cmap is run in country by our passionate and energetic team of volunteers. Volunteers are normally placed two at a time in each country. We recruit with the aim of creating a complementary team given each persons skills and backgrounds in arts and arts education.
2013
Sonia Jesus
Workshop leader, Oct 2013 to Oct 2014
Sonia is a Media Studies and Drama Teacher and Programme Leader from West London. She has a BA hons degree in Media Technology and after working with children with specific educational needs, trained to become a teacher at Central School for Speech and Drama. Sonia has a long and varied background in Performance and Media Arts and is passionate about the value of Arts Education. Her commitment to the development of young people is what brought her to CMAP, as well as her passion for Brasil and want for social equality.
Deanna Borland-Sentinella
Workshop leader, Apr 2013 to Oct 2013
Deanna Borland-Sentinella is an Australian with a passion for applied theatre, performance and community development all around the world. She has worked with various communities including: homeless young people, refugees, offenders, people with disabilities and culturally and linguistically diverse communities to support them to express their journeys through theatre. She is excited about now learning from the children in Brazil through drama.
Nikki Mailer
Workshop leader, Apr 2013 to Oct 2013
Nikki is a theatre practitioner, storyteller and trainer. Her work includes a variety of creative disciplines that she adapts appropriately to engage children and young people, as well as adults from diverse backgrounds with varying and often complex needs and across a spectrum of ages. She works, primarily, with groups deemed vulnerable or marginalised. She has an MA in Applied Theatre which focused on the use of theatre for education and social change. Nikki’s life passion is about making theatre/arts accessible to everyone especially to the most marginalised communities. She feels that everyone has the right to access arts as it is a a necessity not a luxury. Nikki is also inspired by singing, drumming, dance and having the opportunity to let go and have fun!
2012
Rhea McAteer
Workshop leader, Mar 2012 to Mar 2013
Rhea has a passion for creativity and supporting that process with others. She has a background in music and visual art, studying music performance and writing at Access to Music, in Brighton. Rhea will be spending 12 months in Brazil n 2012.
Rachel Silver
Workshop leader, Mar 2012 to Sep 2012
Rachel Silver is a freelance mosaic artist. She originates from New Zealand and has an extensive background in the applied arts including ceramic production, glass casting, jewellery and sculpture making. Her love of such art forms and the ‘happy accidents’ that occur in technical processes such as the collection of precious broken shards, led her to an interest in the combination of these to produce hand crafted mosaics. She studied traditional mosaic making methods, gaining hands on experience in various European cities – rich with the cultural and architectural history that a young country like hers couldn’t offer. Although she is inspired every day by her immediate visually rich urban environment, the vivid colours, patterns in nature and movement of the south pacific are distinctive in her design style. Rachel will be spending 6 months in Brazil for cmap.