The Dreamer Awakes: Storytelling by Susan Charters

Location: 
The Carnegie Room, MacLarenArtCentre
Festival: 
Carnegie Days 2010
noon, 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm. Free
 
Susan Charters is a storyteller, writer, teacher and musician from Orillia, whose welcoming and powerful style draws her audience to the tales she tells. For Carnegie Days, Charters honours the late Alice Kane, a storyteller and librarian, who played a major role in developing the Toronto Public Library's world-renowned children's library services, and was an inspiration to Canada's storytelling community. Selections will suit adults and children and will include “The Woman of the Sea,” “The Blue Faience Hippopotamus,” and “Charlie Rowland” (all found in Ms. Kane’s book The Dreamer Awakes), as well as a mix of Irish and multi-cultural tales that Ms. Kane loved.
 
Charters’ repertoire includes modern and traditional tales, Biblical stories, and wolf tales. She has performed in group and school settings in central Ontario, in Toronto, and at the Ottawa Storytelling Festival, the Orillia Arts for Peace Festival, and the Mariposa Folk Festival, where she has also helped to organize a storytelling corner in the festival's Folk Play area. At one-time a teacher in the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program®, Charters leads storytelling workshops for adults and children, and facilitates a storytelling group at the public school where she teaches.

Carnegie Days 2010 Schedule

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Friday, September 17, 2010

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Sunday, September 19, 2010