Please join us for an evening of togetherness, yule tradition, and dark storytelling from our places of quarantine.
December 20, 2020 – 7pm start… stories begin around 730.
The origin of dark winter story telling has little to do with the kind of commercial festivities we’ve celebrated since the Victorian age. While often peppered with familiar Christian themes, many find their origin in traditional pagan solstice and yule celebrations that spanned northern Europe.
These stories turn us away from the bright lights and festive pressures and move us into an exploration of darker, older, more fundamental things: winter, cold, poverty, loneliness, death, the cycle of life, awakening, fire, rebirth, and the rapt connection between a teller and their audience. They give us permission to dance with darker contemplations, which can be refreshing in this strange 2020, and at the time of year when we’re all supposed to be tinsel, eggnog and merriment.
Featuring stories from Goethe, HP Lovecraft, Ada Buisson, Hans Christian Anderson, George Robert Sims, Richard Middleton, Anatole Le Braz and Frank L. Baum.
Our annual fundraiser for Comox Valley Transition Society – we invite you to donate!
We’ll open to the The Bleak Midwinter Zoom Room at 7 pm with music and an image gallery to get us all in the mood. Reading starts at 730. Feel free to log in early and take the time to settle in and get comfy. We will also play some music after the reading for folks who want to continue to enjoy a shared space that Zoom offers us on this strange solstice eve.
Light some candles, dim the lights, fill your cup with the warm beverage of your choosing and hunker down for the Bleak Midwinter.
Esther Purves-Smith are participating in this Benefit/Fundraising performance with the permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association
Click the link and come on in…. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84942056302
*Warning*- Bleak. Shocking. Scary. Grim. Melancholic.
*Kid Friendly? Pg 13. We have a 9 year old reading sooooooo
