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Confabulation

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Frequency: 1 episode/57d. Total Eps: 68

Confabulation is a celebration of true-life stories, shared by the people that lived them. Curated from our live shows across Canada, in Montreal and Victoria, the podcast brings some of our favourite stories to a wider audience — as well as a larger thematic exploration of the ideas these stories bring up. It’s hard to say exactly where any one episode will take us, but each will be crafted around the story, the storyteller, and the essence of why we tell tales in the first place. Confabulation. Stories, true as we can tell them.

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01/08/2026
#90
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31/07/2026
#62
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13/07/2026
#53
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10/07/2026
#53
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09/07/2026
#46
🇨🇦 Canada - performingArts
08/07/2026
#46

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https://www.confabulation.ca/
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https://www.confabulation.ca/tell-a-story/
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https://www.youtube.com/@confabulationstories
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#68 The Shortest Story XIII (part 2)

Season 4 · Episode 68

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 • Duration 33:17

Stories: quick as we can tell them! More!
Our annual Shortest Story extravaganza took place at the Centaur Theatre on January 13, 2023
The storytellers in Part 2 are:

Mike Pellegrin
Michele Luchs
Julia Haney
Ariel Shirker
Yigal Judah
Nisha Coleman
Francesca Esguerra
Myriam Ennajimi
Sherwin Tija
Jimmy Chow
Amanda Perry

If you want to watch the show, you can do that right here

And while you're on our page, please subscribe to our YouTube channel for more stories @confabulationstories

Stay in the loop with all of our upcoming live shows by subscribing to our newsletter www.confabulation.ca We'll be announcing next season's themes later this summer.

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montréal and the Canada Council for the Arts for their continued support.

Produced and hosted : Matt Goldberg and Deb Vanslet
Post production: Deb Vanslet

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#67 The Shortest Story XIII (part 1)

Season 6 · Episode 67

Wednesday, July 12, 2023 • Duration 39:37

Stories: quick as we can tell them!
Our annual Shortest Story extravaganza took place at the Centaur Theatre on January 13, 2023
Follow along, guess the storyteller! Here's the show order for part 1:

Matt Goldberg
Claire Sherwood
Zahraa Chorghay
Vadim Gran
Erica Schmidt
Deb VanSlet
Alexia Cote
Myke Wilder
Johanne Cadorette
Lukas Rowland
Johanne Pelletier
Naika Joseph
Emma Lanza

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#58: Adapting

Season 3 · Episode 58

Thursday, August 27, 2020 • Duration 30:31

It's almost September, and la rentrée this year is a complicated one. We're all adapting, or trying to. In this episode, Elizabeth Varvaro shares a story about responding and adapting to a super complex situation. It's from our October 2018 show recorded at the Phi Centre.

Elizabeth Varvaro is a writer, tarot reader, and perpetual grouch. Her first ever collection of short horror stories called EVERYONE IS DEAD is free to read at horrificwriting.wordpress.com. She sometimes tells stories at Confabulation!

This is the last show of Season 3! We'll be back in a month with lots more stories to share.

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Podcast production: Stephen Trepanier and Deb VanSlet

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

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#57: Reunited

Season 3 · Episode 57

Thursday, August 13, 2020 • Duration 19:34

Confabulation Montreal and Victoria are reunited (and it feels so good).
This week's podcast is co-hosted by Matt and Cassandra Tognari, a producer and storyteller from Confabulation Victoria. This episode features Cassandra's story about the timeline of a friendship, and was told in February 2020, in Victoria, B.C.

Cassandra is the co-producer, co-host, and story coach for Victoria BC's monthly Confabulation series. She has been living in Victoria for five years where she works in government communications and sits on the Board of Directors for Intrepid Theatre.

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#56: Second Chance

Season 3 · Episode 56

Friday, July 17, 2020 • Duration 24:58

This week Confabulation podcast producer and Technical Director Stephen Trepanier co-hosts the show with Deb, AND tells a story- from way back in January 2013, when he was still a kid, jumping out of runaway shopping carts!

Stephen Trepanier is an audio engineer, podcaster, comedian, visual effects editor, and electroacoustic music composer from Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and has lived in Montreal, Quebec for the last ten years. Since 2012 Stephen has been involved in the production of live theatre & dance in the city. Stephen's work as an audio engineer has been featured on television, and radio, in formats ranging from documentaries to comedy.

Stephen is registered with the Canadian Audio-Visual Certification Office.

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#55: In the Wake

Season 3 · Episode 55

Friday, July 3, 2020 • Duration 32:55

In the wake of crisis, chaos and care, pandemic and protest: who are we ?
This week's podcast features Sara Meleika telling a story about one of the turning points in her life.
This story was recorded April 2019 at the Mainline Theatre in Montreal.

*Note: Sara mentions a Charlene Nelson at McGill University, her name is actually Charmaine Nelson.

Sara Meleika is an Egyptian improviser, storyteller, and high-school teacher. She produces and performs in Colour Outside the Lines – a show created out of a desire to see greater representation appear on Montreal’s improv stages. She is the (Anglophone) Inclusion Coordinator at Montreal Improv, co-produced Ladyfest Montreal 2017 & 2018, and co-artistic directed MPROV 2019. She has performed in MPROV, Montreal Sketchfest, Ladyfest Montreal, the Ottawa Improv Festival, Toronto’s Combustion Festival, the Big City Improv Festival and OFF-JFL/Zoofest.

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Podcast production: Stephen Trepanier and Deb VanSlet

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

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#54: Connection

Season 3 · Episode 54

Thursday, June 18, 2020 • Duration 38:24

This week's podcast features a story by Kadi Diop on making a connection by disconnecting. Her story was recorded February 2020 at the Phi Centre as part of Black History Month.

Kadi Diop is the francophone education director of Montreal Improv and an improviser, community organizer, storyteller, sexology student and devoted auntie. She loves sharing her many opinions with a flair of intersectional hullabaloo. She's performed at the Ottawa Improv Festival, Black and Funny, OFF-JFL and other North American festivals and loves plain chips.

After the story stay tuned as Matt checks in with Kadi about among other things, getting comfortable with uncomfortable situations.

In the interview, Kadi mentioned an online event she moderated -- a conversation with Dr. Myrna Lashley. The event, Systemic Racism and Allyship: Moving Forward Together, was a free event, hosted by the Westhaven Community Centre. Kadi also recommends Racism Explained to My Daughter, by Tahar Ben Jelloun, as a resource for your own essential, uncomfortable conversations.

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Podcast production: Stephen Trepanier and Deb VanSlet

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

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#53: Medicine

Season 3 · Episode 53

Thursday, June 4, 2020 • Duration 29:36

Brief language advisory -- this week's story contains a couple of words that may not be appropriate for all audience. They're well-earned words, but still present.

This week's podcast features a story by Leigh Kinch-Pedrosa on the complexity of making medical decisions. The story was recorded November 2019 at the Phi Centre. The evening of storytelling was a collaboration with Broad Science, an initiative dedicated to making science inclusive, engaging, and intersectional, through podcasting. Learn more about them at https://www.broadscience.org.

After the storytelling, Deb talks to Leigh about how she and her family are coping in Covid times.

Leigh Kinch-Pedrosa is the marketing and communications manager for the Rebus Foundation and the former general manger of Confabulation Montreal. As a story producer and storyteller, Leigh finds creative ways to mesh the worlds of food and restaurants with contemporary autobiographical storytelling. She is the creator of Food Core/Essence Culinaire and a story producer for SOUNDBITES, both Phi Centre productions.

*During the interview Leigh referenced a story about a Haitian asylum seeker working in a long term care facility who passed away from Covid. His name is Sony Innocent. This is the news story referenced. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-low-income-inequality-covid-19-1.5570296

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#52: Ritual

Season 3 · Episode 52

Thursday, May 21, 2020 • Duration 34:19

This week's podcast features a story by Smriti Bansal, recorded at our season opening show in September 2019 at the Centaur theatre. Bonus track: Matt checks in by phone with Smriti, who talks, among other things, about the silver lining of dating in the time of Covid.

Smriti Bansal is a full time communications maven, and a part time Confabulation producer. She spends her days (and some nights) creating content that empowers companies to reach the people they need to achieve their wildest dreams.

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Podcast production: Stephen Trepanier and Deb VanSlet

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

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#51: Gain

Season 3 · Episode 51

Thursday, May 7, 2020 • Duration 25:16

This week's podcast features a beautiful story by Emira Tufo about loss, escape and rebirth. The story was told before a live audience at our Families show in December 2017. Plus a bonus track! We catch up with Emira at home (where else) and talk about pandemical thinking and being--what to wear to the hardware store and recommended reading for these strange days.

Emira Tufo is a Bosnian Canadian lawyer and writer. Her essays have been featured in The Globe and Mail, the Montreal Gazette and on CBC. She is the recipient of the 2019 CBC/Quebec Writers' Federation Writer in Residence Award and is the co-author of Montreal Murmurs, a blog that chronicles the curious, the funny and furious aspects of life in Canada's most mischievous city.

Thanks to the Conseil des Arts de Montreal for their support of Confabulation.

Podcast production: Stephen Trepanier and Deb VanSlet

Music credit: Can't Have You by Bent by Elephants from their album This is Water. You can find more of their music at https://bentbyelephantsband.bandcamp.com/

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