Episodes

  • Brenda Berrisford and building confidence

    Brenda Berrisford and building confidence
    Jan 9 2025
    Brenda moved to Perth from England with her family in 1970. She wears many hatsincluding retired librarian, oral storyteller and writer of poetry and short stories.In the 70s she enrolled at WAIT (now Curtin University) in Library Studies. Duringthis time she worked in high school libraries and discovered the Storytelling Guild ofWA in 1983, of which she is a Life Member. After graduating she started her ownbusiness, combining libraries and storytelling.She has travelled widely – interstate and overseas – on holidays, or spreading thejoy of oral storytelling through her love of words and language. Storytelling andlecturing took her to many interesting venues, including Singapore, School-of-the Airand visits to prison! The experiences have been rewarding and many an unsuspectingtraveller has been the basis for a story.In 1998 she discovered the Writefree Women’s Writing Group at the KatharineSusannah Prichard Centre and has contributed to 26 anthologies put out by this group.She has had poems published and in 2008 launched her first book of short stories andpoems, Telling Tales and Weaving Dreams, and in 2018, she published her secondbook which includes a novella and other short stories, A Web Untangling.Brenda lived in Gooseberry Hill in Western Australia for 41 years and has recently downsized to a unit in Kalamunda.Email: brenb2024@gmail.com
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    46 mins
  • Jenni Cargill-Strong and finding belonging

    Jenni Cargill-Strong and finding belonging
    Dec 26 2024
    Jenni is a nationally recognised storyteller and educator with thirty years experience, now based in Meanjin, or Brisbane. Jenni tells her stories eye to eye and heart to heart, engaging listeners with her warm, welcoming and expressive style. Jenni toured schools in Australia and New Zealand for seven years and has five award-winning story albums. She has been an invited presenter and workshop leader at online storytelling gatherings and conferences in the US and is a part-time academic at Southern Cross University, teaching storytelling for educators, change-makers and healers. Jenni is available for storytelling performances, workshops, story coaching, school shows and staff in-services. You can contact her and see her work at www.storytree.com.au
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    45 mins
  • Marion Mary and dancing in the heart

    Marion Mary and dancing in the heart
    Dec 12 2024
    Marion spent many hours in the evening as a child sitting on the lap of her mother reading stories. When she encountered the Art of Storytelling in 2013 it was evident. This was the craft of her heart! She went in 2018 studying Storytelling at Emerson college in England. As her craft grew she traveled to many places telling stories until she landed in the northern part of Italy where she settled. Today, Marion is creating her own events where she tells stories as well as goes to schools to enchant the imagination of the children. She also weaves Storytelling and Dance, her other passion. When possible she invites people to sit in Nature, listening to a story while reconnecting to the Earth. You can find more about Marion's work on instagram: @thisismarionmary
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    35 mins
  • Donna Jacobs Sife and Building Peace

    Donna Jacobs Sife and Building Peace
    Nov 28 2024
    Donna Jacobs Sife is a writer, award-winning storyteller and peace -worker. From the United Nations to Woodford Folk Festival, her considerable international reputation is built on her capacity to bridge difference within our societies, our communities or ourselves. For nearly three decades she has travelled widely throughout the world teaching and telling stories.www.Donnajacobsife.comWatch donna tell a storyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugv1hPpscdchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXJxU-acRUI
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    40 mins
  • Dave Tonge and interpreting history

    Dave Tonge and interpreting history
    Nov 14 2024
    Dave Tonge is a jobbing teller of tales. An itinerant journeyman who performs at festivals,museums, heritage sites and schools. From Lindisfarne Holy Island in the north, to ArundelCastle in the south, he works regularly for English Heritage and national museums like theAshmolean and British Museum. He has written three books, Tudor Folk Tales, NorfolkFolk tales for Children and Medieval Folk tales for Children, with a forth, Trickster TalesFrom Many Lands, due in 2025. Dave specialises in telling period rich and often irreverenttales shared by the poorer folk long ago, at heritage sites and is particularly interested inbringing storytelling to wider non storytelling audiences. But he can also be heard atstorytelling events including Taffy Thomas’s Tales in Trust, Festival at the Edge and SettleStorytelling Festival. That said, many of his performances still have an historical flavourwith sets like Tavern Yard Tales and Dame Fortunes Wheel.https://www.facebook.com/dave.tonge.3https://www.instagram.com/davetongestoryteller/Copies of my books can be brought via the History Press Website..
    https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/tudor-folk-tales/9780750991643/
    https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/norfolk-folk-tales-for-children/9780750984812/
    https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/medieval-folk-tales-for-children/9780750990943/
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    38 mins
  • Phil Greenwood and sacred landscapes

    Phil Greenwood and sacred landscapes
    Oct 31 2024
    Philip Greenwood is the founder and creative director of Sacred Earth Community Benefit Society, working through the mediums of deep nature connection, earth wisdom and ancient healing practices and processes. For the last 25 years i have been on a journey of restoration, healing myself while healing and working on restoring a disused industrial land site back into a nature sanctuary for people to connect to self, others and the natural world. Storytelling is part of my Craft as we discover what it means to be a whole hearted human being.www.sacredearthland.co.uk
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    35 mins
  • Liz Locksley and telling a new story

    Liz Locksley and telling a new story
    Oct 17 2024
    Liz is a storyteller and narrator of systems for life: food, water, energy, movement, community, hope, and spirit of the land.
    An engineer by training, and a storyteller by provenance, Liz grew up between worlds. Between Manchester's swagger of industrial ingenuity and a remote valley in the Yorkshire Dales where folk spoke in Norse dialect and roaring becks flowed with peat-brown water, coloured with tannins from ancient mosses.
    20 years ago, Liz was called by the far away land of Australia through memories of her Granny's tape-recorded tales of life in the Australian bush.

    Liz is an environmental consultant and sustainability project manager at City of Canada Bay Council.You can see her website here: Thrive Story
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    38 mins
  • Dee Palanisamy and trusting the stories

    Dee Palanisamy and trusting the stories
    Oct 3 2024
    Durgah Devi Palanisamy (Dee) is an international, multicultural storyteller and educator from Singapore, currently based in Melbourne, Australia. Her boundless passion for the art of storytelling radiates through her captivating narratives, engaging and creating connections worldwide. She shares her love for Asian folktales and stories with audiences of all ages. With a background in speech and drama education, she skillfully weaves together tales that inspire, entertain, and educate. Her work includes personal and bilingual stories, tales for personal transformation, and more recently exploring rhythm in creative ways. Dee is also a coach/trainer and is grateful to connect with people and different communities through stories.
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    44 mins