This Really Happened is a live storytelling evening where participants tell true stories in front of an audience without notes. Selected stories from these live events appear on our website.
This Really Happened at Blue Met 2013
Back by popular demand, This Really Happened returns to the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, on April 26th at the Opus Hotel in Montreal. Come hear stories about reinventions, reincarnations, and major rewrites. Get your tickets early as last year’s event sold out!
Whatever Will Be Will Be by Joel Yanofsky
Joel Yanofsky on finding a theme for his autistic son’s Bar Mitzvah.
The Gaza Golf Cart by Paul McAdams
Paul McAdams on facing death in a golf cart at a closed Gaza border crossing.
Hostage to Fate
Listen to Michael Hornburg’s story on how his children forever changed his relationship to Remembrance Day.
This Really Happened at WordFest
We’re thrilled to announce that carte blanche’s storytelling series, This Really Happened (TRH), is coming to WordFest in Calgary on October 9, 2012!
Featured performers include: Calgary’s Poet Laureate Kris Demeanor, expat American and father of a Canadian war hero Michael Hornburg, puppeteer and educator Candace Ford-Taperek, memoirist Deni Y. Béchard, global adventurer Marcello di Cintio, and the journalist and author Noah Richler.
Nine kegs of nails (audio)
“Nine kegs of nails” was told by Trevor Ferguson at our storytelling evening, This Really Happened, on April 19, 2012 at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal.