Who am I?

a users guide

• A fox & a hedgehog• Purpose & Patience• Triggers• New Hats• Lets chat! – 1 on 1s, small groups preferred

How I want to contribute

• 360*• *• 24/7/12/365• !!!• Faces, Stories, Music

Skills

• Event planning• Program design• Group facilitation• Research• Proposal writing• Communications strategy

How can you…

• Be really honest; ask uncomfortable q’s• Expression• Movement • Patience (but not too much)• Coffees, beers, concerts

“the commons”

Global governance

Urban planning

Citizenship & democracy

street art

Human history

Cultural studies

Service learning

Social capital

Energy security

Intergenerationalism

Nature

Equality/ Oppression

What it looks like

What’s Keeping Me Up These Nights?

• Co-creation within SY• Our Generation• Technology, Connection & Wisdom• Sharing• Creativity & Expression• Urban Space/ Suburbia• Embassy Network • Future Studio Y

Why Studio Y

I was born…• just around the time the Berlin Wall fell, the Gulf

War 1 started, Nirvana and MC Hammer got big, and the internet was about to hit

in• Markham ON – Planet Earth – the home of Pacific

Mall, where condos are replacing farm fields fast, where baseball leagues still rule

Some guiding principles

• Live simply so others can simply live• Be kind wherever possible• Speak from the heart• Speak truth to power• Pursue your dreams, but don’t get caught up

in them• The world is not flat, static or stale… it is wildly

vibrant and beautiful