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Please contact Storytellers direct
Sue Alvarez Status: Accredited Member
Audience: Playgroup/preschool, Kindergarten, Primary School, Special needs children, Adult, Mixed family, Nursing Homes and Retirement Villages
Stories: Personal, Humorous, Other lands/cultures, Myths & Legends, Folk tales, Fairy tales, Life stories.
Sue Alvarez works with Christine Greenough as `The Talespinners`. Together they give performances in Nursing Homes and Retirement Villages based on Reminiscent Therapy techniques. They also perform age-related and interactive shows for Pre-schoolers, Kindergartens and Primary Schools. Sue gives workshops on various aspects of storytelling to parent groups and other adult groups.
Sydney, (02) 9977 0331 - sueowena@tpg.com.au
Ruth Atkinson Status: Member
Audience: Playgroup/preschool, Kindergarten, Primary, High school/teenager, Special needs children, Adult, Corporate, Mixed family, Teachers and Librarians
Stories: Humorous, Stories of other lands/cultures, Myths & Legends, Folk tales, Fairy tales, Paper cutting and folding stories
Mobile, 0408 259 063 - ruthatkinson@bigpond.com
Ruth Atkinson, P.O. Box 7312, WILBERFORCE, NSW 2756
Ph: 02 4575 4077 Fax: 02 4575 4078
Website: www.users.bigpond.com/ruthatkinson/
Helen Campbell Status: Accredited Member
Audience: Playgroup/preschool, Kindergarten, Primary School,
Stories: Humorous, Folk tales, Fairy tales,
Blackheath, Blue Mountains (02) 4787 8181 namaste@lisp.com.au
Barbara G. Castledine Status: Accredited Member
Audience: Kindergarten, Primary, Adult, Mixed Family, Church Groups, Retirement Villages
Stories: Personal, Sacred, Humorous, Ghost, Stories of other lands/cultures (mostly Scotland), Myths & Legends, Morality Fables, Folk tales, Fairy tales,
Barbara was formerly a teacher-librarian and now combines her love of storytelling with her ability to establish rapport with people of all ages. Favourite stories include those with a Christian message, Scottish stories and fun stories, rhymes and activities for kids of all ages.
Penrith (02) 4735 2432
Pat Dargin Status: Accredited Member
Audience: Playgroup/preschool, Kindergarten, Primary, Adult, Mixed Family.
Stories: Personal, Stories of other lands/cultures, Myths & Legends, Folk tales, Fairy tales, Stories from Australian history/herstory
Pat-storyteller and writer-has extensive experience as a teacher, literacy consultant and involvement with Early Childhood. Her participatory program promotes story language and structure, encourages visualisation and uses rhyme, rhythm and song for-Pre-6, teachers and parents-using puppets and props from her Bag of Tales.
Dubbo (02) 6882 5671 - dap@hwy.com.au
Peter Dargin Status: Professional Member
Audience: Playgroup/preschool, Kindergarten, Primary School, Adult, Corporate, Mixed family, Community Groups
Stories: Personal, Humorous, Ghost, Other lands/cultures, Myths & Legends, Morality Fables, Folk tales, Outback Yarns, Fairy tales, Historical
Travelling storyteller whose `Swag of Yarns` contains puppets and props for presenting Australian folklore, Aboriginal lore, contemporary children`s stories and the stories in history. Peter and Pat run fundraising cafes for preschools and workshops for teachers, librarians and community groups.
Author of Making & Telling Stories: An Australian Story Program
Dubbo, (02) 6882 8880 Fax: (02) 6882 5671 - dap@hwy.com.au
Mary French Status: Member
Audience: Playgroup/preschool, Kindergarten, Primary School, High School/teenage, Adult, Corporate, Mixed family, Nursing Homes and Retirement Villages
Stories: Personal, Sacred, Humorous, Ghost, Other lands/cultures, Myths & Legends, Folk tales, Outback Yarns, Fairy tales, Children`s picture book stories
Canberra, (02) 6254 2349 - maryeric@cyberone.com.au
Christine Greenough Status: Accredited Member
Audience: Kindergarten, Primary, Adult, Mixed Family, Seniors/Aged Care,
Stories: Personal, Humorous, Ghost, Stories of other lands/cultures, Myths & Legends, Morality Fables, Outback Yarns, Folk tales, Fairy tales,
Christine and Sue Alvarez formed `Talespinners` in 1997, as children`s tellers, then developed programs for nursing homes and retirement villages as part of memory therapy for the aged. They tell in schools, museums, libraries, festivals, Art Gallery of NSW and have toured metropolitan Sydney, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland.
Sydney (02) 9401 0259 - Mobile 0413 878 891 cgreenough@ozemail.com.au
Yvonne Harvey Status: Professional Member
Audience: Adult, Nursing Homes and Retirement Villages, Church and community groups,
Stories: Personal, Sacred, Humorous, Fairy tales,
Yvonne entertains audiences with monologues, poetry and a smorgasbord of stories. Her experience in the past few years is working in the wider community telling to church groups, senior citizens, retirement villages, Rotary, Probus, Legacy and Masonic Orders. Yvonne`s work is endorsed by the Padstow and Liverpool Baptist Churches.
Cartwright, (02) 9826 0153 - yvonne.harvey@bigpond.com
Jo Henwood Status: Accredited Member
Audience: Playgroup/preschool, Kindergarten, Primary School, Special needs children, Adult, Mixed family, Gifted children
Stories: Humorous, Ghost, Other lands/cultures, Myths & Legends, Folk tales, Outback Yarns, Fairy tales, Romantic and Historical
Jo`s enthusiastic and full bodied telling of tales will carry your imagination away to times and places near and far. Jo likes telling stories that have layers of meaning, where your sympathy meets the characters halfway. Her storytelling requires intimacy-being together, making eye contact and letting our minds meet.
Brooklyn (02) 9985-8454 - jo7hanna@optusnet.com.au
John Hockney Status: Accredited Member
Audience: Primary, Adults, Mixed family, Seniors/ Aged Care.
Stories: New stories for children, Personal, humorous,Folk Tales, Fairy Tales.
Author of `Remember when` - How to unlock life stories. Offers special programmes of Reminiscing stories to aged care as well as workshops or talks to Senior groups on `Unlocking Memories` for life stories. Uses props and interactives for his performances.
Blue Mountains - but will travel, (02) 4784 3703 - Mobile 0438 637919 - jhockney@tpg.com.au
Anna Jarrett Status: Member
Audience:
Preschools, schools., family events, seniors, womens groups, events speaker, festivals, adult parties, retreats, campfire programs, spotlight walks, museums, community arts projects, camps, oral history projects
Stories:
Performances and workshops include a mix of flute and drum music, song and stories. Selections of world tales, Scottish tales, fairy tales, healing stories, Australian stories, ghost tales and environmental programs.
Residencies and workshops on creative storytelling for teachers and parents, life story writing and telling, recording and studio skills, performance skills, yoga and storytelling, storytelling for interpreters, storytelling for story writers
CD Once Upon A Song with Anna Jarrett & Ann Lehmann. New takes on traditional nursery rhymes and tales. Especially for young children and families.
Batemans Bay NSW. Travel nationally & internationally.
Ph: 02 4472 3718 -
ajstory@ozemail.com.au -
www.travellingstoryteller.com.au
Helen McKay Status: Life Member
Audience: Schools - Primary & High Schools, Teachers and Adult groups.
Workshops on: Storytelling, Writing, Speaking, Life Issues, `Happiness and the Art of Living`
Co-Author with Berice Dudley of `About Storytelling` and `Riotous Riddles` - Author and Editor of `Gadi Mirrabooka - Australian Aboriginal Tales from the Dreaming, New book`Keys to Your Happiness`.
Helen believes the art of storytelling is a collection skills and that the telling of stories is woven into the fabric of every culture throughout the world. Using story as metaphor, she finds it helps to get her messages across - when speaking to groups in the community. She believes that through oral storytelling, we can connect with - and access - memories from deep within us to promote healing. Newcastle, (02) 4959 7741, (Fax: (02) 4959 9666) - happiness@helenmckay.com
Website: www.helenmckay.com
Sandra O`Neill Status: Accredited Member
Audience: Adult, Corporate
Stories: Personal, Myths & Legends, Morality Fables
Sandra uses her stories in the context of her work as a trainer and facilitator of adult learning. Her audiences are primarily people in organisations and corporations. Her stories illustrate how deeper meanings can be learned from even life`s simplest experiences.
Sydney, (02) 9525 9988 - gsoneill@ozemail.com.au
Anna Orchard Status: Member
Audience: Playgroup/preschool, Kindergarten, Primary School, High School/teenage, Special needs children, Adult, Corporate, Mixed family, Other
Stories: Personal, Sacred, Humorous, Ghost, Other lands/cultures, Myths & Legends, Morality Fables, Folk tales, Outback Yarns, Fairy tales, Other
Pymble, (02) 9440 5737 - sorc9809@bigpond.net.au
Lillian Rodrigues-Pang Status: Accredited Member
Audience: Kindergarten, Primary, Adult, Mixed Family
Stories:Myths, Legends and Folktales from around the world. Healing, caring and acceptance stories from around the world, the Sacred, the humorous and the good 'ol Ghost Tale
A bilingual storyteller, Lillian tells stories to audiences of all ages for fun, education, personal and community acceptance/awareness. Combining stories with song, rhyme, props, percussion, actions and language Lillian enthralls the audience with her full bodied, theatrical performance.
Lillian also offers workshops in storytelling for parents, carers and language groups.
Wollongong, Ph: 0417671442 Email; lillipillitales@fastmail.com.au
Alice Wheeler - Status: Accredited Member
Audience: Primary, High School; Aged Care and Retirement; Community Groups; Libraries; Church Groups; Emerging Migrant Communities
Stories: Wisdom Stories from the First Nations; Mythology; Healing stories; Audience Participation
Ethiopian saying: God created man because s/he loved to hear stories!
Alice\'s Tales of Wonder and Wisdom take her listeners on a journey through many of the world\'s cultures; build bridges of understanding; weaving respect and admiration for our diversity and uncovering our similarities. Alice has lived and travelled in many countries gathering folkstories and the wisdom of the elders of First Nations. She is also a trained psychotherapist. Audiences are enthralled by Alice\'s full spectrum performances.
Alice also offers workshops in StoryPlay(c) binding community through sharing stories with safe and playful creativity.
Lower North Shore Contact: (02) 9904 8711 or 0408 478 425
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