Storykeeping with Dan Yashinsky

Join us for an informal and participatory talk about how we can become a “storykeeper” for our loved ones.
Join us for an informal and participatory talk about how we can become a “storykeeper” for our loved ones. When his son Jacob died in a tragic accident in 2018, Dan Yashinsky began to collect all of Jacob's sayings and doings, writing them the way he imagined Jacob might tell them himself. Written in grief, this loving and often funny chronicle became I Am Full - Stories for Jacob (Signature Editions).
After readings from his book, Dan will invite participants - if you are comfortable doing so - to share your own experiences as a storykeeper.
Dan is a Toronto-based storyteller, and the author of Suddenly They Heard Foosteps - Storytelling for the Twenty-first Century, I Am Full - Stories for Jacob, and The Golden Apples. In 1979, he founded the Toronto International Storytelling Festival. He worked as the storyteller-in-residence at Baycrest Health Sciences for many years. In 1999 he received the Jane Jacobs Prize for his work with storytelling in community.