Mona-Lynne Ayotte
10 Healy Crescent
Winnipeg, MB R2N 2S9
Home phone: 204-255-1617
Work phone: 204-453-8023, ext 316
FAX: 204-284-0448
Email: mlayotte@shaw.ca
Bio: Mona-Lynne Ayotte, M.Ed., is a bilingual Winnipeg Teacher-Librarian, whose love of story began at
quite a young age. Dramatic to the core, and a lover of picture book stories and elaborate plots, Ms. Ayotte uses flare,
vocal intonations, and facial convincing to grip her audience. Dressing the part occasionally or including the beat
of the drum in her stories, Ms. Ayotte enjoys telling stories to all age groups.
Categories: E,F,C,YA,A,CW,AW
Mary Louise Chown
35 Cordova Street
Winnipeg, MB R3N 0Z9
PH: 204-489-6994
FAX: 204-489-5460
Email: mlchown@shaw.ca
Website: www.marylouisechown.com
Bio: Mary Louise is a storyteller, visual artist and musician with degrees in Education ands Fine Arts.
She has extensive classroom, workshop and performance experience with adults and children, often including drum
and hammered dulcimer with her stories. She works as a visiting artist in collaboration with other artists at
festivals across Canada. She is co-founder of the Magic of One Story and Music concert series,
and the BraveHeart Storytellers, an anti-gang initiative in Winnipeg.
Categories: E,C,YA,CW,AW,T,B
Valerie Clancy
31 Jewett Bay
Winnipeg, MB
R3R 2M9
Home phone: 204-895-8155
Email: frankval66@hotmail.com
Bio:
Val Clancy, School Social worker involved for 2 years
with children at risk in elementary and middle schools.
Now for the last 7 years has visited schools and libraries,
using “healing” stories, folktales, legends, etc. to help
develop the child’s self-esteem, feelings, vocabulary and
positive self-talk.
Categories: E,C,CW,T
Wilma Holland
Box 89, Group 5, RR #2
Dugald, MB R0E 0K0
Home phone: 204-444-3385
Email: hil2wil@prairie.ca
Bio: A Storytelling workshop by Kay Stone began Wilma's addiction to Stories in 1995.
She used stories as a creative tool in bringing laughter and meaning into the lives of the elderly
as she worked in a Personal Care Home as a Recreation Facilitator for 14 years. She is newly retired.
She enjoys telling stories in Schools, Churches, and presentations to diverse groups.
Born in The Netherlands, having lived on a Navajo Reservation in New Mexico, and in 5 Canadian Provinces Wilma enjoys telling a variety of cultural tales and stories.
