Haley Simons is the driving force behind Creative Alberta and one of the key people behind Sir Ken Robinson coming to Red Deer last week.
Creative Alberta is also a strong supporter of the citizen's movement to Save Our Fine Arts (SOFA) that has 7000 people involved in the cause. SOFA convened almost 700 citizens to an evening n Calgary on January 25 to hear Minister Dave Hancock and others talk about the role of arts education in Alberta. You can watch the SHAW TV coverage of the SOFA event and see the broadcast time slots at this link.
Haley recently wrote a piece on the SOFA meeting that was published by the Alberta Teachers' Association. I highly recommend you read it.
I was at both evenings and thoroughly enjoyed both of them...and am part of Creative Alberta and a fan of SOFA too.
Next up in the public engagement on the future of public education is a public lecture by Michael Adams and Jean Twenge on March 17 at Sutton Place Hotel in Edmonton. This is part of the Learning Our Way to the Next Alberta project we are doing in conjunction with the ATA. You can learn more and get tickets here.
Thanks Ken - I am excited about our future: the future of our Province, our children, our education system, and the building climate of creativity.
ReplyDeleteCreative Alberta is privileged to have you as co-founder and director.
I invite those interested to my blog: http://haleysimons.wordpress.com/
All about Creativity in our culture.
Looking forward to participating at the L.O.W. March 17.