Laurie

The Art of Musical Storytelling

Laurie Lynn Clark, musical storyteller for children collaborates with the Alberta Arts Council and Ghost River Rediscovery Cultural Outdoor Education Program to enhance art and music curriculum throughout children's Hospitals and Canada's Elementary Schools- Public/Catholic/ Native Reserve Schools. Laurie works in partnership with Educational Liaisons (teachers/principles) to reestablish the lost art of storytelling as a teaching technique: She integrates puppetry with song with hand painted illustrations as she delivers stories to a youthful audience (k-Grade 4). Children participate in dramatizing the story to create a performance project that includes the entire audience.