Special Events

The stories don't stop when the tents come down at the end of the festival. We also participate in other events throughout the year. Check back here for details on this year's events.

World Storytelling Day

Celebrate World Storytelling Day with Latitudes Storytelling Festival on March 21 at the Waterloo Regional Children's Museum, 10 King St. West, Kitchener.

World Storytelling Day is a global celebration of the art of oral storytelling. It is celebrated every year on the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, the first day of autumn equinox in the southern.

On World Storytelling Day, as many people as possible tell and listen to stories in as many languages and at as many places as possible, during the same day and night.

The event has been important in forging links between storytellers often working far apart from each other. It has also been significant in drawing public and media attention to storytelling as an art form.

Join Latitudes and the global storytelling community on March 21

2 pm: Story in a bag, with Mary-Eileen McClear
4 pm: March to the beat of drumming stories, with Adwoa Badoe
Museum programming at 1 and 3 pm

Download our poster (PDF, 150k)

Museum admission applies.

The Word on the Street

You can also find us at the The Word on the Street book and magazine festival every September.