This Monday is Family Day in Ontario, and Huronia Museum is celebrating by hosting an afternoon of storytelling from 1pm to 4pm (More info about the event here).

Here’s a little bit about each of our three featured storytellers.

Originally from Thunder Bay, Ann McDougall  is a Toronto-based storyteller, writer, theatre artist and arts educator.  Her storytelling has been featured in at the Toronto Festival of Storytelling, Toronto Arts Week, the RED Festival and on CBC Radio.  She has also been the co-curator of the SPEAK storytelling series in Toronto.

Her most recent work, Floating City is an in-depth look at the lesser-known history of Hamilton, Ontario.

You can hear an excerpt from her performance of Count the Stars, that she performed at the Festival of Oral Literature, here.

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