Kim offers a unique perspective when bringing the fine arts to children, youth and adults and has a strong understanding of the varied needs of her students.
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Artistic Director: Kimberly Denness-Thomas
Email: tumbleweedstheatre@shaw.ca
Kim has been teaching music and theatre to children, youth and adults in Victoria for over 12 years.
She is the Artistic Director and founder of Tumbleweeds Theatre School and Youth Performing Company.
Kim facilitates "The Music Connection", (preschool and elementary aged music classes"), and offers individual vocal coaching to children and adults.
Kim has written and directed plays for the Victoria Fringe Festival, children's stories for the stage and has directed theatre, music and customized workshops for:
~South Island Studio
~James Bay Community School Centre
~British Columbia Parks and Recreation
~St. Patrick's Elementary School
~The Tsartlip First Nations School
~ROSCO: Regional Out of School Care Operators Society
~The Victoria Autism Society
~Fairfield OSC
~Rogers OSC |
Her training includes vocal production studies, classical ballet and opera training, theatre and film studies at UVic, performance in musical theatre, and Bastion and Kaleidoscope Theatre schools.
Kim combines that with her training as a special needs worker and experience running children's out of school care programs, to customize each class to the individual needs of the student or group.
Along with that, Kim has also sung as both lead singer and back up singer for performing bands in Vancouver and Victoria. Touring and recording along the way, she currently sings with her jazz combo, SweetGrass-MacCuaig and plays guitar and percussion.
CO DIRECTORS
Bruno is a three time award winning (high school and elementary school) educator interested in human-human interaction as well as human-technology interaction.
For more information about Bruno’s work including the Shadow Project, feel free to visit his personal website:
www.educ.uvic.ca/Chat/Brunowebsite
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Bruno de Oliveira Jayme
He is currently in his last term of a Master of Arts program at the University of Victoria, under the supervision of Dr. Wolff-Michael Roth. His research is focused on how students interact amongst themselves during outdoors experience (e.g., field trips), when they use media as their mediational tools. More specifically, Bruno’s thesis deals with digital video production applied to education. In other words, he provides students with camcorders, which are used to capture the highlights of their experiences out-of-school, to be further digitalized in the computer lab. Not just the videos produced by youth but also the whole process of creation provides him with substantial data, in which he observes students' interactions (verbal and non-verbal communication).
At Tumbleweeds Bruno is a co-coordinator of the “Shadows Project” which is an art creation of lights, shadows and silhouette performed by youth, celebrating our past while recognizing the present. Shadows take groups of youth through the process of research and development, creative storytelling and community partnerships that leads to a new understanding of where we have come from. The Shadows Project involves youth from all areas of education, youth at risk, color, youth with different abilities and who have economic and social challenges
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Alex MacCuaig
Alex has spent the better part of his life playing music and working with children. In 1998, he enrolled in the Jazz Studies program at Capilano College with a focus on acoustic bass and vocal performance. He moved to Victoria in 1999 to pursue a degree in political science with various jaunts into the disciplines of psychology, sociology, child and youth care, film and Greek/roman studies.
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Along the way, Alex spent considerable time working in the child, youth and recreation fields. He has worked for an assortment of non-profit and community-based organizations such as the Burnside Gorge Community Association and the Queen Alexandra Centre for Children's Health. Most recently, Alex was the Community Recreation and Youth Programs Coordinator with the Fairfield Community Association, where he has also served as a Special Needs Support Worker, Youth Outreach Worker and Child Care Coordinator. Alex has facilitated music and theatre programs for children with organizations such as the James Bay Community School Centre, Tsartlip
First Nation and the Victoria Autism Society.
Alex is currently employed as a Quality Service Analyst with Community Living BC where he is responsible for the ongoing planning and delivery of community supports for children and youth, their families and adults with developmental disabilities. Alex is still an active musician, playing with a variety of different projects around Victoria and regularly performs across North America. |
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