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Board Of Directors
President:
Mike Peacock is a piano player and singer/songwriter. He is a founding member
of Vancouver-based Band Melic Thrum and co-founder of Peppercorn Productions. He holds
a diploma in Jazz performance from G.M.C.C. in Edmonton with distinction. He is the
principal of a small development company which specializes in custom home craftsmanship
and commercial installations including architectural stretch ceilings. Mike's love for
jazz music has fuelled his musical growth for the past 15 years and his love of the
obscure has helped maintain a commercially inviable existence in the entertainment
industry. Mike brings his love for the arts and his business experience to Pandora's
Board hoping to help them on their mission to promote good art in an unconstrained
environment for all to experience and enjoy!
Melic Thrum -
Tendu -
Peppercorn Studios
Vice President/Secretary:
Mary Duffy was born in Dublin, Ireland; her mother's home but grew up
on Red Island, Newfoundland which had been her father's family home for generations.
She has two daughters, works as a librarian in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside/Chinatown
and volunteers as a Doula. She writes regularly for "Luluzine", reads with the
"Twisted Poets" and the "Carnegie Poets" and works as a board member for "Pandora's
Collective". She is seeking a publisher for "Red Island Rocks"; a book of linked
story-poems about resettlement.
Vice President USA:
David McGuire is a musician and teacher in the Great Lakes
region of upstate New York. He has advanced degrees in composition and
theory and a chronic interest in literature, poetry and speculative essay.
His compositions have been played regionally and abroad (most recently in Romania);
he is especially drawn to hybrid genres: music and poetry (sung or recited),
music and dance, music for theater, etc. He believes the arts are an
indispensable liberating and deepening force for human beings and stresses
the need for ongoing arts advocacy (through venues such as
Pandora's Collective). He sometimes plays his compositions for his cats;
their responses are cryptic.
Treasurer:
Joanne Kim Joanne Kim, originally from S. Korea, has been in Vancouver since
her move to Canada in 1996. Presently working as a Certified General Accountant for
non-profit and profit organizations her skills are an incredible asset to Pandora’s
Collective. Surprisingly, in Korea, Joanne majored in French Literature. She is now
fluent in Korean, English, French and Spanish. Her interest and loves encompass all
of the arts. She is presently taking weekly piano lessons, Flamenco dance lessons and
continuing her studies of the Spanish language. Her passion for life, knowledge and
her generous personality has made her an integral part of Pandora’s Collective. When
she is not working as a CGA in Richmond, or taking one of her many lessons, you may
find her fly fishing, hiking, club dancing, traveling, cooking up a storm or doing
yoga, photography or watching foreign movies.
Director:
Tara Harris was born in Victoria BC where she was actively involved in the theatre and
dance culture. There she performed, taught, choreographed and travelled with the Kidco Theatre
Dance Company until she moved to London, England in 1993. Over the years Tara travelled
extensively in Europe, Asia and North America, her passion thriving in the arts. "I love music,
theatre and film - and I write, recreationally, for my eyes only! - Still keep your eyes open
for my upcoming book 'Other People's Ketchup - The Trials and Tribulations of Hospitality
Workers the World Over'." Tara's career in the hospitality industry has been in leadership
and development - taking small and large teams of corporate trainers on the road - facilitating
motivational workshops and helping individuals recognize their own strengths. She is now
pursuing a career in the film industry and lives in Toronto.
Director:
Ruth Kozak Ruth is a historical-fiction novelist, travel writer and playwright with
poetic aspirations. When she's not wandering the world (mostly around Greece) she instructs
a Memoirs writing group, and prompts the Muse in three writing classes for VSB. She's
finishing up an epic historical novel with the help of the Scribbler's critique group
and hosts West End Writer's Club meetings. See her "Living the Writer's Life" blog at
www.wynnbexton.blogspot.com
or website at: www.dreamwater.org/ruthaki/
www.wewriters.com
Director:
Carson Tipper bio and photo coming soon
Carson's Poets Directory Page
Past Board Members
Vice President, Canada:
Don Simpson
Donald W. Simpson.
Retired businessman, dabbler, sesquipedalian, literary
traditionalist, ectomorph.
Director, USA:
Edmond Chow has a strong technical background and is presently
working at one of the US national labs near San Francisco. He is also an
active member of the arts community, having been involved with poetry
and creative writing for about 15 years. He is on the Board of the
Kearny Street Workshop, a non-profit Asian American Arts organization
in San Francisco as well as Pandora's Collective.
Edmond has taught poetry classes for the Kearny Street Workshop for the past
three years and before that taught several creative writing classes
for his local city's Adult Education Department and for a high school
extracurricular program organized by the Asian American
Renaissance while he was living in Minneapolis. Edmond is a
published poet.
Kearny Street Workshop
View Pandora's Collective Constitution.
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