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| Name | Angela Drainville |
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
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| Info | Angela Drainville is a prominent member of the arts community, dedicated community volunteer, occupational health and safety professional, and loving mother.
Drainville brings with her decades-long experience in culture and tourism, along with a respected career in occupational health and safety. She works with both the private and public sectors as the General Manager of Outcrop Yukon and as an Occupational Health & Safety Educator at Northern Safety Network. She has also worked with MacBride Museum and Miles Canyon Historic Railway Society, where she managed both the Copperbelt Railway & Mining Museum and the Whitehorse Waterfront Trolley.
An experienced event producer, Drainville recently managed the Atlin Arts & Music Festival, and worked with the Board of the Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival prior to its cancellation in 2020. She has also helped organize and run the Winterval Santa Claus Parade in Whitehorse for the past six years, and has delivered countless other live events in the Territory.
Angela is the current President of Music Yukon, and the President of the Yukon Convention Bureau. She is also currently the Past-President of the Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology (CITT/ICTS), the Treasurer for Whitehorse Independent Theatre, and serves on the Boards of Directors for Home Routes/Chemin Chez Nous Canada, and ArtsNet.
Drainville also has a heart for youth and children’s issues, and has been a vocal advocate for youth education. She serves on the Porter Creek Secondary School Council as Vice-Chairperson, is Vice President of the PCSS Grad Committee, and founded and leads the Yukon Theatre for Young People Society, a cost-free theatre program dedicated to offering live performance opportunities to Yukon youth.
Angela has also served on the Board of Directors for Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous and the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts. She has volunteered on the Strategic Marketing Committee for TIAY, and is a current member of the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce Tourism Committee. In support of her eldest son, and other Yukoners living with epilepsy, she founded Epilepsy Yukon after moving to the Territory from Northern Ontario. Drainville studied Law & Political Science at Carleton University before leaving to complete a Law Clerk diploma at Algonquin College. She also has a Certificate in Cultural Planning from UBC.
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