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Carol Leigh Wehking

Performer

157 Grand Avenue South
Cambridge ON
N1S 2M1
Phone: (519) 623-2456
Email: storywomancaroleigh@gmail.com

Born: October, 1948. Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Two children (grown up!)

Biography

Carol Leigh Wehking is a versatile performer and writer with nearly four decades experience.  She has specialized in storytelling since 1991, and since that time has told in festivals, concerts, schools, libraries, and many other venues across Canada and as far afield as Australia and Belgium.  Carol Leigh has a repertoire which ranges from ancient epic to folktale to modern literary stories including award-winning stories of her own, and also a unique Canadian collection to share at home and abroad.  Carol Leigh directed the Toronto Festival of Storytelling in 2006, and also in 2004 and 2005 with Dan Yashinsky, and is Artistic Director of Tongues Wagging Productions.  She taught in the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program for 9 years in Hamilton and Toronto, telling and teaching stories to parents and young children.  She is founder of the Uppity Women tellers: women tellers who tell stories of strong women of fact and folktale.

Published

Anthology: Grandmother Spider and other folktales to tell: Parent-Child Mother Goose Program 2006 (2 stories)
Appleseed Quarterly, the Journal of Canadian Storytelling: associate editor, featured articles, regular column "A Time to Laugh"

Recorded

CD:  Charlotte's Quilts: a story of Elizabeth Fry 2003
CD:  Over the One-Strand River:  an audio recording of stories, songs, and rhymes for small children and their grownups, with Glenna Janzen 2001

Performances

  • World Storytelling Day: annually since its beginning
  • School and library performances from Hamilton to Whitehorse since 1991
  • Magic of One series Winnipeg: Guest teller with Glenna Janzen, 2007
  • Toronto Festival of Storytelling: Featured teller, 2007
  • Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto 2007
  • Franklin's Children's Garden, Toronto Island: 2005,6,7
  • Festivals including Toronto, Hamilton, Brantford, North Bay, Nillumbik (Australia), Alden Biesen (Belgium), and others
  • World Literacy of Canada: literacy project in Toronto 2006
  • Storytelling in the North 2007
  • Dundas Historical Society Museum with Lorne Brown 2007
  • Canadian Children's Book Centre TD Book Week Tour 2001
  • and on and on...

Awards

Alice Kane Award from the Storytellers School of Toronto 2007

Other Memberships

Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada
The Storytellers School of Toronto
Baden Storytellers Guild
Uppity Women (founder)
The Consort of Friends, (medieval and renaissance singing ensemble)
Raging Grannies
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Available For

School performances
Workshops for children, parents, teachers, community
Community performances
Library performances
Conferences
Courses
Festivals
Other