Category: Mentorship Spotlight

Mentorship isn’t just about hard skills and arts business training, it’s also about passing on advice and discussing different career paths within your creative discipline. Performers Hailey Witt and Lara Ciekiewicz recently participated in the Professional Mentorship Program and shared their experience here!

So many different aspects contribute to the live theatre-going experience, and lighting and visuals are no small part! Designers and artists Hugh Conacher and Anika Binding recently participated in the Professional Mentorship Program and shared some of their insights with us.

No matter the discipline, the creative process is a process! Professional mentorship can help artists work through creative blocks, bounce ideas off each other and share knowledge gained in years of experience in the arts. Playwrights Ellen Peterson and Sarah Flynn recently completed the Professional Mentorship Program through Creative Manitoba and shared a few of the highlights with us!

Mentoring is a rewarding experience for both the mentor and the mentee. Creative Manitoba serves as a facilitator to help up-and-coming rural artists find mentors to further their artistic growth.

In this spotlight, we feature visual artist and mentor Kelly Klick and her mentee Atlas Lister. Read on to find out more about their experiences working together!

Mentorship pair Colten Matousek & BJ Verot are taking part in our 2022/2023 Professional Mentorship Program, in the discipline of film. They have been working on developing Colten’s first official short film: developing the script, editing, shot listing, and refining grant writing skills.

Mentorship pair Lara Schroeder & Débora Cardaci took part in our 2022/2023 Rural Mentorship Program, in the discipline of visual art, working with molds, oil painting and charcoal.

Mentorship pair Parker Koepnick & Victoria Emilie Hill are taking part in our 2022/2023 Professional Mentorship Program, in the discipline of movement and contact improv. They’ve been taking a holistic approach to movement, focusing on discovery and exploration in a low stress environment. Within Contact Improv and movement Victoria has mentored Parker on ranges of dynamics, lifts, emotions, inner battles, overcoming, and experimentation. This has involved many hours of rolling on the floor, falling into the floor, and finding a way to remember to bring my knee pads to the studio.

Mentorship pair Hailey Witt and Brenda Gorlick are taking part in our 2022/2023 Professional Mentorship Program, in the discipline of dance, choreography and musical theatre.

Mentorship pair Seyward Goodhand and Amelia Deizter-Dicks took part in our 2021/2022 Professional Mentorship Program. Their focus was on creative writing. Amelia worked on writing short fiction stories and incorporating Seyward’s feedback into every new draft. They also worked on submitting Amelia’s stories to a number of journals and magazines. And attended book launches and networking events for writers together.