Mary Bennett is a visual artist, community catalyst and enthusiastic citizen. Mary likes creating collaborative art and initiating projects that involve art, community and nature. She likes to create labyrinths, ferment kombucha, grow vegetables and she loves her sons, daughter-in-law and the two grandteens. She thinks neighbourhood small grants are the best thing since sourdough bread. 

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Kim Carmichael is a resident of Kitsilano, she's a wellness professional who lives, works and plays in and around Vancouver. 

She sits on the board of Village Vancouver and works with members to educate and build community resilience. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time in the garden or being outside in nature.

 I am originally from southern Saskatchewan, Regina was my home city.

I studied art history and visual art at the University of Regina for two years in my early 20’s Then I moved to Toronto to study painting skills at the Ontario College is Art and Design.

My art career has been squelched a bit from having to work at manual jobs most of my adult life in a full time basis. Also, I was a single mother and that was hard work, but I do still paint and draw and have sold many paintings throughout the years. I am almost 60 years old now.

With a deep interest in how language emerges in our movement, dreams, and daily living, Katarina Halm integrates practices from Ruthy Alon, Moshé Feldenkrais, Gene Gendlin, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Janet Pfunder, Montague Ullman. Furthering a love of silence and social responsibility, Katarina facilitates Multiple Perspectives for Community Response during this time of COVID-19. 

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Marie Samson leads a Business Transformation Consultancy in Vancouver and recently discovered the joy of ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) as an avenue for self expression and connection with other visual artists.  She is grateful to be living in Vancouver, within walking distance of everything she needed during lockdown and close to our vibrant seawall.  It was afterall a beautiful Spring apart from COVID-19!    

Lisa Reed is an Artist & Educator and a devoted home learning Mama, and believes in educating the heart and whole child. She has been engaging diverse learners using the power of the arts to encourage self-expression and to develop personal narratives since 2005, and has been an Educator at Arts Umbrella in Vancouver since 2009. The west coast has always been home to Lisa where she feels her true self by the forest, mountains and ocean with her family by her side.

Instagram: betruekids
 

Keiko has worked as a cancer epidemiologist in the US before she moved to Vancouver. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Vancouver Arts Colloquium Society, to link her passion and experience to build healthy and more resilient communities. She teaches a course, Social Artistry Through Co-Creation at the SFU Continuing Studies to shed light on the shared roots of artistic development and of systems change to create more possibilities in our community.