith Serry. The story is from our Summer Love event — and Keith uses this theme to reflect not on romantic love, but that temporary, fleeting feeling of a youthful moment.

Keith Serry is a father, husband, performer, teacher, producer, host, journalist, and, when called upon, lawyer based in Montreal.

Since 2020, Keith has produced and hosted The Volume Knob (www.volumeknob.net), a podcast where some of North America's most talented storytellers share stories about the way music makes us feel.

Keith told this story live on the Centaur stage in September 2022.
You can watch it here

And while you're doing that, please subscribe to our YouTube channel for more stories  @confabulationstories

Stay in the loop with all of our upcoming live shows by subscribing to our newsletter www.confabulation.ca   And if you see a theme that inspires a story, pitch it here!

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montréal and the Canada Council for the Arts for their continued support.

Produced and hosted : Matt Goldberg and Deb Vanslet
Post production: Deb Vanslet 

This episode features a story by, and an interview with, Gracia Dyer Jalea about channelling the stories of our ancestors. 

Gracia is an award-winning change leader, founder, and mother of twins. Her work as an artist and researcher focuses on transnational learning and storytelling as a means for community building, connection, and personal and social transformation. Gracia has a podcast called Meet Me in the Square, which you can find on various platforms.

Gracia told this story live on the Centaur stage in May 2022.
You can watch it here

And while you're doing that, please subscribe to our YouTube channel for more stories  @confabulationstories

Stay in the loop with all of our upcoming live shows by subscribing to our newsletter www.confabulation.ca   And if you see a theme that inspires a story, pitch it here!

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montréal and the Canada Council for the Arts for their continued support.

Produced and hosted : Matt Goldberg and Deb Vanslet
Post production: Deb Vanslet

Theme song: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water.
Additional music : Epidemic Sound

It's all in how you look at it, where you're standing, or just who you are. In this episode, we'll hear a story by Michele Luchs, and then talk to her about perspective and what it means to get at a truth -- not the whole truth, just one of so many.

Michele Luchs is a storyteller, media-literacy specialist, teacher trainer and curriculum writer. She is a producer at Confabulation, where she also teaches StoryLab, Confabulation’s storytelling workshop.

And here's another perspective: watch Michele tell the story at our March 2023 show at the Phi Centre here

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more stories  @confabulationstories

Stay in the loop with all of our upcoming live shows by subscribing to our newsletter www.confabulation.ca   And if you see a theme that inspires a story, pitch it here!

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montréal and the Canada Council for the Arts for their continued support.

Produced and hosted : Matt Goldberg and Deb Vanslet
Post production: Deb Vanslet

Theme song: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water.
Additional music : Epidemic Sound

This episode, Déjà Vu, explores just how personal that feeling of familiarity really is through two stories from our live show.

These two fantastic storytellers, Taylor Tower and Nathan Elliott, graced the Confabulation stage at the Mainline Theatre in April 2022.

Taylor Tower is  a storyteller and communications professional based in Montreal. Her work has appeared on Public Radio Remix and CBC's WireTap with Jonathan Goldstein.

Nathan Elliott writes fiction and nonfiction, teaches literature in colleges and universities, and provides a bit of commercial editing. He grew up in the United States, and he has spent time in Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Georgia, and Newfoundland; today he lives in Montréal with his spouse and child.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more stories told live on various stages around town  @confabulationstories

Stay in the loop with all of our upcoming live shows by subscribing to our newsletter www.confabulation.ca   And if you see a theme that inspires a story, pitch it here!

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montréal and the Canada Council for the Arts for their continued support.

Produced and hosted : Matt Goldberg and Deb Vanslet
Post production: Deb Vanslet

Theme song: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water.
Additional music : Epidemic Sound

Season 4, Episode 2 features Maryam Ganni telling a story at the Centaur Theatre in Montreal,  in March 2022. It was our first live show in two years, and what a thrill it was to be back in front of a live audience. Maryam's story is a study in courage, humility and humour. Stay tuned for the conversation afterwards between Maryam and Deb about what it means to be a storyteller.

Maryam Ganni is a motivational speaker and disability advocate. Her background as a professional makeup artist inspires her with not only her storytelling, but also her life in general, in which she enjoys drawing outside the lines.
For more about Maryam : www.facebook.com/seewithmaryam

Visit our YouTube channel for more stories @confabulationstories
Stay in the loop with all of our upcoming live shows by subscribing to our newsletter www.confabulation.ca   And if you see a theme that inspires a story, pitch it here!

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal and the Canada Council for the Arts for their continued support.

Produced and hosted : Matt Goldberg and Deb Vanslet
Post production: Deb Vanslet

Theme song: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water.
Additional music : Epidemic Sound

Season 4 of the Confabulation podcast is back with a fresh batch of stories, interviews with storytellers, and just enough chatter to keep it all rolling.

The first episode features two storytellers from our Signs and Symbols show at the Centaur Theatre, Montreal in May 2022.

Julia Haney  is an artist, designer and movement enthusiast currently based in Montreal. She tries to see the humour in life's more turbulent moments, because as Stephen Hawking noted, "life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
Leigh Kinch-Pedrosa is a long time confabulator, lover of books, and baseball-obsessed Montrealer.

Visit our YouTube channel for more stories @confabulationstories
Stay in the loop with all of our upcoming live shows by subscribing to our newsletter www.confabulation.ca   And if you see a theme that inspires a story, pitch it here!

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal and the Canada Council for the Arts for their continued support.

Produced and hosted : Matt Goldberg and Deb Vanslet
Post production: Deb Vanslet

Theme song: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water.
Additional music : Epidemic Sound