Dawne McFarlane teaches storytelling across Canada, inspired by her storytelling Scottish grandfather. She has worked with world music and dance with choreographers, dancers, Sign Language Interpreters, musicians, and clowns. As a parent and Waldorf teacher, she has been storytelling and teaching around campfires, outdoor bread ovens, kitchen tables, and in classrooms for over 30 years. She performed at storytelling festivals in Toronto, Vancouver and Edinburgh. She teaches storytelling to teachers in Canada and abroad and was a faculty member at the Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto for 8 years. She is the Artistic Director of the Toronto Storytelling Festival.
Fairytales, Families & Forests is Dawne’s first book with Hawthorn Press.
Author’s Books
Fairytales, Families & Forests: Storytelling with young children
Georgiana Keable & Dawne McFarlane, illustrated by Araiz Mesanza
You will discover that you are a storyteller. As you tell your fairytale, your children will open their eyes wide and stare at you in wonder. But they won’t see you. They will look through you to a world of magic and mountains connecting them with nature. Read more…