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.

Centennial Series

The Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium believes in lifelong learning and is striving to provide enriching opportunities to students of all ages. The Centennial Series began in the fall of 2005. This series, offered eight times throughout the year, provides seminars and concerts that will enrich learners in all stages of life. These complimentary seminars are offered between 12:00 noon — 2:00 pm on specific Tuesdays. Refreshments are also available for a small charge. A complete Centennial Series schedule is available by calling (403) 297-8000.

For further information on all our Educational and Community outreach activities and planning, please call Gina Martino at (403) 297-8000 or email jubileecommunityprograms@shaw.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.

Donna Simon-Kovatch

Ms. Donna Simon-Kovatch currently teaches with the Calgary Board of Education. She has worked for the last twelve years as a classroom teacher in kindergarten to Grade 6 as a resource teacher, curriculum leader and specialist teacher.

Ms. Simon-Kovatch completed her Bachelor of Education degree at the University of Calgary, Alberta and her Masters of Education degree at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Her Masters thesis explored the development of schools as authentic learning communities.

Her work with the Jubilee Auditorium has put theoretical work into practice. In developing this program, she has demonstrated how schools and communities can work together to provide authentic, meaningful learning for students in real-life settings.

Recently, Ms. Simon-Kovatch was awarded the Innovative Practices Award from the Alberta Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (AASCD) and the 2000 Teacher Award in Sciences from the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologist and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA).

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 a classroom teacher for the Calgary Board of Education, teaching Grades 4–6, and as a Specialist in the area of Learning Disabilities. She has taught Art Education to Grades 7 and 8 at Foothills Academy, a private school designed for students with Learning Disabilities, and teaches School and Community-Based Art Programs to Grades 1-6.

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

Ms. Oudendag has over twenty years of teaching experience in public and private settings. 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!

Chet Marlett

Born Métis in Brantford, Ontario, Mr. Marlett graduated from Pauline Johnson Collegiate-Vocational High School in 1959. He studied English at McMaster University, the University of Toronto and York University, then came west in 1968.

Mr. Marlett holds two permanent teaching certificates in Ontario and Alberta, and has taught high school English and Drama for 33 years. He has presented workshops in both fields, cut two “evaluation” videotapes for the Calgary Board of Education, and acted and/or directed shows for community, church, children’s and high school theatre groups (trying to follow the dictum of good performance set forth by William Hutt of Stratford fame).

Mr. Marlett was a founding and executive member of the Calgary High School Drama Festival Association and continues to give back to the community by coaching speakers, editing others written work, volunteering with the Food Bank, and serving on the Board of Directors of a seniors residence.

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