Confabulation

This week's story is about Belonging -- which is a feeling a few of us might need right about now.

Featuring a story by Emma Lanza from our October 2017 live show.


Emma Lanza is a born and bred Montrealer with a background in theatre performance and arts management. She has her Master’s degree in Library Science and currently works in the Psychology Department at Concordia University. She has performed at Confabulation, YARN, and Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids. She once saw Stephen Sondheim on 42nd Street in New York City and cried for half an hour straight.


Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

This week's episode features two storytellers from our May 2018 collaboration with Broad Science: Maya Hey and Alex Allard.

Broad Science is an initiative dedicated to making science inclusive, engaging, and intersectional, through podcasting  — check out their work at www.broadscience.org.

Maya Hey is a Vanier scholar and doctoral candidate at Concordia University. She uses feminist theories to study fermentation.

Alex Allard is a member of the Indigenous Health Professions Program at McGill University. 

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

We are gearing up for our Shortest Story X on February 29th, so to get you in the mood, here are twelve 2-minute stories from the Shortest Story 9 -- recorded at Mainline Theatre in March 2019.

Featuring stories from:
Smriti Bansal
Josh Budman
Zahraa Chorghay
Nisha Coleman
Audrey Charneaux
Johanne Pelletier
Vadim Gran
Michele Luchs
Mike Pellegrin
Eleanor Denis
Eli Varvaro
and
Ariel Shirker

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

Confabulation co-producer Francesca Esguerra joins us for this episode, where we don't exactly explore the theme of Frantic.... we just are.

Featuring stories by Francesca Esguerra and Paul Van Dyck.

Paul Van Dyck is a graduate of Queen’s University’s Specialized Studies in Stage and Screen Program, he is a writer, director, performer, producer, and sound designer based in Montreal, Toronto, and Los Angeles.  In 2001, Paul founded Rabbit in a Hat Productions in Montreal with a mandate to produce new Canadian Independent Theatre. His work has since been produced throughout Canada and around the world. Paul's story was recorded at the June 2019 Summertime show at the Mainline theatre. 

Francesca Esguerra has been writing and creating ever since she became the self-elected editor of Canadian Girl Magazine at age 8. She is a graduate of Concordia’s Literature program. Currently a co-producer for Confabulation, Francesca has performed at the Centaur Theatre, The Wiggle Room, Yarn and Ottawa’s Arts Court. Francesca's story is from January 2018 Eye of the Storm show recorded at the Centaur Theatre.

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

This week, Confabulation podcast explores the theme of Trust, featuring two stories from the archives, going way back to June 2017 and April 2018, with Jeff Gandell and Jane O'Faherty.

Jane O'Faherty is an Irish-born, Montreal-based twentysomething writer. By day, she works as a communications officer at a non-profit; by night, she reads, writes and cooks voraciously. Jane's story was recorded at the April 2018 Playing Politics show at Montreal's Phi Centre. 

Jeff Gandell is a Montreal writer, singer, and teacher. He teaches true-life storytelling at Montreal Improv and literature and writing at Dawson College. He’s currently co-writing his first musical, Blind Love: A Honky Tonk Opera, premiering at the Montreal Fringe Festival in June 2020. Jeff's story was recorded at the Mainline Theatre, Montreal, in June 2017. The theme was On the Edge.

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

Happy New Year, everybody! This week on the show, we're presenting a selection of stories from Confabulation: The Shortest Story 9 -- recorded at Mainline Theatre in March 2019!

Featuring stories from:
Matt Goldberg
Claire Sherwood
Amy Blackmore
Joyce Peralta
Benny Augello
Tessa Brown
Devon Perlmutter
BA Markus
Emma Lanza
Christian Zaelzer
Francesca Esguerra
and
John Cotrocois

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

This week, we're exploring two more stories from our April 2019 show Acquired Taste, plus we're talking about the flow of a show with Confabulation producer, Michele Luchs.

Featuring stories from MP Breton and Nisha Coleman.

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

This week, we're exploring three stories from our April 2019 show Acquired Taste.

We've got stories from Trevor Kjorlien, Carole Tenbrink and Nathan Elliot.

Carole Tenbrink is a Spoken Word poet and storyteller. She has performed around Montreal, Quebec and eastern Ontario for 14 years.  Carole likes to liven things up, bring verve and spirit to the audience.

Trevor Kjorlien is a freelance web designer by day, and the organizer of Plateau Astro by night. They run astronomy workshops and events in Montreal — you can learn all about them at plateauastro.com.

Nathan Elliot grew up in Idaho, was educated in Chicago worked as a professor in Georgia and Newfoundland, and now writes and lives in Montréal. He has published peer-reviewed research on the intersections of nineteenth-century British Literature and nineteenth-century science; he has published fiction and creative nonfiction in a variety of venues. He is the recipient of the 2016 NL Arts Council’s Lawrence Jackson Writers’ Award and serves as a creative nonfiction editor for The Citron Review. Currently, he is at work on a play about contingent contract faculty entitled Disposable.

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

This week, we're exploring two stories on one of our favourite recurring themes: Family.

We've got stories from Johanne Pelletier and Ellie Skye -- both from past December Confabulation events.

This is Ellie's first and only story with Confabulation -- we wish her all the best!

Johanne Pelletier works in communications at Concordia University in Montreal. Her work is in developing ways of promoting university research to the public and managing communications planning and training for communicators.  

She is also a coach with a focus on storytelling, working with faculty and startups. Beyond her formal work role Johanne is a writer, storyteller, amateur boxing judge (@pinkinthering) and a decoder of the Anne Lister diaries (@annelisterdiaries). She has performed her stories for Confabulation in Montreal & Toronto, The Wiggle Room and Violet Hour shows in Montreal.

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

Catch our upcoming live shows:
Victoria -- Confabulation: Be Prepared
Thursday, November 21, 2019
7:30 pm - 9:45 pm
Victoria Event Centre (VEC) – 1415 Broad Street

Montreal -- Confabulation: Inheritance
Saturday, December 7, 2019
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Phi Centre – 407 Rue Saint-Pierre

Hey Confab fans!  

This week, we have stories from Confabulation regular Taylor Tower and first time storyteller, Christina Mignacca. Both stories explore the complex relationship between rules and identity.

Taylor's story is from our April 2019 show, Encore; recorded at the Mainline theatre, Montreal, QC.

Taylor Tower is a writer, radio producer, performer and teacher based in Montreal.

She grew up in Portland, Oregon and studied creative writing at Portland State University before moving to Montreal in 2006, where she co-produced and co-hosted Confabulation. She has performed in numerous storytelling events including Literary Death Match (Montreal), The Moth GrandSLAM (St. Paul), and The Moth MainStage (Denver). 

Her writing has been featured on CBC Radio One's WireTap with Jonathan Goldstein, nerve.com, Maisonneuve magazine, and Public Radio Remix, among others.

Christina's story is from February 2019, First Comes Love; recorded at the Phi Centre, Montreal, QC.

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

Catch our upcoming live shows:
Montreal -- Confabulation: Bodies
Saturday, November 16, 2019
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Phi Centre – 407 Rue Saint-Pierre

Victoria -- Confabulation: Be Prepared
Thursday, November 21, 2019
7:30 pm - 9:45 pm
Victoria Event Centre (VEC) – 1415 Broad Street

Montreal -- Confabulation: Inheritance
Saturday, December 7, 2019
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Phi Centre – 407 Rue Saint-Pierre