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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 more than 130 events over 10 days, in English and in French, celebrating the richness and diversity of the storytelling tradition. |
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Jan Blake UK-Jamaica
Jan Blake is one of Europe's leading storytellers, performing world-wide since 1986. She was born in Manchester, of Jamaican parentage, her home education very much rooted in Jamaican folk culture. She is now actively teaching, organizing, touring, and telling stories "that need to be told" from Africa and the Caribbean.
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Jennifer Cayley Ontario
Jennifer Cayley has been telling stories professionally for nearly two decades. She believes passionately that stories are powerfully important to all of us as we struggle to understand the shape and meaning of our lives. Her aim is always to make the profoundly simple contact between teller, story and listener.
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Ivan E. Coyote Yukon
Author and storyteller Ivan E. Coyote's work tackles the difficult subjects of family, class, gender identity, and social justice, always with the silver tongue of a master storyteller, an eye for the beauty found in what makes us all human, and an ear for the hilarity of life and love. Ivan's first love is telling stories to a live audience.
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Gidon Horowitz Israel-Germany
Storyteller, writer and Jungian analyst Gidon Horowitz's repertoire includes the Jewish hassidic tradition, the rich storytelling heritage of the Middle and Far-East, as well as the myriad myths and legends of Ireland, Scotland, Europe, Africa, Russia and North America.
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Alan Shain Ontario
Through stories around disability, Alan Shain take us from childhood fantasy and schoolyard bravado to university halls and first time romances... He uses humour to expose the absurdity of his experiences, educating at the same time as he entertains.
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Regina Sommer Germany-USA
Regina Sommer was born in Aachen, Germany and made her debut as a storyteller in 1992. Her repertoire is made of fairy tales, myths and legends, as well as her own stories and those of literary giants George Sand, Oscar Wilde, Hermann Hesse, Arthur Schnitzler, Tonino Guerra.
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Brigitte Albert Québec
Brigitte Albert likes nothing better than to squeal, howl, grunt, roar, squeak, and generally enter the animal kingdom along with her very active young listeners from kindergarten to grade six. For adult story lovers, she shares her passion for ancient myths, dramatic and boisterous medieval tales, folk tales, and legends.
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Stéphanie Bénéteau Québec
Stéphanie Bénéteau has been telling stories professionally since 1994. She is a lively and dynamic teller with a large repertoire for young audiences, though she enjoys telling to all ages. She has two young daughters who critique all her new stories and a mixed-up cultural heritage that includes French Canadian, American and Italian
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Darren Bonaparte Québec (Mohawk nation)
He is a writer, historian, artist, storyteller, teacher and an artisan who makes reproductions of historic Haudenosaunee items. Darren Bonaparte is also the creator of The Wampum Chronicles, a massive repository of historical and cultural essays, primary documents, drawings, photos, links and more.
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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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Rosalyn Cohen Québec
A dedicated pioneer of storytelling in Montréal, Rosalyn is also highly regarded as workshop leader, festival organizer and educator. She has told stories on the radio, in schools and in concert in Canada, China, Ireland and Israel.
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Nicolas Doyon Québec
Nicolas Doyon is a storyteller and an advocate for the arts. He studied acting and directing at Concordia University where he met the late Cheryl Neill. Together they combined music, acting and storytelling and formed the Arborrouge Storytellers. Nicolas now teaches dramatic arts.
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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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Kim Kilpatrick Ontario
Kim Kilpatrick particularly enjoys telling stories of humour and insight (pun intended) about her life and experiences as a woman with a disability. What is perfection? What is disability? Together Alan and Kim leave audiences laughing, pondering... Knowing a little more.
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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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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 that magical moment. Now a grandmother, she spins her yarn, weaving it around you. Those are tales of wisdom and wonder: the wisdom of laughter and the sheer wonder of being alive…
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Patrick McLaughlin Québec
Patrick McLaughlin is a relative newcomer to the art of storytelling. He has had however extensive exposure as a singer and currently finds musical expression in traditional singing in Gaelic. Pádhraig MacLochlainn, the melodious marathoner, is also an enthusiastic fundraising participant on behalf of various charities.
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The Montréal Storytellers' Guild Québec
The Montreal Storytellers Guild was founded by a group of storytellers who had become convinced that Montrealers would enjoy hearing stories... For twenty-four years now, on any given Guild swap, one may hear folk and fairy tales, myth, legends, personal stories, and adaptations of literary stories.
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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 Montréal storyteller who has been telling tales for more than fifteen years. He enjoys the old, ancient stories, the myths and legends of world folklore, as well as literary and contemporary tales. As he tells, he loves to watch the story’s images visibly unfolding in the eyes and hearts of his listeners.
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Lana Rodenhiser Québec
Lana Rodenhiser enjoys telling all kinds of stories - funny, grim or simply strange – so long as the story moves her and touches the listeners’ heart. Her favorite stories are about animals.
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Molly Walsh Québec
Molly Walsh, a retired children's librarian, has been a storyteller for the last 14 years. She enjoys telling humourous, serious and personal stories, as well astrickster tales and stories with surprising, unpredictable endings to all age groups from toddlers and teens to seniors.
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