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On June 25th, the provincial media arts community announced the 2011 recipient of the Spirit of Helen Award: Marsh Murphy, Executive Director of Edmonton's Metro Cinema.
The jury acknowledged Marsh's passion for his community, writing, "He contributes greatly to media artists and organizations in Edmonton by giving them a platform through his work at Metro Cinema. Marsh's word and actions come with significant integrity, and he is a tireless and influential arts advocate."
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Ted Kerr is an artist, writer, programmer, and producer. |
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Melody Jacobson is a champion of the arts; she received AMAAS‘s Spirit of Helen Award in 2009 for her dedication to advocating and enriching Albertan Arts & Culture. She was the past Operations/ Programming Coordinator for the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers and worked with the New Gallery before that. Her dedication to supporting the community as a whole, through her organizational work, as well as board service with many different organizations on provincial and national levels is unmatchable, and made her a very deserving candidate for this award. |
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Sharon Adams was the winner of the Spirit of Helen Award in 2008. She was recognized for her contributions to the Calgary Arts community through her work with Quickdraw Animation Society, her creation of the Youth Animation Project, a program for community action through animation, as well as her dedication to AMAAS and the broader arts community. |
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The 2007 recipient of the Spirit of Helen award was Edmonton filmmaker Sheryle Carlson.
Sheryle is a Canadian filmmaker who engages in issues surrounding corporate/governmental responsibility, environmental sustainability, and social justice.
Her filmmaking and art focuses on communicating ideas, facts and ideals often obscured or hidden by an onslaught of mass culture and the homogenization of consumerist tendencies that limit diversity and in some cases, free thinking. For C, art is activism.
She was recently working with the Alternative Information Center in Palestine (alternativenews.org), then as associate director at Sierra Club Prairie in Canada, and is now currently doing her masters in Human Ecology: Power, Culture and Sustainability in Sweden. |
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