Where do you keep your stories?
Most people would point to something written down, journals or diaries or books, but I suspect that where your stories are really kept are in two, connected places: your head, and your things.
Look around you: there are likely things that tell your stories in any place you inhabit for a while. From the mug given to you by co-workers, to the photographs of family, to the little nicknacks or even receipts that commemorate moments in your life.
My guest today was Maddy Macnab, the Program Officer of Passages Canada. They are holding a storytelling event on Monday, from 5:30 PM to 7:45 PM, at the Fredericton Intercultural Centre in the Wellness Centre at 28 Saunders St. (You may know it as the old YMCA building.)
We talked about how the program began, some of Maddy’s most memorable story experiences with the program, and the impact and power of the smallest of items in the most touching of stories.
Music today, largely inspired by the fact that it’s Weatherman’s Day:
- I simply had to play The Weatherman, Pt 2 by Alert the Medic, from their We The Weapon album;
- In honour of the objects which bring memories and stories, I played Photograph by Blood and Glass, from their new album Museum With No Walls;
- And a final song, again tying in to the celebration, I played Dead Sara‘s Weatherman, from their self-titled album.
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