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Carol Leigh Wehking
clwehking@gmail.com
(905) 627-8422 cell: (519) 781-6557
304 - 77 Governor's Road
Dundas, Ontario L9H 7N8
> Have stories, will travel <
Carol Leigh is a seasoned and widely experienced English-speaking teller and workshop leader with national and international experience. Stories have guided her life.
Her repertoire ranges from ancient epic to folktales to modern literary tales (told with permission from the author), and also award-winning stories and histories written by herself. A special Canadian set which has been enthusiastically received abroad is also perfect for Canadian audiences. Carol Leigh tells in concerts, festivals, schools, libraries, special events, or anywhere a story is needed.
Workshops include:
Jump Start (for new tellers);
Telling Family Stories;
Finding the Spirit of the Story (in folktales);
Historical Story-Making;
and custom workshops for specific needs.
Carol Leigh has taught storytelling workshops from Ontario to the Yukon to Australia, for ages from adults to as young as 5. She also does individual coaching.
Carol Leigh taught with the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program® for 9 years, teaching in both the preschool and infant programmes, and also training teachers. Some of her versions of folktales are included in Grandmother Spider and Other Stories. She co-edited with Celia Lottridge and Glenna Janzen the rhyme collection Where Are the Stars.
Carol Leigh has twice represented SC-CC as a storyteller on the Canadian Children's Book Centre Book Week Tour, touring one week in Saskatchewan, and once north of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories.
Carol Leigh has directed various series and festivals, including the Toronto Storytelling Festival (twice with Dan Yashinsky and once solo), and a series of historical stories called Yesterstories, and at present is Artistic Director of FRESH Stories in Dundas, Ontario. She has for decades celebrated World Storytelling Day and Canadian Storytelling Night. She has received grants from SC-CC, Storytelling Toronto, the Ontario Arts Council, the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, and Arts Connect Cambridge for her storytelling projects. She tells with the Ontario group The Stonesoup Storytellers, and with the Uppity Women.
Carol Leigh's historical story about Elizabeth Fry and her influence upon convicts transported from Britain to Australia, entitled "Charlotte's Quilts" is on CD and available for purchase by emailing her at clwehking@gmail.com
Carol Leigh and her partner Glenna Janzen have created a CD of rhymes, songs, and stories for very small children and their adults, called Over the One-Strand River, also available by emailing her.
Three of Carol Leigh's historical stories have been anthologized in the collections In the Wings, Stories of Forgotten Women; Brought to Light, More Stories of Forgotten Women; and Engraved: Canadian Stories of World War One.