photo: Alejandro Morán (Play a symposium-World Childrens Theatre)


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Glenys Mcqueen co-director

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DramaSound providing workshops (By our co-director Glenys McQueen) and music to educational events.
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2017. MARCH
DANCE FEST


Workshop: OSS DANCE FEST

Windsor, ON, Canada


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2016. JUNE
PLAY A SYMPOSIUM
 
World Festival Children's Theatre

Stratford, Ontario. Canada


Organizers of the 14th World Festival of Children's Theatre,
Our co-Director Glenys Mcqueen (front center) in Stratford
Gato Fuentes (co-director) designed the PLAY A SYMPOSIUM website.



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2013.JULY.8-13.. IDEA
International Drama-Theatre and Education Association.
Paris, France




Glenys workshop:

THE VISIONARY, TRANSFORMATIONAL PEDAGOGY OF JACQUES LECOQ: ADAPTING HIS 'FRAMEWORKS' APPROACH FOR CREATING THEATRE TO DRAMA/THEATRE AND EDUCATION  

(Workshop abstract: click)

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2012.NOVEMBER.27.
Peel Intermediate Drama Teacher's Association (PEDA) Mississauga Ontario.



Glenys workshop: "From Ordinary to Extraordinary! How simple, irresistible Applications of Movement and Music Can Enrich Your Delivery abd Deepen Student Learning-Inevitably"
 

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  2012.OCTOBER 19-22. 2012.
CODE CONFERENCE. Nottawasaga, Ontario

 

 

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2012. AUGUST 15 TO SEPTEMBER 25. MEXICO.
Our DramaSound Artistic Directors, movement specialist, Glenys McQueen-Fuentes, and composer/songwriter, Rafael ('Gato') Fuentes, have recently returned from a month-long stay in Mexico City.



       
    

 

 

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2012. JULY 18 & 25. 
BROCK UNIVERSITY: ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS IN DRAMA IN EDUCATION


         

Workshops: 1.Using Movement and music as classroom literacies. 2.Workshop on the role of music in visual literacies.

 

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2012. Feb. 13
 UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTS' DRAMA IN EDUCATION
AND COMMUNITY DEPARTMENT.




Glenys was invited to teach a three-hour class for Dr. Bernie Warren's course, 384- Creative Movement and Voice II and to liaise with their Department.

 

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2012. Feb. 08
ADQ (Additional Drama Qualifications). Brock University Faculty of Education.


Glenys presesented a 2-hour workshop on using movement and music across the curriculum, with emphasis on how they encourage critical literacy and arts integration.

 

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2012.Jan.27.
YOR UNIVERSITY SCHOOL BOARD POWER OF LITERACY THROUGH THE ARTS CONFERENCE.
Vaughan City Playhouse/Westmount Collegiate. Toronto, On.



Glenys presesented 2 workshops:  War and Peace -in a Spaghetti Pot! and Music as a Magical Bridge to Critical Literacy


 

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2012.JAN.26.
PEEL BOARD PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP. Missisauga ON.



Glenys presesented a workshop entitled: Instant "Choreography", Music Connectors, and Irresistible Learning

 

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2012., October 20
REACH--DRAMA & DANCE BEYOND THE CLASSROOM! held at Blue Mountain Resort, Collingwood, ON. DramaSound participated in the Trade Fair;




Glenys gave a workshop entitled "EXTREME Flocking: Classroom to Community--Exploding Boundaries, Multiplying Possibilities! and oversaw the REACH Special Projects (poster) Event.

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2011.. Oct. 15.
OMEA (Ontario Music Educators Association) Music Toolbox Conference, Grimsby, ON.



 with the Niagara Catholic DSB, Halton DSB, Hamilton Wentworth DSB, and Halton DSB and Hamilton Catholic DSB
DramaSound was invited to be part of the Trade Fair; Glenys was invited to give a workshop on Movement and Music.

 


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2011. Oct. 25
ARTS MATTER--INTGRATING THE ARTS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM.  Brock University Faculty of Education Department of Teacher Education (Hamilton Campus)Two-day Conference. 



DramaSound participated in the Educational Resources Trade Fair.

 


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2011. Sep 22-25
Conference: EDTA (Educational Theatre Association)
Chicago (USA)




DramaSound will participate in the Trade Fair and workshops



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2011. AATE Conference
(American Alliance of Theatre Educators)
Chicago (USA)




Lakeside Reflections: July 26-31, Chicago, Ill.  DramaSound will participate in the Trade Fair and workshops.

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2011. May 9 & 18
Drama & Dance Professional Development Workshops 2011,
Hamilton-Wentworth DSB.




In conjunction with Drama Focus Arts Consulting Group, a 2-session series on implementing the Ontario Revised Dance Curriculum.

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2011..April 29
Shaw Festival Spring Teachers’ Day, Niagara-on-the-Lake:
Simply, Powerfully – Dramatic! 




Two half-day theatre workshops for Ontario teachers (a repeat of a workshop presented at the 2010 CODE [Council of Ontario Dance & Drama Educators] Conference, N-O-T-L).

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2011.April 8-12
American Educators Research Association. 
Movement workshop by Glenys.
Frameworks of Critical Theatre. 



With and Beyond Word, a research study on multi-modal literacies, presented with Dr. Kari Winters, Brock University Faculty of Education.


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2010. Nov 13
Hamilton, Ontario.
Movement workshop by Glenys.


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Additional Qualifications Courses, run by the Brock University Faculty of Education


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CODE 2010
(Council of Ontario Drama & Dance Educators)
40th Anniversary Conference, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Oct.29-31, 2010.
photos by Gillian Fournier, Brock University




Our co-director Glenys at the dramaSound display booth, with dramaSound collaborator Andrea Hallendy-Mallon and her husband, Karl....Brock students performing at the Opening Reception


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2010. Hamilton Ontario.
ARTS MATTERS CONFERENCE. Oct. 28
for pre-service students, Brock University Faculty of Education




Two dance-workshops by Glenys McQueen




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2010 Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario. Canada



January 23. Brock University. Faculty of Education First Annual Dance Day. Workshop given by Glenys McQueen and Helen Zdriluk




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2010 TORONTO


January 14. Toronto District Board of Education. 2 Workshops in Dance and the New Arts Curriculum




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2010 TORONTO


Feb. 25. . Annual Arts day -Toronto Catholic District School Board-, at the Royal Ontario Museum. 3 workshops in Dance and the New Curriculum



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2009
ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO



November 28. Brock University.Faculty of Education's Additional Qualification's Courses. Workshop in Dance in the New Curriculum



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2009 OTTAWA



May 20th, 2009. Ottawa Catholic and Ottawa Carleton Boards of Education. All-day workshop entitled:
OTHERwise…INSTANT CHOREOGRAPHY/ INSTANT CURRICULUM! For intermediate teachers (Grades 7 & 8)
from both Boards on introducing the newly revised Ontario Dance Curriculum.




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2009 OTTAWA



May 21st. University of Ottawa. Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies (CACS) 3rd Annual Pre-CSSE (Canadian Society for Studies in Education) Conference entitled Provoking Curriculum.
Glenys presented an "interacive paper" entitled: Uncommon Absences: A Call to Reinstate Our Universal Languages Through and Throughout the Curriculum



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2009

May 22nd. Carleton University, Ottawa. The Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada (LLRC) Pre-CSSE Conference. "Exquisite Attention."




Glenys presented a paper entitled: Re-examining our universal languages and their potential in teaching and learning, which was critiqued by colleagues in the small-group format.



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2009
TORONTO


June 4th. OISE(Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), Toronto. A 2.5 hour workshop in using movement and music for the Intermediate Level Additional Qualifications Course in Drama in Education.



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2009  MARCH. 5-7,2009
Birmingham, Alabama

Southeastern Theater Conference



Glenys gave three dance and theatre workshops.




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MAY
2008
THEATRE ONTARIO, CANADA

summer courses





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JULY
2008
ATLANTA, USA

AATE 2008 (American Alliance of Theatre and Education) In Atlanta, Georgia.



Glenys gave 3 dance and movement workshops.


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OCT. 16-20,
2008
FLORIDA, USA
(The Florida Association for Theatre Education)



Glenys gave three movement and theatre workshops.





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OCT. 29-31,
2008
KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANADA




(CALS [Canadian Arts & Learning Symposium 2008], hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Arts & Learning...@Queens University)


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