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A graduate of the UC Drama Program at the University of Toronto, Helen has been working in the arts since 2003. Helen was previously Programs and Services Coordinator for the Canadian Dance Assembly, the national advocacy organization for dance, and General Manager of the Little Pear Garden Collective, where she led the organization’s transition from a founder-led entity to a self-sustaining cornerstone for Chinese-Canadian opera and dance. As a freelance arts manager, Helen has produced and managed a range of artistic projects including a cross-Canada tour of Beijing opera and performances for Church Basement Theatre, Wu Ming Dance Company, Harbourfront Centre, and Montreal’s Festival Acces Asie. Helen has also been featured as lecturer and panelist at academic conferences at the University of Toronto. As an artist, Helen has been writer-in-residence at Shakespeare & Co. (Paris) and 165Borden (Toronto), and artist-in-residence at Knock On Woods : An International Roving Residency produced by Yvette Porter and Mercer Union (Toronto). She has been invited by Festival Acces Asie and Oboro Gallery to produce a networked art project in May 2011. Helen has received grants from Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council for fiction and playwriting.

Currently Helen is: working on Culture Days, a pan-Canadian public cultural participation campaign; facilitating organizational development and capacity building initiatives for the Stand Firm network in Central Canada as a consultant for Canada Council for the Arts; supporting the Canadian Arts Coalition’s lobbying efforts as a Communications Advisor (previously National Coordinator); consulting on development strategies at Pixel (an immersive arts centre) and Sarolta Technologies (a video mash-up application developer);  and still trying to make time for her own writing and art projects. Since 2005, Helen has been serving as a Steering Committee member of Cultural Pluralism in the Performing Arts Movement Ontario.

Last update: October 2009

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