AIS Student Performance and Mentoring Program

STUDENT PERFORMANCE AND MENTORING PROGRAM

What is the Student Performance and Mentoring (SPAM) Program?

The primary goal of the Student Performance and Mentoring Program (SPAM) is to provide Yukon’s senior students, in the communities and Whitehorse, with opportunities to mentor with professional artists.  The program is funded by the Department of Education and administered under the Artist in the School (AIS) umbrella, by the AIS Coordinator.  SPAM is an Artist in the School Special Project program.

 The focus of a SPAM project is to

  • provide an immersive experience for students that gives some understanding of what it is like to work as a professional artist.
  • mentor students by involving them in a significant way in the production and delivery of a professional event and provide measurable and specific training in some aspect of that event.
  • deliver a quality performance or event to another school

What does a SPAM Mentoring Project look like? Project possibilities could include (but are not limited to)…

  • A professional dance or theatre group working with students to deliver a performance in a community school(s).
  • Professional artist/curator working with students to create an exhibition to be shown in another community.
  • A group of professional musicians/band mentoring students from a community to deliver a performance to a Whitehorse school(s). 

Criteria - Applicants/Mentors must

  • be established professionals with proven teaching experience
  • have a current vulnerable sector check
  • include at least 2 senior students in the tour

 

For further details and how to apply

2024-25 SPAM Program Application Guidelines

 

 

Application deadline

Feb 24, 2025

Successful artists will be notified by

Feb 28, 2025

For more information contact

Marlene Collins
Coordinator, Community School Touring Program
Ph: 867-332-1904
Email: info@artistintheschool.ca

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