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Dianne Chandler

Performer

3171 Chandler Drive
Port Perry, Ontario
L9L 1B6
Phone: 905-985-3424
Fax: 905-985-5297
Email: story.teller@sympatico.ca
Web: www.storymagic.ca

Biography

Storyteller Dianne Chandler weaves candlelight dramas cloaked in magic, illuminating multicultural folk-fairy tales, legends, historical and literary tales that touch the heart and tickle the fancy of all ages. Equally comfortable under the stage spotlight, in bright sunshine, or by a campfire she has enchanted young and old for eighteen years. She draws upon her years of experience as an educator and programme planner when preparing for presentations and performances. With talking stick in hand, and dressed in costume, she uses props and audience participation and songs with younger audiences when appropriate. Dianne believes that storytelling is a powerful healing force that connects us all in this disjointed world, and that everyone needs stories, adults as well as children.

Raised in the green woods of Niagara and surrounded by peach blossom forests, Dianne told herself stories endlessly. As a teacher, she told her pupils many stories for many years before discovering, through a chance university course, that she was destined to be “a storyteller.”

Performances

Founder and artistic director of the annual adult storytelling concert "A Celtic Celebration To Welcome Spring" for the past five years
Founder and organizer for the storytelling and musical dinner concert series "Stories For A Summer's Night" "Stories For All Hallows Eve", "Stories for A Christmas Night"
Scriptwriter and storyteller of Durham Folklore Society's Education Commmitee's Multicultural programme for Whitby's Sesquicentennial, Fall 2005.

Other Memberships

The Storytellers School of Toronto, Storytellers of Canada, Storytellers of Ontario, The Durham Folklore Society

Available For

Schools, libraries, workshops, camps, daycares, churches, business meetings, youth groups, festivals and concerts