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STORYTELLERS The wonderful Tellers of The Storytelling Garden are available to travel to your Pre-School and Child Care Centre, Primary and High school and Library for telling, and to facilitate Professional Development workshops. Contact the Garden for details about what is on offer and check what's new to see who is telling near you. |
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As a teenager June's stories were published in the New Idea and other journals. Eventually her passion lead her to join The Storytelling Guild of Australia (VIC. Branch). As well as being a professional storyteller, jb is editor of swag of yarns, Australia's National Storytelling Magazine. June is also a well known educator and speaker with the Kumon Institute of Education. jb has extensive experience in storytelling with adults as well as children and has told at many venues including schools, business conferences, Book Stores, Government House, ABC Radio, Festivals, Storytelling Cafes and Conferences. June was the winner of the storytelling contest at the 1997 Gold'n'Grape
Festival in Heathcote Victoria; and she is featured on the audio tape,
Mystery and Mayhem, produced by the Victorian Guild. Gill holds audiences spellbound. All age groups have felt the power of this experienced storyteller and Gill finds performing for a diverse range of groups rewarding. She keeps coming back however to adolescents - with mutual delight. Edward is a primary school teacher who has spent some years practising the art of storytelling both in the classroom and as a professional storyteller. Edward's flair for characterisation and voices lends his storytelling a dramatic touch, enhanced by his use of music.
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Cindy-Lee trained as a high school English, Speech
/Drama teacher and specialises in entertaining and educational programs
for young children, creating interactive and participatory programs using
range of props, puppets, stories, poems and songs. She works primarily
in Pre-Schools and Child Care Centres, Lower Primary, and with Professional
Development in Storytelling. Cindy-Lee travels to the north-east and to
south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and specified dates to the Greater
Geelong area. 
Jackie has a diploma in Drama (NIDA) and
a Bachelor of Education. With these skills she combines a love of teaching
with her passion for language and performance in storytelling. Jackie
works with all age groups and has a special interest in ESL children.
Her program has been graded carefully with highly participatory stories
for younger children to more complex and literary tales for older students.
She travels anywhere in west and north-west metropolitan Melbourne and
to Geelong.
Susan
brings together the skills of the storyteller and those of the literature
teacher to explore story in a way that encourages active listening and
well as exploration and reflection. Susan educates as she tells, giving
background information on stories, archetypes and the traditional role
of the storyteller. She works with Primary and High School groups and
is interested in the way stories can be used to present issues and explore
values. Susan travels anywhere in metropolitan Melbourne.
Gael is an experienced librarian and uses
traditional tales to explore living in the contemporary world. She is
a published author, The Biography of Gilbert Alexander Pig (1999)
and Fish for Breakfast (due out in 2001), and tells to all age
groups. Gael uses her own stories and poems in performance and undertakes
considerable research prior to adapting traditional stories for telling.
Gael will travel anywhere in metropolitan Melbourne and specified dates
to country areas. 
June,
known as jb, has always been a storyteller. Her primary school
teachers nicknamed her 'Enid Blyton'!
Morgon blends her musical skills and writing
experience to bring a variety of storytelling performances and workshops
to audiences of adults and children alike. She has recorded three CDs
of her stories and published two books on storytelling. Morgon is based
in the Mid North coast region of NSW but will travel to most places in
the East of Australia.