|
Lorna MacDonald
Czarnota
Professional Storytelling History
Healing and Therapy Presentations:
Ongoing: storytelling and visual arts
Compass House Runaway
Shelter
Compass House Resource
Center
Hopevale Residential Treatment
Center
Child and Adolescent
Services
TRY: a transitional housing facility for young women
2005
Erie County Task Force
EPIC
4th Annual Fine Art Healing and Mental Health
Project
Healing Through Story
Conference
Sister to Sister Youth
Conference
Connecticut Storytelling
Festival
Fredonia Storytelling Festival 2003- 2005
2004
Dublin Yarnspinners
Ireland
Keepers of the Flame Storytelling
Retreat
YWCA: transitional housing program
2003
Chautauqua County Peer Education Project
Other
American Folklore Society 2002 / Northlands Conference
2002 / Peace Panel workshop at National Storytelling
Festival, Jonesborough TN 2002 / Poster Session National
Storytelling Conference 2001 / Pyramid Life Center Retreat
2001 / Healing Story Alliance session 2001 / National
Storytelling Conference 2000
Storytelling and Education Presentations:
Tudor Gardens, Washington DC / Carnegie Arts Center,
Tonawanda NY 2004, 2005 / New York Library Association 2002 /
Northlands Conference 2003 / Sharing the Fire Storytelling
Conference, Boston MA 2000 / Heads and Tales (Wisconsin) /
1996/ Pennsylvania Storytelling Conference / Reading Fun Camp
/ Lessons From Children / Alpha Delta Kappa / New York State
Association for Compensatory Educators / New York State
Association for the Education of Young Children 2002, 2003 /
Regional Conference of Lutheran Teachers.
Festival Storytelling:
Folk Arts Festival, St. Catherine ON Canada 2005 / Guelph
Storytelling Festival, Guelph Canada 2002 / Buffalo Waterfest
2000 / Chinquapin Music and Storytelling Festival, Peoria
Illinois 1999 / Storytellers Celebration 1999, Hillsboro Ohio
/ Ocala Storytelling Festival, Ocala Florida (first year of
the festival) / Scottish Festival, Amherst Museum / Medieval
Festival, Hornell NY / St. Bonaventure Renaissance Faire/
Herschel Carousel Museum Renaissance Faire, Tonawanda NY/
Baycrafter’s Renaissance Fayre, Ohio 2002, 2003 / Niagara
-on-the-Lake Storytelling Festival / East Aurora Toyfest /
World University Games / Imagination Celebration (Very Special
Arts Festival) / Panama Rocks Fall Foliage Festival / Sherman
Days (Sherman, NY) / World Magicks (Sherman, NY) / First Night
Buffalo / First Night Eden / Olmstead Winterfest / Friendship
Festival (Canada) / Depew Centennial / Oneonta Storytelling
Festival / Tellebration Buffalo NY, Wellsville NY &
Danbury CT.
Affiliations: Scotland Storytelling Center / Healing
Story Alliance / National Youth SIG / Spin-a-Storytellers /
National Storytelling Network / League for the Advancement of
New England Storytelling / National Network for Youth /
Northlands Storytelling Network / American Folklore Society /
New York State Library Association / Buffalo Friends of Folk
Music / Virginia Storytelling Alliance
Special Accomplishments and Related Experience:
Awarded Hopevale Incorporated 2005 Volunteer of the
Year.
Nominated for the Univera and United Way 2004 Community
Hero Award
Published Author :Medieval Tales that Kids Can Read and
Tell, August House 2000
Awarded recognition by the Parent’s Council and
winner of the 2001 Pegasus Award for storytelling
resources for middle and high school students.
"Bleeding Heart", Healing Heart anthology, New
Society Publishers
2003
"Magic Lands" audio
cassette
"Dancing in Dark Waters" cd winner of 2004
Storytelling World
Honors
"Crossroads" cd
Articles featured in National Storytelling
Magazine, Museletter, Northlands Storytelling Journal,
Diving in the Moon (Healing Story Alliance).
Coordinator of storytelling program for the World
University Games
1993
Co-Director Western New York Storytelling Institute
Founder and Executive Director CROSSROADS Story
Center: a not-for-profit reaching at-risk youth
through storytelling.
Collaborations: Letters Home: stories of the North
and
South
Peace Works: stories for peace and tolerance.
Special Projects: commission "Moving
Dress" : fictitious story of a woman who
experienced the dust bowl and its aftermath.
Whose Names are Unknown: Music
of the Great Depression with the Blue
Eagle String Band.
Education:
Bachelor of Science: Creative Studies for Young
Children
Master of Science in Special Education
* Thesis: Effect of Storytelling on Reading
Comprehension for Mildly Handicapped
Students
Bachelor
of Science in Creative Studies for Young Children
Certification in Trauma Counseling: University of Buffalo
Department of Social Work
Special Honors
:
* Gerald A. Calabrese Special Education Award : D'Youville
College
* Recognition by the New York State Arts Teacher Association
Adjunct Professor of Education and Children’s Literature:
D’Youville College
REFERENCES Available on Request
|
