Maria-Hélèna Pacelli

About

MH is a community organizer, visual artist, writer, singer/songwriter, popular educator and yoga teacher. She completed her Master’s in Women’s Studies at the University of Ottawa in 2012 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal in 2006. Her work as an artist and activist has inspired current graduate research on political theatre and the intersections between art and social transformation and informed her practice in the art world as well as her interest in social movements, transformation and relevant political issues.

MH wears many hats which include freelance work as an artist, writer and singer/songwriter, serving the community as a yoga instructor and dabbling around as a blogger. She enjoys sharing an uplifting perspective on personal empowerment and community building with aims to reconcile personal and social transformation.

MH lives Ottawa, Canada, where she practices sustainable living, meditation and yoga, as well as the arts.

Academic Honours, Awards & Affiliations

AFFILIATIONS

  • Rebel! Rebuild! Rewild! 2014-present
  • Founding Member, Treasurer, Ottawa RebELLEs, since 2008-2012
  • Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Student Committee, Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa, 2009-2011http://www.sciencessociales.uottawa.ca/womenst/fra/comites.asp
  • Founding member, Graduate Students Association des étudiant-e-s diplômé-e-s, Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa, 2010
  • Board Member, Théâtre UTIL (Unité Théâtrale d’Interventions Loufoques), Montréal
  • Vice President, Photo Students Association, Concordia University
  • Founding member and coordinator, MOBIL artists collective, Droit de Cité Montréal, http://droitdecitemontreal.org/toile_des_partenaires/approche
  • Community organizer and curator, Festival La Fou’Art, Montréal, 2003-2005 http://droitdecitemontreal.org/node/14

GRADUATE (2009-2012)

  • Club Zonta Mature Student Bursary Award, 2011
  • Bourse du Conseil de la vie française en amérique, 2011
  • Bourse d’excellence de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2011
  • Bourse Joseph Armand-Bombardier du CRSH (SSHRC graduate research grant), 2010-2011
  • Bourse d’admission de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2009
  • Kenneth Carter Award, Canadian Scholarship Trust, 2009

UNDERGRADUATE (2001-2006)

  • Canadian Italian Business and Professional Association Bursary Award, 2005-2006
  • Canadian Italian Business and Professional Association Bursary Award, 2004-2005
  • Undergradute In Course Bursary Award, 2004-2005
  • Carleton University Academic Award, 2001

Writing, Blogging & Publications

AFFILIATIONS

academic publications

UNDERGRADUATE (2001-2006)

  • Canadian Italian Business and Professional Association Bursary Award, 2005-2006
  • Canadian Italian Business and Professional Association Bursary Award, 2004-2005
  • Undergradute In Course Bursary Award, 2004-2005
  • Carleton University Academic Award, 2001

Art Exhibitions & Performances

MUSICAL PERFORMANCES

  • Montreal Infringement Festival, June 18th, 2015, Montréal Canada
  • Bird Day Fair, Nature Canada, May 30, 2015, Ottawa, Canada
  • Bird Day Fair, Nature Canada, May 30, 2014, Ottawa, Canada

THEATRE

  • Hope Langdon (lead role), Something’s Afoot, Theatre Wakefield, April-May, 2014

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

  • WW2011, July 2011
  • Festival La Fou’Art 2004, Montréal
  • Festival La Fou’Art 2003, Montréal
  • Vestiges de Travaill’art, October 2003, Café l’Atypique, Montréal

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Art et Mondialisation, May 2008, Café Shaïka, Collectif MOBIL, Montréal
  • Art, imaginaire et implication, October-November 2007, Café Aquin, Collectif MOBIL, Montréal
  • La Déambulante, October 2007, Café LUBU, Collectif MOBIL, Montréal
  • La Déambulante, July-September 2007, Café Aquin, Collectif MOBIL, Montréal
  • Exposition ambulante et engagée! February 2007, Café Rico, La 20taine, Montréal
  • Exposition ambulante et engagée! November-December 2006, Café l’Utopik, La 20taine, Montréal
  • Exposition ambulante et engagée! Octobre 2006, Coop Touski, La 20taine
  • Exposition de lancement du collectif MOBIL, May 2006, L’Alizé, Collectif MOBIL, Montréal
  • “Like a Kiss on the Wall”, April 2006, Graduating photography students year-end exhibition, Concordia University, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal
  • “Silent Enchantress”, Cash and Carry 2, Exhibition and Silent Auction, February 13-17, 2006, VAV Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal
  • “Framed: The Body”, Art Matters Festival, March 2005 Concordia University, Montréal http://finearts.concordia.ca/news/archives/general_events/index.html and http://artmattersfestival.com/
  • “A Darker Shade of Me”, Rad’a Yoga Centre, Art Matters Festival, March 2005 Concordia University, Montréal
  • Festival La Fou’Art, August 2004, Projet Les Toiles des Jeunes Travailleurs – Droit de Cité Montréal
  • “Exposition précurseure”, Festival La Fou’Art,  August 2004, Les Toiles des Jeunes Travailleurs, Café l’Utopik, Montréal
  • Festival La Fou’Art, August 2003 Projet Les Toiles des Jeunes Travailleurs, Café l’Atypique, Droit de Cité Montréal http://droitdecitemontreal.org/node/14
  • Exposition annuelle d’étudiants en arts plastiques, May 2000, CÉGEP de l’Outaouais, Gatineau

Academic Conferences & Community Workshops

AFFILIATIONS

  • Active Listening, Rebel! Rebuild! Rewild! August 2014
  • Activist Theatre Workshop, Rebel! Rebuild! Rewild! August 2014
  • Activist Theatre Workshop, Blueskies festival, August 2014
  • Activist Theatre Workshop, Blueskies festival, August 2013
  • “Selective memory – scripting feminist histories through political performance”, Gendered Worlds, GRAD-CROW Conference, University of Akron (Ohio), March 31, 2012.
  • “Staging ‘acts of citizenship’: feminist political theatre as a space for community building”, ENGAGE 2012: Contemporary Communities, University of Guelph, March 17, 2012.
  • “Queering the Margins of Public Space – activist theatre as queer world-making”, Queer(ing) Crisis: Struggles, Mobilization & Possible Futures, Carleton University, March 2, 2012.
  • La vision des jeunes dans les mouvements féministes/égalités, 5e Colloque régional sur l’implication citoyenne, 11 juin, 2011, Table Jeunesse de l’Outaouais, Gatineau
  • What is Radical Cheerleading? Presented during the Enrichment Mini-Courses Program at Carleton University on Gender and Popular Culture offedered by Julie Lalonde and Christine Kelly, June 3, 2011 http://www2.carleton.ca/emcp/
  • http://www.tjo.ca/tj_outaouais/fr/participation_citoyenne/cric.php
  • Radical Cheerleading squad starter, co-facilitated by Milena Gioia, 2nd Pan-canadian RebELLEs Gathering, May 22, 2011 Winnipeg, Manitoba http://www.rebelles.org/en/node/206
  • Intro to Radical Cheerleading – Intro pour meneuses de claques radicales 101, Ottawa rebELLEs, April 7, 2011, Ottawa https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=173865202662229
  • Radical Cheerleading 101 – Meneuses de claques radicales 101, Ottawa RebELLEs, February 27, 2011, Ottawa https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136064349789043&ref=mf
  • “Scènes contestées: le théâtre politique aux frontières des sphères publiques et privées”, Oser S’interposer: Fondements pour une nouvelle recherche critique (Daring to Interject: Foundations for New Critical Research), Graduate Student Conference, Institute of Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa, December 8, 2011.
  • “Le théâtre politique féministe: dialogue civique par la résistance créative”, Panel: Citoyenneté dans un monde globalisé : Des jeunes femmes s’affichent!  / Citizenship in a Globalized World: Young Women Speak Out, Women’s Worlds 2011, http://www.womensworlds.ca/program/grid/7
  • “La résistance théâtrale: mettre en scène des revendications citoyennes”, 14e conférence interdisciplinaire GSAÉD, Université d’Ottawa, March 23, 2011 http://www.gsaedconference.ca/fr/programmation.html
  • “Vers une typologie de la résistance créative”, Première conférence annuelle d’étudiantes diplômées, Institut d’études des femmes, Université d’Ottawa, 8 avril 2011
  • “Survol des pratiques de résistance créative féministes”, Colloque perspectives féministes étudiantes, Université Laval, 12 Mars, 2011
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