KEVIN MACKENZIE'S BIOGRAPHY

"Kevin, you totally have it nailed.
I wouldn't change a thing!"
- Lynne Novak, St. Monica School, Edmonton

Kevin MacKenzie is a professional Canadian storyteller. He spent his early years enthralled with wild family tales and jokes at the knee of a master storyteller, his father, David.

Kevin has left a trail of stories at festivals, conferences, libraries, schools, prisons, colleges, retreats, and countless other events across Canada and in Brazil, Great Britain, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico and the USA.

As an experienced teacher of storytelling, Kevin served as the storyteller in residence for the Regina Public Library, the Saskatchewan Writers Guild http://www.skwriter.com/ and the Regina Board of Education.

For the last four years, Kevin has shared his stories on a weekly basis with vulnerable youth for the Ranch Ehrlo Society.  His experience with teens is matched by his expertise with younger children, as Kevin is an early childhood educator, and the author of a DVD of 23 original fingerplays called Fingersplay: Fingerplays and Action Rhymes for Children.  This unique collection garnered a place on the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s “Our Choice” list in 2003.

As a dedicated listener Kevin has volunteered much of the past nine years to organizing more than a dozen concerts, tours, festivals, and literacy events in Vancouver and Regina.

Kevin believes passionately that storytelling is integral to identity, esteem and empathy, and that these qualities weave the foundation of community.

“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”

- Ursula K. LeGuin