Nicole Mion speaks on the importance of public art space and building community
About the speaker
Nicole Mion is Artistic Director for Springboard Performance where she curates the Fluid Movement Arts Festival, a Signature dance presentation series, Interrarium creative practice workshops and residencies, and ContainR, an Art Park made of retrofit shipping containers used to connect communities through art. She is also an active contemporary choreographer and multidisciplinary artist whose creative practice transverses the fields of installation, choreography, new media and design. At the core of her practice is a focus on creating space that supports the making and experiencing of live performance. She is a condition-maker whose leadership and sensibility opens up space for her own creation and helps artists make their work possible, while connecting audiences to the awe-inspiring possibility of live performance. Nicole has been recognized as the inaugural award winner for Calgary's Creative Placemaking Award at the Mayor’s Lunch for Calgary Arts Champions and was recently awarded an innovation award from the Calgary Chamber of Volunteer Organizations (CCOV) for “disruptive, adaptive, and innovative programming”. In December 2020, Mion was credited as more a primal force than AD inspiring Springboard and the Fluid Fest as “One of 11 Innovative Canadian Arts Groups Who Made the Pivot” by Ludwig Van, Toronto https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2020/12/24/year-review-11-innovative-canadian-arts-groups-made-pivot/
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