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Ontario

Jan Andrews
Gail Anglin
Adwoa Badoe
Kathleen Bailey
Maryann Bailey
Ron Baker
Ariel Balevi
Bob Barton
Patricia Bear Claw
Micki Beck
Aaron Bell
Mariella Bertelli
Pat Bisset
Marva Blackmore
B. George Blake
Jim Blake
Brant Taletellers Guild
June Brown
Lorne Brown
Brenda Byers
Canadian Assoc of Storytellers for Children
Bruce Carmody
Judy Caulfield
Jennifer Cayley
Dianne Chandler
Susan Charters
Charly Chiarelli
Megan Collings-Moore
Paul Conway
- see Voyageur Storytelling
Rita Cox - ON 2007
Ruth Danziger
Phyllis Davison

Donna Dudinsky
Deborah Dunleavy
Ellis-Lynn Duschenes
Ruthanne Edward
Kevin Eisbrenner
Allen Ender
Ann Estill
Four Winds Library
Gail Fricker
Susan Getchell
Michelle Gram
Sarah Granskou
Katherine Grier
Pauline Grondin
Laurel Dee Gugler
Diane Halpin
Hamilton Children's Museum
Brian Hetherington
Jack Howard
Linda Howes
Maureen Hunter
Sally Jaeger
Glenna Janzen
Sue Kenney
Anna Kerz
Anna Kerz
Kim Kilpatrick
Kathie Kompass
Ingrid Kosijer
Bill Lalonde
Tom Lips
Celia Lottridge
Norma Lundberg
Laurie Malabar
Mary-Eileen McClear

Jim Meeks
Cathy Melville
René Meshake
William (Bill) Dennis Montgomery
Anne Nagy
Laura Newland
Ottawa Storytellers
Parent-Child Mother Goose Program
Marylyn Peringer
Norman Perrin - see Four Winds Library
Richard Preston
Leslie Robbins-Conway
- see Voyageur Storytelling
Barry Rosen
Lucie Roy
Jean Ryan
Alan Shain
Marta Singh
Goldie Spencer
Donna Stewart
Ruth Stewart-Verger
Storytellers School
of Toronto
Molly Sutkaitis
Stephen Van Vugt
Nancy Vermond
Voyageur Storytelling
Carol Leigh Wehking
John Wesselson
Heather Whaley
Alette Willis
Terri Whitfield
Harriet Trianthe Xanthakos
Dan Yashinsky

Jan Andrews
RR 2
Lanark ON K0G 1K0

Home/Résidence:613-256-0353
FAX/Télecopier: 613-728-3872
Email/Courriel: jandrews@magma.ca

Bio: Jan Andrews has a particular interest in epic stories, as well as traditional folk and fairy tales. She delights in communicating her passion for the storyteller's art in workshops and teaching situations, and tells in schools. A children's author and Past National Coordinator for Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada, she produces a winter series of epic tellings in Ottawa and has organized such events as a complete telling of The Odyssey. Available year round.
Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,AW

Gail Anglin
1552 Lassiter Terr,
Ottawa ON K1J 8N4

Home/Résidence: 613-745-3689
Email/Courriel: gail.anglin@sympatico.ca

Bio: Gail brings all kinds of characters (even ancient, epic ones) to life with her lively style of storytelling. You'll often find music and laughter accompanying her telling.
Categories: E,C,YA,A

Adwoa Badoe
74 Janefield Avenue, Suite 136,
Guelph, ON   N1G 2L6

Home/Résidence:  519-766-9240
Email/Courriel:   adwoa@afroculture.com

Kathleen J. Bailey
Toronto, ON
Work/Travail/: 416 395-5728
Email/Courriel: driftway@sympatico.ca

Bio: Kathleen is a children's librarian who works for Toronto Public Library

Maryann Bailey
4 Woodland Glen Drive
Guelph ON N1G 3N6

Home/Résidence: 519-829-2818
Email/Courriel: < baileyfamily@sympatico.ca -

Bio:A traditional storyteller for over 18 years. Experience in libraries, schools, early childhood, foster care and children's recreation is a foundation for her instant rapport with listeners of all ages.

Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,AW

Ron Baker
1004 Dyers Bay Road
RR #1 Miller Lake ON N0H 1Z0 </font>

Home/Résidence: 519-795-7652
Email/Courriel: ronritabaker@aol.com

Bio:Ron Baker has always told stories  at school, in youth clubs, in church and as a librarian. He's been an actor, director, mime, clown and comedian, but in 1986, at a children's camp he became a STORYTELLER, which seemed to be where life had been leading! All other skills and arts learned along the way blended seamlessly into this timeless art. Told with gentle humour and compassion, Ron's stories cover the gamut of human emotion. An experience not to be missed!

Ariel Balevi
68 Wells Hill Avenue, 1st floor
Toronto, ON M5R 3A8

Home/Résidence:   416-534-2291
Work/Travail :   416-212-6254
Email/Courriel:   bergottemorel@hotmail.com

Bio: Ariel is a storyteller for adults, children, and general audiences. He tells stories from the Eastern tradition, in particular from the folklore and literature of Iran and Turkey. His repertoire includes stories from Shahnameh, the Haft Paykar and the Thousand and One Nights. Ariel also has an interest in the French literary tales as exemplified by such writers as Perrault, d'Aulnoy and Leprince de Beaumont. He has performed in Washington D.C., Ottawa as well as Toronto.

Bob Barton
308-50 Prince Arthur Avenue,
Toronto ON M5R 1B5

Home/Résidence: 416-686-6016
Work/Travail: 4416-686-6016
Email/Courriel: bobbarton@sympatico.ca

Bio: Bob Barton has performed at festivals throughout Canada, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. His written works range from children's books to professional texts.

Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,AW

Patricia Bear Claw
85 Henry Lane Terrace, Apt. #314
Toronto, ON M5A 4B8 Home/Résidence: 416-504-8241
Email/Courriel: p_bearclaw@yahoo.ca

Bio: Pat has a passion for pioneer survivial and trickster stories. She is an adventurer, professional speaker and grew up as a pioneer in tents and one room dirt floor cabins. She has told stories for over 20 years to small and large groups. She delights in showing people how the pioneer survived.

Micki Beck
P.O. Box 430
Apsley, ON K0L 1A0

Email/Courriel: bumbleberry@sympatico.ca

Bio: Micki, also known as "Micki the Pot 'O Gold Storyteller" has told for over 40 years internationally as well as at Ottawa and Toronto festivals, and in Alberta and Vancouver as well as starting story circles in Bancroft and Apsley and organizing "A Celebration of Storytelling North of Seven" for the past three years.

Mariella Bertelli
140 Ellsworth Avenue
Toronto ON M6G 2K6

Home #:416-652-3775
Email/Courriel: mbertelli@tpl.toronto.on.ca

Pat Bisset (Buffalo Jump Artists Collective)
100 Bain Ave #72 Maples,
Toronto ON M4K 1E8

Home/Résidence: 416 767-6650
Work/Travail: 647-346-1907
Email/Courriel: patbisset@yahoo.ca

Bio: Buffalo Jump Artists Collective is a group of storytellers, actors and artisans staging the Toronto National Aboriginal Day Walk, Music and Storytelling Event each June 21 along with storytelling and traditional craft activities etc. during the year. It is Native run but open to people from the four directions - see our giant buffaloes! Contact Pat Bisset.

Categories: E,C,YA,A

Marva Blackmore
Ottawa, ON K2C 0V3

Home/Résidence: 613-226-2972
Email/Courriel: marva.blackmore@gmail.com

Bio:Marvas experience is largely with adult and young adult audiences. She is particularly interested in historical tales and also tells personal stories about her lively travels with her husband, David. Tales with an interesting twist are her favorites and she is currently expanding her repertoire to also include myths and legends along with the folk tales and literary stories she already tells. Categories: E,YA,A,YAW,AW,T

B. George Blake
300 Park Road North
Oshawa, ON L1J 4M2

Home/Résidence: 905-579-7149
FAX/Télecopier:905-579-3601
Email/Courriel: geoblake.vijja@sympatico.ca

Bio:George Blake was born in Jamaica. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He came to Canada in 1966, taught for a time in at York University in Downsview, Ontario and at retirement was director of Psychological Services at Oshawa General Hospital. Since then he has been an active storyteller, specializing in AfroCaribbean folktales, his own compositions and Jataka tales (birth stories of the Buddha). He is founder of the Durham Folklore Society and the Kalalu Percussion Ensemble. The drum plays a key role in AfroCaribbean presentations.

Categories: E,C,YA,A,AW,T

Jim Blake
Box 1248
Haliburton, ON K0M 1S0

Home/Résidence: 705-457-5278
Work/travai:705 457-3351
Email/Courriel:jblake@sympatico.ca

Bio: Jim Blake, who hangs his hat in Haliburton, Ontario, has a storytelling repertoire that encompasses traditional and literary tales, 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.

Brant Taletellers Guild
13 Horner Street
Brantford, ON N3R 2C5

Home/Résidence:   519-756-0727
Website/site Web:   www.tales.bizbrant.com/
Email/Courriel:   taletellers@bizbrant.com

Bio:The Brant Taletellers Guild in an incorporated non-profit organization that encourages storytellers to grow in their art and fosters enjoyment and appreciation of oral stoytleling in the communities of Brant Count. It hosts monthly public meetings where storytellers and listeners gather to pracice the art of oral storytelling.

Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,AW

June Brown
76 Florence Ave
Toronto, ON M2N 1G3

Home/Résidence: 416-221-3190
Email/Courriel: jandabrown@rogers.com

A teller for all ages in schools ,libraries and public venues. Has a special bond with preschool and primary children. Uses an interactive style,songs, flannel boards and a draw and tell method to captivate her audiences.

Lorne Brown
44 Wentworth Avenue
Toronto ON M2N 1T7

Home/Résidence: 416-225-1547
FAX/Télecopier:416-225-6891
Email/Courriel: lorbro@rogers.com

Bio: "Singer of Old Songs, Teller of Old Tales" Founder of Appleseed Quarterly, the Canadian Journal of Storytelling. Co-founder of The Storytellers School of Toronto. Founder of "The Ballad Project". Director of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music. Artistic Co-director, The Legless Stocking. Lorne is a storyteller, author, oral historian, ballad singer and banjo picker.

Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,AW

Brenda Byers
429 Stinson Avenue
Burlington ON L7R 2X1

Home/Résidence: 905-637-3071
Email/Courriel: brenda@storywyse.com
Website/site Web:http://www.storywyse.com

Bio: Brenda's natural exuberance and delight in her listeners shine through as she weaves her tales for the very young to the young at heart. Brenda tells folktales and spirit stories of humour, wisdom, healing, searching for truth and more. A member of the Burlington Storytellers' Guild, Uppity Women, The Storytellers School of Toronto, Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada and Tales from Two Tellers with Marilyn Helmer, Brenda has been telling professionally for eight years.

Categories: E,C,YA,A

Canadian Association of Storytellers for Children (CASC)
336 Willard Ave
Toronto ON M6S 3R2

Home/Résidence: 416-699-2608
Email/Courriel: cascinfo@yahoo.ca

Bio:The Canadian Association of Storytellers for Children (C.A.S.C.) is an organization committed to promoting storytelling for children and youth and developing a national network for storytellers, families and communities. CASC publishes a quarterly newsletter packed with rhymes, stories and articles. CASC also presents several concerts and two professional development swaps a year. Executive directors are: Carol Ashton, Joan Bailey, Donna Dudinsky, Sally Jaeger, Hildy Stollery, Meghan Thompson, and Harriet Xanthakos.

Bruce Carmody
Home/Résidence: 905 853-6334
Email/Courriel: bruce@storytree.ca
Website/site Web: www.thestoryteller.ca

Bio: Bruce Carmody is a bilingual storyteller (English and French), who tells in schools and churches throughout southern Ontario. He is currently president of the Storytellers School of Toronto.

Judy Caulfield
58 Ferndale Crescent
Brampton, ON L6W 1E9

Home/Résidence: 905-457-5117
Email/Courriel:jcaulfield@oise.utoronto.ca

Categories: E

Jennifer Cayley
RR 2
Lanark ON K0G 1K0

Home/Résidence: 613-256-0353
FAX/Télecopier:613-728-3872
Email/Courriel: jcayley@magma.ca

Bio: Jennifer Cayley has been listening to stories and reading them forever. During the last five years she has told at festivals in Ottawa, Vancouver, Toronto and North Bay and in classrooms in the National Capitol Region. The old wisdom of epic myth and wonder tales along with the traditional folk and fairy tales are her favourites. Stories from The Odyssey and The Iliad are a particular specialty. Programs can be developed for audiences aged eight and above.

Categories: E,YA,A

Dianne Chandler
3171 Chandler Drive
Port Perry, ON L9L 1B6

Home/Résidence:905-985-3424
Work/Travail: 905-985-5297
Email/Courriel: story.teller@sympatico.ca

Bio: Dianne weaves candlelit dramas illuminating folktales, fairy tales, and historical tales to enchant listeners of all ages. With some stories Dianne uses props and puppets and audience participation is invited. Time is allowed for quiet reflection to focus the inner eye on each storys images and the opportunity for group sharing of these powerful images. Equally comfortable in any story light, Dianne applies her years of teaching and curriculum writing experience to planning and performing her programmes and workshops.

Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW

Susan Charters
1192 Birchcliffe Cres.,
R.R. 4, Orillia, ON L3V 6H4

Home/Résidence: 705-325-8463
FAX/Télecopier: 705-325-5596
Email/Courriel: chartersfamily@hotmail.com

Bio: Susan brings stories to schools, festivals, churches and interfaith communities. She has a collection of wolf tales and loves to share traditional stories, mainly from the British Isles, often presenting with a partner who provides music to add to the weaving of the tales.

Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,CW,YAW,AW,T

Charly Chiarelli
1656 Shore Rd,
Kingston, ON K7L 5H6
Email/Courriel: wendy.ross@queensu.ca

Categories: E,O (Italian)

Megan Collings-Moore
61 Ballantyne Ave
Stratford, ON N5A 3A6

Home/Résidence: 519-273-3457
Work/Travail : 519-884-4404 x 28604
Email/Courriel: mcolling@renison.uwaterloo.ca

Bio: Megan tells stories for children and adults. An Anglican priest, she delights in folk-tales and religious stories, as well as creating interactive versions of Biblical stories especially for children and adults.

Categories: E,C,A

Paul Conway - see Voyageur Storytelling

Rita Cox
65 Southport St., #801
Toronto, ON M6S 3N6

Home/Résidence: 416-762-7113
FAX/Télecopier: 416-762-7791
Email/Courriel: rcox408@rogers.com

Ruth Danziger
42 Vermont Avenue
Toronto ON M6G 1X9

Home/Résidence: 416-588-0068
Work/Travail: 416-588-5234
FAX/Télecopier: 416-588-1355
Email/Courriel: rdanziger@ca.inter.net

Bio: Ruth tells to adults and children at festivals, Spiral Gardens, Bloorview MacMillan Centre Hospital in Toronto, as an "Artist in the Schools" and in workshops across Canada. Her role as a storyteller/teacher with the Parent/Child Mother Goose Program has given her experience using storytelling with adults in a community setting. She told as part of the South Riverdale Lives and Legends project and at Milk Festival 2000. Ruth tells traditional stories from around the world.

Categories: E,T,C,YA,A,CW,AW

Phyllis Davison
65 Nepahwin Ave
Sudbury ON P3E 2H5

From Jan 07 - Apr 07
163/5 Easter Rd
Edinburgh, Scotland GB EH7 5QB
Email/Courriel: phyllis@cs.laurentian.ca

Bio: Story with song, poem, string game and anecdote invites audience response of "engaging, interesting, educational and entertaining". Immigrated to Canada from Scotland; now travelling back each year; developing a project in association with the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh. Presentations to schools, museums, libraries, historical societies, arts groups, botanic gardens, science and history fairs.

Scottish/Canadian themes - explorers, settlement, railroad, rebels for reform, topical events, personal stories. Youth/Adult
Seasonal/Nature - Children/Family
Workshop or Dinner Theatre may be developed

Donna Dudinsky
305-330 Winnett Avenue
Toronto ON M6C 3L9

Home/Résidence:    416-654-9930
Work/Travail:    416-484-2600, ext 2360
Email/Courriel:    storyvine@yahoo.ca

Bio: A former documentary television producer, Donna Dudinsky tells old tales to the young at heart. Specializing in folk and fairy tales from around the world, Donna has told at Storytelling Festivals, schools, libraries and concerts. She is on the Executive of the Canadian Association of Storytellers for Children, the Board of The Storytellers School of Toronto, and works part-time for SC/CC.

Categories: E,F,T,C,YA,A,CW,AW

Deborah Dunleavy
P.O. Box 205
Brockville ON K6V 5V2

Home/Résidence:   613-342-3463
Work/Travail:
Email/Courriel:   kgp@ripnet.com
Website/site Web: www.deborahdunleavy.com

Bio: Trained as a dramatic arts teacher at York University and University of Toronto, Deborah has specialized in the performing arts for over 20 years. Her storytelling and musical skills are enriched by courses in mime, clown, dance, musical theatre and voice. A founding member of The 1000 Island Yarnspinners, Deborah leads and hosts monthly gatherings. Deborah's stories come from personal experience, family truths and lies, and obscure collections in the libraries of small towns in Eastern Ontario.
Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,YAW,AW,T

Ellis-Lynn Duschenes
483 Westminster Avenue
Ottawa, ON   K2A 2T9

Home/Résidence:   613-761-9542
Email/Courriel:  ellis_duschenes@ocdsb.edu.on.ca

Ruthanne Edward
4305 Meadowvale Lane
Ottawa ON K1B 5A1

Home/Résidence: 613-741-7098
Email/Courriel: ruthanne-edward@rogers.com

Bio: Ruthanne has been telling stories since 1989 in a variety of situations, including: in period costume at historic sites; while holding snakes of various sizes; above the roar of rush-hour traffic; and in jail (an historic one of course)! She specializes in telling ghost stories, legends and tales of Ottawa and Canadian history. She loves to engage children and teenagers with historical stories made relevant to their own lives.

Categories: E,C,YA,A >

Kevin Eisbrenner
5 Lamoreaux, Apt 61
Hamilton, ON   L8R 1T9

Home/Résidence:   905-528-7506
Email/Courriel:    kevin.eisbrenner@gmail.com

Allen Ender
1101 Steeles Avene W1 Apt 812
Toronto ON M2R 3W5

Home/Résidence: 416-667-8688

Ann A. Estill

16 Amberwood Lane
Guelph ON N1G 4X7

Home/Résidence: 519-763-4598
Email/Courriel: annieest@rogers.com

Bio: Ann is a professional storyteller with experience in presenting workshops on how to choose and prepare a story; concerts of ancient and contemporary tales; entertainment for banquets or meetings; classes on general or theme presentations.

Categories E,C,YA,A,AW

Four Winds Library - c/o Norm Perrin
2878A Dundas Street West, Apt #1
Toronto ON M6P 1Y8

Home/Résidence: 416-763-4146
Email/Courriel: talewind@web.net

Bio: Norman Perrin's storytelling travels have taken him from Toronto's Spiral Garden, across Canada, and overseas to Edinburgh, the Orkney's and Sri Lanka's Butterfly Peace Garden. He tells world tales, stories with an ecological theme, singing tales and original tall tales set in the Ottawa Valley. His Four Winds Storytellers' Library, a 4,000 volume collection of folktales, is open to storytellers and researchers, and hosts storytellings featuring the many cultures of the storytelling world.

Categories: E,A,YA,C,T

Gail Fricker
54 Milton St
Stratford ON N5A 3T8

Home/Résidence: 519-272-1039
Email/Courriel: gfricker@rogers.com

Susan Getchell
287 Village Green Avenue
London ON N6J 3Z2

Home/Résidence: 519-641-0574
Email/Courriel :SuzyQ_50@sympatico.ca
Website: www.suetellsstories.ca

Bio:Susan is an experienced storyteller who draws upon the richness of her cultural heritage, her family history and knowledge of children of all ages in her story selection and her performance. This richness transforms itself into stories that she creates as well as those she excavates from folk and mythic tradition. As well as performing, Susan conducts workshops for children and adults that explore stories in relation to personal meaning, as well as storytelling techniques.

Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,AW,H,T

Michelle Gram
111-4005 Bayview Avenue
Toronto, ON M2M 2Z9
Home/Résidence #: 416-218-9093
Work/Travail #: 416-768-9091
Email/Courriel: michellegram@gmail.com

Bio: Michelle is a shadow puppeteer, actress and educator living in Toronto. She conducts storytelling workshops for Early Childhood Educator and Teacher Candidates in addition to storytelling for groups of young children. She primarily tells published children's stories, but is very interested in delving into folk tales of the world and stories for adults.

Sarah Granskou
48 DeKay Street
Kitchener, ON N2H 3T2

Home/Résidence:   519-579-3011 or 519-578-0227
Work/Travail :   519-749-8473
Email/Courriel:   tradevind@yahoo.ca

Categories: E,O(Norwegian),C,YA,A,AW,T

Katherine Grier
Ottawa,ON
Email/Courriel: kgrier@magma.ca

Pauline Grondin
Burlington, ON

Home/Résidence: 905-522-4157
Email/Courriel: spingolli@hotmail.com
Website/site Web:www.paulinegrondin.com

Bio: Following her French Canadian and Irish roots, Paulines storytelling has delighted audiences of all ages in Canada and the U.K. In the oral tradition of storytelling she presents a potpourri of fairy tales, myths, legends, folk tales, self penned and first person stories, often accompanied by a number of instruments and song. Dressed in period clothing and using artifacts and reproductions, Pauline will bring yesteryear to your heritage celebrations and educational programmes. She has just issued her first CD.

Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,AW

Laurel Dee Gugler
342-219 College St
Toronto, ON M5T 1R1

Email/Courriel: lgugler@primus.ca

Bio:Storyteller/childrens author (eight published books); frequent presenter, former teacher; Childrens Museum programmer; co-founder, Hamilton Storytelling group; toured U.S. with peace display; English teacher, India.

Primary (including Kindergarten), Junior, Intermediate. Often does Family Literacy Events. Tells favourite, high-interest stories. Also Stories to Solve (riddles, and stories told in the manner of riddles in which the audience solves the mystery). Also, oral tellings from her Junior-Grade novel, Catching Forever, which includes her childhood memories.

Categories: E,T,C

Diane Halpin
29 Holborn Ave
London ON N6J 2P7

Home/Résidence: 519-434-7147
FAX#: 519-434-7320
Email/Courriel: storytree@rogers.com
Website/site Web: www.storytreeproductions.ca

Bio: Diane Halpin's storytelling performances and workshops are dynamic and nteractive. She specializes in multi-cultural folktales and life-stories, and interweaves her storytelling with Celtic drumming. Diane's guest and keynote presentations are described as "inspiring" and "creative". She performs in schools and universities, as well as at libraries, festivals, conferences and nursing homes. Diane Halpin's passion is to encourage literacy and joie de vivre through storytelling.

Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,AW,T

Hamilton Children's Museum
1072 Main St. E
Hamilton, ON    L8M 1Y7

Work/Travail :   905-546-4848
Email/Courriel:   childrensmuseum@hamilton.ca

Bio:Hamilton Children's Museum, established in Hamilton in 1978 was the first civic Children's Museum. We encourage learning through participatory experience.
Categories: E,A,C

Brian Hetherington
58 Almond Ave
Thornhill ON L3T 1L2

Home/Résidence: 905 731-4991
Email/Courriel: hetheringtonbrian@hotmail.com

Bio: Teacher, writer, storyteller interested in the uses of stories in education, in English-As-A-Second-Language and religious settings. Brian is the editor of Appleseed Quarterly, the Canadian Journal of Storytelling
Categories: E,YA,A,AW

Jack Howard
18 Wood Glen Rd
Toronto, ON M1N 2V7

Home/Résidence:    416-691-9122
Cell:   416-689-9122 FAX/Télecopier:   416-691-9122
Email/Courriel:   jack.howard@utoronto.ca

Bio: Twenty years a storyteller, Jack Howard tells mainly in the Toronto area; he has also told in Japan and Korea. He favours traditional tales of East Asia.

Categories: E,O,C,A,T

Lynda M. Howes
36 Palmerston Gardens
Toronto M6G 1V9

Email/Courriel:lyndaandjames@sympatico.ca

Bio: For 22 years, Lynda has been an active member of Toronto's storytelling community. She works in schools (ages 8+) and has given workshops for The Storytellers School of Toronto since 1985. She is available for festivals and tours.

Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,AW

Maureen Hunter
51B Thirty Third St
Toronto, ON  M8W 3H2

Home/Résidence:   416-253-7477
Email/Courriel:   yoyohunter@hotmail.com

Categories: E

Sally Jaeger
105 Victor Ave
Toronto ON M4K 1A7

Home/Résidence: 416-465-5982
Email/Courriel: jaegershome@sympatico.ca

Glenna Janzen
157 Grand Avenue South
Cambridge, Ontario N1S 2M1

Home #: 519-623-2456
Email/Courriel:glennajanzen@gmail.com

Bio: Glenna tells folktales and family stories and presents workshops for adults and children. Glenna has had the pleasure of telling stories across Canada, in Australia, the United States and Ukraine.

Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,AW

Tabby Johnson
16 Stanton Avenue
Toronto, ON
M4L 1W4
Email: tabby.j@rogers.com or educarall@gmail.com

Bio: singer, actor, writer, performer, teacher, mom, afro-canadian, american
Categories: E,A,YA

Suzy Juneau
83 Java Street
Ottawa, ON K1Y 3L5

Sue Kenney
7150 Beach Drive Box 35 Floral Park
Washago, ON, L0K 2B0

Home/Résidence: 705-689-2975
Email/Courriel: sue.kenney@sympatico.ca
Website/site Web: www.suekenney.ca

Bio: A storyteller, pilgrim, professional speaker and author who walked the Camino; a medieval pilgrimage route covering 780kms across the north of Spain, alone in the winter. Sue weaves tales about people she met and her experiences guiding the audience on a journey of self discovery. To hear samples of Sues storytelling on her CD Stone by Stone, go to www.cdbaby.com/suekenney. Sues book, My Camino, was released in 2004.

Anna Kerz
Email/Courriel: anna.kerz@tel.tdsb.on.ca

Bio: Anna is a storyteller and writer. She loves stories that touch the heart, tickle the funny bone and reveal the secrets of the human soul. Some of her stories are personal tales about a childhood spent in an Austrian D.P. camp and in the Kensington Market area of Toronto. She helped develop the Story Jam program to help students develop speaking and listening skills and build their foundations for literacy.

Categories: E,C,YA,A,CW,AW

Kim Kilpatrick
291 Nepean St
Ottawa, ON   K1R 5G2

Home/Résidence:   613-567-7137
Work/Travail :   (613) 736-5266 x 227
Email/Courriel:   kimard@cyberus.ca

Bio: I have been storytelling since 2001. Have told at the NAC Fourth Stage, Ottawa Storytelling Festival, and several other local venues. I tell many personal stories about my life. I am totally blind which makes for some fascinating, humourous, and enlightening stories. I am also involved in the organizing of the local festival in Ottawa.

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Kathleen Kompass
1195 Major St
Ottawa On K2C 2S1

Home/Résidence: 613-228-2195
Email/Courriel:Kompasshouse@rogers.com

Bio: Kathie Kompass, a storyteller since 1983, has been sharing her tales in schools, festivals, parks, camps, churches, and libraries. Her desire is to light a verbal candle drawing the audience closer as adventures from history, mythology and mystery emerge.

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Ingrid Kosijer
703-1510 Riverside Dr
Ottawa, ON K1G 4X5

Email/Courriel: Eyekay111@rogers.com

Bill Lalonde
62 Manor Drive,
Brockville ON K6V 3E6

Home/Résidence #:613-342-0136
Email/Courriel: < wglal@ripnet.com

Tom Lips
230 Davidson's Side Road
Ottawa, Ontario K2K 2Z4

Home/Résidence: 613-596-0551
Work/Travail: 613-952-3446
E-mail: tom@tomlips.ca
Website/site Web:www.tomlips.ca

Bio: Tom Lips is a creative, dynamic teller of traditional and original tales, and a gifted singer-songwriter with three recordings. Since 1992 he has shared stories of high adventure, laughter and the supernatural at such venues as the Ottawa, Toronto, Westport and North Bay Storytelling Festivals, the Governor-General's Residence, the National Arts Centre 4th Stage, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and Ottawa's "Stories from the Ages" series. Tom has given introductory workshops on storytelling and songwriting

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Celia Lottridge
42 Vermont Ave
Toronto ON M6G 1X9

Email/Courriel: celialottridge@yahoo.com

Bio: Celia Lottridge is a teller of traditional and original stories to adults and children. She is a co-founder of the Storytellers School of Toronto, co-founder and former director of the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program and author of many award-winning children's books including retellings of folktales and novels based on family stories. She has been telling stories in libraries, schools, community events and everyday life for decades.

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Norma Lundberg
28 Blithfield Avenue
Toronto ON M2K 1Y1

Home/Résidence: 416-225-8214
Email/Courriel: lundberg@sympatico.ca

Bio:Toronto writer with prairie roots, active in Scarborough's Bluffers Tales, and a beginning balladeer. I love and learn and am beginning to tell all manner of traditional fairy stories and folk tales from Northern Europe, Canada; earth wisdom tales from anywhere; and fables from the Jataka and Panchatantra traditions of India. I also write stories designed for my telling, including developing a sequence concerning Canada's Great Depression, based on family letters

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Laurie Malabar

Bio: Laurie Malabar developed her passion for storytelling when researching her great grandmothers journey from widowhood to costume entrepreneur. Specializing in family, costume and fabric stories, Laurie delights audiences of all ages. Laurie has told stories and run workshops at the Toronto Festival of Storytelling, the Royal Ontario Museum, schools, hospitals and seniors homes.

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Jane Mallory
311 Glastonbury Drive
Stratford, ON N5A 6B8

Email/Courriel: mallory17@sympatico.ca

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Mary-Eileen McClear
89 Snyders Road West
Baden, ON N3A 2M2

Home/Résidence: 519-634-8973
Email/Courriel: maryeileen@thestorybarn.ca

Bio: Mary-Eileen is acclaimed for her curriculum-related school programmes and as founder of The Second Story workshop, promoting storytelling as an art form and educational tool. A speaker who weaves together contemporary and traditional material, reviewers have applauded her "warm stage presence," "expressive face," and "captivating sense of humour and intriguing touch of magic." An award-winning storyteller, she has performed in venues including Stratford Festival, Toronto Festival of Storytelling, Celtic Roots Festival, Summerfolk Festival and Harbourfront.

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Jim Meeks
291 George Street #427
Toronto, ON M5A 2N2

Home/Résidence:416-340-9387
Email/Courriel: jwmeeks@yahoo.com

Bio: Jim hails from Alabama and was immersed in the oral traditions of the southern Appalachian mountains while growing up. For more than a decade he has shared stories, songs and ballads with listeners in countless venues from schools to wilderness trips. Currently living in Toronto's downtown core, Jim is involved in several projects and programs using the power of story to advocate for the homeless and socially marginalized.

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Cathy Melville
234 Melita Ave
Toronto ON M6G 2A2

Home/Résidence: 416-536-3862
Email/Courriel: melville@sympatico.ca

René Meshake
27 Tiffany Street East
Guelph, ON    N1H 1X6

Home/Résidence:   519-824-8519
Email/Courriel:   renemeshake@sympatico.ca

William (Bill) Dennis Montgomery
375 River Street
Gananoque, ON K7G 2P9
Home/Résidence: 613-382-1891
FAX: 613-382-8635

Bio: My Christian name is Bill Montgomery, the name given to me by my Noni is Yaahl han tl'uujus. I am Haida, Raven, from the Yahgu7laanas clan of Dadens of Haida Gwaii. You know this land as The Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C.. It has been scientifically proven, thus far, that my family has lived on our land for 12-15,000 years. We know though, as our stories tell us, we have been here since the beginning of time.

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Anne Nagy
302 Friel St
Ottawa, ON K1N 1J5

Home/Résidence: 613 789-7032
Work/Travail : 613 789-7034
Email/Courriel: anne.nagy@rogers.com

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Laura Newland 160 Balmoral Ave Apt 204
Toronto ON M4V 1J7

Home/Résidence: 416-924-2385
Email/Courriel: larisne3@yahoo.ca

Bio: Laura shares world tales with children and adults. Her special interests are in stories from the Scottish, Gaelic, creating magical puppets, and writing family stories.

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Ottawa Storytellers
8 Burndale Road
Ottawa, ON K1B 3Y5

Phone #: 613-322-8336
Email/Courriel: patrick.holloway@sympatico.ca
Website; www.ottawastorytellers.ca

Bio:The Ottawa Storytellers promote the art of storytelling, nurture and inspire novice and experienced storytellers, and provide tellers and listeners with opportunities to share and enjoy stories. Monthly story swaps are held at the Library and Archives of Canada, 395 Wellington Street, on the first Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m.. Admission is free and the public is invited to come hear and tell stories. The Ottawa Storytelling Festival takes place each year in early November.

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arylyn Peringer
Unit 131, 2 Withrow Avenue
Toronto ON M4K 1C9

Home/Résidence: 416-465-4327
Email/Courriel: applesfromheaven@hotmail.com

Bio:Marylyn discovered the folklore of French Canada 25 years ago and shares these tales bilingually with audiences old and young across the country. Her repertoire also embraces classical myth, tales of the stars and constellations, trickster and riddle stories. She currently serves as Resident Teacher for the Storytellers School of Toronto and leads a Storytelling course at George Brown College. Marylyn recently returned from a month-long trip to the island of Malta, where she explored the folklore of her maternal heritage.

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Richard Preston
105 Hostein Drive
Ancaster, ON l9G 2S9

Home/Résidence: 905-648-1598
Email/Courriel: prestonr@mcmaster.ca

Leslie Robbins-Conway - see Voyageur Storytelling

Barry Rosen
Hamilton, ON

Email/Courriel: barryrosen@sympatico.ca

Bio:Barry Rosen founded the Hamilton Storytelling Circle in 2002, and he continues to serve as the groups facilitator. His story interests include Jewish Folktales, original and family stories. He has told in a number of settings and contexts.

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Lucie Roy
319 Powell Ave
Ottawa, ON K1S 2A7

Home/Résidence: 613 569-5454
Email/Courriel: lucieroy@trytel.com

Bio: Lucie Roy has been telling since 2002. Fluently bilingual, she tells in French and English. Lucie has co-facilitated the Ottawa Storytellers workshops with Kathie Kompass. In February 2004, she made her professional debut at the 4th stage of the National A rts Centre. Lucie is presently working to establish the Cercle de conteurs de lEst de lOntario (CCEO), a group of francos and Francophiles in the Outaouais region.

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Jean Ryan
16 - 357 Hunter Street West
Hamilton, ON L8P 1S6

Home/Résidence: 905-528-1792
Work/Travail: 416-869-3232 X445
FAX/Télecopier: 416-596-8032

Bio: A believer in the need to remind people that there is magic in the world and the power of story to entertain and heal.

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Alan Shain
264 Lisgar St., Apt. #302
Ottawa, ON K2P 0C8

Home/Résidence: 613-234-5742
Email/Courriel: alanshain@yahoo.ca
Website/site Web: www.alanshain.com

Bio: Alan specializes in personal stories as a person with a disability. Told with much humour, he tells how he used his difference to advantage, gaining acceptance and making friends. (A 200-pound wheelchair can make all the difference in tug of war!) Alan also tells folk tales which humanize giants and dragons. And, of course, his favourites are the stories of the wise fool.

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Marta Singh
Ottawa, ON

Email/Courriel: martas@magma.ca

Goldie Spencer
28 Graylee Ave
Scarborough, ON  M1J 1M6

Home/Résidence:   416-267-1506
Email/Courriel:   goldie@the-wire.com

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Donna Stewart
28 Brodeur Crescent
Kanata, ON K2L 1Z3

Home/Résidence: 613 592-1223
Email/Courriel: donna-stewart@sympatico.ca

Bio: After telling stories for half a century to anyone who will listen, Donna was elder for 2003 SC/CC conference. She likes stories that help understanding or are means of remembering or just make you laugh or think  and has told them in schools, libraries, church, community centers, playgrounds, museums.

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Ruth Ann Stewart-Verger
236 Breezehill Ave. South
Ottawa, ON K1Y 2J3

Home/Résidence: 613-722-8402
Email/Courriel: ruth@rasputins.ca

Bio: Born into a storytelling family, Ruth learned her art in self-defense. Member of the Ottawa Storytellers, active on the Ottawa Storytelling Festival Committee, keen to share string-stories, folk tales, epic and literary stories with audiences of all ages. A storyteller who likes to listen as much as she likes to tell.

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Storytellers School of Toronto
720 Bathurst St., Ste. 500A
Toronto, ON M5S 2R4

Telephone/Téléphone: 416-656-2445
Fax: 416-656-8510 Email/Courriel: admin@storytellingtoronto.org http://www.storytellingtoronto.org

Molly Sutkaitis
110  177 Stephen Dr.
Toronto, ON M8Y 3N5
416-239-1345
Email/Courriel: mollysutkaitis@hotmail.com

Bio: I am from a Scottish family where the oral tradition is strong. I am the Storyteller in Residence at The Childrens Peace Theatre T.O. I have offered storytelling workshops for TESL Ontario, Teacher Professional Development Days, The Little Children of the World, in Tennessee and the Philippines and performed in schools.

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Stephen Van Vugt
75 Glen Lake Crescent
Kitchener, ON   N2N 1C4

Home/Résidence:   519-744-1488
Work/Travail: 519-635-1303
Email/Courriel:  storyteller@vanvugt.ca

Bio: Stephen is a singer and storyteller who enjoys telling traditional fairy and folk tales to children of all ages as well as personal and historical stories to adults. He has enjoyed annual local performances for non-profit organizations at heritage sites and churches.

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Nancy Vermond
P.O. Box 543
St. Marys, ON  N4X 1B3

Home/Résidence:   519-284-2698
Email/Courriel:   nvermond@sympatico.ca

Voyageur Storytelling (Paul Conway and Leslie Robbins-Conway)
56 Brinkman's Road
RR #1
Miller Lake ON N0H 1Z0

Home/Résidence: 519-795-7477
Work/Travail: 519-795-7477
Email/Courriel: mail@voyageurstorytelling.ca
Web page: www.voyageurstorytelling.ca

See webpage for biographical information.

Voyageur Storytelling hosts Country Supper Story Concerts in its rural home in Northern Bruce Peninsula, Ontario. The company is inspired by the Northern Muses and is dedicated to the proposition that art and food co-exist in profound symbiotic rapport. Its repertoire of stories is wide-ranging and diverse in form, drawn from classical and folk storytelling traditions in Canada and across the world. It presents these stories, along with its own, in performance, print and other media. Available for other occasions.

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Carol Leigh Wehking
157 Grand Avenue South
Cambridge, Ontario N1S 2M1

Home #: 519-623-2456
Email: clwehking@gmail.com

Trained as storyteller 1991: Stories for multicultural understanding and peace.
Background in theatre, social work, education, library work, parenting
Folktale, myth, legend, epic, historical stories, original stories, women's stories
Any age audience
Workshops: adults or students
Teacher in the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program
Memberships: SC/CC, Storytellers School of Toronto, CANSCAIP, Uppity Women, Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts

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John Wesselson
1548 Westminster Place
Burlington, ON L7P 2B5

Home/Résidence: 905-320-8967
Email/Courriel: jwesselson@cogeco.ca

Bio: Johns favourite stories to tell are 19th-century authored short stories. He has been a frequent teller to adults at Stories Aloud in Baden Ontario since 2003. He has told to adults at ARC Industries in Elmira and to a ministry of First Christian Reformed Church in Hamilton (quotes: "Better than a sermon"; "You could hear the proverbial pin drop"). He has told to children at several local events.

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Heather Whaley
16 Rutledge Street
Whitby ON  L1P 1H2

Home/Résidence:   905-668-2174
Work/Travail:   905-242-6627
Email/Courriel:   heather@heatherwhaley.ca
Website/site Web:  www.heatherwhaley.ca

Bio: Heather is a versatile singer, songwriter and storyteller who brings both traditional tales and her own stories to life by interspersing the narrative with rhyme, chant and song. She performs in schools, in concert, and conducts workshops throughout the GTA and beyond, for children and adults. Her interactive multicultural storytelling and musical programs are popular with children and families. Heather especially enjoys performing her Singin the Blues in story concert to grown-up audiences!

Terri Whitfield
323 Coghill Dr
Kingsville, ON N9Y 3K9

Home/Résidence:   519-733-4192
Work/Travail#:    519-252-0636, x213
FAX/Télecopier: 519-252-7917
Email/Courriel:   tmb.whitfield@sympatico.ca

Bio: Several years ago at a course on storytelling in Ossining, NY, the storyteller in Terri came to life. Since then, she has presented storytelling to children, families and adults in her community. Terri also started and co-teaches a Parent-Child Mother Goose Program in her area, which uses rhyme, song and story to create positive experiences for parents and their children 0-4 years. Terri can be reached by or email.

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Alette Willis
292 Pleasant Park Road,
Ottawa, ON K1H 5M8
Home/Résidence #:613-731-7948

Email/Courriel: alettewillis@gmail.com

Bio: PhD in geography and environmental studies with an interest in the role of storytelling in environmental and heritage interpretation and in social change.
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Harriet Trianthe Xanthakos
219 College St #327
Toronto ON M5T 151

Home/Résidence: 416-217-0984
Email/Courriel: harriet.xanthakos@gmail.com or harrietX@primus.ca

Bio: Harriet believes that we are all storytellers. She shares folk tales, family stories and Greek myths with listeners/tellers of all age. Presents made-to-order workshops to students, professionals and ESL students. Toured Quebec for Canadian Children's Book Week, 2007

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Dan Yashinsky
19 Kenwood Ave
Toronto ON M6C 2R8

Home/Résidence: 416-654-1542
FAX/Télecopier: 416-0651-2910
Email/Courriel: dan.yashinsky@sympatico.ca

Bio: Dan Yashinsky is a storyteller who has performed at Festivals throughout Canada and around the world. He tells traditional and original stories. In 1999 he received the Jane Jacobs Prize for his work building storytelling as part of community life.

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