About the Storyteller - Dale Jarvis
Dale Gilbert Jarvis is a performer who has been telling stories since 1992. Dale has been one of the few professional storytellers in St. John's, and has performed at a variety of events, conferences, luncheons, and benefits. He is in great demand for storytelling festivals across Canada, and has been featured at local and international festivals in Cape Breton, Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, St. Mary's, Regina and Whitehorse, and has told tales in Wisconsin, Beijing and Oslo!
Dale tells stories of the faerie folk, tales from the collections of the Brothers Grimm, ghost stories, legends and traditional tales from Newfoundland, Ireland, the United Kingdom and beyond.
He is the founder of the St. John's Storytelling Circle, president of the St. John's Storytelling Festival, Inc., and was the Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada representative at the inaugural meeting of the Federation for European Storytelling (FEST) in Norway, 2008.
Dale has written and performed in a number of other storytelling shows, including "Away: An Evening with the Faerie Folk", "Graveyards & Goosebumps", "Tales in the Temple" and "The St. Valentine's Dreadful Date", and "Pirates at the Pier". He has collaborated with musician Delf Hohmann on two storytelling shows "Under the Juniper Tree: Stories and Songs from the Brothers Grimm" and "The Devil Made Me Do It!". In 2009, he performed his fringe show "Not in your time: The Folktales of Newfoundland" at the Northlands Storytelling Network Spring Conference in Green Lake, Wisconsin.
He also offers workshops for beginning storytellers and on storytelling for historical interpretation, and has taught storytelling to adults, highschool level students, and most recently, is working on an Arts Smarts program with grades 4-6 at Holy Cross Elementary School in St. John's, Newfoundland, where he teaches kids to tell their own stories, and puts their stories online in MP3 format.
High resolution head shots and promotional photos of Dale are on Flickr
Dale's Twitter UpdatesArticles on Dale's storytelling
- Storytelling in Eastern Canada: The Present and Future
- Shout Out: Dale Jarvis, the Real Deal - Review by Tim Ereneta
- Word on the Street -[Here]Say project
- Basque Stories of Canada’s North: Storytelling at Red Bay National Historic Site
- Historical Storytelling - Storytelling for Historic Site, Museum, and Parks Interpretation
- "Great Ending to Storytelling Evening" (2007 Telegram article)
- "Word of Mouth Keeping Tradition Alive" (2006 Telegram article)
- "Storytelling keeps step with changing times" (2005 CBC story)
- "Storytelling keeps step..." Real Media video version (2005 CBC television)
- "Theatre Forms: Once upon a Time" (2003 National Theatre School article)
Teaching Resources
Dale is also a board member of Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada (SC/CC) which is the national organization of storytelling in Canada. For more info on SC/CC, and to find out how you can become a member, click the SC/CC logo to the left!
Subscribe to the Dale Jarvis Podcast here