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Ph/Fax : (03) 216 7290 email lizm@xtra.co.nz
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| A New Zealand Pioneer in the art of storytelling, Dreamweaver has worked and travelled throughout New Zealand, and in Australia, United Kingdom, Europe, U.S.A, Canada and Japan telling stories, giving workshops, presenting papers, and learning stories. A trained teacher and Speech Therapist, she spent over 28 years as Young People's Librarian, then Children's Community Services Officer at the Invercargill Public Library. For her services to children and the community, Dreamweaver was honoured by the New Zealand government, receiving an M.B.E. in 1987. |
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| Storytelling, activity sessions and simple
puppetry for children in schools, pre-schools, libraries etc.
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Storytelling programmes for adults | Workshops, Seminars & Lectures on Storytelling & Communication Skills for Libraries, Polytechnics, Teachers Training Institutions, Nurses-in-training, Youth and Religious workers, Reading Associations etc. |
Current Travel Itinerary available on request should you wish to know when Dreamweaver will be in your area so as to arrange a booking.
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Background 1976 - travels through UK, USA, Canada & parts of Europe developing skills and sharing own insights 1978 - with Otago University, produced a film on the craft of Storytelling which was sold in 7 countries 1982 - 6 weeks storytelling in Japan 1983 - attended 2nd Pacific Rim Conference on Children's Literature 1986 - presented a paper and told stories at the 3rd Pacific Rim Conference on Children's Literature 1989 - paper published in USA "A sea of Upturned Faces" - Toured for the Southern Regional Arts Council 1990 - guest Storyteller at Waitangi on Waitangi Day - told at the opening of the Aotea Centre, Auckland - Katherine Mansfield World Youth Festival 1991 - contracted by Masterton District Library to
revitalise their Children's section. Established
the
E.C.Readin' Summer Reading programmes based in Masterton. 1992 - organised the first Glistening Waters
Storytelling Festival in Masterton, New Zealand 1993 - Wanganui Summer School 5-day Storytelling
class. 1993-95 and 1997-98 - funded by the Invercargill Licensing Trust, through the Invercargill Branch of the Reading Association, to tell stories and run participatory programmes in local schools for 9-week periods. This programme is still run annually and the current session is in planning for 2008. 1994 - told at the Australian Storytelling Festival 1996 - established Southern Storytellers. In tandem with this programme, Southern Storytellers have run an annual event for students 6,7,& 8 where schools select their best teller in each of those years and send them to a workshop day with us. They then attend a dinner at the Kelvin Hotel with the workshop leaders and adult tellers plus any star tellers we may be able to invite, after which they tell their stories to an invited audience. 1997 - Teller at the Christchurch Festival of Romance 1998 - Waikato Polytechnic Summer School :
week-long class "Everyone a Storyteller" * I made a Storytelling Video "Folk Stories with Dreamweaver" produced by Rillstone and Associates. Still avalable.
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