Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours, University of Manitoba, 1995
Bachelor of Education, Early Childhood Education, University of Manitoba, 1980
Bachelor of Arts, University of Manitoba, 1966

Employment
• 2003 and ongoing Co- Director of Magic of One Productions, storytelling and music concerts
• 2002 and ongoing: Artist with Manitoba Artists in Healthcare, working part time at St. Boniface Hospital, Grace Hospice, and with CancerCare MB, also self employed artist teaching storytelling and art under contract.
• 1993-2000, 2004 and ongoing: Participating artist in the Manitoba Arts Council's Artist-in-the-School Program, giving 1-3 week long residencies on storytelling and art.
• 1975-1989 Classroom teacher 1975-1989 with the Winnipeg School Division

Recent Grants
• 2004 Manitoba Arts Council Writers Short term Project
• 2001 Manitoba Arts Council Video Arts Short Term Project
• 2001 Manitoba Arts Council Visual Arts Short Term Project
• 2000 Manitoba Arts Council Writers Short Term Project
• 1999 Manitoba Arts Council Touring Grant for Performers
• 1999 Video Pool Media Production Fund for "The Skin of This Planet"

Group Grants
• 2005 Canada Council Audience and Market Development to attend a festival in Australia
• 2006, 2005, 2003 Canada Arts Council Storytelling and Spoken Word Program for the Magic of One Storytelling and Music Concert Series

Training
• 2004 Creative Center of New York, a week long in-service on arts in healthcare
• Media 100 Editing Suite Video Pool, 2001
• Certificate in Mediation and Conflict Resolution 2002
• "The Voice Within" one week intensive voice and movement workshop with Richard Armstrong 1999

Commendations/awards
• 2003 The Skin of This Planet video, awarded 3rd place in "Nature as Capital" Art & Design in Public Places, The Works, Edmonton
• North From Centre: my self produced audio cassette was chosen by Manitoba Department of Education for their Language Arts Senior 3 Literary focus course

Juries
• Manitoba Arts Council
• Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada
• Canada Council for the Arts
• Saskatchewan Arts Board

Collaborative work and experience
• 2003 - ongoing BraveHeart Storytellers ( with Laura Cowie and Val Clancy)
• 2003 - ongoing Magic of One Productions (with Laura Cowie)
• 2000 - ongoing SAND musical trio (with Dave Quanbury and Phoebe Man) with performances at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Winnipeg Children's Festival, Winnipeg Fringe Festival, West End Cultural Centre, Gas Station Theatre

Videography and Screenings
• "The Skin of This Planet",
Great Northern Arts Festival, Inuvik NWT, 2001
Winnipeg International Writers Festival, 2001
Pool Queue, Cinematheque Theatre, Wpg, 2002
• "Doing Time" Vanity Night Fundraiser, Imax Theatre, Wpg, 1999

Recent work in art and storytelling 2001-7
• Artistic Director and Co Founder of "The Magic of One" storytelling and music concert series
• Storyteller - in -Residence, Winnipeg Public Library
• Member and co-founder of BraveHeart Storytellers, a storytelling project for children at risk
• September 2005 Under the Southern Cross, Australia's National Storytelling Festival PERTH WA
• October 2005 Eastern Townships storytelling Festival, Sherbrooke Quebec
• Canadian Children’s Book Week Tour
• Great Northern Arts Festival , Inuvik, North West Territories Guest Artist
• Edmonton Storytelling Festival Guest Storyteller
• Cork Yarnspinners, Cork, Ireland Guest Storyteller
• Sundogs Storytelling Festival, Museum of Man & Nature, Winnipeg.

STORYTELLING ARTS
I perform all across Canada, and in Manitoba, in small towns, schools, concerts, fundraisers, and weddings. I often combine music and storytelling, playing a hammered dulcimer and bodhran drum.

Selected performances
CBC Radio Groundswell
Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature Winnipeg Art Gallery
Manitoba Children’s Museum Royal Winnipeg Ballet Symposium on Storytelling, Sydney, NS

Festivals
Winnipeg International Children’s Festival, Winnipeg International Folk Festival
Winnipeg Irish Festival, Winnipeg Fringe Festival
Ottawa Storytelling Festival, Yukon Storytelling Festival
Toronto Storytelling Festival, Vancouver Storytelling Festival
Manitoba International Storytelling Festival

Selected Storytelling Workshops
• Manitoba Childcare Association, storytelling training wksps with Laura Cowie
• Celtic and Norse Mythology, University Women's Club for Creative Retirement
• Mythology in Daily Life, Unitarian Church of Winnipeg
• CancerCare Manitoba
• Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, Storytelling for young Children
• Elderhostel in Whitehorse, Yukon
• Toronto Storytelling Festival, with Kira Van Deusen
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Storytelling and Art, SAG conferences
• Gardenhill Reserve (Island Lake, Manitoba), and at many residential group homes in Winnipeg, Storytelling for and with young adults
• Summer Storytelling School Halifax

Storytelling Works in progress
The Magic of One Concert Series
"Giving Birth Beside the Buffalo"...performing the life of Marie Anne Lagimodiere
"Now I know the World is Round" ...a book about storytelling and music in Hospice and Palliative Care
"The Bear Claw Necklace" .... A story of Sitting Bull
Winnipeg Fringe Festival, 2009, "SKIN DEEP"

Recent Conference presentations:
2007 11th Annual Symposium of Storytelling, Sidney, Nova Scotia
2005 Healing Story Alliance Conference, Minneapolis MN
2005 Society for Arts in Healthcare conference Edmonton AB.
2004 Rupertsland Colloquium Kenora, ON
2004 Canadian Counselling Association Conference Winnipeg, MB

VISUAL ARTS
Solo Shows
• 2002 University of Winnipeg Gallery 1CO3 "The Skin of This Planet" video installation conceived as a response to a poem by PK Page called "Planet Earth"
• 2003 St. Boniface Hospital, "The Skin of This Planet" video installation

Recent Selected Exhibitions
• 1999 "Postcards From the Edge" Manitoba Assoc. of Community Arts Councils held at the Franco-Manitoban Centre
• Main/ Access Gallery, Winnipeg, yearly Members Access Show
• Renegade Library Group Exhibition, Art Gallery of Southerm Manitoba, Brandon
• 1998 Pigrun’s Quest A collaborative story and art performance in King’s Park produced by StoryArt (Gerri Serrette,Susan Barton-Tait, Mike Olito, Jane Cahill,)

Recent Publications
• 2007 & 2008 Women's Daybook, Sumach Press, I have photographs and essays in each edition.
• 2005, Storytelling Magazine, Vol 17, Issue 1, January/February 2005, National Storytelling Network, Jonesborough Tennessee, USA, “They Should have Listened to their Hearts” & “Qualutaliqssuaq”
• 2003, "The Golden Phoenix" in The Healing Heart: Storytelling for Strong and Healthy Communities, eds Allison Cox & David Albert, New Society Publishers, 2003
• 1999 "Mourning Cloak" and "White Spider", two drawings in Spider Woman: A Tapestry of Creativity and Healing eds. Carol Rose & Joan Turner, Shillingford Press, Wpg.
• "Journey Without Maps" in The Power of the Story ed Afra Kavanaugh, University College of Cape Breton Press,1998

Memberships
Comhaltas Ceoltori Winnipeg (for the preservation of Irish traditional arts)
SCCC Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada
MAWA, & CARFAC
Stone Soup Stories of Winnipeg
Village Green English Country Dance Society
Elder Tales
CDBA Community Development Business Association