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Where Languages Meet, Conference 2015
Workshop and Master Class Leader Biographies
MARIE BRYCE
Calgary-based, Marie Bryce’s storytelling journey began in Scotland as she reconnected to her family history and discovered a rich storytelling culture. Practicing InterPlay for 4 years, Marie is part of the InterPlay Leader Training program. A passionate facilitator, she loves to bring out an individual’s creative, playful self.ALEXIS ROY
Clown, storyteller and actor, Alexis explored variety and comedy shows before diving into physical theatre. He develops a particular body language that he integrates in his storytelling practice. Most of his repertoire is inspired by folklore and tinged with humour (Contes du bout de la Beauce, Editions Michel Brûlé). He regularly takes part in the main storytelling events. From 2009 to 2013, he was the artistic director of Innucadie’s tales and legends Festival in Natashquan, Québec.FRANÇOIS LAVALLÉE
At 16 years old, François Lavallée started telling as a summer camp counsellor. Twenty years later, he tells stories throughout Quebec and all around the Francophonie. As a Bush Artist, he still believes that imagination can be a suspended space where human beings can meet.GOLDIE SPENCER
Goldie has performed in many Storytelling Festivals including the Sydney Festival in Australia where she presented a historical piece she wrote on "Women of the Yukon". Goldie teaches "The Art of Storytelling" at Act 11 Studio, part of Ryerson University's Continuing Education.BERTRAND BERGERON
Author and ethnologist, Bertrand Bergeron has collected, alongside with his teaching career, traditional tales and legends that form the oral literature of his region.CLARA DUGAS
A proud bilingual Acadian from Nova Scotia, Clara has told in France, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Author of a teachers’ guide for storytelling in the classroom for the Acadian School Board of Nova Scotia, she gives workshops for teachers, high school students and for seniors.DAVID MERLEAU
David Merleau is a storyteller and radio maniac. On the ground he designs low power AM Radio networks like Big Fish AM in Northern Ontario, and in the cloud he is a programmer and senior producer at BlueNorthRadio.com. He has been an associate producer with CBC Sudbury and has helped to establish a Heritage Radio Project at VOBB in Gros Morne, Newfoundland. He offers a Youth Radio Workshop series for rural community radio stations.MARIE BILODEAU
Marie Bilodeau is a bestselling and award-winning science-fiction and fantasy author. As a storyteller, she's told stories across Canada and the US to a variety of audiences in schools, theatre houses, pubs, tea shops and under disco balls. She's an active member of the Ottawa Storytellers.Find out more at www.mariebilodeau.com
Robert Seven-Crows Bourdon is of mixed native blood. He is Metis/Mi’kmag. For Robert, stories and songs are a way to show the rich oral tradition of his People. Robert has shared
his stories and songs in many festivals on four continents. He is a member of the Kumik Elders Lodge at Indian and Northern Affairs, Canada and Works with the First Nations men at La Macaza Federal Institution.
“ It is essential that we do not lose the sacred teachings because they are the only freedom we have left” Robert Seven-Crows
NICOLAS GODBOUT
Storyteller, author and researcher, Nicolas Godbout is interested in traditional stories and their inheritance. Formed as an ethnologist, he takes active participation in valorisation, diffusion and transmission of oral tradition of his territory, the Côte-du-Sud region.