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Conference: Creative Connections PROGRAM

October 24th to 26th, 2019

Thursday October 24th

7:00pm – 9:00pm

Welcome Reception with music by Argento Collective The Argento Collective: Sibylle Marquardt, flute; Nadia Francavilla, violin/viola; Paul Pulford, cello will play classics by Bach, Haydn and Roussel.

Beaverbrook Art Gallery

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: CHRISTINE JONES, Applied Arts Advisor

Affinity & Synthesis: Their Role in Interdisciplinary Audience Engagement


Friday October 25th

Wu Conference Centre/WCC 8:00am – 8:45pm REGISTRATION Foyer

9:00am - 9:45am KEYNOTE ADDRESS: RANKIN MCSWEEN, Innovator and CEO of the New Dawn family of companies

Encountering a Culture: The Story of New Dawn Enterprises

Kent Auditorium

9:50am-10:20am Coffee and Refreshments Foyer

Breakout Sessions 10:30am – 12:35pm

10:30am – 11:30am

Critical Nutrition Counselling Presenter: Catherine Morley (15-minute session)

Pedagogical Power of Fiction Presenter: Esther Armaignac (15-minute session) Creativity in Team Teaching Presenter: Matt McGuire & Adrian Downey (15-minute session)

Room 208

10:30am – 11:30pm

Innovations in Online Education Presenter: Jill Cummings & Paul Graham (30-minute session)

Project Learning: ‘What’s the big idea?’ Presenter: Patrick Howard, Chris Ryan & Ian Fogarty (30-minute session)

Room 203

10:30am – 12:35pm

Passion and Purpose Presenter: Rachel Mathis (2-hour session)

Room 209

Learning with LEGO Presenter: Meaghan Wilbur (2-hour session)

Room 100A

11:40am – 12:40pm

Engaging with Queer Youth in DIY Art Practice Presenter: Casey Burkholder (1-hour session)

Aitken Room

Teachers in Change Through Creative Pedagogy Presenter: Paul Syme (1-hour session)

Room 204

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Conference: Creative Connections

PROGRAM October 24th to 26th, 2019

Friday October 25th (cont’d)

12:45pm – 2:00pm

Luncheon with KEYNOTE ADDRESS: MARY STEWART, Artist, Author, and Educator Florida State University

STEM to STEAM: Harnessing the Connective Power of Creativity

Chancellor’s Room

Breakout Sessions 2:10pm- 4:15pm

2:10pm – 3:10pm

Tracking Creativity to Teach Creativity Presenter: Dean Verger (1-hour session)

Room 204

Nature-Culture and Creativity Presenter: Lise Robichaud (1-hour session)

Room 203

3:15pm – 4:15pm

Fiction, Future Studies and Leadership Presenter: Thomas Mengel (30-minute session) How We Learn Through Emotion and Story Presenter: Kate Charette (30-minute session)

Room 208

2:10pm – 4:10pm

Teddy Bears and Other Stuffies Presenter: John Guiney Yallop (2-hour workshop)

Aitken Room

STEAM Education Presenter: Bryan Ouellette (2-hour workshop)

Room 209

Tabletop Games as a Creative Medium Presenter: Scott Preston (2-hour workshop)

Chancellor’s Room

Connecting to Language Through the Body Presenter: Josh Clendenin (2-hour workshop)

Room 100A

3:15pm - 4:15pm Coffee Break Foyer 4:30pm – 7:00pm Free time and dinner on the town

7:00pm – 9:00pm Creative Showcase – film festival – 13 short films

Marshall D’Avary Hall, Room 143

Velle to Want Lance Kenneth Blakney – 9 minutes

Letters from the Dead Arianna Martinez – 12 minutes

Unofficial Selection Gordon Mihnan – 14 minutes

North Jillian Acreman – 11 minutes

Mnemosyne Tracey Lavigne – 9 minutes 24 seconds

Almost Home Susan Cahill & Matt Rogers – 15 minutes

Prayer for the Lost Natasha Francis – 6 minutes

Box Face Joel Thompson – 19 minutes

Cups Kaleigh Stultz – 2 minutes

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Friday October 25th (cont’d)

A Game of Monopoly WUD/Jon Dewar – 7 minutes

Restless Nicolas Staples – 8 minutes

Thesis Film Lisa Jodoin – x minutes

Courage! Julie Frigault – x minutes

Saturday October 26th

8:30am - 9:30am

PANEL PRESENTATION TOPIC: Collaborative Creativity Moderator: Alexis Milligan Four panelists:

Dr. Brenda Sabo – Cross Disciplinary Learning Joanna Brown – NouLAB – Social Innovation Ken Baldauf – FSU: Design Thinking Margaret Boersma – Drama and Creativity

Kent Auditorium

9:45 am - 10:15am Coffee break Foyer Breakout Sessions 10:30am-11:30pm

10:30am - 11:30am

Lessons Learned from a Life with Music Presenter: Adrian Downey (15-minute session) The Art Justice Project Presenter: Patrick Donovan (15-minute session) Peace, Education and Artistic Citizenship Presenter: Lauren M. Levesque (15-minute session) From Inspiration to Materialization Presenter: Yalda Bozorg (15-minute session)

Room 208

10:30am - 11:30am

Transdisciplinary Innovation Presenter: Ken Baldauf (30-minute session) Understanding Complexity to Understand Creativity and Innovation Presenter: Philip Lambert (30-minute session)

Room 204

11:35am–12:35am

The Kindness of Strangers Presenter: John Grant McLoughlin (30-minute session) Photographic Art Educator Presenter: Kathryn Browning (30-minute session)

Room 203

11:35am - 12:35pm

Creativity and Multi-Modal Learning Presenter: Jessica Sokolowski (1-hour session)

Room 209

Voice is the Muscle of the Soul Presenter: Moon Joyce (1-hour session)

Chancellor’s Room

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Saturday October 26th (cont’d)

10:30am - 12:35pm SmARTS for Well-Being Presenter: Margaret Boersma (2-hour workshop)

Aitken Room

Transitus – the Art of Communication Presenter: Alexis Milligan (2-hour workshop)

Room 100A

Art Hives in Schools Presenter: Marie Line Noel (2-hour workshop)

Room 210

12:40pm - 1:40pm Box Lunch Concert by Salil Subedi, Nepali Didgeridoo Artist, Storyteller and Community Animator

Kent Auditorium

Breakout Sessions 1:45pm - 3:45pm

1:45pm - 2:45pm

Imagination, Creativity, Education Presenter: Blaine Hatt (1-hour session)

Room 100A

Social Studies as the Leader of a Creative Integrated Curriculum Presenter: Helen Môrag McKinnon (1-hour session)

Room 209

2:50pm – 3:50pm

Energy, Innovation and Lighting Presenter: David Foord (30-minute session) Interactive Arts for Workplace Wellness Presenter: Sibylle Marquardt (30-minute session)

Room 208

1:45pm – 3:45pm

Printmaking and Problem Solving Presenter: Christina Thomson (2-hour workshop)


Spark Curiosity, Ignite Creativity Presenter: Celine Gallien (2-hour workshop)

Aitken Room

‘It started with a Mouseketeer’ Presenter: Julie Roy (2-hour workshop)

Room 204

4:00pm - 4:30pm Closing Remarks Kent Auditorium

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SESSION DESCRIPTIONS *Alphabetical by last name

Presenter Session Date & Time Session Description Armaignac, Ester

October 25th 10:30am

The pedagogical power of fiction: addressing gender-related issues through creative practices This presentation will explore how creative practices can be used in classrooms to engage students with issues related to gender. First, I will present methods used to mobilize students’ creativity in classrooms. Then, I will focus on creative writing by giving the example of a fiction I wrote in a previous research.

Baldauf, Ken


Transdisciplinary Undergraduate Innovation @ Florida State University The Innovation Hub at FSU was created to foster a culture of creativity and innovation that identifies issues, explores opportunities, and develops solutions using Design Thinking and emerging technologies. In this presentation, the founder and Director of "The Hub." will relate the story behind its development while highlighting its unique and impactful features and programs.

Boersma, Margaret


SmARTS for Well-Being Through role play, participants bring their own lives into a “role” and discover that life needs creativity to design new possibilities. Through activities including collaborative decision-making, writing, movement and rich discussion, participants recognize their interactions and responses, creating new possibilities in their own lives for enhanced communication and stress resilience.

Bozorg, Yalda October 26th 10:30am

From Inspiration to Materialization The presentation is based on the journey from a thought or something that moved me deeply to a product that I create as a response to the inspiration. I will show images of my final work about war and destruction and explain what my thought process was, what inspired me, which materials I used and why, how I learned from the experiments and how the final product evolved from tests. I'll explain the artistic creative process from the idea to the result.

Browning, Kathryn


Photographic Art Educator 44 years of photographic research has affected my teaching through the lens of the photographer. By paralleling my artistic photographic and academic creative research I can better understand how this lived experience of artist and teacher/researcher become intertwined and create a matrix that has affected my photography and teaching.

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Conference: Creative Connections SESSION DESCRIPTIONS

*Alphabetical by last name

Presenter Session Date & Time Session Description Burkholder, Casey


Engaging with and Responding to Queer Youth DIY Art Practices Workshop participants will respond to an archive of queer, trans, and non-binary youth-produced media (zines, stencils, and cellphilms--cellphone + film production) about existing and desired supports in school and society more broadly. After viewing and discussing the youth-produced pieces, workshop participants will engage in stencil production and zine-making.

Charette, Kate October 25th 3:15pm

Tools of the imagination: exploring how we learn through emotion and story This session will explore the concept of cognitive tools (Kieran Egan; CIRCE) and discuss how these tools may be used to deepen and expand learning and development in schools and other settings.

Clendenin, Josh October 25th

2:10pm Connecting to Language through the Body: A Workshop Exploring Language as Multilayered Experience in Performance. This interactive workshop guides participants through an adapted rehearsal process of a multilingual and improvisational theatre performance. Participants with improvise with linguistic sounds, their bodies, and space to explore language in an embodied way and to reflect on their identities as bi- and multi-lingual speakers situated between cultural contexts.

Cummings, Jill (presented with Paul Graham)


Community of Inquiry Innovations in Online Teaching and Learning The Community of Inquiry (COI) framework is the predominant conceptualization of online education which now informs and shapes online course design and delivery (Garrison, Archer, and Anderson, 2000). Developing an effective community of inquiry online requires attention to three intertwined presences - teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence. Based on our recent literature review of COI research into online delivery in post secondary education, we present findings re. innovations in online teaching strategies in the past ten years.

Donovan, Patrick


The Art Justice Project The Art Justice Project is a fundraiser and outreach initiative created by the Fredericton Legal Advice clinic and led by UNB undergraduate and law students. The project’s objective was to educate youth on their legal rights and inspire them to create visual art on what “access to justice” meant to them.

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Presenter Session Date & Time Session Description Downey, Adrian (presented with Matt McGuire)


Creativity in Team-Teaching The authors share their experiences in team-teaching music. They focus on music metaphors for the dynamics of team-teaching. Toward discussing creativity, they highlight the importance of listening to one another, being willing to take a step back, and expecting tensions in team teaching and in team-based environments more broadly.

Downey, Adrian October 25th 10:30am

Lessons learned from a life with music This presentation shares the presenter’s lived history with music and highlights lessons learned about creativity through that history. Three themes are discussed through musical examples: 1) the efficiency of love, 2) the difficulties and rewards of “thinking outside the box,” and 3) the sometimes problematic role of ego in creation.

Foord, David

October 26th 2:50pm

Embedded research in energy innovation: An examination of cases and theories of knowledge creation for power generation and lighting technologies This presentation examines the association of location and actors in famous cases of invention, development and innovation of power generation and lighting technologies. In the presentation we explore whether creativity is positively associated with working in locations-of-use and with the practitioners, users and others in these places.

Gallien, Celine

October 26th 1:45pm

Spark Curiosity, Ignite Creativity Are you interested in sparking curiosity and innovation in your environment to provide a more learner-centred focus? You will explore activities that promote a sense of wonder and encourage you to ask questions and pursue answers in meaningful ways all while being immersed in a transdisciplinary setting.

Grant McLoughlin, John


The Kindness of Strangers The Kindness of Strangers marked a multidimensional effort from walking with strangers in Irish cities to the culminating dance performance at a Dublin Arts festival in April 2019. Lisa McLoughlin was the performance artist with the idea and I was the mathematical collaborator. Learn more about the process and the essence of the project including exploration of “an equation of care and dependency through movement.”

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Presenter Session Date & Time Session Description Guiney Yallop, John J. October 25th

2:10pm Teddy Bears and Other Stuffies: A Language Arts Adventure What happened when Teddy Bears and other Stuffies came to an elementary language arts course for pre-service teachers? What will happen when they come to this workshop? Some Teddy Bears and other Stuffies will be provided; participants may also bring their own.

Hatt, Blaine

October 26th 1:45pm

Imagination Creativity Education This presentation welcomes the curiosity, vulnerabilities, misgivings, and insecurities of participants and leads them through designed multi-modal activities to a greater appreciation and understanding of the necessity of Imagination Creativity Education (ICE) to ensure individual success and accomplishment in the learning process of learners in the 21st. century.

Howard, Patrick (presented with Chris Ryan and Ian Fogarty)


“What’s the Big Idea?” Increasing Creative Capacity Through Whole School Project-based Teaching and Learning This presentation shares the result of a study into whole school, experiential project that started with posing a ‘big question.’ The research took place in a large high school in Atlantic Canada. It looked at the effects of implementing project-based learning on student lived experience and student attitudes toward learning using creative thinking and doing.

Jones, Christine KEYNOTE SPEAKER

October 24th 7:00pm

Affinity & Synthesis: Their Role in Interdisciplinary Audience Engagement Outlining the relationship of purpose to performance and especially programming. We will explore how paintings can open new vistas in our listening and how musical language and poetic expression can evoke a soundscape which enriches our viewing. Interdisciplinary collaboration creates a unique opportunity for works of art to mutually enhance each other, drawing out layers of meaning and connection which enhance appreciation and understanding for an audience.

Joyce, Moon October 26th 11:35am

The voice is the muscle of the soul - Vocal Improvisation to Boost Creativity Someone once said, “composition is improvisation with a pencil.” No artistic work comes into being without the playful use of imagination combined with some basic tools to bring a work to life. This workshop will use voice as the medium to create music in unimaginable ways This is an exploratory kind of vocalization where all voices are needed in order to produce a piece, and so each person's unique voice has something to offer.

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Presenter Session Date & Time Session Description Lambert, Philip


Why We Need to Understand Complexity to Understand Creativity and Innovation Creativity and innovation research has been hampered by the lack of an over-arching, internally consistent theoretical framework. Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) theory can provide that framework. This presentation will introduce two concepts from CAS and a model for understanding CAS’s.

Levesque, Lauren Michelle


Stud Sounding Outside the Box: Exploring Creative Connections between Peace Education and Artistic Citizenship This multimodal, interactive presentation explores creative connections that emerge when peace education is brought into dialogue with literature on artistic citizenship. I ask: Can ideas and practices from the field of peace education creatively expand understandings of artistic citizenship and what it means to be a public pedagogue today?

Mathis, Rachel


Passion and Purpose This workshop is an interactive discovery of the challenges that motivate you, the way you harness your passions in your life, and the paths for creating a purposeful life.

Marquardt, Sibylle October 26th 2:50pm

Interactive Arts for Workplace Wellbeing It is common knowledge nowadays that music and the arts help prevent and heal mental health issues and promote well-being and productivity. The Silver Flute Arts provides experiences that are meant to inspire and enthuse participants to start or continue pursuing an art form to counter balance stress, anxiety and depression. Our professional artists represent excellence, have years of training and experience as well as skills and compassion for the workplace environment and an aptitude and empathy for staff members and workplace issues. Sibylle Marquardt is a musician and has been working as flute teacher and performer over the past 30+ years in Europe and Canada.Her connections to artists in different communities and knowledge of excellence in the artistic field make her an ideal candidate to teach about art for workplace well-being.

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Presenter Session Date & Time Session Description McKinnon, Helen Môrag

October 26th 1:45pm

Social studies as the leader of a creative integrated curriculum Social studies has the potential to be the foundation of a creative integrated curriculum. It is a true vessel that students could be sailing in. This incredible discipline is totally open to all means of creativity and can easily wear all hats of our educational system no matter the language. Having been a life long learner and teacher of multi subjects and age groups (beginning at the age of fourteen and still enthusiastically teaching/learning at seventy two years), I am a strong advocate of social studies being a main subject and source of creative engagement in our schools. Why, how and what difference would this make to and for learners? This presentation will answer these questions in such a way, that you will find out how creativity is the glue to the solution.

McSween, Rankin KEYNOTE SPEAKER

October 25th 9:00am

Encountering a Culture: The Story of New Dawn Enterprises

Rankin McSween, CEO of New Dawn Enterprises will tell the story of this organization and discuss its role in promoting citizen lead sustainable change. New Dawn's mission - to engage the community to create a culture of self-reliance - is as relevant today as it was when the organization was founded back in 1976. New Dawn Enterprises Limited is the oldest Community Development Corporation in Canada and is a Founding Member of the Canadian CED (Community Economic Development) Network. It is a private, volunteer directed business dedicated to community building. New Dawn seeks to identify community needs and to establish and operate ventures that speak to those needs.

Mengel, Thomas

October 25th 3:15pm

Creative Connections: Fiction, Futures Studies, and Leadership (for the future) This presentation continues my work on futures-oriented leadership. Based on content and discourse analysis of relevant academic publications and of selected works of science fiction, I will discuss how connections between creative writing, futures perspectives, and leadership studies can help us make sense of and create a common future.

Milligan, Alexis


The Art of Communication Hands on learning of arts disciplines enhances social and emotional development and basic communication practices. So, shall we play?

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Presenter Session Date & Time Session Description Morley, Catherine


Critical Nutriton Counselling: Responding to Student Requests for "More Counselling" The Critical Nutrition Counselling course was a response to student requests for 'more counselling'. This was interpreted as anxiety about working with people experiencing a significant change in life circumstances where eating took on new meaning.

Noel, Marie Line


Art Hives in schools/Une Ruche d'art à l'école After this workshop you will be able to set up kit for your art hive in the classroom, how to get funding, material resources while engaging the student in the process. Art expression accessible at all times!

Ouellette, Bryan October 25th 2:10pm

STEAM Education: Bridging the Gap of Learning In an era of digital learning and constant change, classrooms must reflect the external environment "real world" that we are forever preparing our youth for. Bridging gaps between learning styles, cultures and curriculum is an integral part of STEAM Education, a world beyond the classroom. This hands on session will expose participants to a true STEAM environment that will inspire creativity and transform your way of thinking.

Preston, Scott

October 25th 2:10pm

Tabletop Games as a Creative Medium This interactive workshop will introduce participants to the diversity and creativity present in contemporary tabletop games. We will discuss using games for learning, for knowledge dissemination, and as creative projects in the classroom. Then we will break into groups and play some of the games.

Robichaud, Lise

October 25th 2:10pm

Nature-Culture and Creativity: a Visual Arts perspective An Acadian Artist will present some of her artworks and will explain how a creative approach may contribute to environmental studies.

Roy, Julie

October 26th 1:45pm

It was all started with a Mouseketeer... Can you create the conditions to allow students and teachers to tap into their creativity? At Lou MacNarin school, we have been on a journey to create conditions we think are favourable to enhance the expression of creativity from both students and teachers. We want to share how we promote solid foundation, wide walls and limitless ceilings.

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Presenter Session Date & Time Session Description Sokolowski, Jessica


Creativity and Multi-modal Learning Drawing from Gardner's' theory of multiple intelligences, and building upon Groff's framework for whole-minded learning, we will engage in interactive scenarios to further explore how our own personal learning experiences influence our teaching pedagogies, and how multi-modal opportunities can encourage creativity in students.

Stewart, Mary KEYNOTE SPEAKER

October 25th 12:45pm

From STEM to STEAM: Harnessing the Connective Power of Creativity In this talk she will discuss the increasing emphasis on STEM coursework (science, technology, engineering and math) and ways in which coursework in creativity can connect these disciplines to each other and to the humanities. Such connective coursework can help students build a broader base of knowledge and become both agile and resilient participants in an even-changing economy.

Syme, Paul


Teachers in Change Through Creative Pedagogy This workshop explores four postures of change teachers pass through as they practice a creative pedagogy. Creative teachers are leaders who cultivate, contemplate, and curate ways to apply empathy and imagination to navigate the challenges of change with students. We will try our hand at some tools teachers might use to support them along these journeys.

Thomson, Christina

October 26th 1:45pm

Free ideas! Printmaking + problem solving workshop Explore the accessible medium of printmaking as a problem solving activity. Bring your deepest thoughts at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and get inspired by artists who work through challenging ideas. Select an idea to develop through several iterations of themed prints using stencils, linocut, and monotype printing.

Verger, Dean

October 25th 2:10pm

Tracking Creativity to Teach Creativity I teach my fourth-year students about creativity by getting them to create a new and useful product (a game). In this talk I give a very brief outline of the course, and its methodology, with a focus on journaling as a communication tool, and as a source of data.

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Presenter Session Date & Time Session Description Wilbur, Meaghan October 25th

10:30am Learning with LEGO LEGO's learning power can be harnessed in many ways within the classroom. This hands-on session will show how to target cross-curricular outcomes in a variety of subject areas, such as math, science, literacy and more, while also developing global competencies through engaging and fun projects!


COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY PANEL PARTICIPATS *Alphabetical by last name

Panel Member Title Description Alexis Milligan MODERATOR

Alexis Milligan is the founding director of Transitus Creative, a multi-disciplinary arts organization specializing in Art Communication and Public Engagement through the arts (transitus.ca). She is a celebrated actor and director and is currently working as the resident movement director at The Shaw Festival. Alexis is a recurring guest teacher at NYU Tisch School for the Performing Arts, the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), and is currently pursuing her Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of New Brunswick. For more information about Alexis and her work please visit her website: alexismilligan.com

Dr. Brenda Sabo

Cross Disciplinary Learning

Dr. Sabo specializes in the areas of oncology nursing, psychosocial oncology/mental health and palliative care. Her research interests include exploring the meaning of the cancer and palliative care experience, psychosocial oncology (depression, anxiety and trauma among cancer patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals) and the development of knowledge to action strategies to improve communication among patients/families and healthcare professionals to support quality of life. Recent methodologies include interpretative phenomenology and mixed methods. She is also exploring innovative mechanisms to enhance education through arts-based and action learning approaches.

Joanna Brown

NouLab – Social Innovation

Joanna Brown is currently the Director of NouLAB, a program of the Pond-Deshpande Centre in collaboration with the New Brunswick Social Policy Research Network. NouLAB is a social and public innovation lab. NouLAB helps the public and innovators act together to address our most pressing social, environmental, and economic challenges. By connecting change agents from across sectors, convening them around pressing issues, and facilitating their journey to deep change, NouLAB helps participants get to the root of complex issues and test solutions.

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Ken Baldauf

FSU: Design Thinking

Ken Baldauf is the Director of Florida State University’s Innovation Hub, where students from all disciplines work together, utilizing Design Thinking with emerging technologies, to confront the demanding and complex problems of our day. With a background in music and computer science, Ken has turned his efforts towards fostering creativity and innovation across all ages.

Margaret Boersma

Drama and Creativity

Margaret Boersma, OCT is an educational consultant and teacher trainer. Her career in teaching, combined with her expertise in social/emotional learning allows her to integrate the affective domain (people skills) with the academic curriculum. Her innovative training and consulting work results in students accelerating in leadership and communication skills while becoming compassionate citizens. Margaret’s use of brain- compatible strategies to engage and internalize learning allows her to create unique, cross-curricular programs that reach all students. She works with schools, school boards/districts and faculties of education in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. More information is available on her website at www.margaretboersma.com


ARGENTO COLLECTIVE October 24th, 2019 – 7:00pm

The Argento Collective is a group of highly accomplished musicians from across the Maritimes. The ensemble includes flute, violin, cello, two pianists and voice and performs in a variety combinations. The trio presenting the Creative Connections Conference concert (Sibylle Marquardt, flute; Nadia Francavilla, violin/viola; Paul Pulford, cello) will play classics by Bach, Haydn and Roussel.

Conference: Creative Connections SALIL SUBEDI

October 26th, 2019 – 12:40pm Salil is a Nepali musician and multidisciplinary artist coming to Canada in the fall of 2019 for a fundraising tour in support of his latest educational project, Heavens and Earth -The Nepal Telescope Project. The project will bring artists and scientists to communities around Nepal for star-gazing, story-telling, indigenous knowledge, and science. Celebrated across Nepal for his community development and education work, Salil’s practice is steeped in creative expression, philosophy, story-telling and collective empowerment - all revolving around the didgeridoo. He was inspired to work with the Australian aboriginal wind instrument 18 years ago when he discovered how the deep uncanny sounds echo in the Himalayan landscape. Since then, Salil has used music and art to express the mystery and beauty of life, to educate about conservation, and to develop skills among children and youth, especially in rural communities. Also an expert on traditional Nepali singing bowls and Eastern spirituality, Salil reaches something at the core of each member of his audience, be he performing in Nepal or internationally.

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