Workshop with Dylan Spevack-Willcock: Hearing Voices
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.
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: Bibliography Voice Work
Lipman, 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 Theory
King, Thomas. (2003) The Truth About Stories . Toronto : House of Anansi Press.
Sawyer, Ruth. (1942) The Way of the Storyteller . New York : Penguin Group.
Anthologies
Aesop'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.
Websites
A good general site for storytelling, including stories, plays and articles
www.storyteller.net/
A great site to find (almost) any story)
www.story-lovers.com/listsofstories.html
A great source for southern ghost stories
www.themoonlitroad.com/
A wonderful collection of folksongs, with both print and audio versions
www.chivalry.com/cantaria/
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: Bibliography Voice Work
Lipman, 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 Theory
King, Thomas. (2003) The Truth About Stories . Toronto : House of Anansi Press.
Sawyer, Ruth. (1942) The Way of the Storyteller . New York : Penguin Group.
Anthologies
Aesop'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.
Websites
A good general site for storytelling, including stories, plays and articles
www.storyteller.net/
A great site to find (almost) any story)
www.story-lovers.com/listsofstories.html
A great source for southern ghost stories
www.themoonlitroad.com/
A wonderful collection of folksongs, with both print and audio versions
www.chivalry.com/cantaria/
