EDUCATION ACTIVITIES

Education Activities The Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium works in conjunction with its corporate partner, TD Bank Financial Group, to provide students between Grades 3–9 the opportunity to learn in an authentic environment. The curriculum-based learning provides students and teachers the opportunity to study aspects of science, social studies, art, and drama in one of Southern Alberta’s most important public institutions.

Opportunities

Job Shadow Opportunities available for High School students.

Professional Development Opportunities available for Teachers.

Please contact Gina Martino at (403) 297-2841 or email gina.martino@gov.ab.ca.

Educators

The Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium has benefited from the talent of a series of professionals, dedicated to inspiring knowledge and building cultural awareness.

Gina Martino

Ms. Gina Martino currently manages the Education and Community Programs for the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, where she has been involved in Research, Development and Implementation for Educational Programming since 2001.

From 1989-2002, she worked as an Elementary classroom teacher for the Calgary Board of Education. She has been an instructor for the Education Assistant Program at the University of Calgary, coordinated and managed a Tutoring Program for a private school and teaches school and community based art education programs.

Ms. Martino completed her diploma work in Montreal, Quebec and at Mount Royal College, and received her Bachelor of Education from the University of Calgary, where she majored in Special Education.

Her work at the Jubilee Auditorium demonstrates how a community facility can become accessible to a variety of age groups, in multi-faceted ways, for lifelong learning.

Carney Oudendag — Visual Arts Educator

Ms. Oudendag has over twenty years of teaching experience in public and private settings. She worked as a classroom teacher for the Calgary Board of Education from 1980-2008. She attended Alberta College of Art, University of British Columbia, and received her Bachelor of Education (Art Major) at the University of Calgary. She is continually learning by attending a variety of art and education in-services.

Ms. Oudendag is an exhibiting watercolour and collage artist whose work hangs in private collections in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario and as a far away as New Zealand!

She considers herself a life long learner and regularly attends and presents a variety of art and educational workshops and courses. In her role with both Education and Community Programs at the Jubilee Auditorium, she strives to enable both adults and children to realize their creative potential. As well, she enjoys developing art and art related programs that are unique to the Jubilee.

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