Ellipses Thinking...

Sister/Singer/Songwriters Emily & Samantha Schultz continue to discover, (sometimes uncomfortably) the power of vulnerability in shaping and maturing their artistic voices. Over the years, I have witnessed them carve out and navigate the complicated relationships that are demanded of artists and their art and to me, in a manner that demonstrated incredible courage and imagination. Trusting their i...

Nicole Deibert is clearly is on her own Renaissance Woman journey. Whether at work as Head Scenic Painter at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, at home surrounded by acrylics, oils or water colours or her digital canvas…in her kitchen with an ever-widening palette of garden delights heading into preserve jars…or as she currently steps into the entrepreneurial ring, Nicole boldly embraces her true cr...

Ciele Beau 'sees' a piece of music. Growing up this was normal. It wasn't until 3 years into her visual art studies at the then, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, that she learned there was a thing called Synesthesia - a condition where the brain mixes up the senses and stimulation of one sensory pathway leading to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory pathway. Her discovery...

3 time World Improv Champion and funny man, Donovan Workun. has been bringing his comedy into the lives of audiences on stage, film and across the air waves for over 30 years and is currently touring in the lead role of the runaway musical hit Jason Kenney's Hot Boy Summer. His comedy duo Atomic Improv has toured across North America, Asia and Mexico and are the first improv group to headline Mont...

Alana Hawley Purvis, reflects on her recent Canadian Screen Award nominated role in the feature film Range Roads. She shares how the film is at its core, about the struggle to return to oneself, and how her personal process of working on it, served as a powerful mirror to her own journey as an artist and a mother. In both roles, she was reminded daily of her true commitment to fully living each mo...

As I considered the idea of ellipsis thinking and its invitation to take a moment to wonder from within, I found myself curious about how artists here, especially those with deep personal relationships with Ukraine, might be processing and responding to what we were all now seeing in this chaotic and terrifying time. I welcome two conversations with Canadian artists with family and friends living...

Stacey Cabaj, a Professor of Acting & Pedagogy and Faculty Fellow of Mission & Identity at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, she shares her journey from Perfect to Play to Magic. A lifelong believer that perfect was her goal, Stacey shares how she was able to finally release the burden of perfection and the freedom she has experienced in doing so. Weaving the wisdom of Mary Oliver, and o...

Valerie McIntyre-Baird always wrestled with her relationship with being the 'creative one'...that is until she embraced the invitation of designing her life as an experiment. A certified Forest Therapist, she draws on the power of nature and our relationship within it, to guide her fullest expression each day. Nicknamed The Purposeful Optimist, she delights in the best case scenario as she approac...

Ellipsis Thinking... lives at the heart of creative life. It invites us to park judgement and perfection, to drive curiosity towards possibility.  The ellipsis, alone amongst punctuators holds space for the future…those three dots… build the perfect bridge from where you have been and are now, to where you are next meant to be... Greg Dowler-Coltman, arts educator, theatre director and now executi...