Storytelling Experience

  • more than 20 years storytelling experience
  • Chair of Durham Folklore Storytellers
  • Member of The Storytellers School of Toronto
  • Member of Storytellers of Canada
  • Past Creator and Artistic Director of stage concerts entitled A Celtic Celebration to Welcome Spring
  • Past Creator and Co-ordinator of Stories for a Summer's Night concert series
  • Experienced teacher with curriculum-writing experience
  • Member of CANSCAIP
  • Past Member of Canadian Association of Storytellers for Children, (CASC)
  • Past Artistic Director, Set Designer and Teller for "the Witching Hour" Hallowe'en concert for The Literacy Council of Durham Region
  • Director, Organizer, Set Designer and "Teller" for private house parties: "Stories for May Eve: Beltaine" and "Stories for All Hallow's Eve."
  • Guest performer at Ottawa Storytelling Festival, The Toronto Festival of Storytelling, The Fireside Epic, and Once Upon a Thames Storytelling Festival.
  • Guest performer for Eastern Townships Language Arts Festival, Bishops University, Quebec
  • Workshop presenter: Eastern Townships Language Arts Festival, Sherbrooke, Quebe.
  • Artistic Director/Coordinator Yuletide Tales, World Storytelling Day (Oshawa), Tellebration (Ajax), The DFS Pavillion for the Peony Festival (Parkwood, Oshawa).
  • Stories for A Christmas Night Church Concerts with harpist / pianist Deborah Northing?? Nestleton United Church
  • Celtic Music and Storytelling in Bethany, ON
  • Guest Solo Performer for "Christmas Eve by Candlelight" Scugog Island United Church
  • Durham Folklore Storytellers, Chair for World Storytelling Day Project 2012, Out On A Limb, for Durham Region in partnership with Storytellers of Canada