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Announcing Summer in the Park 2025!
August 22-24, 2025
Rooted in Weston:
a FREE Storytelling Workshop for First-Time Storytellers
Have you always wanted to tell your own story on stage?
Designed for first-time storytellers, this FREE five-week workshop will teach you how to craft—and tell—your own true story! Crossroads Theatre is excited to partner with Replay Storytelling (@replaystorytelling) to present this unique storytelling workshop for the Weston community.
Replay Storytelling’s team of facilitators, Chantal Lim and Paul Aflalo, will guide you through the process of taking a moment from your life, shaping it into a 6–10 minute story, and performing it on stage for a live audience.
Workshop Outline:
Week 1: What is a personal true story, and how to give feedback
Week 2: Story structure and focus
Week 3: The heart of your story—working with emotion and feeling
Week 4: Crafting your story for performance
Week 5: Performing your story
Then, on Friday, August 22nd, you and your fellow first-time storytellers will take the stage to share the stories you’ve created!
Who is this for?
Any first-time adult storyteller (19+) with a connection to the Weston community. No prior performance or storytelling experience is necessary. (Only 7 spots available!)
When?
Every Tuesday evening from July 22nd to August 21st (five weeks), 6–9pm at Crossroads Theatre, plus the final performance on Friday, August 22nd at 7:30pm as part of Crossroads Theatre’s Summer in the Park Festival.
Where?
Crossroads Theatre
Artscape Weston Common, 34 John Street
How to apply?
If you are interested in applying for this workshop, please please fill out the application form here. Please include the story you intend to work on, and how you are connected to the Weston community.
If you would prefer to send a recording instead of a piece of writing, please fill out this form and also email a link to your recordings to: info@crossroadstheatre.org.
Questions?
Email info@crossroadstheatre.org
The deadline for applications is Tuesday, July 15th. We look forward to receiving yours!
About Crossroads
Crossroads Theatre is a professional theatre company and registered charity that operates from our studio theatre home in northwest Toronto at Artscape Weston Common. Crossroads produces a year-round season of plays and programming, along with workshops and after school programs for youth in our community.
Crossroads Theatre is fortunate to call Toronto’s Weston Community our home. We acknowledge that this is land that has been stewarded for millennia by Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Wendat, and countless nations both recorded and unrecorded. This land is now home to many diverse nations including First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit and we acknowledge the treaties and agreements our Government has failed to uphold. We stand with Indigenous peoples who face systemic violence, oppression and injustice and we thank them for their stewardship of the land we now call home.
The Anishinabe word for the Humber river, Cobechenonk, roughly translates to “Leave the canoes and go back” referring to a place where travellers might stop and rest along the Carrying Place Trail. Where folks come together to rest, they share and trade in many things, including stories and crafts. Though we’ve only been in Weston since 2019, we are a part of a legacy of storytelling in this place. And it is with this in mind that we commit to breaking down the structures that contribute to the erasure of Indigenous culture, by creating accessible spaces for Indigenous voices, Black and Brown voices, Newcomer, Youth, Queer, and other marginalized voices, to be heard and celebrated.
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