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Storytellers from the four corners of the globe will converge on Montréal for the 10th edition of the Québec Intercultural Storytelling Festival, which takes place October 16 to 25, 2009. Founded in 1993 and directed by storyteller Marc Laberge, the Festival puts on hundred of events, in English and in French, celebrating the richness and diversity of the storytelling tradition. |
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David Ambrose Wales, UK
David Ambrose has been at the forefront of the storytelling revival in Wales for the past 15 years (St Donats Castle, The Wales Storytelling Festival...). An active and seasoned storyteller, David has recently been responsible for Speaking Volumes, an innovative storytelling project in the Vale of Glamorgan.
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Jan Andrews UK-Canada
Jan Andrews likes to touch audiences deeply and has a particular interest in epic stories (The Illiad and The Odyssey), as well as traditional folk and fairy tales. Using the power of quiet and containment, she delights in communicating her passion for the storyteller's art.
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Mariella Bertelli Italy-Canada
Mariella Bertelli is a storyteller with extensive background in puppetry and theatre. Over the years she has collaborated with other tellers to create shows which blend storytelling, theatre and music – including a retelling of the Odyssey, a special adaptation of Boccaccio’s Decameron, and a retelling of Ariosto’s Orlando.
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Charly Chiarelli Sicily-Canada
The inspiration for Charly's storytelling career arose from his experience growing up in a Sicilian neighbourhood in feisty North End Hamilton. Charly Chiarelli's one-man shows are a humorous and touching account of his big, boisterous, poor and loving family members as they struggled to adapt to a new life in Canada.
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Rosalyn Cohen Québec
A dedicated pioneer of storytelling in Montréal, Rosalyn is also highly regarded as workshop leader, festival organizer and educator. For her selfless dedication to a better world, as well as for her many tales of wisdom and wit, the Montreal storytelling community wishes to pay an affectionate tribute to Rosalyn (Roz) Cohen.
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Jan Gregory England-Québec
Growing up in England, Jan Gregory learned from her grandmother how to find the extraordinary in the ordinary and tell tales of warmth and wonder. A professional storyteller in schools and festivals for many years, she invites her listeners to step into her stories where time goes by on slippered feet.
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Hugh Lupton United Kingdom
Hugh Lupton’s interest in traditional music, in street theatre, in live poetry, and in myth, resulted in him becoming a professional storyteller. He has a repertoire of hundreds of stories, ranging from hour-long epic tales, including explorations of the dark side of storytelling, to light-hearted cumulative stories for children.
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Fiona Macleod Scotland
All encompassing tenderness, haunting suspense, peals of laughter: Fiona Macleod's stories are woven with subtle yet far reaching emotions. Passionate about the stories of her native land, Fiona revels in the evocation of the mists and heather and supernatural characters that inhabit the realm of Scotland.
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Taqralik Partridge Québec (Nunavik)
Taqralik Partridge is a lyric-addicted, melody-smitten artist with an omnivorous appetite for music, poetry and the street-level wordscape. A throat singer as well, Taqralik brings the haunting cadences and northern sensibility of the form to her poetry, in a refreshing and fascinating blend of the urban and the tundra.
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Louise Profeit-Leblanc Yukon
Louise Profeit-Leblanc is a professional storyteller from the Nacho N’yak Dun First Nation in Yukon territory. In the past she has worked for many Yukon elders, recording their histories and stories. She helped to establish the Yukon Storytelling Festival, and is co-founder of the Society of Yukon Artists of Native Ancestry
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Melanie Ray Canada, BC
Melanie Ray carefully crafted programmes are full of people you know, or wish you did, and she sets them down in vivid scenes. She uses the English language with ease and delight. Melanie has progressively developed a love of long stories where the suspension of everyday reality is denser than with shorter stories.
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Diane Wolkstein United States
Diane Wolkstein began her career in Paris in 1965, weaving stories from the Bible to pay for pantomime classes. Wolkstein, now a master storyteller and mythologist, recognizes the influence of her mother's entertaining tales during her childhood... and the riveting and more problematic ones told by her rabbi.
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Brigitte Albert Québec
Stories are magical: they let us share joy and suffering; they let us laugh out loud and make us afraid. They take us out into the world and back again into the stillness of our hearts. Stories heal... Brigitte Albert, an active Montreal Storytelling Guild member, loves to share stories: ancient epics, folk tales, wisdom tales...
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Oro Anahory-Librowicz Morocco-Québec
Passionate about the oral tradition, Oro Anahory-Librowicz studied theatre before specializing in the Jewish oral traditions of Spain. Her stories, deeply rooted in the Jewish oral tradition, are in turn funny, moving, witty and wise. Oro has performed all over the world, in English, French, and Spanish, her native language.
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Stéphanie Bénéteau Québec
Stéphanie Bénéteau has been telling stories professionally since 1994. A bilingual teller with roots in several cultures, she has a strong interest in stories about girls and women. She is presently working on a CD, Growing Tall: Stories for Spunky Girls.
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Lucie Bisson Québec
Lucie Bisson whimsically transforms her memories of people, things and places into an original, humorous and quite colorful repertoire. Traditional evil doers, black magic tricksters, haunting, sneering werewolves and some very very crafty priests... All these bleak creatures live happily togehter and share a room in her mind's eye.
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Mike Burns Ireland-Québec
Mike Burns will bring you to the place that still haunts him, even after living for more than 20 years in Canada. It is a land of fogs and rugged cliffs, farming and fishing, evenings warmed by whiskey... Picking his way through a repertoire of a few hundred stories, he delivers hauntingly... in Gaelic, English or French.
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Nancy Eddis Québec
Nancy Eddis has been telling stories for more than 20 years to all age groups. With a gentle sense of humour, she likes to tell stories that revive memories...
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Hélène Engel Québec
No slave of tradition, Hélène Engel allows no barrier to stand in her way: a citizen of the world, she designs her own itinerary and finds her way through the multiple voices and melodies of Jewish folklore, in which Judeo-Spanish, Yiddish Hebrew and all the other languages of exile are mingled. She delivers with humor, warmth and sensitivity.
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John David Hickey Québec
David is an engaging teller making good use of his acting experience to add a theatrical spin to his stories. His strong stage presence will keep you on edge as he weaves his tales of mystery, adventure, and laughter. Traditional folktales, fairy tales, underdog stories, Jack stories, tall tales from all cultures and continents.
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Elizabeth MacDonnell Québec
Elizabeth MacDonnell is a member of the Montreal Storytellers Guild. She loves to tell stories with humour and action to children she meets through her library outreach work in hospitals and special schools.
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Denise Markhame Ontario-Québec
With more than twenty-five years in the performing arts, Denise Markhame lights up the stage with laughter, sensitivity, and warmth. This bilingual Montrealer, of Franco-Ontarian heritage, draws from her dramatic arts education to breath life into a repertoire rich with nature based myths & legends and cooky, comical folktales.
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Christine Mayr Austria-Québec
At the age of five, Austrian-born Christine Mayr found the hidden entrance to fairyland and has been telling stories ever since. Now a grandmother, she spins her yarn, weaving it around you, inviting you to enter her tales. Those are tales of wisdom and wonder: the wisdom of laughter, the sheer wonder of being alive…
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Susan Palmer Québec
Susan Palmer plays the Irish harp and has a particular interest in ancient music. She was a founding member of Sanz Cuer, a medieval music ensemble. She has played with numerous ensembles, amongst them Variditas, Gerinaldo, le Voir Dit and the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal.
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Robert Payant Québec
Robert Payant brings to life stories of his native Haut Saint-Laurent, dusting them off with some old french flair and gusto. He needs only mention the rousing, rumbling waters of the Châteauguay river, the local First Nations people, and the haunted Trestler House, for legends and stories to spring to life and enchant us.
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Judith Poirier Québec
Judith Poirier’s tales offer delight and wisdom with a little twist of singularity. Her répertoire is built around folktales from her French-Canadian heritage, her family tales, as well as tales of wonder and wisdom from around the world. Judith is also the godmother to the Cercle des conteurs de Montréal.
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Roman Pylat Québec
Roman Pylat is a primary school teacher and a seasoned storyteller from Montreal. An active member of the Montreal Storytellers Guild, he has been storytelling for over ten years now. He likes to share the ageless enchantment of storytelling through ancient tales and lyrical stories from around the world.
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Dylan Spevack-Willcock Québec
Dylan Spevack-Willcok has been lying ever since he can remember, but he only has been calling it storytelling for the last six years. He is co-author of the book/CD You Don't Know Jack. Dylan has told stories in Canada, the US and the UK. His goal is to tell a story on every continent, including Antarctica. He lives in Montréal.
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Paola Tonelli Québec
As a member of the Montréal Storytellers' Guild, Paola Tonelli has been telling regularly since 2002, equally at ease in English, French or Italian. She believes that storytelling, through imagination, fills a deep-seated human need to better understand ourselves and our world.
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Molly Walsh Québec
Molly Walsh, a retired children's librarian, has been a storyteller for the last 12 years. She enjoys telling humourous, serious and personal stories to all age groups from toddlers and teens to seniors.
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Dan Yashinsky Ontario
A working storyteller for thirty years, Dan Yashinsky founded the Toronto Festival of Storytelling and was one of the founders of the longest-running open sessions of Storytelling in the world: 1001 Friday Nights of Storytelling. This is a club that has met every Friday evening for thirty years, including Christmas days!
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