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Multi-talented Sandra Laronde is quickly becoming a highly sought after speaker and workshop facilitator. Combining her artistry and vision, Sandra combines her artistry and vision, her talents as an actor, dancer, producer and director with her message of hope and the urgency of artistic expression to ensure the cultural vibrancy of the First Peoples of Canada. Through dialogue, lecture presentations, company classes, workshops and open rehearsals, Sandra engages in community outreach and artistic development in order to enrich our communities.
She is a creative leader in cultivating innovative links with First Peoples, culturally diverse, world Indigenous peoples, and mainstream communities. Sandra's highlights include: lecturer at Ryerson University, University of Toronto, York University, University of New Mexico, and the National Theatre School; panelist at the 11th Annual Canadian Arts Summit and at the 2008 Luminato festival series event, Illuminations. She recently participated in a national forum entitled 2008 Art Matters with 30 other Canadian artists, hosted at The Banff Centre.
Sandra has served as a spokesperson for the International Olympic Committee for Toronto's Olympic Bid; in 2009, Sandra delivered the keynote address at the 2009 Blackfoot Arts Awards in Lethbridge, and the 2007 graduating class at the Temiskaming District Secondary School in New Liskeard; and in 2007, she was a panel member for the Portfolio Committee on Aboriginal Affairs for Canadian Heritage in 2007, and moderated a panel at the 2002 National Gathering of Aboriginal Artistic Expression for Canadian Heritage. Currently, she sits on the Aboriginal Advisory for the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and on the Advisory for the Canada Dance Festival in Ottawa. She was a guest presenter on Perspectives on Innovative Management Practices to the board, officers and staff at the Canada Council for the Arts in 2003.
Sandra is from the Teme-Augama-Anishnaabe (People of the Deep Water) in Temagami, northern Ontario, and currently divides her time between Toronto, Ontario and Banff, Alberta.
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