Kerry Boileau
Kerry Boileau is an Artist and Community Arts Facilitator. Since 1989, she has run programming in the arts, building and planned parenthood classes. She has facilitated educational workshops for new parents and pregnant women, worked in a residential group home with young women 13-18, and continues her own arts practice. She has been working at Sketch Working Arts for Street- Involved and Homeless Youth since 2002.
Her roles at Sketch includes coordinator of programming and community arts facilitator. As a coordinator, she has the pleasure of melding her own creative ideas with the needs, strengths, and desires of the community. In her role as arts facilitator, she facilitates youth self-expression and exploration with a strong focus on power sharing and a 'power with' model.
Her participation in Connect To Youth comes from her responsibilities for the Youth Leadership program at Sketch. In this capacity she creates space for leadership development and meaningful, paid opportunities for young people. She believes strongly in the transformative power of collaboration and works to provide place for people to share their ideas, skills and resources with each other.
Kerry credits her formative early childhood years, playing by the ocean in Newfoundland as shaping her desire to work with people and be creative.
Wolfgang Vachon- BFA (Drama in Education; Concordia University), M.Ed. (Community, International, and Transformative Learning; OISE/UT)
Wolfgang has been working with youth as an educator, artist, and advocate for over 2 decades. During the late 1980's he began employing interactive theatre processes to explore issues of health choices (STI’s, drug use, police relations) with street-identified/involved youth. Wolfgang has continued his community arts practice by writing, directing, and performing in dozens of productions through North America, Europe and Africa. He has used an arts based approach with diverse youth populations, including those in detention facilities, youth in care, street involved and homeless, transgendered/transsexual, & survivors of trauma. In 2005 Wolfgang founded Connect To Youth (C2Y).
In addition to his community based theatre practice Wolfgang has worked in Montreal with Open City Productions 2002, in South Africa through DFAIT, and since returning to Toronto in 2000, for Dixon Hall, and Turning Point Youth Services, most recently supervising Dufferin Mall Youth Services.
In April 2007, Wolfgang was recognized in the Canadian House of Commons with the Davenport Community Builders Award for his work with youth in that community.
Wolfgang is now a full-time faculty member at Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. He teaches in the Child and Youth Worker program.
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