Montreal Intercultural Storytelling Festival - ‘In the Chest of the King's Daughters’

🎭 In the Chest of the King's Wards

📖 Storytelling show – Salle des Métayères

In the chest of the King's Wards, there were a thousand pins, a hundred needles, four laces, a handkerchief, a bonnet, two knives, and a pair of scissors. Then they added their knowledge and many stories. Tales from the old continents spread across the countryside and wild forests to the kingdom of Saguenay. With their chest under their arms, these girls travelled the country to follow their husbands and left their mark on the shores of a royal island.

📅 Duration: approximately 60 minutes

👥 Audience: ages 12 and up

🎟️ Number of participants: 60

💰 Ticket price: $10

📍 Location: Salle des Métayères

* The storytelling experience is offered in French only.

About Nadine Walsh

Nadine has been on stage for over 30 years. A performer known for her strong presence and relentless research, she uses her body as much as her voice to propel her creations and retell ancient stories that reflect humanity since the dawn of time.

Each show is distinguished by a unique form that questions its relationship with the audience and with history. "With her, storytelling becomes embodied speech. " Élisabeth Haas, La Liberté newspaper, Fribourg, Switzerland.

Recipient of the Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros in Paris for her CD-book Sacré chœur de Gilgamesh in 2020, she also won the Hibou d'or for the same show and the Jocelyn Bérubé prize for her entire career as a storyteller.

Nadine tells stories to resist sleep, ignorance, conformism, disenchantment and death. Because for her, storytelling is sharing a moment of eternity.