Artist-in-Residency School Program (Anglophone School ...

1 Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and Tourism, Heritage and Culture Artist-in-Residency School Program (Anglophone School District) ARTIST REGISTRY Revised: August 28, 2018 2 Artist-in-Residency School Program The Artist-in-Residency School Program funds art projects which are based on curricular outcomes within the Fine Arts and is a collaboration between one or more teachers and one or more artists. This Program is jointly funded by the Departments of Education and Early Childhood Development and Tourism, Heritage and Culture. The Artist-in-Residency School Program places professional artists in rural and urban schools to broaden and develop the arts education Program by bringing together the creative potential of students and the unique energy of artists. It is intended to provide students and their teachers with the opportunity to spend a minimum of three days (minimum of 15 hours) working closely with artists in order to enhance the students artistic perception and appreciation.

2 The residencies can include any of the arts disciplines (music, visual arts, writing, theatre, cinema, dance, etc.). The artist and the teacher shall work in close collaboration in order to plan and carry out the project to ensure that the artistic activity corresponds to curriculum based outcomes within the Fine Arts. The general objectives of this Program are to encourage students to express themselves and to think creatively and critically through education in the arts. The Artist Registry is a listing of artists you may contact to pursue artist residency projects with. For more information on the Program , visit: (click Arts in Schools ) 3 Table of Contents .. DANCE 4 Connection Dance Works 5 Shevchenko, Yuliia LITERARY ARTS 6 Wingate, Shoshanna MULTIDISCIPLINARY 7 Crain, Aaron (music, media arts) 8 Daigle, Michelle (music, literary arts, media arts, visual arts, theatre arts) 9 Hutchings, Stephen (media arts, visual arts) 10 McAlilster, Paul (literary arts, visual arts) 11 Mitchell, Brandon (literary arts, visual arts, media arts) 12 Mulherin, Irma (music, literary arts, theatre arts) 13 Rigley, Don (music, literary arts, media arts, visual arts, theatre arts) 14 Rivers, Brigitte (literary arts, visual arts) 15 Walcott.

3 Kate (dance, literary arts, music, theatre arts) MUSIC 16 Francavilla, Nadia 17 Boudreau, Phil Athanase 18 LeBlanc, Joel 19 Mason, Brent 20 Moller, Kathrine THEATRE ARTS 21 Groening, Amy 22 Tremblay, Rebecca VISUAL ARTS 23 Ash, Amy 24 Betts, Jared 25 Crowley, Sheryl 26 Emenau, Darren 27 Elfner-Hazen, Adrienne 28 Giffin, Andrew 29 Hill, Bonny 30 Knight, Karen 31 MacDonald, Dan 32 Pinder, Jordan 33 Rodriguez, Fabiola Martinez 34 Walting, Andrea 35 Williams, Hannah 36 Xu, Dan 4 CONNECTION DANCE WORKS Connection Dance Works is a non-profit profession-al contemporary dance company located in Saint John, New Brunswick. The company has estab-lished itself as an educational forum for audiences and students alike, offering workshops, working in schools with students and teachers, artist talks and professional development for both local and visiting artists. Connection Dance Works creates new work, collaborates with multi-disciplinary artists, and pre-sents dance on regular basis.

4 The company was awarded The Originals Saint John Award for Per-forming Arts (Dance), performed at Contact East in Charlottetown and recently premiered new compa-ny work with far arms at the Imperial Theatre. Residency Project Through the teaching of creative movement and dance improvisation, dance can be easily integrat-ed throughout any curriculum (Language, dramatic arts, science, ). We are constantly working to grow dance education and audience knowledge in the province and believe that through involving stu-dents in creation processes and then helping to create a dialogue around these experiences we can achieve these goals. It is vitally important to help students understand the reality that they them-selves can create new and exciting dance and art here in New Brunswick. Teaching Experience All of our dancers have experience teaching both in a studio setting and in the classroom. Connection Dance Works has worked with elementary and high School students integrating dance across the curric-ulum.

5 We have also brought in professional instruc-tors from around the country and constructed cur-riculums for local participants to engage in. Togeth-er, we bring years of dance experience to the class-room and our knowledge of style and form is com-prehensive. DANCE CONTACT Address: 3-25 Coburg St. Saint John, E2L 3J4 Phone: (506) 343-5990 Email: Website: /connectiondanceworks @cdwinc @connectiondanceworks Preferred School District(s): ASD-South Preferred Grade Level(s): K-12 Can provide residency in: English Indigenous Artist: No Completed Policy 701: Yes Space/material requirements: Gymnasium or a place to move and speakers for music playback Updated: Mary 11, 2018 5 YULIIA SHEVCHENKO Yuliia Shevchenko was born in Kiev, Ukraine. She began her dance training at the age of five and con-tinued ballet studies until the age of ten at the Kiev State Ballet Academy. After graduating, she joined the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Kiev.

6 After-wards she worked throughout Europe as a profes-sional ballet dancer. In 2002 Yuliia joined the Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada now Atlantic Ballet Atlantique Canada. From 2007-2011 Yuliia contributed her talents to District 2 High School production as a choreogra-pher. Since 2011 Yuliia works as a Principal of Ballet /Dance Division at School of Atlantic Ballet. Residency Project Ballet for Kindergarten students, develops compe-tency in a variety of movement concepts and kines-thetic skills with different diverse range in dance. The class is divided in 4 sections: beginning, floor exercise, dance routine, and finale. In every class I use music. It s an important compo-nent in my classes. Kids absorb information better with music. They learn to recognize different rhythm and tempo. In class students work on: awareness of body parts (feet, legs, head, arms), balance, flexibility, coordi-nation, posture, stamina, awareness of space; and musicality.

7 Teaching Experience Yuliia has teaching experience in Canada and Eu-rope since 1998. Yuliia has taught kids 3 years old and up. She has been a ballet teacher and choreographer at ballet schools and an instructor and artistic consultant for rhythmic gymnastics groups in Europe and Cana-da. As well, she has offered ballet master classes, workshops and summer schools in British Colum-bia, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and New Brunswick, where she worked with large groups of students. Over 5 years, from 2007- 2011 she worked with District 2 Musical production. 2013-2018 she ran a Pilot project Ballet in School with approximately 60-85 students. DANCE CONTACT Address: 611 Dover Rd. Dieppe, E1A 7M2 Phone: (506) 855 1343 (506) 871-2355 Email: Website: N/A N/A N/A N/A Preferred School District(s): ASD-East Preferred Grade Level(s): K-5 Can provide residency in: English Indigenous Artist: No Completed Policy 701: Yes Space/material requirements: Gym, speakers and cones Updated: May 11, 2018 6 SHOSHANNA WINGATE Shoshanna Wingate is a poet, fiction writer, mem-oirist and founding editor of the arts & culture jour-nal, Riddle Fence.

8 Her poetry and fiction have been published in The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Arc Poetry Magazine, Hunger Mountain Review online, and Room Magazine. She published a poet-ry chapbook, Homing Instinct, with Frog Hollow Press and her full-length poetry collection, Radio Weather, with Vehicule Press. Her debut was named a 2014 most anticipated book by 49th Shelf and All Lit Up named her an emerging poet to watch. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the New School in New York. Residency Project Arts Project: The Writers Toolbox: an extended workshop in creative writing. This workshop will be eclectic, interactive, and fun. We will experiment with various tools in the writers toolbox such as character sketches, point of view, story arcs, and description as a means of deepening our writing. We will keep a writers notebook, with in-class exer-cises and take-home assignments such as record-ing observations and dialogue we overhear in our daily lives and keeping an idea journal.

9 Students will learn how to edit their work and how to read it aloud in front of others. This workshop is a safe space for creativity and experimentation. We will learn how to respond to each other s work in a respectful and productive way. Students will learn to think of themselves as writers. The writer s toolkit teaches students how writers problem solve. Students will come away with increased confidence and skills to overcome obstacles in their work. Teaching Experience I have taught creative writing to students from six to ninety six, in a university classroom and as a writer in the schools for grades one to twelve. I run the Sackville Art Hive, a free community art studio in Sackville, and am part of a three-writer team that runs a Creative Writing Drop in for teens. Teaching creative writing to kids is my passion. LITERARY ARTS CONTACT Address: 107 Church Street, Sackville, NB E4L 1J8 Phone: (506) 227-7836 Email: Website: N/A N/A N/A Preferred School District(s): ASD-East, ASD-South, ASD-West, First Nation Band-Operated Schools Preferred Grade Level(s): K-12 Can provide residency in: English Indigenous Artist: No Completed Policy 701: Yes Space/material requirements: I require only a quiet room with a table and chairs, and a notebook and pen for each student.

10 Updated: , 2018 7 AARON CRAIN Music / media arts Aaron is an artist out of Carleton County, New Brunswick who is starting to create a local buzz. Aaron's musical journey has weaved through Gos-pel, pop, rock, folk, and blues. Aaron is currently booking gigs around the East Coast playing solo shows as well as collaborating with other artists. While driven by a passion for sharing music, Aaron is also motivated by his appreciation for the fans who are responsible for his recent local popularity. "Right now my heroes are the friends (both old and new) who come out to hear us and share our mu-sic, so when they do make that effort to attend a show we make sure they don't go away disappoint-ed". Residency Project I am currently working on a song writing/audio pro-duction project with a Grade 6/7 split class at Bath Community School . This project serves as a work-ing template for future projects. It involves working with students to write songs and then produce them.