MISSION STATEMENT

Storytellers for Children is an active response to the growing interest in storytelling for children and youth and is committed to:

• promoting storytelling for children & youth,

• developing a national network for storytellers, families & communities.

WHO WE ARE

Storytellers for Children is a member-based association co-ordinated by volunteer executive directors: Carol Ashton, Joan Bailey, Donna Dudinsky, Sally Jaeger, April Nicolle, Hildy Stollery, Wendy Tinkler, and Harriet Xanthakos.

WHAT WE DO

• co-host  performances with public libraries, Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, The Bata Shoe Museum, historic settings, school boards, Frontier College, Riverdale Farm, provincial literacy networks, and other organizations

• provide storytelling concerts for children and their families

• create a national network for Canada’s “storytelling for children & youth” community of tellers

• facilitate bi-annual adult storytelling SWAPS called “The TALKING POT” to discuss resources, strategies, voices & visions for our work with children & youth, as well as to grow from and encourage one another.

• produce storytelling newsletters, bibliographies, thematic pamphlets, reviews of events and oral tradition resources.

• present professional development workshops for E.C.E. seminars, parent-education networks, teachers, librarians, children’s literature scholars, storytellers, and others