As an experienced Course Instructor, lecturer, and workshop facilitator, I have taught a variety of classes for secondary, undergraduate, and post-graduate students, as well as creative and/or artistic workshops for learners of all ages. My pedagogy centres care, passion, empathy, and creativity. I love facilitating co-collaborative learning opportunities between teachers and students, bridging the theory-practice divide, and creating student-led initiatives for educational, personal, and professional development. I've designed and taught classes at the University of Toronto Scarborough's Department of Arts, Media, and Culture, and I've guest lectured at Western University and the University of Toronto (St. George)'s Faculty of Information. Keep scrolling down for my abridged teaching resumé!

 

As a community-engaged educator and creative collaborator, I'm really passionate about helping people at all stages of their artistic practice muster the tools to explore their unique ideas and perspectives. I've taught workshops, performed public readings, and lectured with numerous community-engaged groups and organizations across Southern Ontario including the Playwrights' Guild of Canada, WordsFest London Canada, the TAP Centre for Creativity, LOMP, WriteNow! Speaker Series, Theatre Ancaster, and Theatre Western.

 

Some of the workshops I offer are:
 

• Creative Entrepreneurship (all ages; specially tailored version available for new generation artists/students)

• Introduction to Playwriting (all ages; specially tailored version available for new generation artists/students)

• Turning Your Story Into Art (all ages)

• Songwriting and/or Lyric Writing (all ages)

• Character Creation (all ages)

• Creative Producing & Marketing (all ages)

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Interested in hiring me for a workshop? Want to chat about guest teaching and workshop facilitation? Get in touch!

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Post-Secondary Courses Taught and Designed:

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• MDSD01H3F Senior Seminar: Topics in Media and Arts; University of Toronto Scarborough, Department of Arts, Culture and Media; Fall (September to December) 2022

• MDSD01H3Y Senior Seminar: Topics in Media and Arts; University of Toronto Scarborough, Department of Arts, Culture and Media; Summer (May to August) 2022
  
  Course Description: "This interdisciplinary seminar course explores the collusion between new and computational media and artistic practice. Students will be introduced to a wide range of contemporary artistic methods and critical theories that emphasize creative engagements with various media forms. Central themes of inquiry include virtual and augmented reality works, artificial intelligence art, algorithmic art, virtual dance and motion capture, electronic literatures, intermedial performance, and digital media. Through student-led seminar presentations, in-class debates, and experiential practice-based engagements with creative technologies, this course will interrogate the theory-praxis divide through a series of critical frameworks — queer, feminist, critical race, and anti-colonial — and illustrate how intermedial approaches to the arts challenge (and transform) existing practices, disciplines, and ways of expression. Particular focus will be made on the relationship between artistic praxis, humanities research, and public intervention, towards the framing of art as “aesthetic action” (Robinson 2016) to explore the sociopolitical affects of aesthetic and sensory interventions."
  
   

Post-Secondary Teaching Assistantships:
 

• INF1324H — Critical Infrastructures; Faculty of Information, University of Toronto (St. George)

• INF2241H — Critical Making: Information Studies, Social Values, and Physical Computing; Faculty of Information, University of Toronto (St. George)

• INF2311H -— Managing Audio-Visual Materials; Faculty of Information, University of Toronto (St. George)

• INF2184H —- Appraisal for Records Retention and Archives Acquisition; Faculty of Information, University of Toronto (St. George)

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Post-Secondary Guest Lectures Taught:

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• “Cultural Studies of Science and Technology." INF302H1 - Integrative Approaches to Technology and Society; Faculty of Information, University of Toronto (St. George)

• "Performance and the Archive." INF2184H - Appraisal for Records Retention and Archives Acquisition; Faculty of Information, University of Toronto (St. George)

• “Introduction to Playwriting." WRITING 2520A - WriteNow! Speaker Series; Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Western University

• “Introduction to Dramatic Writing." WRITING 1000F/G - The Writer’s Studio; Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Western University

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Select Community-Based Talks, Presentations, and Workshops:
 

• Songwriting, Hamilton Music Collective

• Creative Entreneurship & Songwriting, Glendale Secondary School Program of the Arts

• Playwrights' Guild of Canada (PGC) PlayConnect Playwright Reading Series

• WordsFest London Canada

• Unscripted Speaker Series, TAP Centre for Creativity

• WriteNow! Speaker Series, Western University

• Keynote, LOMP (London Open Mic Poetry) Reading Series

• Opening Act, Poetry London

• Power of the Arts National Forum, the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts

• Songwriting, Photography, Creative Writing; Theatre Ancaster Summer Theatre School