Jim Blake

Box 1248
Haliburton, ON   K0M 1S0

Home/Résidence: 705-457-5278
Work/travai:705 457-3351
Email/Courriel:Jim Blake

Jim resides in Haliburton where he works as a facilitator, consultant, educator and storyteller. He teaches at the Haliburton School of The Arts and serves as the Coordinator for the Arts Council~Haliburton Highlands.

Jim is a professional storyteller who has performed at festivals, events and many other venues across Canada over the past twenty years. He has performed under the midnight sun, on the world wide web and many unusual places in between. His storytelling repertoire encompasses traditional and literary tales, first person historical works, personal stories and original work cobbled together from the detritus of every day life. His original stories have been published in a number of collections.

Jim is the curator of Fabled City - The Lost Stories of Toronto a series of storytelling performances recounting parts of Toronto’s history done in collaboration with the City of Toronto Museums and the Toronto Festival of Storytelling. Jim has collaborated with storytellers Helen Porter, Rico Rodriguez and Mariella Bertelli, musicians Lina Allemano, Rob Clutton and Tim Potgate and artist Randi Helmers in a series called Travel Tales and Jazz . Jim performs with fellow Haliburton storyteller Fay Wilkinson in the storytelling collaborative “Creative Cocoon Storytellers”.

Nov 16, , 2008