Got a chance to interview Vancouver's arts & culture champion and my old boss at Emly Carr Sir Ron Burnett on the topic of Creative Leadership #FuelVan #thnkVan - with Ron Burnett at Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company.

In a time when we are increasingly reliant on the internet and virtual technologies there is a greater need for objects that have a heightened physical sensibility and act as markers of our memories and personal experience.

Honoured guests, Dr. George Pederson, Chair of the Board of Governors, members of the Board, Graduates, Faculty, Staff, Families and Friends, today I will speak to you about some of the challenges that we will all face in the near future . . .

“Most people believe that it is education that will save us. But this bland, sweeping, and unexamined assertion reduces us into continuing to uncritically support and tinker with the current story of schooling . . .”