Events
My Mother’s Story: North Vancouver
Co-production with Presentation House Theatre in North Vancouver.
The stories have been written, EIGHT have been chosen, the actors have been cast, the final script is being prepared. What a year of stories! What a year for North Vancouver!
Over 100 people attended free workshops last fall to learn how to write the story of their mothers’ lives. Sixty people submitted their finished stories to the theatre. Eight stories were chosen to tell the story of who we are in North Vancouver. These stories were written by and featuring the mothers of: Esther Chase, Sandra Crawford, Janice George, Meghna Haldar, Suzanne Humphreys, Wendy Noel, Suzanne Ristic, and Beate Sigriddaughter.
In what will surely be the most talked about event on the North Shore this season, My Mother’s Story: North Vancouver will premiere on October 19, 2012. Created by Marilyn Norry and Jenn Griffin, who have created all previous My Mother’s Story shows, it will be directed by Heidi Specht (read more about her here and here), and designed by Jamie Nesbitt (check him out here).
Announcing: My Mother’s Story: North Vancouver – THE BOOK!
All of the stories submitted to the project were wonderful. So wonderful we have decided to publish them together in a book that will be available in October 2012. Complete with a photo of each mother, you’ll be able to read heartfelt stories from Saskatchewan and Russia and Iran and Japan; stories of wars and farming, arranged marriages and marriages of love, incredible poverty and stunning wealth, stories of children lost and children found. Combined together you’ll read women’s history throughout the 20th century told in a way that always connects to North Vancouver.
Written by and featuring the mothers of: Andrea Fecko, Aranka Lukacs, Barbara Bates, Barbara Perrault, Beate Sigriddaughter, Carollyne Conlinn, Charlaine Samson, Connie Flett, Debra Ensign, Esther Chase, Florence Nicholson, Gaile Lacy, Grace Gordon-Collins, Hannele Jantti, Heidi Tadey, Helen Whittle, Helen Yeung, Irene Young, Janet Dysart, Jane Torresan, Janice George, Jean Redpath, Jhaleh Zaraweh, Joan Cregan, Judi Fletcher, Kathleen Hill, Kathy McColeman, Kay Rea, Kim Hirst, Kimiko Suzuki, Leora Fisher, Linda Olivier, Lucia Hoess, Margaret Birch, Maria Torres, Mary Charleson, Marylee Stephenson, Naria Yaraee, Patricia Ceraldi, Patricia Young, Peggy Trendell Jensen, Rhonda Perry, Roseanne van Renesse, Sandra Crawford, Suzanne Humphreys, Suzanne Rayment, Suzanne Ristic.
My Mother’s Story: North Vancouver will be available in October 2012, just in time for the show!
If you want to know more about this project see our North Vancouver page here or sign up for our newsletter and we will tell you what happens next.
My Mother’s Story: the originals now available!
At long last! It’s here! It’s here! Let the bells ring out and the banners fly!!
My Mother’s Story: the originals, featuring 39 stories written for the The Mother’s Story project, is available now through this website and in person (same price) at Oscar’s Books at 1533 West Broadway (at Granville), Vancouver. For $20 (the profits of which will be donated to charity) you can have your own copy of the original stories with photos, plus a brand new foreword by Marilyn Norry chronicling the unfolding of My Mother’s Story. We’re planning a party to officially launch this book – details to follow. See Book for more details.
To order your copy of this book please click the button on the right.
Making My Mother’s Story
My Mother’s Story from Bojan Dulabic on Vimeo.
My Mother’s Story from Bojan Dulabic on Vimeo.