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At my house, art is half sacred/half garbage.
Let me explain. Both my husband and I come from creative, artistic, innovative families. It's very important to us that our kids are comfortable with art. Making art. Looking at art. Talking about art. Knowing about art.
Then again. Art is super common in our life. Art supplies are plentiful and easily accessible. Outings to a museum are not unusual. Aunts and uncles are artists by profession. Discussions about art and design are par for the course. Sketch books abound. Art is so common and everyday that we don't think twice about throwing out art projects -- even recycling pieces the kids may have worked really hard on.
It's not that we're trying to be cruel. Or that we're not sentimental -- we keep a large portion of their creations. It's just that the reality is, with five creative children, art projects would take over the house if we let them. They could literally fill a room.
Which brings me to this topic: What are some good ways to store or archive children's art work? This is a question I'm asked at least weekly. And I'm not surprised. A typical preschool won't call it a day until there's an art project to send home. Mommy and Me classes create art by the barrel full. Birthday parties often involve painting of ceramics, beading of bracelets, tye-dying of t-shirts. It's just a fact of our modern life: pre-readers do much of their learning through making art.
I think this is fantastic. But the amount of artwork truly can be totally overwhelming. Here are some of the best ideas I've seen for displaying, storing or keeping track of your children's artwork.
1) Reuse. Give your children's drawings a second life by using them to make grocery lists and to-do lists. Molly will be so proud when she sees you toting around her masterpiece all day long. Another successful reuse idea: we made a calendar for Grandma featuring one work of art each month. Pretty and practical.
2) Digitize. If you really can't bear to throw anything out, but are also unwilling to store the collection, there are a few good digital solutions. Scan each piece onto your computer and make them into a slideshow to send to Grandma. Or create a blog to share them with friends and family. Or use your favorites as screen savers. Even better, upload the scans into a Blurb book and have it printed and bound.
3) Display. Dedicate a wall in your home as Gallery Space. Put up a collection of neutral frames or jumbo binder clips and use them to display your child's masterpieces. When new artwork arrives home, rotate the old stuff into the recycling bin. Another form of this would be to mount an oversize bulletin board in your Gallery Space and then absolutely smother it with artwork. As new stuff arrives you just layer it over the old stuff with a stapler -- all overlapping and crazy. We displayed our kids' artwork like this for years and it made a colorful and fantastic display. Plus, it was especially good for showing off unusual-sized projects and artwork with 3-D bits and pieces.
4) Archive. Collect original pieces made on the same size paper over the course of a year -- for example, everything your child drew on 8.5 x 11 paper while he was age 4. Have the originals bound into a book -- you could make one for each year. Try Artimus Art or The Little Author. Alternatively, you could dedicate an archival storage box to "Henry's Four Year Old Art."
5) Filter. One smart way to cut down your collection is to keep the pieces that required real creativity and decision making by your child. Toss the projects that were pre-designed, then copied by the entire class -- more of an exercise in how-to-use-a-glue-stick than a true piece of art.
Those are just a few ideas to get your organization-imagination going. No doubt you already have your own favorite solutions -- and I'd LOVE to hear about them. Yay for children! Yay for artwork!
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Another idea is to stop at the end of a designated time period (every month, every two weeks), take all the art one kid has made, and ask him to pick out the peices he's most proud of. Maybe do some filtering yourself before you give the pile of art to the artist for culling. Real artists do this themselves. They also use filing folders for art that is of different sizes.
We reuse the construction paper art and leftover cut pieces by shredding it and making homemade paper with it.
We currently have our "gallery" space on our garage wall between our washer and dryer and the entrance to our kitchen from the garage. Goodness knows we spend enough time there to appreciate it! I've also recently added two other display features to the garage, an Ikea CD holder mounted up on the wall to display our larger 3-D items and a cork board screen (cork mounted on plywood) that we can tack and staple arwork to, even while it is in the drying phase. It makes the garage a more cheery place to be!
What creative ideas! We have also laminated some pieces to create colorful kids' placemats, and printed out photos of art projects onto cardstock to be folded into homemade greeting cards! I have purchased a nice, spiral bound sketch book. Every month or so I have my 4-year old color and draw on the next page of the book. We date the page and see the progression of ability...much like the bound book idea. All the work is kept neat and tidy in the spiral. Don't you wish our moms were so organized!
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Chinatown, Curry Hill, Little Manilla...New York is host to a slew of ethnic food enclaves, some more well-known than others. Among the lesser-known is a cozy corner of the West Village known, unofficially, as "Little Britain Boulevard." Nicky Perry, the unofficial neighborhood's official mayor, shows me the street sign that a civic insider made for her after an unsuccessful proposal to formally rename this strip of Greenwich Street just west of 7th Avenue.
I met Perry on an appropriately drizzly day at Tea & Sympathy, one of the three businesses she owns on the Boulevard. "It was my obsession," Perry tells me over a pot of tea and a plate of soft, featherlight English scones (the English call ours "rock buns"). She opened Tea & Sympathy 22 years ago after moving to New York and discovering that "there was no place to get tea."
"And," she adds, "Americans were making disparaging remarks about English food. What? That's nonsense."
Tea & Sympathy, which serves traditional British fare including Welsh Rarebit and Shepherd's Pie (a lentil-based vegetarian version is available) as well finger sandwiches, cakes and crumbly puddings, soon made converts of many West Villagers. "Once you've had real tea," she says, "you don't go back."
I tell Perry that I usually drink green tea, and she asks "Why?" When I mention "agave syrup" she calls into the kitchen, "We've had a breakdown with this one!" The diagnosis: I'm drinking crap tea.
"Here's the thing," she says, "English people drink their tea quite strong and quite flavorful and quite bold. And Americans are really used to the sweepings off the floor. 'Gnat's piss,' we call it."
Sipping my first cup of steaming-hot Typhoo, a blend dating back to 1903, I had to agree. Next door, at Carry On, Perry sells a number of loose and bagged English teas, as well as her own Tea & Sympathy blend, which will be available in bags beginning this week. The difference between her blend and Lipton, she says, is night and day.
"I mean, we love the Americans," she says, "but your scones, your tea, your chocolate, and your Republicans...We could do without those."
Another door down is Perry's fish and chips shop, A Salt & Battery (www.asaltandbattery.com). Head chef Matt Arnfield has been cooking fish and chips since he was 9, at his family's restaurant in England.
Although the store's slogan is "In Cod We Trust," Arnfield has been substituting line-caught pollock, haddock and sole for the traditional cod.
"It was overfished," he tells me, "We were selling about 300 lbs a week, and I'm thinking 'We shouldn't be doing that.' The pollock is a little further out to sea, but it's still from a day boat, so it's a day old. The company that I buy fish from, they have their own boat, so I can completely trust that it's being harvested correctly. ... It's all hook and line; it hasn't been bashed around."
He serves me a basket of chips topped with a fillet of crisp, fried pollock and demonstrates, proper seasoning: salt first and then a few shakes of malt vinegar to "wash the salt through the dish." He jokingly asks if I want ketchup and instead puts out his homemade tartar sauce, which is smooth and herbal.
Perry comes over and tears a corner off my fish. "THAT is fish and chips," she says. "Crispy, not doughy." That crisp, golden coating also comes wrapped around an assortment of molten English candy bars. Start with the Mars. Or for an interior layer of crunch, the Lion or Toffee Crisp.
A Salt & Battery delivers, but only within a short radius, to prevent against sogginess. Their delivery vehicle is a classic London cab that has been converted to run on used vegetable oil from the kitchen. "Except for the massive flatulence from the beans," says "Perry's husband, a fellow ex-pat whom she met when he was a customer at Tea & Sympathy, "We're actually much better for the environment."
The Oil-lympics
Are you strong enough to meet A Salt & Battery's "I'm a Big Fat Ba$t@rd Challenge"?
If you can finish...
2 lbs of chips
1 lb of fish
1 serving of mushy peas
2 servings of tartar sauce
1 can of coke (regular or diet)
...in 20 minutes or less, you'll get your name on the restaurant's "Board of Heroes" and a t-shirt that says "I'm a Big Fat Ba$t@rd". Additionally, if you accomplish this before the London Olympics end on August 12, Metro will print your picture. So far, only one person has completed the month-and-a-half-old challenge: A Salt & Battery employee John Weeks.
If you go
Carry On/Tea & Sympathy
108-110 Greenwich Ave.
A Salt & Battery
112 Greenwich Ave.
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Em was excellent. She tied in persuasive and impactful personal stories to enhance the meeting.
Heather L.
Emily was probably one of the best instructors that I have ever had. She had a comprehensive command of the material and communicated in a way that was engaging for the entire 3 days. It was thought provoking. I actually feel confident that I will be able to use the skills that we learned. She even taught us how to build our skills as we return to the workplace. Additionally, I felt Emily was very empathetic to real issues shared by classmates. Emily led the group in a way that promoted kindness and group support in a productive learning environment. Her facilitation helped me to develop personal relationships within the class to broaden my network, in a way that I normally would not do.
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Jonathan T.
Overall, I learned a lot and the material was relevant to my work. The instructor was very knowledgeable. However, I wish it would have been more student-centric in terms of learning vs. instructor-centric. We skipped several of the small group activities in lieu of having large group discussions and instructor-led discussions. I think I would have learned more doing those. Also, time management was an issue. We did not stick with the agenda and on the final day, we had to rush through the final modules.
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P.S,. PLEASE READ: I did not recieve any prerequiste requirements by email that I know of for this classroom training or for the last class that I took back in April 2018 in Las Vegas.Also, I think there is way too much emphasis placed on the "profile" that was relayed to me as a requirement to be filled out. I was asked on the first day of class (July 18, 2018) to have the "profile" filled out by Friday, July 20th; however I was then "bothered" 4 different times during the first day of class being asked if I had filled out the "profile" yet... I was asked 3 times on the first day by the staff person (Kathy) and once during the first day of class by Yvonne. Yvonne asked me for the "profile" while we were doing a classroom book exercise task, which I thought was unprofessional to be called-out during the class and embarrassing. Being asked 4 times in one day became an annoyance to me and it was harrassment. I also was told by Yvonne Brown on the last day of class (Friday, April 20) that if I did not turn in the "profile" form then I would NOT be counted as being in attendance to the class. What that's absurd! I did turn in the "profile" form; however I left the class disturbed about the emphasis placed on the "profile" form, and being asked 4 times in one day after I was told I could turn it in on the last day of class, and then told by Yvonne that I would NOT be counted as taking the class if I did not turn the "profile" form in before I left that day at the end of
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Shelby G.
Excellent instructors. I think three days was a bit much, personally. And it was disappointing that there were beautiful graphics on the projector but our workbooks are black and white. And it seems that only one person received prework but that could be because AMA bombards email every day and it is overlooked.
Lawrence W.
Would have been better if there an executive level training
Ray R.
Wide range of content.
Ashleigh F.
Jeff was fantastic. I really liked the supplemental materials he used in addition to the guide. There were only three of us in the course and he easily adapted to make it work for such a small group. I gained a lot of insights about myself and look forward to applying the information I learned in my personal and professional life.
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Kevin M.
the course material was highly engaging and relevant, and the instructor was among the best I've had
Naveed K.
Over all this course was very effective and is necessary for management employees to apply Emotional Intelligent techniques for developing excellent team.
Lori C.
Susan was great! She kept the entire class engaged and was very knowledgeable on the course. She was able to answer all of our questions with confidence. Definitely wouldn't mind sitting in another one of her courses.
Jennifer R.
The class was insightful, useful and inspiring. Not only did it provide practical tools, but impacted my thought process (emotional response or delivery).
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Magdalena V.
She made it psychological safe for the participants; she praised appropriately and encourage everyone! She was truly a warm, knowledgeable instructor!
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Josh F.
Class was good, teacher was good
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I have always felt that I had good insight into my own feelings and emotions, but this class helped me to connect all of the dots to make positive changes! I highly recommend this class to everyone! Pascal was a very insightful instructor and has a wealth of knowledge.
Kevin K.
Excellent course. The instructor was fantastic. I really appreciated the small class size.
Roger D.
Dr. Wagner did an outstanding job of leading the course. She was very thorough in her explanations and kept the course agenda's progress on schedule.
Jerald B.
The most informative workshop I have been involved in with true takeaways
Kathleen P.
Very interesting material, good food for thought and I especially liked the specific strategies to ensure more productive conversations.
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Nicholas C.
Instructor did a good job facilitating and was knowledgeable
Gregory J.
Overall enjoyed this course. Included useful information and tools that I can use with my team moving forward. It is also applicable for non work situations.
Chris A.
Great class. Lots to take in. Tim was great and class size is perfect.
Jenalee L.
I truly enjoyed this course and the instructor. The materials were good and he also included a number of other resources that I will look into. He told great anecdotal stories that I will definitely remember. He related a lot of his past experience which made the materials more relatable. We were able to share some of our stories and did a lot of pair/group based exercises that were very effective. I got feedback on some real examples that I am dealing with this week at work and the tips will help me be more effective. I would definitely recommend this class to others and I'm sure I'll be applying much of the content to my team on the future.
Michelle H.
This material was extremely helpful, and the instructor was entertaining and knowledgeable. I really connected with Tim and his teaching style. He made a concerted effort to answer all of our questions and address our particular situations.
Mark S.
The course met all my expectations and then some. The instructor was very open and shared great advice about real life issue we were all facing.
Jake N.
It was good material and Tim did a great job teaching. I thought there could have been more exercises to practice identifying some of the material that was taught using more audio or video recordings.
Lucy F.
Class material was very informative, well-structured and applicable/relevant to the workplace. The Instructor had command of the material and did a great job of keeping the class engaged.
Noreen K.
I found the course to be very interesting. It provided tools that I will definitely be able to utilize working with my employees and leading my team. The Instructor Annette led the class in very useful exercises keeping us engaged the entire three days. I would highly recommend this course.
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Brian K.
The facilitator was outstanding, one of the best I've ever had for a classroom setting. Jeff truly added to the success of the three days and made the class impactful and enjoyable.The content in the workbook was good but not great. The topics introduced were good but there was not always enough time. The allotment of time for topics and modules was rushed (intro and two modules on day one, four modules on day two, two modules and closing at day three).I would have liked more time to apply our learning to real-world scenarios or in sharing with others at my table. The structure of the book and class felt like a shotgun blast of learning without time to absorb the materials.Suggest changing the pre-work for the class to include a survey that AMA facilitates to collect feedback from peers. Recently I attended another facilitated course about producing results with others that included pre-work where I provided names and emails before the course. When I arrived, there was an assessment of how I rated my style and how my peers rated me. The pre-work for this AMA course just had me ask questions of myself and perhaps have a conversation, however this should be done through an email to effectively collect input for participants to use.
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very in-depth look at the subject - best class I have taken about emotional intelliegence. I used some of the information within a couple of days after the completed session.
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I really enjoyed this course and gained a good number of insights and key take-aways that I've been able to utilize and see value almost immediately. This was very much a worthwhile course and the instructor's teaching style and supporting materials, videos, etc. allowed me to easily grasp and retain the information. While we participated in several role playing and other group exercises, I do think that we would have also benefited from more concrete examples of emotionally intelligent responses and mannerisms, particularly in a business or professional environment. Overall, this was probably the most engaging and resourceful course I've had in a long time. Great job, Jeffery!
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Andrew L.
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Stanley S.
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Mark M.
I enjoyed the course. It was a lot to take in over 3 days.
Craig B.
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Josh G.
Lots of good information that is practical for a career.
Rachel B.
Loved this class. Every section was very relatable and applicable to my job. Yvonne was great. I hope to take another class with her in the future.
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No focus. Topics were not rounded out. Instructor didn't seem to have much EI when dealing with students despite being a class about ei.
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Chris M.
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Amber J.
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Brent H.
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Paul M.
Really enjoyed the class, feedback, and interaction. Instructor was great.
Joanne H.
Class and instructor were great. The time zone in the west coast is a challenge. 11-2 is difficult to manage around, would prefer a class of West Coast students that could be held in the morning or afternoon. No information given on continuing education credits. I am still trying to figure out how that works for my SPHR.
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Patti L.
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Brian C.
Knowledgeable; spoke at a good pace; nice job in getting people involved.
Victoria D.
Luanne was great. She explained the material to live situations that made it easier to relate to and expressed ways to use in our everyday actives. Enjoyed the class and couldn't have asked for a better training opportunity.
Saad G.
A well structred training program with all the tools required to get the best out of it. It is a transformational course that takes you on the most beautiful journey of personal development.
Katya L.
The content of the course was good, but the instructor either read (or had us read) often from the manual. When I enroll in a training course, the goal is to be taught rather than self-teach. I could read the manual on my own time. In addition, I would have found it beneficial if the instructor would model each exercise/ activity (with a personal experience) before having the class attempt it. Often times, the class was not clear on the instructions. Overall she was nice, but I would not chose her teaching style again.
Jesse W.
Cheri R.
Luanne, excellent teacher!
Balakhrisnan C.
We had a 3 day course and had a trainer for the first 2 days and a different one for the last day (because the actual trainer fell sick on the last day). The original trainer made us read the material rather than engaging us in interactive sessions or activity. It almost felt like she was teaching the course for the first time. On the other hand, the replacement instructor on the last day was phenomenal. She was lively, animated, energetic and engaged us in better interactive discussions. I think I got a lot out of the 3rd day than the other 2days.
Tim M.
Luanne was really, really good. I enjoy her and her style! The course material could use some work... not always clear on what was expected. It just didn't flow that well...
Zendrea S.
It was clean and comfortable.
Becky N.
I really like the instructor who had a lot of business experience.
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Hector S.
In general the content and dynamic of the training is good. I believe there is a field of improvement for engaging the trainees for a more active participation.
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Mohamed A.
the course leader is very knowledgable and friendly
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Patricia M.
Learned a lot ... very informative
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Nathan S.
Pascal was a great facilitator.
Michael J.
This course was very beneficial to my personal and professional growth. Pascal was an awesome instructor. His teaching style was very engaging, and I would definitely recommend this course to my network.
Julie B.
Pascal was excellent, his insights, knowledge and experience were so central to making this a worthwhile training seminar. I could have personally spent more than 2.5days, which was not enough for me, it was a bit quick.
Carlton D.
I think Pascal was very good. Now I know that the key in educating people is to ask lots of probing questions. People lean better by participating in the discussions. This was excellent.
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Darlene M.
This training met all of my expectations and exceeded what I thought I knew about this topic.
Brondelyn M.
Rhonda T.
He was very informative and kept the attention of the people.
Victoria B.
Deliana G.
Yvonne is well spoken, knowledgeable, and does an excellent job facilitating/teaching this course. I highly encourage others to take this AMA course,
Paul D.
Great material and group discussions. Our instructor Yvonne was fantastic
James T.
Julie P.
Adriana M.
The group dynamic and the instructor made the course enjoyable. I learned a lot from it!
Marissa A.
I learned a lot but it feels like there is just so much information and 3 days might not be enough time!
Scott J.
Very good information and highly motivated instructor who knew the subject.
Mike B.
Personally, I feel the Developing your EQ course should have been a prerequisite to this course. A lot of the other participants had lots of questions about EQ that were answered in the other course, whereas this course was more focused on Leading with EQ.
jeff f.
Great instructor
Sheila G.
speaker did a good job getting us connected with each other
Silvia A.
I really enjoyed the group activities and sharing ideas
Paula L.
Ken B.
Emily did a great job making sure the class understood the material and really let the class be very interactive. She knew when to let us derail a little but also knew when to bring us back on track. Her understanding of the material combined with real life experience was invaluable. The class size of 6 was perfect.
Daniel K.
Brandon B.
I think that Emily (Amalia) did a great job blending lecture with group discussion. She let the team share their challenges and was mindful of when to interject the relevant course material.
Nolan R.
The instructor was excellent. High energy and she challenged us to respond with the training being offered.
Michael R.
Tim was an engaging and knowledgable instructor. I particularly appreciated the way in which the curriculum was followed (making the workbook a valuable resource for follow up and memory), while also incorporating specific examples from Tim's past and techniques relevant to the challenges faced by the class.
John T.
A well-paced course. Makes a difference when there is much class interaction and participation. I enjoy the group exercises - allowed people to bounce ideas off of others.
William P.
Tim was an excellent instructor! He kept the 3 day course engaging and relevant with his combination use of class discussion and textbook materials. I was able to come back to work with some applicable take-away's. Overall, the content was interesting, the instructor was wonderful and the class was a win.
Alfred C.
The instructor helped make this seminar especially interesting by freely sharing personal examples of events and situations he experienced with concrete examples of leading with emotionally intelligence. I found the exercise addressing listening style very useful and enlightening.
Dolores R.
Laura F.
Tim is very organized and enformed
Steven H.
Very insightful course that helped me become more self-aware of my tendencies in leadership situations and learn how to capitalize on my strengths, while managing my weaknesses. The time was well-spent.The tests that helped us determine our natural tendencies were very helpful. The group work and discussion that we conducted helped fuel the learning process.
Yves B.
Dana S.
Carlos T.
Julie G.
Mike A.
Heather and Michael were great from both perspectives.
Christopher B.
great instructor and the platform changed to add a lot of electronic interaction
Darlene C.
Randy S.
Lauren C.
Andrea P.
I think the course was very well done. I really appreciated that the instructor received feedback I gave after the first couple of classes and implemented it in his next teaching lesson. Due to this, I was able to more effectively focus on my thoughts and the materials.
Laura A.
I learned a lot from my peers in the class
Ben Z.
If we had time to drill deeper into some of the subjects, I would have given it a 5 (Excellent)
Len L.
Excellent teacher!
Cassandra J.
Lars W.
Michael was the right man for the job, no doubt about it. He's a real pro and he's excellent at embodying the lessons learned in a seminar like this. **On a side note, since there is no comment box for this below, the local staff at the AMA office was also very impressive, extremely courtesy, helpful, pleasant and professional! This was particularly true of the support staff (clean crews, et al). Very fine people!
Neil B.
The structure of the course was very good. We covered all topics and gave each section enough attention that it did not feel rushed. Michael was an engaging instructor and created an environment where everyone felt comfortable getting involved. There was a healthy mix of going through material in the coursework and working in small groups on various activities. All of the material was relevant and useful, but I felt that more time could have been spent practicing some of the strategies discussed, rather than only discussing them.
Amy P.
my only complaint is that I had an unusual score on one of the tests and the instructor did not know how to interpret it (she had me take it again and I got the same score) and she didn't look into it and get back to me with what it meant (I left feeling awkward and embarrassed about my score)
Eddie D.
Outstanding course, I wish I had taken it a few years ago as I could have used the insight on numerousoccasions
Rommel C.
James V.
Very good class with many takeaways given. Interaction between class participants and instructor was excellent. Instruction book was fine and extra handouts were very good. Class room and facility was excellent.
Joe B.
This training brought to light some real untold truths about what it really means to lead people.
Michelle M.
Instructor was great sharing real life examples
John S.
Annette was excellent. She was always open to questions and conversation related to our workplace and EI. I really thought she did a great job!
Iyad K.
Clark L.
Best class do to teacher dynamics that I have had with you guys.
Sara T.
Class size was small (5 participants), but the instructor effectively tailored the training to fit the class size. The participant materials could have been better organized as a reference guide (descriptive tabs) and some of the exercises were unnecessarily confusing.
Charlie T.
Abid M.
Overall a very useful course made more promising by Luanne as the instructor.She handled the course very professionaly and with maturity. A good experience on the whole.
Victor F.
Daniel K.
Great course, well prepared and learned a lot.
Denise W.
Luanne is an excellent instructor. With her extensive knowledge and past experience she was able to draw up on this and bring in relevant information not included in the course handout, but still very relevant and engaging. The Goal Tracker and Action Planner (separate couple pages) and the Best Practices list for the various modules was helpful. Would be beneficial if we had more videos of the scenerio's or case studies, instead of reading each.
Mark T.
The seminar was very lively and interactive. The content was excellent and the participation of the other participants was very helpful to the process of learning and sharing information.
Colleen K.
Great use of business cases for role play activities.
Everlena W.
Judy was such a knowledgeable and engaging facilitator!! Her approach of challenging, suggesting and supporting the participants was phenomenal!! I will be looking for other leadership development sessions that she teaches.
Angie C.
I thought the subject matter was very good and will be very useful in my career going forward.
Paul R.
Even as a veteran manager, I found some take away items. Inspiring vs motivating employees and the DISC evaluation really helped to solidify the differences in people and how that affects how you implement your emotional intelligence techniques. Really an eye opener in that area.
Stuart P.
Timothy M.
not sure if it was the crammed in feeling of the classroom or the instructor, but this was my worst class experience at AMA
Brian S.
Facilitator did a poor job of presenting the info. Most stayed page by page from the book.
Joshua C.
The course material was not taught with real life examples, the material seem to be highly repetitive. So far this has been my least favorite AMA course
John H.
The material was well presented. The presenter allowed sufficient time for discussion while keeping on track to complete on time. He kept it very interesting. It was a course worth taking.
Daniel M.
The material was excellent, the instructor was professional well prepared and personable.Great Job.
Stephanie J.
Tracey was great! She kept the class fun yet still managed to get out the material in a timely fashion. I would suggest that this class be a day longer. Even though there were only 8 of us in my class, it did seem a bit rushed. While we were able to ask questions, we could have used more time for this. Overall, Tracey was great!
Jordis W.
I wish we could do more group exercises. Don't get me wrong, we did a lot of group exercises but we could have done more.
Tiffany C.
Great points. Appreciated attention paid to efficiency and the value of our time, but I found it disappointing that the time of the workshop was abbreviated as opposed to maintained, becuase the workshop time IS the main time to focus on EI training, protected from other duties. Would have preferred option of NOT having so much "read on your own time" moments.
Aaron M.
I'd prefer more info/content rather than group activities. I don't feel I learn as efficiently in the group work format
Eric H.
Great ability to keep us interested and engaged. She provided just enough direction but did not hold our hands which I really liked. Great teaching methods and style for my ability to learn and retain.
Brett O.
The 1st day I had questions about the class and if it was going to be right for me, but then the 2nd and 3rd day once Bill got to know us better the class was great.
Reggie M.
The instructor was knowledgeable and very interactive.
Richelle M.
I have attended AMA's courses with Bill as the instructor before. He is always engaging and full of wonderful information. But this course could use a little more refining between what the advertisement for it says and what you receive. I was hoping for a course about Emotional Intelligence. What I got (which was the title of the course - funny thing that) was a course about LEADING with Emotional Intelligence. It felt more like a leadership course, with some emotional intelligence thrown in. I still am glad I took it and found much value and sage advice in the course despite it not being what I expected, which is a testament to the instructor's skill in adapting the course to meet the needs of the attendees. Good job!
Laura H.
The experience was positive and there were many great takeaways that I'll be able to utilize.
Nathan S.
Lavell T.
Lots of interaction, very participant-friendly, credit goes primarily to the facilitator
Jonas A.
Excellent Instructor and PaceGood class participation/activity
Jessica B.
Pascal had a wealth of knowledge from personal experience and lessons he's learned from others. He facilitated the class effectively and allowed us the opportunity to get what we wanted/needed out of the class.
Lee S.
Jose is a warm, engaging, caring and impressive human being and presenter. I was very pleased with the course and his leadership during the program! I'd definitely recommend this program to any one who is wanting to improve and develop their relationships, at home and work, and their overall emotionally intelligent leadership skills. Dr. Da Rocha is not only knowledgable about this subject, but he also lives what he presents.
Doris A.
Very informed, patient.
Thomas M.
There is nothing that needs to be improved. Great class.
Kevin D.
Instructor was excellent. Very engaging, very intelligent, and goes at an excellent pace.
Joseph P.
Was great to have opportunity to be away form office to share with others and hear perspectives and challenges form those in other industries; Was surprised the workshop did not address or mention the 4 quadrants of emotional intelligence from Daniel Goleman's books; would have thought more time would have been spent on bringing attention to recognizing one's own emotional triggers and tools for how to best manage them in the workplace, then leading into awareness of recognizing those in others for purposes of building of better relations.
Olajumoke K.
Mehul P.
Paul C.
The quality of the course material and the outstanding presentation of subjects made this course very valuable.
Sarah A.
Great class, but so much information to digest! I will have to spend some time re-reading the manual to put it all together.
William M.
Nice improvement on providing examples and stories to tie them together.
Aaron J.
At the beginning of this class I had trouble seeing how this may benefit me in my position. After the three days it became much more clear that these lessons could apply to life as well as work.
Lila G.
Ruth is a wonderful trainer and one of the best instructors that I have come across my career
John L.
Well presented and excellent materials. The assessments were especially useful.
William C.
Teresa H.
Brendan D.
Donald V.
Fabrizio S.
Very good but More role playing and video with examples of good and bad leadership behaviors could help
Puya P.
Great course leader (Tim Genck). Very friendly, knowledgeable and accommodating. Course itself could be shorter. 3 days is too much for E.I., more use of media. Videos, Ted Talks,...
Tony W.
The only slightly negative thing I can say about this class is that it felt like the instructor purposely stretched out the material to make it through 3 days. We are all busy professional people, I would personally have been OK with 2 or 2.5 days and moved a little quicker. I really liked the instructor, I really liked the material. I spoke with a few people in class who also felt she had "timing problems"
Raymond S.
It provided a lot of in site to the emotional impact in the work place.
Michele D.
Leading with Emotional Intelligence was a really good class. The course was interesting and there was a wonderful team of classmates, US and OUS, from a variety of industries. Our facilitator was great. The group openly shared experiences, ideas & advice. I'm looking forward to applying the skills and techniques I learned over the last 3 days.
Nicole R.
Andy K.
Course material was well organized and presented. Even though much of it is common sense, it's a great reminder and gives good practical uses and techniques for the workplace
Jimmy P.
Training was excellent, The building we had the training in needs sometime of faculties for food service
Stacy W.
I felt that this was more of a "teach yourself" type of class. Didn't think there was must discussion/teaching of the topic at all before just going straight into group exercises. So I felt trainer was more of a facilitator and not an actual trainer.
Rashed A.
the instructor was good , since he was trying to follow the material almost page by page which let me have the feeling that three days material are not enough
Kimberly H.
Overall the session was good. The instructor was very pleasant and helpful, but was compelling enough for me to rate the session as "excellent."
Chett W.
Diversity of "students" attending was fantastic. Instructor made three long days interesting! AMA "secretary" seemed bored and uninterested most of the time, but was polite. Room wasn't very conducive to learning, it was cold (actually too!) / sterile feeling, but the size was appropriate. Maybe snacks and more diverse refreshments would be a good addition as well.
Bert L.
Nathan J.
Katie F.
Liked how EI was woven in the different competencies. Liked that we could share our own experiences and learn form others in the training. Like the different methods of learning - book, ppt, flip charts, discussion, assessments, etc.The only piece of constructive feedback was that I spent time on the pre-work (asked people to fill out information on me) and it wasn't referenced during the class.
Allan M.
Overall it was a great experience. I feel like the class could have gone at a faster pace but all in all, very informative.
Chris D.
Leading with Emotional Intelligence was a highly valuable course for me. I like that it was focused on the real world application of the concepts being taught. The class was taught in a professional classroom environment, and Tim did a terrific job clearly explaining the course material and was very attentive and authentic in his approach.
Adam D.
Nazish Y.
It was a wonderful experience and the training course and material was excellent. Instructor was very professional and he made the training interesting by using the examples from daily life.
Linda B.
The course contained too many activities to complete in 3 days. I enjoyed the activities but we were very rushed to get through all of the material and had to skip a few of the activities.Some of the activity instructions were confusing. For example: Activity: Leading with Inspiration on page 3-3 (updated version 01.2017). The instructions state "As a triad, complete the middle column below with one or two EI competencies or behaviors..." but in the table below the middle column is labeled "Examples" so we were confused about what to put in that column. This wasn't the only issue with activity instructions. It appeared that the instructor was confused with the activity instructions at times as well.Overall, we had great discussions and the instructor was very effective.
Lisa R.
I really enjoyed the seminar and found it easy to relate to my current work situation. Many of the ideas and topics discussed will apply to my every day working environment and I'm excited to get started!
Brandon K.
Kelley S.
The pace of the class was a little slow for my ideal learning preference, but the class delved into some personal, emotional topics, so the pace was likely appropriate.
Kristin E.
Teresa D.
The facility was great and the instructor was very knowledgeable and gave insight to the class subject.
Calvin G.
The interaction with other attendees was fun and enlightening. Jeff did a great job of gauging the class and setting the tempo. It was a lot of material to cover in three days. The staff was extremely helpful throughout my stay in Atlanta. And I truly appreciated the fact that my hotel was within walking distance to the training facility. I love Midtown Atlanta!
Holger L.
Good seminar, definitely increasing the knowledge and the awareness how important IE is
Patty P.
I registered for your December 2016 session in San Francisco. That was cancelled due to lack of enrollment, so I was re-registered for February 1-3. In that time, apparently, you severed your licensing with Daniel Goleman (per Donna), but did not modify your Extended Seminar Outline on your website to reflect this change. As of February 3, you were still showing a course description that reflected Goleman's work, and name. I registered for AMA's seminar SOLELY BECAUSE I WANTED INFORMATION ON DANIEL GOLEMAN'S EI WORK. I was terribly disappointed, upon my arrival, to discover that I was not going to receive that information. What is received, instead, was AMA's "best hits" of curriculum poached from different courses. The curriculum was not based on the science of EI. How terrible. And false advertising. I am very well versed in EI, so I know that this curriculum WAS NOT EI. My organization wasted $3,800 for this training ($2,645, plus $1162 for hotel). You can bet I will be sharing this with all my clients and customer service classes. I feel completely ripped off. I knew almost everything we covered in class. If you would like to chat with me, feel free to call me at 559-706-0917. I called your corporate headquarters on February 1 and spoke to a woman, who said she would look into my dilemma, and she NEVER CALLED ME BACK. It makes me wonder what type of organization AMA is. I am profoundly disappointed. I do want to say, however, that Donna did a good job as a trainer. M
Joseph E.
Jamee F.
Great course work materials and structured activities.
Lia W.
Eric F.
Jann D.
I thought the instruction was valuable, however I would have liked more information to take away for review. I would like more strategic information given and less exercises. It felt like there were too many exercises in which the students created the information.
Beth C.
Nana B.
Susan was one of the best instructors I had at AMA. Her presentation style made the class informative and entertaining.
Sam P.
Maria C.
Courtney S.
Judyis an amazing instructor. Highly recommend her. The smaller class size is conducive for sharing and peer interaction.
Becky T.
Kevin Z.
Lee B.
Jeff S.
Nicole W.
Judy was phenomenal. So much valuable insight! Probably the best leadership course I've taken in terms of all of the value I got out of it.
Donald F.
Dave P.
This Emotional Intelligence seminar exceeded my expectations. Judy did a great job at facilitating this seminar by making it engaging through dialog and exercises. Looking forward to implementing what I've learned at my place of business.
James P.
I appreciated Jeff's knowledge, expertise , and enthusiasm on Emotional Intelligence. Jeff contributed valued additional material above and beyond the course material. He was able to provide reliable responses to all questions posed without hesitation! I was very impressed with his skills! He has given me the tools necessary in creating a healthy working environment in my organization!
Angela G.
Judy was an outstanding instructor that has real world experience. Instead of lecturing she shares stories/experience while applying the teachings of this course.
Karl B.
Judy was excellent, excellent, excellent!
John B.
Judy did a great job and I believe she brought the content to life with her insights and facilitation
Diane F.
Michael L.
Class was great....Jeff was amazing!
Theresa W.
Johnny W.
I really enjoy Lee, he did an excellent job of facilitating the course and presenting the material in a way we could comprehend and move toward application. The activities allowed others to share and learn through each other experiences.I believe the course could be improved by requiring the participants to obtain a 360 feedback to better understand the perceptions that those they interact with have regarding their Emotional Intelligence prior to the class.
Brenda T.
Very productive and beneficial
Gerry L.
First time taking an internet-based course. I was impressed with the how the program and instructor made you feel as if you were in person. Using group breakouts and chats were a nice surprise. It was a worthwhile course.
David E.
Jitendra P.
Brittany H.
The seminar led by Tracy was awesome. The trainer was knowledgeable and applied the material to real life situations. There material was useful and thought provoking and I would attend any seminar led by this trainer.
John D.
Excellent course, presentation was very thorough, enjoyed the participation
Lorraine S.
Bill is engaging. Bill keeps you interested and applies the information relevantly.
Steve S.
Good to excellent. Great content. Instructor was engaging and thorough.
William H.
Great course and feed back. Excellent support from faculty. They listened well and provided excellent feedback.
Bettye B.
Mike David did a fantastic job.
Emma P.
Eric L.
Very engaging. Talented in providing examples, particularly from personal experience.
John B.
Overall, I really appreciated the speaker and the seminar. I was hoping for more of an a-ha type breakthrough, which I did not get. When a lot of the techniques were common sense or things that I already knew (deep breathing, meditation, etc.), I became a little deflated. I still think there were lots of valuable things in the seminar and I have been working on a plan to implement this into my routine, including practicing the techniques covered in the different modules.
Fidel C.
Fiona C.
The course was exactly what I was looking. Lorraine was an excellent facilitator who lead our group into dynamic and interesting exchanges.
Rhonda O.
Sahar A.
I enjoyed being in this seminar it gave me the opportunity to get to know participates from different counties & cultures the seminar it self was very useful it will help me to develop my inrginization back in Kuwait .
Diogenes C.
This course is well designed, and Tracy is an outstanding facilitator. She clearly understands the needs of adult learners and treats everyone with the respect they deserve, all while maintaining control of the learning environment. I really appreciated her use of relevant personal anecdotes to reinforce the concepts learned.Although the course is well designed, some of the experiential activities have complex instructions; I recommend including the instructions on the powerpoint presentation (or writing on butcher block paper) for visual learners and for the groups to reference throughout the activitity. There were times that our groups all had different interpretations of the actitivities; I think that would be mitigated by written instructions.
Karen A.
Class went by quickly, I enjoyed working with the instructor
Dana M.
Very positive class experience. Great mixing of teams to provide different perspective.
Bobby B.
Tracy led a great session
Stacey R.
Engaging, relevant trainerFlexible as well
Naomi B.
Her energy and creative way to keep people involved and awake was great. At first I was hesitant but realized the benefits after evaluating the first day.
Shannan B.
Robert G.
Aram K.
team interactions were good
Theodore N.
Jeff knew the course material very well and did an excellent job keeping the class engaged. Many times it's difficult to maintain focus during short courses but not this time.
Fran S.
Tara D.
Tom O.
Andrew M.
Nick B.
Jeff did a great job at integrating course material with personal experience and outside resources. He communicated in a very clear and well measured way making the material not only informative but also applicable to real life situations.
E. Jenell S.
i learned a lot from this course. Jeffery was very warm, engaging, informative and able to help us all transcend our environments once we return home.
Raphael d.
Cliff B.
I thought the class was very good. I gained valuable knowledge that I can readily apply in my job.
Ricardo G.
Class is good. I think it should expand on not just the leader but those they lead; the personality side of the human being. That is what I didn't get in here.
Maurice W.
It was great to have other individuals with similar challenges that could help each other in certain situations. The speaker was clear in her instructions and kept the crowd excited.
William P.
Too cookbook driven
Ophelia J.
Training was specify to the type of training that meet my expectations.
Lorraine W.
What made this class excellent was clearly the other students. Although I absolutely had no doubt that the instructor was extremely knowledgeable in this realm, it appeared to me that she appeared distracted and could have peppered a class like this with a higher level of enthusiasm. Of course this is very subjective
Sherri D.
Denise is not only knowledgeable, she is one of the best instructors I have had in years. She kept the class engaged for all three days, which is no small task.
Marilyn B.
Denise was very engaging and stimulated full participation from the students.
Vladimir S.
Jocelyn F.
Jeri F.
This is a fabulous course and I would recommend it for managers of all levels, as well as for employees.
Sharon G.
Engaging instructor and good coverage of the material
Laraysha S.
The training and co-facilitator were both amazing. The knowledge shared by them both will definitely help me change the way I work in my current role.
Mike C.
Excellent class, excellent instructor.
Dave C.
John P.
The class was very good! Ruthe kept the class engaged throughout by using real life examples, having us do team exercises, and a mixture of lecture and a few videos.
Ned M.
I think it would be a good idea to in cloud a free book from the library, one book of the student choosing. The book provided (Leadership) is really limited….I think the cost of the training can justify a more meaningful reading material for student.
Doug K.
Judy was an excellent trainer. Managed the diverse group very well.
James S.
Amber K.
This was very interactive - I really enjoyed the class.
Gregorio L.
Judy is a wealth of knowledge on Emotional Intelligence and provides real world experience.
Very practical information provided. I'm going to use it in future
Pavan A.
Akiko L.
Tracy was thoughtful and make me feel confident enough to participate this course. I really appreciated her kindness.
Tom O.
I appreciated the ability to do hands on demonstrative activities
Josh B.
Lots of material to cover in 3 days means moving fast which means some of the topics didn't have time to sink in for me. Overall though the material was delivered in a very organized matter and spread out just right to allow time for everything.
Per R.
It was eye opening to see how EI is affecting everything in life, not just at work.
Nasser A.
Samantha K.
Really enjoyed the class. The instructor was terrific, very knowledgeable and recommended helpful reading material.
Heather P.
Brian D.
Jina S.
Faculty is excellent. This forced me to get out of my comfort zone and participate.
Gil A.
I really enjoyed this process. I am leaving with a clear understanding of what I would like to work on and can share my experience with the team.
Alexis D.
She was really really great. I would have liked a little more help with understanding how to figure out my triggers and understand how to tap into my feelings. But this was really good.
Carolina P.
The instructor couldn't pass all of his knowledgement, I didn't learn what I've expected from him.
Mary P.
David is very knowledgable and a great instructure. I do feel that the material could be revised and provide situational guidance.The summary of the course did not tryuly reflect the content of the course.


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This is a chronological list of all major literary awards won by Canadian Women Writers since 1937. Legend: BMA - Betty Mitchell Award, BP - Booker Prize, CAMA - Canadian Aboriginal Music Award, CAACBA - Canadian Authors Association (CAA) Carol Bolt Award, CLAB - Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award, CWBFB - Commonwealth Writer's Prize (Best First Book Commonwealth), CWBBR - Commonwealth Writer's Prize (Best Book Regional), CWBFBR - Commonwealth Writer's Prize (Best First Book Regional), DG - Danuta Gleed Literary Award , DMMA - Dora Mavor Moore Award, DWA - Doug Wright Award, ES - Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, SA - Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards, FSCA - Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, GA - Genie Award, GLM - Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, GilP - Giller Prize, GG - Governor General's Literary Award, GrP - Griffin Poetry Prize, ICFWC - International Competition for Women Composers, JRTA - Jessie Richardson Theatre Award, JSA - Joe Shuster Award, JA - Juno Award, ME - Marian Engel Award, PLM - Pat Lowther Memorial Award , PF - Prix Femina, PP - Pulitzer Prize, RMA - Robert Merritt Awards, CTP - The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, OP - The Orange Prize for Fiction, YACB - Young Adult Canadian Book Award.
The Betty Mitchell Awards, named for a pioneer of Calgary's theatrical community, Dr. Betty Mitchell, were started in 1998 to celebrate and honour outstanding achievement in Calgary's professional theatre community. Official website: http://www.bettymitchellawards.com/
Since the inception of the Man Booker Prizes' predecessor, the Booker-McConnel prize, in 1969, women have been nominated and have won the prize; in 2013, the Man Booker has been around for 44 years. Seventeen of the fifty prizes awarded have been to women authors in various competitions for prizes associated with the Man Booker Prize.
Ion Trewin, the Literary Director of the Booker Prize Foundation maintains that the Man Booker Prize "aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland". With this mission in mind, the award has garnered attention as one of the most prestigious literary awards, and is highly regarded internationally.
First sponsored in 1969 by the company Booker-McConnell, the Man Booker was initially called the Booker-McConnell Prize. Eventually, it became known as the Booker Prize for short. In 2002, the prize gained Man as one its prominent sponsors and adopted its name, thus becoming renamed as the Man Booker Prize. The prize, no matter the name, has been awarded annually since 1969, with some instances of multiple prizes awarded per year.
The judges come from various backgrounds and have included in the past "poets, politicians, journalists, broadcasters and actors". These judges also include Man Booker authors such as Nadine Gordimer, and Michèle Roberts.
The author of the winning book of the Man Booker Prize is awarded £50,000 (approximately $80,000 CAD in 2013), and their book gains much notoriety as a result of winning the prize.
The first woman to author a Booker winning novel was in 1970 (only the second year the prize was awarded). Bernice Rubens won with her novel The Elected Member. There were also three other women who wrote novels that were shortlisted for the prize that year: Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Bowen, and A L Barker.
Since 1969, there have been two years where the prize had no female nominees: 1976, and 1991. There have also been two years where there have been two novels awarded the prize. In 1992, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger won the prize, and in 1974 Stanley Middleton's Holiday and Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationalist won the prize.
Hilary Mantel became the first woman to win the Man Booker Prize twice in 2012, winning twice out of three separate nominations. She was first awarded a Man-Booker in 2009 with Wolf Hall, and she won again in 2012 with Bring up the Bodies. Her novel Beyond Black was also longlisted in 2005.
Other women writers on the Man Booker shortlists and longlists multiple times include the likes of Margaret Atwood, Beryl Bainbridge, Muriel Spark, and Doris Lessing.
The Man Booker also hosts an international prize, which "recognizes one writer for his or her achievement in fiction" valued at £60,000 (approximately $95,000 CAD in 2013); the award seeks to "consider a writer's body of work rather than a single novel," and considers any writer whose work is in English or is available to read in English. The International prize was first awarded in 2005, and is awarded biannually. Winners have included well-known authors such as Chinua Achebe and Philip Roth. Of the four winners since 2005, Alice Munro is so far the only woman to have won the International prize.
Man Booker crafted a special literary award specifically to celebrate the so-called "Booker Bridesmaid," the late Beryl Bainbridge, who had previously been nominated five times, but had never won the Man Booker. In honour of Bainbridge, Man Booker created the Man Booker Best of Beryl Award—an award that could only go to Bainbridge. Her novel Master Georgie, her final Man Booker nominated novel, won the award out of her five previous Man Booker nominated books.
Two other specialized awards exist: The Best of Booker, to celebrate the prize's fortieth anniversary, and the Lost Man Booker Prize to compensate for not awarding a prize in 1970.
Awarded annually, since 1999, to music artists from Canadian Aboriginal communities. Includes several categories.
The Canadian Authors Association (CAA) Carol Bolt Award is for the best English-language play for adults by an author who is a Canadian or a landed immigrant. It was awarded annually from 2002 to 2010 and discontinued in 2011. Official website: http://www.canauthors.org/awards/bolt.html
Established in 1947 and presented annually by the Canadian Library Association, this medal recognizes the author (Canadian citizen or resident) of the best children's book published in Canada.
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize is intended to "encourage and reward the upsurge of new Commonwealth fiction and ensure that works of merit reach a wider audience outside their country of origin"(commonwealthfoundation.com). Prizes (£1,000 each) are awarded in four separate Commonwealth regions, including "Caribbean and Canada" region. Regional awards go to the best book and the best first published book; Regional winners are then judged to determine the Commonwealth winners for Overall Best Book (£10,000) and Overall Best First Book (£5,000).
A $10,000 prize awarded to a Canadian writer for the best first collection of short ficton in English. Established in 2004, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award was initiated by John Gleed in honour of his late wife to "promote and celebrate the genre of short fiction, which she loved" (http://www.writersunion.ca/cn_danutagleed.asp). This award also has second and third prizes of $500 each.
Presented annually by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts which honours theatre, dance and opera productions in Toronto. Named after Dora Mavor Moore, who helped establish Canadian professional theatre. Established Dec. 13, 1978. Awards are given in General Theatre, Opera, Dance, Independent Theatre and Theatre for Young Audiences.
The awards honour the best in English language comics and graphic novels. Awards are given out each year in two categories, "Best Book" and "Best Emerging Talent."
One of the awards with a very high women-to-men ratio of winners is the Edna Staebler Award, a unique Canadian award for creative nonfiction. Wilfred Laurier University attests that the Edna Staebler award is "the only [award] offered in Canada for the genre [of creative nonfiction]". The award was established in 1991 by Edna Staebler, a "writer and literary journalist" to recognized outstanding work in Canadian creative nonfiction, "with a Canadian locale and/or significance." It is administered by Wilfrid Laurier University's Faculty of Arts
In 2012, of the twenty-two awards, thirteen awards—over half—have gone to women. These awards have been presented to authors of biography, autobiography, journalism, ethnography, and essay.
The award cites classic Canadian nonfiction writers as its inspiration, mentioning such writers as Susannah Moody, Farley Mowat, Pierre Berton, Marion Fowler, Harold Horwood, and, of course, Edna Staebler. The award encourages an imaginative, fresh, and novel perspective in works of creative nonfiction. The prize is for $10,000 Canadian, as well as notoriety for the winning book.
In 1991, the first winner of the Edna Staebler award was Susan Mayse, who won for her biography Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin. Since, there have been twelve other women writers who have been presented the award, along with eleven men. Two awards were presented in 1993, both to women; multiple prizes have not been awarded again since.
The Sterling Awards were created in 1987 to celebrate outstanding professional theatre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are named in honour of Elizabeth Sterling Haynes, director, actress, educator and architect of innumerable theatre programs and schools throughout the province. Official website: http://www.sterlingawards.com/
Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Awards were a Canadian literary award, given to Canadian plays produced by any professional Canadian theatre company, and having at least ten performances in the Toronto area. The prize had a monetary value of $25,000, and was named for benefactor Floyd Chalmers, an editor and publisher. Four plays normally win the award each year. In 2001 the award was discontinued.
Awarded annually, since 1980, to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Includes several categories
Presented anually by the League of Canadian Poets, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is given in memory of Gerald Lampert, an arts administrator who organized authors' tours and took a particular interest in the work of new writers. This award recognizes the best first book of poetry published by a Canadian in the preceding year.
The Scotiabank Giller Prize was established in 1994 by Jack Rabinovitch in honour of the late literary journalist Doris Giller. It is awarded annually ($40,000) to the best Canadian novel or short story collection in English.
The Governor General's Award, called the GG colloquially, is one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards, and has been awarded since 1936. Beginning with just two prize awarded annually (fiction and non-fiction were the only genres in 1936), the awards now recognize seven genres: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, children's text, children's illustration, and translation.
Since 1937, women have been winning the GG, beginning with Laura Salverson's work of fiction, The Dark Weaver. She was the first woman to win the GG, as well as the first woman to win the prize in the fiction category. She won again in 1939, the second time in the non-fiction category, with her autobiography, Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter.
Anne Marriott is the first woman to win in the poetry category with her anthology, Calling Adventures.
Established in 2000 by Scott Griffin, this Canadian initiative is designed to raise public awareness of the role of poetry in society's cultural life. Two prizes are awarded annually ($50,000 each), one to a living Canadian poet and one to a poet from any other country (which may include Canada).
The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) holds an annual composition competition for women composers called the "Search for New Music." This international competition includes ten different prize categories ranging from chamber and orchestral works to electro-acoustic media, improvisation, and sound installation. Each prize has its own monetary award. More information is available at IAWM's website: www.iawm.org
The Jessie Richardson Theatre Award Society is a non-profit charitable organization that exists to celebrate and promote the outstanding achievements of the Vancouver Professional Theatre community by producing the annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. The society was formed in 1997, and took over the production of the Awards Ceremony from the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance, who had presented it since its beginning in the 1982-83 season. Official website: http://www.jessies.ca/about.html
The Joe Shuster Awards are given for achievement in the creation of comic books, graphic novels and webcomics by Canadians. Official website: http://joeshusterawards.com/
Awarded annually, since 1970, to Canadian music artists. Includes several categories.
Established to honour the memory of Marian Engel, the award ($15,000) is presented annually to a female Canadian writer in mid-career. In 2008, the Engel award and its companion award--The Timothy Findley Award (honouring male writers)--were discontinued and merged into the new Writers' Trust Notable Author Award.
The Pat Lowther Memorial Award recognizes a book of poetry by a Canadian woman published in the preceding year, and is in memory of the late Pat Lowther, whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1975. The award carries a $1,000 prize. It is presented annually by the League of Canadian Poets.
The Pulitzer Prizes in Letters, Drama, and Music are awarded annually by Columbia University. Recipients must be American citizens (the only exception being in the History category, in which the book must be a history of the United States but writers of any nationality are eligible).
The Merritt Awards were started in 2002 and are administered by Theatre Nova Scotia. The Merritts honour excellence in theatre throughout the province of Nova Scotia. Official website: http://www.merrittawards.ca/past/nominees-winners.asp
Established to commemorate Charles Taylor's "pursuit of excellence" in the field of literary non-fiction, this prize ($25,000) is awarded to the author whose book "best combines a superb command of the English language, an elegance of style, and a subtlety of thought and perception"(
Awarded annually to the best full-length novel in English by a woman of any nationality.
Awarded annually by the Canadian Library Association, this award recognizes a Canadian author of an outstanding English language Canadian book which appeals to young adults between the ages of 13 and 18.


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By Dennis Polkow
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has done a variety of multi-week festivals over the years, usually devoted to a single composer. But this year, get ready for the first CSO festival ever to spotlight a particular instrument, the Keys to the City Piano Festival.
The brainstorm of pianist Emanuel Ax, who will host and perform throughout the festival, Ax wanted the festival to "put the spotlight on the piano and make the piano a little more friendly for people."
"We figured we can't just do piano concertos," explains Ax, "because there is nothing different about that. There will be some normal piano concerts because this is such a big piano town, but we also wanted to do some things that are different."
Using the CSO's own "Day of Music" model of a concert lasting all day long was one way to accomplish that goal, which in this festival became Sunday's free Chicago Piano Day. "I love this idea of having all of these different pianists on the same day and the audience not just coming in for a concert from eight to ten in the evening but more like it was 200 years ago when you could have a five-hour concert where people came in and out as they pleased."
Another important aspect of the Keys to the City Piano Festival is that the Sunday Chicago Piano Day will even have pianos placed throughout the hall for patrons to play, even if they have never played the piano before. Patrons can even sign up for a free piano lesson. "People can go and bang on them," says Ax. "One of the messages we hope to get across is that it's never too late to play the piano. Violin? Maybe not. Flute, you need a lot of breath and all of that, but the piano, you just walk up to it and you're playing it. I meet more and more people who are saying, 'You know, I have always wanted to play the piano and I'm taking piano lessons.' And I hope we'll keep getting that message out like a slogan: it's never too late for the piano.
"I still believe that even though you go and see Rafael Nadal hit a tennis ball you want to go and do things on your own and there is nothing like doing it yourself. I am a huge sports fan and I see a lot of analogies between sports and playing an instrument. I think the idea that you get better when you practice something, you do something that makes you better at whatever field it is, your brain improves, it's a great feeling. And it's fun."
Ax also believes that the popularity of spectator sports is directly proportionate to how many of the spectators have participated in sports. "If no one threw a ball around, we would not go into a stadium. We have to remind ourselves that we, the people who are onstage, have to somehow reinstitute that connection between people who are playing instruments and performers since they are also the ones that will probably come and listen to us. We talk a lot about educating kids, which is wonderful, fantastic and crucial, but I also think that because people are living longer and have more time, we also need to think about that aspect. People whose kids are grown, like my kids, who are out of the house, which means I have more time now to practice the piano, or to hit the tennis ball, or whatever it is."
Another gap Ax is seeking to address is the gulf between the professional musician and the amateur musician, or as Ax puts it, "someone who plays only for fun." "You know," says Ax, "when Beethoven wrote the Triple Concerto, the piano part was for the Austrian emperor; Beethoven wasn't going to play it. When I go to Amsterdam, I have a quartet of lawyers who are wonderful people, who I stay with and we play through chamber music every time I am there. We don't play public performances, we play through all the big quintets. The first time I heard the Mozart g minor string quintet was here in Chicago with Nathan Milstein and four doctors! I was his accompanist and I was twenty-three years old. He came to Chicago to play and never played publicly: he cancelled the concert because of a backache but two days before that he played the Mozart g minor quintet with these doctors!"
To that same end, Ax has invited an actor friend to come to the festival and play a piece with him during Chicago Piano Day. "A few years ago I met David Hyde Pierce, Niles of 'Frasier.' He's an amateur pianist and plays very well, and I thought, we should get him for the Master of Ceremonies. So he's hosting the free Sunday Chicago Piano Day and we're going to do a two-piano piece that was written for us by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, who lives here. David plays very well. The fact that he is not a professional pianist is perfectly fine. He's been practicing, in fact we both have, and we will have rehearsals and we should be able to do a pretty decent performance. I just love the idea of doing that."
"What happened was that Manny literally called me up and said, 'I have an idea,' " explains Pierce. "We met in a coffee shop and he told me what it was and the idea that I would have to play a piece of music with him. My first response was that he was insane, for an artist of that level to even talk about playing with me. My second response was, how could I possibly turn down the opportunity to play something with him?
"The piece itself is very modern, very beautiful, very otherworldly," says Pierce. "We're going to play that and I think we may have an encore of something a little more concrete. It's very much within my technical ability, but I've worked a lot on it. The counting in it is very complicated and the relationship between the two pianos sort of captures the mood. It's difficult enough that I have really had to devote myself to it, but not so difficult that I think this will be a train wreck."
Pierce says that he began taking lessons when he was eight years old. "Mom and Dad made all of us kids take piano lessons and I started taking them not because they wanted us to be musicians, but because they thought that was what civilized people did. So we all studied with the same piano teacher.
"My parents were very keen on my getting a very comprehensive liberal arts education and were very scared that I would specialize and try to become a professional musician. That's why I went to a university rather than a conservatory. One of the reasons that I ended up going to Yale is that it had such a great music program because that's where I thought I was headed. It didn't take long for me to figure out that I had a certain amount of stature within a very small town, but once I got into the world of serious professional musicians, my talent and my drive were not enough.
"And what has happened in later life is that I have been able to come back to music almost like adult education or something with a different perspective. There was a while in Los Angeles where I started taking lessons again from a Russian pianist, so that was great."
When Pierce originated the character of Sir Robin in "Monty Python's Spamalot" in Chicago previews and on Broadway, his love of the piano was even written into the show. "They wrote a piano cadenza in one of my numbers, so I played it onstage every night. If someone in the audience was there that I knew, I played a theme related to them. When [pianist] Stephen Hough came one night, I threw in a little bit of the opening of the Second Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto because he is famous for his recording of that concerto.
"One of the company managers gave me a picture of me as Sir Robin playing the piano and around the border were all of these signatures. At first I thought it was people in the show but I looked more closely, his mom managed classical musicians and had gotten just about every great concert pianist working now to write a message. Many of them knew of me because of 'Frasier' and it included Manny, Lang Lang, Yefim Bronfman, Garrick Ohlsson, Richard Goode, on and on. Every time I walk by it, I can't believe it."
Even though Pierce became an actor rather than a musician, he says that his acting career has been directly informed by the fact that he is a pianist by avocation. "I have been doing musicals in recent years—in fact I am preparing one now—and so of course, being a musician helps you sing and dance more organically. But even on 'Frasier' I feel that my comedic timing, my ability to work within an ensemble were all directly informed by my playing the piano. Yes, I do still play, although people frequently ask me to stop."
The Keys to the City Piano Festival runs from May 23-June 12 at Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan, (312) 294-3000. The free Chicago Piano Day hosted by Emanuel Ax and David Hyde Pierce begins at 1pm Sunday, May 27.


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Now that Bill Cosby, 78, has admitted drugging women, allegedly before he committed sexual assault, the White House allowed that it would consider a bill proposing stripping Cosby of his Presidential Medal of Freedom. But the administration still protested that it would not want to set a precedent by "trying to undo medals."
Fifteen Republicans and two Democrats are sponsoring a bill that would allow Barack Obama to revoke Cosby's medal and would also punish anyone who publicly displayed a medal that had been stripped from them. Cosby was awarded the medal in 2002.
Last July, when confronted with the question of whether he would strip Cosby of his medal, Obama lamely replied, "There's no precedent for revoking the medal. We don't have that mechanism."
A draft of the measure from the office of House Republican Paul Gosar, the chief sponsor of the bill, argued, "Cosby has admitted to drugging women in order to satisfy his sexual desires, and, therefore, the federal government should not recognize Cosby with an honor like the Presidential Medal of Freedom."
On Thursday, Gosar was accompanied at a press conference by Executive Director of Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment (PAVE), Angela Rose. Gosar asserted Cosby's admission that he had drugged several women left Cosby "outside the bounds of whom we should admire in our society … Like so many Americans, I am sick and tired of watching the rapid decline of our culture right in front of our eyes. It is time to reclaim our nation's moral compass." He added, "Revoking Bill Cosby's Medal of Freedom won't undo his actions or heal the wounds of his victims, but it will signal to the American people that we will not tolerate such lewd behavior."
On Thursday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, "Symbolic commemorations are always difficult to deal with," then added the white house was worried about creating a precedent by "trying to undo medals."
Last week Cosby was charged with felony sexual assault; over 50 women have accused him of drugging and sexually molesting or raping them.


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We are all faced with situations or scenarios that sort of remind us of something we may have wanted or dreamed about and perhaps let go or didn't pursue hard enough. Sometimes, we really can't control it but then…sometimes we can.
I don't want what's for her, I don't want what's for him, I want what's for me.
And the only way you can find what is for you, is if you work hard for it, work through the obstacles and then work past the suffering and setbacks. You have got to dig deep inside and learn who you are, why you are, what makes you tick and what makes you power down.
"A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it." -Lionel Shriver.
The problem with coveting the dreams of others is precisely that….they are the dreams of others. Someone else's dreams will never satisfy you deep down. Being blinded by what society feeds you as important, will also never satisfy you deep down.
"The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be." – Dianna Hardy
The only way to really find that intrinsic happiness is to be true to yourself, find what you need to be happy and go after it without worrying what others might think. It may take your whole life but at least you will live your life fighting for something that really matters to you…something that makes you grow inside a little bit each day. xo
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