More About
June
june barnes (jb) storyTELLER
Always a storyteller! June’s ability as a storyteller
was always evident. Her primary school teachers nicknamed her 'Enid Blyton'.
As a teenager June’s stories were published in
the New Idea (Popular Australian National Magazine) and other journals
but life’s journey drew her away from her passion until 1990 when she joined
the Storytelling Guild of Australia (Vic Branch).
When not telling stories June runs storytelling
classes for primary school children. She is the editor of swag of yarns,
Australia’s National Storytelling Magazine. June is also a well known
educator and speaker with the Kumon Institute of Education.
June has extensive experience in storytelling
with adults as well as children and has told at a great variety of venues
including schools, business conferences, Dymocks Book Stores and other
retail outlets, Government House, Victoria, The Sheraton Towers Ballroom,
ABC Radio, Telephone Storyline, Women’s Refuge, Festivals, The Royal Melbourne
Show, Melbourne Moomba Festival, Storytelling Cafes and Conferences.
She is featured on the audio tape, Mystery and Mayhem, produced by the
Storytelling Guild of Australia (Vic Branch) Inc. June was the winner of
the storytelling contest at the 1997 Gold’n’Grape Festival in Heathcote,
Victoria. But storytelling has won June many prizes.
“On one occasion I was telling a personal story
at a National Trust Luncheon and a lady in the audience showed great surprise
and throughout the story made suppressed sounds of amazement and joy. This
was not, to my disappointment, in response to my expertise as a storyteller.
It turned out that she recognised some of the names in the story I was
telling and as she listened she realised I was one of the long lost cousins
she had been searching for in order to fill in the missing pieces of the
family history.”
“The greatest prizes are the delightful ones people
give me when they tell me how much a story has meant to them. Often the
story has helped them in some way. The children, of course, are wonderful
prize givers. Recently my telephone rang and when I answered it I heard
a small voice at the other end.”
“Did you come to Albion Park Primary School?”
the little girl asked.
“Yes,” I answered.
“I liked your stories. I liked the one about the
dog but I liked all your stories.”
“Wow!That’s a Gold Medal!”
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To contact June for bookings or further information:
Snail Mail
PO Box 235, ALBERT PARK VIC 3206, Australia
Email: bunyip@netspace.net.au 
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