THE FLAME: STORYTELLING SHOWCASE

Sunday, October 6, 2024 at 7pm
Performed for a live audience at Gateway Theatre
This event is FREE

Presented by Gateway Theatre
Hosted by Deborah Williams
In Conjunction with BC Culture Days
Gateway Theatre | Culture Days The Flame Storytelling Showcase

Join us at Gateway Theatre for a FREE BC Culture Days event, The Flame: Storytelling Showcase!

Spend an evening listening to powerful, inspiring and energetic true stories from a variety of people, including those from our very own Richmond community. You will be delighted and in awe of their courage to stand up and share in front of an audience, and leave the theatre in thought and with a full heart.

Stories have meaning. Stories inspire us. Most importantly, stories bring us together.

This showcase will feature 7-8 storytellers who will have just completed a 2-day workshop with Deborah Williams, the co-founder and Artistic Producer of Vancouver’s wildly popular storytelling series, The Flame.


TICKET PRICE

Free to Attend with Registration


History

The Flame began in Deb Williams and Bruce Kennedys’ eastside Vancouver living room in 2009. Together with co-creator Joel Wirkkunen, they invited 20 people to each share a personal true story. In return, the tellers were offered wine, cheese, and a warm place to gather. The storytellers, mostly professional performers, arrived self-conscious with acute stage fright. They told their stories, heard others, and left exhilarated; filled, and wanting more.

The Flame caught fire.

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Read the rest of The Flame History

Meet the Host

DEBORAH WILLIAMS

Host

Bio

DEBORAH WILLIAMS

Host

Deb Williams is a multi-talented artist with over 35 years of experience in acting, playwriting, and producing. She co-created and starred in the Mom’s The Word plays. Deb is also the co-founder and Artistic Producer of The Flame, Vancouver’s top storytelling event. She has written several plays, including Broccoli and Butterflies and Drift Wood, and has been an Associate Artist at the Belfry Theatre for ten years. Deb is also an experienced personal storytelling teacher, coach, facilitator, and consultant, having taught nearly 1000 tellers of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, cultural identities, and mental and physical abilities.

 

Website – www.theflame.live/about-deb-1