Storytellers Festival – Spoken Word Night

The Festival offers moments to pause, reflect, and reconnect — with yourself and with the stories that shape us.  As we reflect on the enduring power of stories and language to shape understanding, memory, and ways of being, Storytellers 2026 invites you to slow down and be fully present.  Rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing, this year’s festival creates space for ancestral teachings, contemporary narratives, and lived experience to meet — not in haste, but in attention.

This year’s theme is Presence.  Presence asks a simple but challenging question: where is your focus?  In a world of constant distraction, this chapter of the Storytellers Festival invites audiences to arrive fully — with their bodies, their attention, and their hearts.  In celebrating winter traditions through Indigenous storytelling, gathering, panel discussions, youth programming, art installations, living stories, a film screening, and spoken word, Presence becomes a practice rather than a concept.