GUELPH/ERAMOSA – After 14 years, Marie Zimmerman departs the function of govt director of Hillside Competition this fall.
Kate Johnston
Kate Johnston
After an virtually three-month search that noticed Hillside receiving over 70 purposes and conducting 15 interviews, organizers are delighted to report that the subsequent govt director can be Kate Johnston, the present Volunteer Program Supervisor.
Johnston has over 20 years expertise in arts and tradition administration.
Her earlier roles embrace: creative director, theatre supervisor, supervisor of customer companies, and advertising and marketing supervisor.
Johnston has an honours diploma in music from the College of Toronto and a graduate diploma in arts administration from Western College.
She has already proven herself to be a artistic contributor to Hillside’s neighborhood engagement actions and creative programming, an excellent communicator with coordinators and volunteers, and a beloved member of Hillside’s workers workforce.
That she is a singer and a musician makes her a pure for understanding creative processes and for appreciating Hillside’s method to the humanities as a channel for constructing consciousness and a greater world.
“We’re so thrilled we have been in a position to rent Kate!” Hillside organizers state in a press launch.
Johnston begins her new function the second week of September.
Marie Zimmerman
Marie Zimmerman
In her 14-year tenure as govt director of the Hillside Competition, Marie Zimmerman has secured over 50 companions, initiated numerous neighborhood engagement initiatives, similar to Indigenous tradition packages in faculties and camps, a number of songwriting and music schooling programs, Women & Guitars, the Youth Showcase, the Sound of Mild for black artists, and Queers on Quebec Road.
She helped discovered the Guelph Fab 5 collective of arts organizations and she or he introduced in 4 million {dollars} in grants, donations, and sponsorships.
Zimmerman helped Hillside transition from a managerial board of administrators to a coverage governance one, which noticed the event of 20 vigorous committees.
She oversaw the fundraising and financing for the acquisition of belongings, such because the boat, the Hillside home, the accessible home renovations, a number of inexperienced initiatives, and the telecommunications tower and infrastructure for Guelph Lake island.
With a consulting engineer, she created the Competition’s first full emergency plan.
She additionally helped set up vital committees, similar to threat administration, human sources, and sustainability.
The competition’s web zero carbon standing, achieved first in 2019, was a part of a long-term carbon measurement and discount undertaking Zimmerman managed.
She represented the competition on the native, regional, and nationwide stage at conferences and award packages, giving speeches in school rooms, at galas, at convocations, and profession days.
Zimmerman is an everyday MC for 5 different native arts organizations.
Her crowning achievement in line with Samir Baijal, the creative director, is “tolerating me.”
Working collaboratively with workers has been certainly one of her best strengths and pleasures.
She is shifting onto one other not-for-profit group, which helps develop the festivals and sights in 4 Ontario counties.