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Once upon a time...
Some people shape clay, Joujou shapes words. She thinks, lives and resonates to the rhythm of this planet which makes her laugh, think and sometimes provokes her anger, and she takes pleasure in telling this to the four winds… from the Yukon to the Antilles, from Halifax to Vancouver, from Europe to Africa. She tells it in words of love, peace, friendship, liberty, dignity, exile; she murmurs it with mischief and in words of torment and passion. She is inspired by her African filiations, her Carribean relations, the thousand texture of Quebec where she has settled, and the four corners of the world she has crossed. Some of her stories could be perceived as socially committed. There are stories of commitment, story-poems or story-performances. She can be found at the heart of events concerned with human rights, children’s rights or the status of women. Neither griot, teller of folk tales, nor ethnologist the stories she tells are poetic narrative from her own pen. Inspired by the sea, the wind, dreams, things that shock her, she moves from laughter to smiles, and if the tears come… they come…
To help with healing, or for pleasure, Joujou offers workshops and tells stories for the general public as well as for persons with behavioural problems or multiple disabilities. She is at once a humanist and an artist of the spoken word. Like a princess , she lets flow cascades of stories, poems, songs, breathing with an epic sense and evoking the tranquillity or turbulence of the sea and the wind. In recent months she has been working in the themes of nomadism and wandering. She has published several works including Ti Pinge, a book and CD published with Planet Editions Rebelle, and Joujou Amie du Vent, a collection of stories with CIDIHCA.
Resume for children's show (Taken from Saskatoon Children 's Festival 2003):
Hearing Joujou Turenne is listening to storytelling at its very best. It 's been said of Joujou that she will draw you in a heartbeat.
She loves to share her own works of creation, stories about everyday familliar things, but with an Afro-Caribbean flavour.
Not only does she tell a good tale, but she is also an actor and dancer: therefore, she tells them with verve.
She wants you to move with her as she casts her storytelling spell.
In this show do you think that you will be sitting still? Not likely. And, will you have to be quiet? Never.
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JouJou offers
Dear friends…
Who is your performer for Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Christmas,
Black History month, Intercultural Week, International Day of the Women,
General Meeting, Various Celebrations or for a pleasurable day…
The occasions of including Joujou’s voice to your universe abound :
Lectures, round tables and conferences of various topics
linked to orality, storytelling, creolity, identity, "Joy, Motivation and Learning" and more
Solo or accompanied by musicians,
Joujou Turenne (Amie du Vent) also proposes
For children or for adults
In french, in english or in creole
Workshops
Storytelling or poetry spectacles
That stimulate the imagination, develop the creative process,
revive the senses, awake dreams and support harmony.
Because at the end…
The satisfaction is beyond recognition
What the review says...
“ ... JouJou Turenne ... Tonne!
She had mih in a trance! Oh gooode!
She tell she story, she sing she song, she had de audience in de palm of she han’. Man dat lady was boss! ”
Queen Macoomeh, Cultural Explosion, 2003
“ But by far the most outstanding and strikingly different
solo performer (…) In her performance, the feisty
Turenne displays that special “magic” that can readily capture an audience’s
attention. She drew from every element of the storytelling craft (...) everytime
there was «standing room only .”
Joey Ray, The Native Journal, Yukon.
Make your own choice at children's festival, Brenda SUDERMAN,
Winnipeg Free Press, June 12, 2004
Perfomer finds harmony with audience
LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE, Jenny Gabruch, June 5, 2003
Storyteller weaves a world of adventure, Danielle TREMBLAY,
The Record, p.6, December 7, 2001
Joujou on the web :
Uncover a Mystery
JOUJOU TURENNE - Storyteller, Writer, ActressCIFF • 2004 Calgary International Film Festival • White Skin ...
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