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Pearl-Ann Gooding
1709 10A Street
Wainwright AB T9W 1K1
Home/Résidence : 780-842-6548
Email/Courriel : goodtell@telusplanet.net
Pearl-Ann Gooding has been telling stories and recognized professionally since 1995 both provincially and nationally..
Pearl-Ann works in a Junior/Senior High School as an Educational Assistant and instructs storytelling for students in grades 7 ~ 12. She travels extensively telling stories and teaching seminars on a variety of storytelling related subjects nation wide. Pearl-Ann lives in Wainwright, Alberta with her husband, 2 sons and mini dashound. She also has a married daughter in Calgary.
The recorded a new CD (her third) in Winnipeg in the fall of 2007 for children entitled, AGAIN! Pearl-Ann is a performing artist for the Fort Edmonton Storytelling Festival over the September, Labour Day long weekends as well as a selected performing artist for the Ottawa Storytelling Festival in November 2007. Pearl-Ann ran a "Haunted Walk" through her hometown of Wainwright every Saturday and Monday in October 2007. She also has received grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts for support on a storytelling project for her hometown's 100th birthday that will take place in July 2008, "A Walk Of Heroes".
The book, "Under the Wide Blue Sky, Alberta Stories to Read and Tell", of which Pearl-Ann has a story published in it, was recommended by the Calgary Board of Education in 2007 for the grade 4 Social Studies program.