Jeffrey Canton

Over the last three decades, Jeffrey Canton (he/him) has shared both original stories that dig deep into the strata of Toronto’s history as well as, with a little soft-shoe and a gay show tune or two, his own queer past, and folk and fairy tales (especially stories) that connect him to his Jewish heritage. A long-time member of Queers in Your Ears, Toronto’s only LGBTQ2S Storytelling Collective, he’s spent the pandemic adding to his original queerstory “Tales of an All-Canadian Queer Childhood”, the first part of which he told at the Toronto Storytelling Festival at Harbourfront Centre in 2006. He’s been ZoomTelling both in Toronto, across Canada, and as far afield as Arirang Nights of Storytelling in Korea. He also teaches the course “Transformations” for Storytelling Toronto. Most recently, he acted as a storytelling coach for Arts and Human Rights Organization JAYU and Qu’Arts Ottawa’s “Stories Beyond Status” which recognizes fourty years of AIDS/HIV in Canada. Jeffrey was the winner of the Alice Kane Award from Storytelling Toronto in 2018 and in January was the recipient of a Recommender Grant from the Ontario Arts Council. He is also the Children’s Books columnist for The Globe and Mail.

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