British Columbia
Legend for storytellers' categories
Tigge-Anne Andersen
#5-12311 No. 2 Road
Richmond, BC V7E 0A1
Home #:604-241-4163
Work #: FAX: 604-241-2144
Email: tiganne@telus.net
Bio: Steeped in stories over a lifetime, Anne tells stories to provide both
teller and listener with moments of laughter, moments of wonder, and moments
that offer a window on the human condition. Her stories are primarily from
world folklore and literary tales with an overall sense of folktale. As a
tale-spinner she has told stories and conducted workshops in many varied
settings - schools, libraries, festivals, radio, television, community
centres, historic sites, parks, churches, and special storytelling events.
Anne works actively with organizations that nurture storytellers, the
community of listeners, and the art of storytelling.
Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,AW
Allice Bernards
RR#1 Site R Comp 5
Bowen Island BC V0N 1G0
Phone: 604 947-2482
Email: allice@storysalt.com
Website: http://www.storysalt.com
Using mainly folktales, Allice loves to travel the varied worlds of Story.
Her welcoming presence invites listeners of all ages to relax and enjoy
the journey she takes them along into realms where anything is possible.
Allice is known as the "Bard of Bowen Island" but, happily, she
can also be found telling stories in festivals, classrooms, libraries and
cares on that "land across the water."
Categories: E,C,YA,A,T
Elspeth Bowers
MIssion, BC
Email: elspethbowers@shaw.ca
Bio:Born in Vancouver into a family who cherished stories, I have also lived in
Massachusetts and India. Now a Children's Librarian, I tell stories for all ages.
Norma Elizabeth Cameron
825 Clayton Road
Deep Cove BC
V8L 5M3
Home#: 250-655-3352
work: 250-721-8967
fax: 250-721-8961
Email: norma33@telus.net
Bio:Norma, a writer and storyteller, draws on her childhood experiences growing
up outside Glasgow to weave Scottish traditional stories with charming and often hilarious
family tales. She has conducted workshops and performed at various storytelling festivals
and events in Canada, Scotland, England and Ireland. She ahs also written and performed
a one-woman play, Coalmines, Council Houses and Corsets: The Life and Times of a
Scottish Granny – adapted from her collection of stories based on her real-life
Granny Jamieson.
Categories: E,C,A,YA,CW,AW
Pat Carfra
181 Goward Rd
Victoria BC V9E 2H7
Phone: 250-479-9118
FAX: 250-479-9488
Email: plcarfra@shaw.ca
Bio: Pat has had a singing career as 'The Lullaby Lady'. While wearing that hat, she released 3 international award-winning recordings to encourage parents to sing with their children. Eighteen years ago, as a founding member of the Victoria Storytellers' Guild, she began to explore storytelling and now combines story and song in her performances for audiences of all ages. Pat is always on the lookout for a story to enhance a song and vice versa.
Categories: E,C,A,
Victoria Cownden
4337 Ridgewood Crs.
Victoria, BC V8Z 4Z6
Home #: 250-727-3097
Email:scownden@telus.net
Bio: Victoria is an active member of the Victoria Storytellers' Guild and one of the organizers of the 2009 Victoria Conference.
Comfort Adesuwa Ero
Surrey, BC
Home phone: 604-596-2309
Work phone: 604-254-6468
FAX: 604-596-1309
Email: comfort.ero@shaw.ca
Bio:Comfort learned to tell stories from Grandparents, uncles, aunties who all lived in the same household.
She has told stories as far back as when she learned to talk. Her vivacity in telling folktales among her peers prompted
her parents to send her to her new village missionary school. She went to college, taught and rose to become a principal
at a time when it was very unpopular to send girls to school in Africa.
For her, storytelling has been a useful tool to bring light into her teaching, raising her children and into her life.
Since coming to Canada in 1996, she has told stories in hundreds of schools, community centres and colleges, all over the country.
Categories: E,F, Other (Edo, Yoruba, Pidgin - Languages from Nigeria), A,YA,C,T
Jennifer Ferris
2811 Prior Street
Victoria, BC V8T 3Y2
Email: tjferris@shaw.ca
Bio: Victoria storyteller, Jennifer Ferris, has told stories for 15 years in schools, at community events and festivals. Her interest and connection to the history of Vancouver Island has provided many storytelling opportunities. In addition to her own stories, she also entertains audiences with stories of myths, magic and transformation from around the world. She gives workshops to adults and children and she is v
ery interested in promoting storytelling in the family.
Abegael Fisher-Lang
515 East 8th Street
North Vancouver, BC V7L 1Z7
Home phone:604-985-5168
Email: afl@mythopoetica.ca
Bio: Abegael Fisher-Lang is a storyteller with the educational program Learning Through the Arts. Through her company Mythopoetica Storytelling, she brings storywork to organizations, facilitates creative community story events, and presents workshops on all aspects of storytelling. Mostly, she enjoys helping groups set up healing story circles so they can tell their own stories.
Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,AW
Albert Fowler
1346 Lang Street
Victoria, BC V8T 2S5
Home phone: 250-382-7871
Email: padre_al@shaw.ca
Mary Gavan
#201 1636 Haro Street
Vancouver BC V6G 1G7
Home phone: 604 683-1575
Email: marygavan@telus.net
Bio: As a Celtic healer of the dying, long is the time that I have been
hearing and sharing stories which appeal to my soul.
Categories: E,B,A
Anne Glover
20 San Jose Ave
Victoria, BC V8V 2C2
Home phone: 250 360 2101
Work phone:250 360 2101
Email: info@anneglover.com
Website: www.anneglover.com
Bio: Anne Glover tells her hilarious and moving renditions of traditional folk tales, intertwined with stories of two fascinating decades on the road as a professional storyteller. She ties it all together with mind-bending string figures, forays into other languages, and a delicious comedic sense of balance. This Victoria-based performer plies her mischief and her magic in festivals, schools and living-rooms across the continent, and looks forward to making joyous trouble wherever she goes!
Categories: E,F,Sign Language, A,YA,C,CW,YAW, AW,T
Barry Gray
847 Lewis Road
Nelson, BC V1L 6P7
Home #: 250-229-4671
Work# : 250-505-6671
Email: fototext@shaw.ca
Peg Hasted
Victoria BC
Email: tales@telus.net
Bio: Born and raised on Vancouver Island, Peg is currently researching and collecting the oral stories of those who settled along the rugged West Coast. Her repertoire also contains world folktales and lively participation stories that she tells at schools, libraries, cafes, and community events. An early childhood educator, Peg presents workshops for all ages on the art of storytelling - encouraging participants to put down the book and tell from the heart.
E,T,C,YA,A,CW,AW
Deidre A. Hill
Victoria, B.C.
Email: DeidreHill@telus.net
Website: Deidre A. Hill - Writer, Storyteller
Bio: Deidre tells stories at community, school, and university venues. Ranging from antediluvian to contemporary times, her multicultural repertoire includes classical, duet-telling, environmental, fable, folk, legend, original, and personal stories. She organizes and facilitates classes in storytelling, gives presentations, and offers consulting services to other event organizers, storytellers, and teachers. In 1998, Deidre created, and continues to moderate, the Vancouver Island Storytellers' E-Mail Tree listserv which provides and distributes information of interest to over 225 tellers around Vancouver Island.
Categories: E,H,C,YA,A,CW,AW
Philomena Jordan - Irish Storyteller
Vancouver, BC
Home phone: 604-299-8062
Email:
philomenajordan@shaw.ca
Bio: Born and raised in the West of Ireland Philomena entertains audiences of all ages with stories songs and poetry from the rich heritage of her native tradition.
Shoshana Litman
1250 Rudlin Street
Victoria, BC V8V 3R7
Home phone: 250-388-0780
FAX: 250-360-1560
Email info@maggidah.com
Website: www.maggidah.com
Bio:
Shoshana Litman tells lively stories filled with universal wisdom drawn from Jewish and world sources as well as her vivid imagination. She inspires diverse audiences of all ages and encourages audience participation. Shoshana became ordained as a Maggidah, a traditional Jewish storyteller, speaker and teacher, in May 2008. Also known as Suzanne Kort Litman, she has a degree in environmental science and has published newspaper columns, technical papers, poetry and travel books.
Categories E,A,YA,C,T,H,B
Faye Mogensen
1967 Nicholas Road,
Saanichton BC V8M 1X8
Work#: 250-652-9770
FAX: 250-652-9770
Email: a.muse@telus.net
Bio: A long-time Victoria storyteller, Faye reaches into the great box of stories… and draws on those from her Scandinavian heritage, her passion for nature, her delight in seasonal celebrations, and her love of far-off lands to weave folklore, personal story and non-fiction into tales of mystery, humour and passion.
Categories: E,C,YA,A,T
Margaret Murphy
2139 Sun Valley Drive
Nanaimo, BC V9T 6K6
Home phone: 250-729-9994
Fax: 250-729-9076
Email:
storyshare@telus.net
Bio: Margaret shares Celtic wonder tales, world folktales and Canadian folklore
with audiences of all ages. A teller, a teacher and a workshop facilitator,
Margaret works with schools, hospitals, festivals and businesses to awaken spirit
Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,YAW,AW,H,T,B
Gabriel Newman
621 Black Rock Rd
Verson, BC V1B 3H8
Work phone: 250-260-8757
Email: ghosttours@shaw.ca
Bio:Gabriel Newman has worked in theatre for the past fourteen years. For the past three years his Ghost Tours of Vernon has combined his love of the dramatic with personal stories from the past.
Gabriel also enjoys mining his own life as well as the lives of others for comedic and touching stories about raising a family and trying to remain sane.
Regardless the topic or what persona Gabriel may take on, it is sure to be entertaining.
Catgories: E,A,YA,T
Steven Rathwell
600 North Boundary Road
Burnaby, BC V5K 3T5
Home phone: 604-873-2072
Email: evenSteven@twistedtales.ca
Webpage: www.twistedtales.ca (under construction)
Bio: evenSteven is a writer and storyteller. at 31, he retired forever from the public school system to teach his pleasures and passions. Stories range from personal to surreal to absurd to eastern mysticism to world literature to urban and rural myth and legend. An agent provocateur guaranteed to tickle your funnybone.
Melanie Ray
#425 - 581 Cardero St
Vancouver BC V6G 3L3
Phone: 604 874-3519
Email: melanieray@telus.net
Melanie stumbled across theatre at 18, and jumped into storytelling at
37. She and Nan Gregory were a duo from 1984 to 1989. Since then,
Melanie has continued telling for all ages in diverse venues across
Canada and elsewhere. Folktales, literature and history fill her
extensive repertoire. Two favourites - the long Medieval epic,
"Tristan and Iseult," and an hour of Emily Carr's stories knit
together as "A Song of Small."
Categories: E,C,YA,A,AW
Naomi Steinberg
Vancouver, BC
Email: story@naomi-eliana.ca
Website: www.naomi-eliana.ca
Bio: Once upon a time there was a girl named Naomi who loved to listen. And the more she listened the more
she understood that the world was full of stories and that these stories offered not only entertainment but also
solace and inspiration. She began to tell stories from dinner tables to classrooms, from the 11th Annual International
Storytelling Festival in Vancouver, Canada to the Science Meets Dharma project in Southern India.
From hospices to forests, new words and old tales found each other.
Categories: E,F,YA,A,AW,H,T,B
Robert Stelmach, a.k.a. Max Tell
214 - 14990 North Bluff Road
White Rock, BC V4B 3E4
Home phone: 604 538-9466
Email: robert@maxtell.ca
Website: www.maxtell.ca
Bio: Robert Stelmach, a.k.a. Max Tell, has toured S.E. Asia five times and has performed at many festivals including The Vancouver Children's Festival (5), The Surrey Children's Festival (2), The Vancouver Storytelling Festival (6), and the Seattle Arts Festival (2). Max's fourth CD, Little Johnny Small and Other Stories, is soon to be released. Recently, his story, "Fiezo, the Book Burro", was placed on the short list for the 2007 Writers' Union Children's Writing Competition.
Categories: E,C,A
Linda Stender
#205-2095 Beach Ave.
Vancouver BC V6G 1Z3
Phone: 604-662-7371
Email: linda_stender@telus.net
Kate Stevens
2115 Lorne Tce.
Victoria BC V8S 2H9
Phone: 250 592-1352
Bio: Kate is a retired professor of Chinese literature who has spent the
last fifty years of her life immersed in Chinese stories, making
frequent trips to China to research Chinese storytellers/storysingers.
She tells only traditional Chinese tales, using Chinese language sources
and her own translations/adaptations. She enjoys gardening, birding and
walking by the sea but always has time for anyone who shares her enjoyment
of story in general and Chinese tales in particular.
E, O (Chinese), T, C, YA
Reisa Stone
Victoria, B.C.
Website: www.reisastone.blogspot.com
Reisa’s original tales & rewritten legends draw from the wisdom of wild Slavic grandmothers (& other forces of Nature)
who brew a mean pot of borscht & mystical advice. Richly embroidered stories & songs of love, loss, training for the
Olympics on a pig farm, marriage to a stag---it's all here. Reisa is a CBC artist, Banff Centre alumna & SOCAN member.
She also teaches vocal release/creativity workshops privately & for Long & McQuade.
The Story Theatre Company
Jim Leard
1291 Gladstone Avenue
Victoria, BC V8M 1G5
Home phone: 250-652-4794
Work phone: 250-383-4140
Email:
Website: http://www.storytheatre.ca
Bio: The Story Theatre Company has been taking its special style of storytelling into the schools for 25 years.
Folk tales, fairy tales and the classics have been brought alive in Elementary schools across Canada in
these delightful performances.
Categories: E,C,AW,T
Kira Van Deusen
1350 Comox St #408
Vancouver, BC V6E 4E1
Phone: 604-893-8367
Email: kiravan@shaw.ca
Website: www.kiravan.com
Bio:
Traveling in Siberia over 15 years, Kira connected with indigenous traditions, stories, and people - their lives,
history, spirituality, and humour. She delights listeners with adventures in worlds beyond what we see with the eye,
accompanied by her evocative original cello and vocal music. More recently she learned the ancient Inuit legend of
"Kiviuq" from Inuit elders in Nunavut. A fan of the long story, she has organized several of Vancouver's "Epic Weekends".
Categories: E, O (Russian),C, YA, A
Vancouver Society of Storytelling
#2-246 E. Broadway
Vancouver BC V5T 1W3
Work Phone: 604-876-2272
Email: info@vancouverstorytelling.org
Website: www.vancouverstorytelling.org
Victoria Storytellers' Guild
c/o Jacquie Hunt
#301 2230 Cadboro Bay Road
Victoria BC V8R 5G9
Email: info@victoriastorytellers.org
Website: http://www.victoriastorytellers.org
Bio: The Victoria Storytellers' Guild is an active storytelling group.
We promote storytelling by providing tellers, both professional and amateur,
for community events, by holding affordable workshops, and by providing
mentors to novice members. We welcome visiting storytellers.
Susan Warner
227 Moss Avenue
#301 2230 Cadboro Bay Road
Parksville BC V9P 1L7
Home #: 250-248-7060
Work#: same
Fax #: 250-248-5411
Email: rootswings@shaw.ca
Storytelling with a spontaneous flavour; improvisational storyteller, singer, actor for 25 years.
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