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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2013-09-19, Page 17THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2013. PAGE 17. Women’s Institute inspires festival presentationMost life stories begin with "I wasborn" thus the title of PeggyCoffey’s mask and story piece was chosen. This is a presentation you won't want to miss. The Alice Munro Writers and Readers Festival is hosting a presentation by actor and creative director Peggy Coffey in a reading of her mask and story piece – I Was Born – at 1:30 p.m. on Sept. 28 at the Phillips Studio, Blyth. Peggy brings alive the stories of women who began their lives at the turn ofthe century in rural Ontario –extraordinary women who lived through some of the most dramatic changes of any generation. The presentation is based on stories of the women of the Women’s Institutes, which were collected and published by the Women’s Institute (WI) in a book called From This Place by Pat Salter. These stories will touch your heart and soul. The Institute Women did so much for rural Ontario.“I was immediately taken by thepower and historical significance of the stories these women tell about the lives they lived in the early part of the 20th Century in rural southern Ontario,” Coffey says, and she began to envision a theatre piece which would tell these stories and celebrate the lives of these women. Working in collaboration with Heather Ruthig, a prop and mask maker from the Stratford Festival, they created the first mask. ‘Grace’is a 90-year-old woman who tells thefirst story in the book. Coffey recalls: “I envisioned ‘Grace’ standing on a white pedestal with “circa 1901” on a sign at her feet, the idea being that she is a museum piece. Then Grace steps off the pedestal and tells her story.” She gives “voice to an entire generation, whose perspective stands in illuminating contrast to our crowded, chaotic, and ever-shrinking world” one audience member saidafter seeing Peggy perform thispiece. Marion Adler says it best: I Was Born is “a magical, immediate, exhilarating experience of the past [achieved] with simplicity and grace.” Doors open at 1 p.m. and the reading performance begins at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 per person, available online at AliceMunroFestival.ca or by calling Karen Stewart at 519-523-4328. 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