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Brian Hetherington
Bio
A storyteller, teacher and writer, enamoured of anything Icelandic, Brian Hetherington has been telling stories for almost twenty years. He was the Artistic Director of the Storytelling Festival of Toronto for two years and editor of Appleseed Quarterly, the Canadian Journal of Storytelling, for five years. Ten years ago, he travelled to Iceland and fell in love with the country, its people and its landscape. Since then, he has returned to the country often and has lead two tours of the country. Brian tells his own original historical fiction and fantasy stories as well as traditional folktales, particularly ones from Iceland, Canada, and the Celtic lands.
In 2013, he was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Storytelling Creation grant. With it, he created and performed a one-man show on the theme, “Were It Not for Hope, the Heart Would Break”. He performed this show of historical fiction and folktales in the spring of 2014, complete with an original score by Howard Alexander and his own photos of the locales of the stories.
He holds a BA Honours in Latin (Queen’s University), a diploma in Adult Education (The University of British Columbia) and a Master’s in Theological Studies with a focus on religious history (Trinity College, University of Toronto).