Mentor

Dawn Sanders QSM

Arts Manager, Sponsorship & Fundraiser

Founder (1991) & Chief Executive of  Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ; organise annual University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festivals nationwide since 1992, National Shakespeare Schools Production, SGCNZ Young Shakespeare Company, national workshops & seminars, overseas study tours for students, interns, mid-career actors, teachers and others, especially, but not solely, with Shakespeare’s Globe, London.

Founder (1991) & Chief Executive of  Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ; organise annual University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festivals nationwide since 1992, National Shakespeare Schools Production, SGCNZ Young Shakespeare Company, national workshops & seminars, overseas study tours for students, interns, mid-career actors, teachers and others, especially, but not solely, with Shakespeare’s Globe, London.

• 2009 organised SGCNZ dinner performance at the Wellington Club; Bard’s Birthday Dinner at Parliament; dinner performance/auction at Northern Club, Auckland for SGCNZ International Artistic Fellows
• Manager SGCNZ’s Compleate Workes 2009
• Course Director Uplifting Shakespeare TRCC/SGCNZ Course 2009
• Part-time Dance Anatomy & Arts Life Skills Lecturer Wellington Performing Arts Centre
• Event Manager & Trustee Capital Theatre Productions — recently Family Affair concert for Families Commission 2009; fundraising concert/dinner/auction for Skylight Trust 2008; tour July 2007 — QMJY Chinese Traditional Quartet under Oriental Express programme; The Amazing Grace Tour of Daniel Rodriguez and Marla Kavanaugh; their return for a concert with Ben Baker; mentoring of emerging artists; ‘umbrella–ing’ of unregistered arts organisations
• General Secretary Heritage Inc
• Event Manager/Tour Coordinator/Sponsorship/ fundraiser/PR manager/ Arts Consultant/Mentor for many individuals, groups & organisations
• Free-lance lecturer and public speaker

Previously

Free-lance Project Manager &/or PR & Sponsorship Manager & Marketing manager &/or Producer of a vast array of events some of which have included:

• Globe Theatre Hangings Project, including 2 year national tour & 1 yr international tour and raising $1,300,000 by 1993
• 2-week Elizabethan Festival 1990, including tour to NZ by Sam Wanamaker
• 2000, 02, 04, 2007, 2009 national lecture tours in NZ of Patrick Spottiswoode
• Director, Globe Education, Shakespeare’s Globe, London
• 2006 Organised theatre practitioners’ workshops in Wellington by former Associate Globe Director, UK, Tim Carroll
• 2001 & 2008 Organised corporate and theatre industry workshops & talks by Ben Walden and Richard Olivier, UK Director of Olivier Mythodrama Leadership through Shakespeare
• Organised National Tour of New Zealand of Sarah Davey for British Council
• 2001-2008 Marketing Manager (by contract) for Vector Wellington Orchestra — all VWO concerts since 2001 beginning with Ben Baker Pays Tribute; advisor on submissions; sponsorship raising
• Business Manager for Capital Theatre Productions — Oriental Express Tours for Embassy of China of Li Chuanyan, Sun YingDi, QMYE, many shows and events
• Tour Organiser Mummenschanz 3 x 11 2006 for Embassy of Switzerland
• Chair, Dance on Trust; sponsorship & Marketing Manager A right royal GALA2005
• Marketing Manager for Another right royal GALA 2007
• Co-producer, PR & Sponsorship Manager Rush!, Song & Dance, Rotariety and other shows and functions
• Executive Producer/Publicist for Elk Safari & Inner Constellations
• 2003, 04, 05 Organised entertainment for ICANZ conference
• 2004 Coordinated performances in Wellington Cathedral for Arts Encompassing
• 2004 Organised corporate event & performance for The Public Trust at Circa
• Theatre, Wellington
• Mid 2002 – December 2006 Chair Wellington Writers Walk Committee — helped raise funds and launch 4 more Text Sculptures, & 4 Benchmarks. Organised NZ Society of Authors AGM & Conference
• 2000, 2002, 04 Organised two week lecture tour in NZ of Director of Globe Education, London
• 2000, 03, 06 Organiser TRCC/SGCNZ Shakespeare courses for teachers
• NZ Tour of Compagnie Nomades Le-Loft Vevey dance company
• Te Whaea: National Dance & Drama Centre new premises fund-raiser, manager of events and performances
• VMA (Venue Management Association) Conference
• 4 Alana Haines Australasian Dance Competition
• Fundraiser & event organiser for Landmarks Project — Celebrating Women
• Vivek Kinra’s season of Subrahmanyan
• 5 Karori Normal School Galas
• Karori & the Valley of the Birds 125th school production at Opera House
• Project Coordinator Youth Arts 2000 two week Festival
• Coordinated tour from UK to NZ of corporate professional development workshops by Ben Walden from Cranfield School of Management, UK
• various courses, seminars, performances, lecture tours, Vice-Regal events, entertainment for conferences, special occasions including for Embassies & High Commissions, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, auctions, launches, street day appeal and lots more…!
• Author of 5 books and many published articles & seminar & conference papers
• Editor/ghost writer of 3 published books by Gisi Hirschfeld
• Currently writing 2 more books

NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS

Voluntary positions currently held include

• Founder/Chief Executive Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ Trust (partly paid)
• President Wellington Shakespeare Society Inc
• Trustee Dorothy Daniels Dance Foundation Inc
• Youth Committee Member Rotary Club of Port Nicholson
• NZ Agent for Ben Baker — Wellington violinist at Yehudi Menuhin School
• Member of UNESCO Communications Sub Commission
• Chair Dance On Trust
• Co-Founder/President Arts Medicine Aotearoa New Zealand
• Co-Founder/Chair NZ Council of Dance Teaching Organisations Inc
• Immediate Past President of NZ Society of Authors
• Positions formerly held
• Project Manager of Globe Theatre Hangings Project
• Former Chair Wellington Writers’ Walk committee
• Former Chair Sports Medicine NZ Wellington Branch
• Former Chair NZ Society of Authors Wellington Branch
• Founder & Former President NZ Association of Dance Teachers Inc
• Former Trustee Save the St James Trust
• Former Trust Board Member Toi Whakaari:NZ Drama School
• Fundraising & Sponsorship Manager for Te Whaea:National Dance & Drama Centre – new premises for Toi Whakaari:NZ Drama School & New Zealand School of Dance
• Former Trustee of National Dance Archive
• Former member of a variety of other arts Boards/Trusts/Panels/…
• Former full-time Administrator at National School of Ballet/ New Zealand School of Dance
• Tutor/Lecturer NZ School of Dance for 30 years 1976-2006
• Professional ballet dancer in Royal New Zealand Ballet & International Ballet Caravan, London, & with companies in Portugal & Spain
• An inaugural part-time, then full-time student at National School of Ballet (now NZ School of Dance), achieving Diplomas in Dance Performance and Dance Teaching, award for Best All Round Student, & RAD Adv (Hons) & Solo Seal
• Various training, including Human Biology; frequent conference/seminar lecturer
• Originally from Blenheim where I was heavily active in ballet, music, drama, swimming, tennis, netball, softball — and an organisation I formed aged 7 — CWSA (Children’s Ward Supporters’ Association) — organised and performed in performances, wrote a magazine, etc for children in Wairau Hospital, Blenheim

Awards

2006 North & South [Magazine] New Zealander of the Year~Unsung Hero (January 2007 issue)

2006 Sam Wanamaker Award, Shakespeare’s Globe, London

2005 [Centennial] Rotary Paul Harris Fellow

1993 New Zealand School of Dance Distinguished Graduate

1992 Queen’s Service Medal — for services to the arts

1991 Runner-up Wellingtonian of the Year

I have a great passion for Wellington, the arts, for encouraging young people and bringing pleasure to people’s lives. I enjoy my family and the thousands of people with whom I interact each year.