Storytelling bringing continents together

Three years ago, Patti Warnock participated in the Kanoon Storytelling Festival in Iran. This spring, Danville’s travelling storyteller once again left the Townships to spread her craft across the world, this time partnering with renowned Chinese-Canadian author Ruowen Wang to help teach English to Chinese youth and parents alike. Warnock packed up in April to leave for Shanghai where, for two weeks, she, Wang, and Tudo Education (a private Chinese education institution), worked together to provide a more entertaining, stimulating and accessible way to teach English as a second language (ESL) to the local children. “It was such great fun,” said Warnock, who teaches ESL when she’s here in the Townships. “It was a pleasure for me to have that experience. I had never been to China. It was so great, the people there are amazing and generous. It was a nice vacation.” See full story in the Tuesday, May 22nd edition of The Record.