The Art of Storytelling: Preserving Culture Through Tales

Write, breathe, write

As an investigative storyteller there is always another story to tell. In some cultures they sat around campfires and passed down their history. In others, they gathered around a bar, drinking and embellishing the crazy stories they liked to tell. Story tellers like to talk and many of them, to write. There is a need to preserve and share that is born within the storyteller. I started at a young age when I could get a nickel for telling a fun story that I made up. The better the story . . .the more money.I also performed at drunken house parties. I ‘fake’ tap danced on counter tops at the local Chinese food restaurant when I was four. By grade one I was walking around the carnivals where my dad worked carry a teddy bear showing the ‘suckers’ where to win one.I did a bit of theatre in high school but my performances were still more of the ‘at home’ variety. When I was fourteen I could bend over backwards and pick up a quarter with my teeth.Ii always had a story to sell. And at 77 I still do.

My books are still available-on amazon, etc but I prefer people to buy from me. I used to only get 80 cents or something from the Publisher. Now the Publisher who is still in business does not promote or sell my books online. If anyone buys them, I have no idea where the money goes. So back to old school where I have a huge box of unread books. At this time half price. ($10 to $15 shipping in Canada)

Discounted books

bruises & bad haircuts 2011 now only $7 ($10 shipping) poetry . . .harsh reality with a few pretty poems thrown in from 1967 to 2011

Rampage: the pathology of an epidemic 2011now only $11 ($10 shipping) . . .6 years of research into missing and murdered women and children in Canada, a List of over 4,000 names, grassroots stories from the families and people who remember them and who are, in many cases, still looking.

Unlocking the Tin Box-not a memoir . . .emotional storytelling peppered with local landmarks and history, raw , evocative and funny about complicated lives 2019 $13 ($15 shipping)

Through My Lens based on truth and the not so truth–based on family history, newspaper articles, stories and . . .an unsettling past is examined. 2021 $13 ($10 shipping)

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Pictures, reviews on this site . . .goggle search, Amazon and pretty easy to find documented information online.

Metaphors be with you . . .

About Gwynne Hunt gwynne1@telus.net

I am a writer, activist, producer, director and creative performance artist. My new book Through My Lens is based on newspaper clippings going back to 1928; the stories in-between the clippings are about my mom Gunvor Berglund, my step-dad Ronald Robinson and my DNA father Harold Larsen. How did they come together to make me? Some of the research was shocking, some funny but it left me to define the parts of the story I did not know. a tribute to my three parents. My last book, Unlocking the Tin box is about my journey into trying to find our who I was, who my father was; a complicated con man and a carny. But he was more than that and the journey took me as far as doing DNA tests, digging through his old tin box and an examination of my own life. Published by Silver Bow Publishing, available from the Publisher, Amazon and the Author. Fifteen years ago, the book ‘Rampage; the pathology of an epidemic’ written by me was released at the International Celebration of Women in Abbotsford. The book is my personal journey over six years working on the book and the Memory March (a walk/vigil honouring over 4,000 missing and murdered women and children in Canada). It includes interviews with grassroots' workers she met. There are a lot of individual, concerned people who work to end violence against women. One of those women is Mary Billy, a writer and activist in Squamish. There are interviews, case stories and conversations with family member’s who have lost loved ones. The book is not about how we are going to end the violence but an examination of the problems, concerns and stereotypical thinking that keeps us trapped in a cycle of violence. Included are the names of 4,000 missing and murdered women and children that have been compiled for The List. Other books include bruises & bad haircuts (poetry) and Bob & Boo. (illustrated by my grandkids)

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