CREATIVE MENTOR ARTIST EDUCATOR
Mobilizing our
individual and collective potential
“Albert Einstein did not take a course on the theory of relativity…he invented it! Pandora operates in this echelon of invention and arts impartation in the classroom and on stage. Under her leadership as North Eastern Ontario Director of Learning Through the Arts I was profoundly influenced by her innovative pedagogical methods. In a classroom she is sharply effective in using art to teach curriculum. Her lessons inspire, with Pandora learning becomes exciting and alive! Her excellence extends to professional development (PD) instruction. She is a leader to leaders and as has risen as a leader in arts education … Pandora’s life as a working, ever-growing artist is a living thesis.”
- Sarah Craig, Musician and Laurentian University Alumni
What I do
I accompany others. Embodied engagement is active listening, learning, articulating, practice, presence, curiosity and an act of care for both the other and the self. I want to share what I’ve learned with you.
ARTS EDUCATION TRAINING FOR TEACHERS, ARTISTS AND STUDENTS
To learn is to exchange. To do, to share, to dialogue, to adapt, to appreciate, to notice change. To impart knowledge, is to converge around common ground, whether language, culture, incentive or story, to have a code, an agreement in place, which then provides the framework, the doorway to divergence the blossoming of our potential. To appreciate, to acknowledge new and unfamiliar ways of being, thinking, and engaging. Learning is an invitation to better understand our current orientation, to appreciate our story and to widen the lens of our becoming. It’s all about relationship.
CREATIVE SELF-ACCOMPANIMENT FOR EVERYONE
To invite, articulate and validate one’s creative self-expression is to realize one’s potential. It is the actualization of life itself, the source of our vitality, connectedness. the actualization of our potent, diverse human literacies, how we access and exchange through our divergent intelligences, Life is to be embodied. It’s all about listening.
ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE YOUNG AND OLD
To share in in moments of celebration, gatherings, communion as a collective. To be moved, to dance, to sing, to feel and mark or remember the meaning of life, to be reminded of why we are here. Weddings, funerals, celebrations of life, storytelling, healing, embracing both the joy and grieving. Togetherness and alone. It’s all about feeling.
