REGISTRATION Is OPEN for our WINTER workshops
Saturdays, January 11 to February 22, 2025
The Origin Arts & Community Centre (57 Lyndale Avenue)
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These free workshops are made possible with the financial assistance of our donors and funders: Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Heritage Canada, and the City of Ottawa.
About the Workshop Leaders
Jacqui Du Toit is an international acclaimed storyteller, multi-award-winning actor, puppeteer, dancer and playwright. She is well known for her work with Ottawa’s youth and her mentoring of emerging performers.
Jacqui has her degree in Theatre and Performance from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and is bilingual in English and Afrikaans. Jacqui the Creative Director and Storyteller at 8th Generation Storytelling Performance and is co-owner of The Origin Arts Community Centre.
Jacqui has performed with Ottawa Little Theatre, Rock the Arts children’s puppet company, the Niyamah Collective, a Company of fools, Gladstone theatre, and Ottawa StoryTellers.
In April of 2017 - after performances at the Origin Arts Community Centre and The Gladstone Theatre - Jacqui’s show The Hottentot Venus-Untold was produced by Counterpoint Player’s TACTICS Festival. She then traveled across Canada performing in Montreal and Edmonton with her show.
Recent acting credits include Swan River, Skeleton Key Theatre, 2018, The Drowning Girls, GCTC, 2018, and Darrah Teitel’s The Omnibus Bill, TACTICS, 2019, Being Coloured/ful in a Black and White world, Uncurrents 2021 and Springworks 2021, Hamlet, A Company of Fools 2022 -2023.
Jacqui serves on the Board of Directors for GCTC(2017 - present), Ottawa Storytellers (2020 - 2021 ) and Tactics Indie Theatre festival (2020 - present)
Brad Denys quite literally ran away to the circus – and he travelled around the world with Cirque du Soleil. Brad has performed as an actor, dancer, clown, musician and storyteller. He has been a choreographer, a stage manager and a stage performance-coach.
Walking a winding long path, Brad has been performing around the world for the past 30 years with the likes of Cirque du Soleil, Philippe Decoufle, Cavalia, Film Festival of Cannes and Carbone-14. He has performed in over 37 countries and has gained quite a few stories along the way. He is now on a new adventure as a Storyteller with the Ottawa Storytellers.
A big fan of folktales and adventures Brad is thrilled to share his unique style of telling stories with you.