Telling Tales’ StoryScapes is an exciting virtual workshop featuring a Canadian author or illustrator from Telling Tales’ Reading List. This live-streamed workshop is free to registered classrooms, educators, or learners anywhere in the world. StoryScapes runs twice a year – in spring and fall – during the school day for ET time zones. If you’re interested in participating, but you're in a different time zone, please get in touch for a recording of the session (available for a limited time following the live event).

StoryScapes includes a collaborative multimedia project, allowing an added engagement opportunity for participants. Everyone that registers has the opportunity to re-create a page from the book featured in the workshop.

This re-creation can be in any form: you could film a skit dramatically recreating your scene, do a collaborative illustration with voiceover, create a diorama with added text. Let your imagination run wild and explore how you want to recreate the page your group receives!

Following each presentation, Telling Tales will provide information on how to participate in this project on our website and via email to anyone registered for this presentation.

Once you’ve submitted your recreation, Telling Tales edits the "pages'' into a final video. You will receive a link to an unlisted YouTube video to see how the story was retold.

To link these events together, at the beginning of each StoryScapes the previous collaborative recreation video will be shared as an example of the project to the next group of participants.

Our goal is to engage reluctant readers by providing alternative entry points and to inspire enthusiasm in both students and educators. At Telling Tales we believe that nurturing a passion for reading represents the initial stride towards literacy skills capable of transforming lives.

Join us in November for our newest edition of StoryScapes featuring Nadia Alam, illustrator of The Wishing Machine by Jonathan Hillman.