ATEQ - The Association of Teachers of English of Quebec
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WorkshopsWorkshop with Dylan Spevack-Willcock: Hearing Voices
Dylan is fond of stories from the American south, the British Isles and Japan . He has told stories to audiences of all ages, and likes using puppets when telling to young children. He also likes telling to adults, and is currently putting together a set of stories from the Mabinogion (a Welsh epic). At the Springboards conference, he offered exercises to help students find their voices in the process of writing and performing personal stories and folktales. As Dylan says storytelling can help younger children with language acquisition, and the stories can help children of all ages by offering them tools to deal with real life problems. Stories encourage empathy and offer an opportunity for children to explore cultural diversity and help them to consider new ideas. Dylan Spevack-Willcock is also included in the Artists in Schools Directory put out by Culture in the Schools Program in Quebec . Contact Dylan Spevack-Willcock for further information at pterodactales@vif.com Hearing Voices: BibliographyVoice WorkLipman, Doug. (2002) The Storyteller's Voice-Care Toolkit . Somerville : Story Dynamics, Rodenberg, Patsy. (1992) The Right to Speak: Working with the Voice . New York : Routledge, Storytelling TheoryKing, Thomas. (2003) The Truth About Stories . Toronto : House of Anansi Press. Sawyer, Ruth. (1942) The Way of the Storyteller . New York : Penguin Group. AnthologiesAesop's Fables . (1994) Transl. V.S. Vernon Jones. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions. Best-Loved Folktales of the World . (1982) Ed. Joanna Cole. New York : Anchor Books. Calvino, Italiano. (1980) Italian Folktales . Transl: George Martin. New York: Harcourt. Chase, Richard. (1943) The Jack Tales . New York : Houghton Mifflin. Hickey, John David & Dylan Spevack-Willcock. (2005) You Don't Know Jack . Montreal :Topeda Hill Press. Pellowski, Anne. (1984) The Story Vine . New York : McMillan. Ready-To-Tell Tales . (1995) Ed. David Holt & Bill Mooney. Atlanta : August House. Yolen, Jane. (1986) Favorite Folktales from Around the World . New York : Panther Books. WebsitesA good general site for storytelling, including stories, plays and articles A great site to find (almost) any story) www.story-lovers.com/listsofstories.html A great source for southern ghost stories A wonderful collection of folksongs, with both print and audio versions For information on making a sand story box www.drawandtell.com/slsv/sandstuff/whatsand/boxdtl.html Lessons overviews for story theatre history.grand-forks.k12.nd.us/ndhistory/lessonoverview.aspx?LessonID=446 
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Dylan Spevack-Willcock is a well-known Montreal storyteller and author known as “one of Canada 's finest storytellers” (Ottawa Storytelling Festival, 2005). He has told to audiences around North America and in the British Isles . He is a regular storyteller at the Ottawa Storytelling Festival and has been the English Quebec Representative for Storytellers of Canada since 2001. |
