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Hi,

Being new to the list, here is a short bio.

I'm on the verge of going to the Indian state of Orissa as a VSO volunteer
to set up a media production facility for an NGO or to Jamaica as a video /
radio teacher to post secondary students.

          "Every man's work, whether it be literature or pictures
   or architecture or anything else, is always a a portrait of himself."
                               Samuel Butler

                               GEORGE LESSARD

                            CONDENSED BIOGRAPHY

                         Helping Others Communicate

    GEORGE is trained and has experience in facility management,
photography, video production, radio production, computer graphics, desktop
publishing, educational audio-visuals, journalism, print production, and
mass media.
    HE has just returned from Beijing, P.R.C. where he worked as a copy
editor for the China Daily Group of publications.
    IN August of 1992, George completed a two year contract lecturing in
Journalism & Communications (full time) at the only degree granting,
college of the Bahamas. As a community service, he voluntarily assisted in
the creation of educational video programming for several community groups
on the islands of New Providence & Eleuthera.
    PRIOR to his College of the Bahamas contract, George was in Canada's
western Arctic teaching a short course in basic video production at Arctic
College, Inuvik  Northwest Territories and was also contracted, for 12
months to teach all aspects of television production and facility
management at the Inuvialuit Communications Society. The Society produced
weekly programming broadcast in Inuvialuktun to serve the linguistic,
cultural and informational needs of this first people of Canada's Western
Arctic. The objective was the empowerment of the culture of the Inuvialuit
by print, radio & television.
    GEORGE has produced over 2 years of weekly news and public affairs
stories on the politics of aboriginal issues, senior citizen concerns, and
their related topics.
    FROM 1974 to 1976, while managing the audio - visual workshop
facilities of Vanier College's Snowdon Campus (about 95 teachers & their
students) in Montreal and teaching student crews (30 people) media
production, George produced instructional media in consultation with the
College's faculty. Included in this body of work was a 15 hour series of
plays for the drama department and an other series featuring Ashley
Montague and Desmond Morris as guest lecturers.
    IN 1987, the narrative video RUMBLESPHINX, co-produced with fellow
video artists Robert Hamilton (of Edmonton) and Dave Clark  (of Calgary)
won  "Le Prix Radio-Quebec" from Quebec's educational television network at
the  Quebec International Festival of Young Cinema and Video  and the
"Award of Excellence"  from the  10th Tokyo Video Festival .
    AS a professional media artist, George has been a member of Canadian
Artists' Representation / Le Front des Artistes Canadiens [CARFAC];
Producteur, Realisateurs, Independante de Montreal [PRIM]; and the
Association of Independent Film & Video [AIVF]. As a communications
professional he has been a member of the International Association of
Business Communicators [IABC].
    HIS productions have been seen in  Tokyo , Japan;  Madrid , Spain;
Leicester , England;  Brooklyn , NY, USA; San Francisco  California, USA;
Atlanta , Georgia, USA;  Seattle , Washington, USA;   New York , NY, USA;
Winnipeg , Manitoba, Canada; Montreal , Quebec, Canada;  Yorkton ,
Saskatchewan, Canada.
    HE has presented digital animation and video print workshops as a
visiting artist in Vancouver, Banff, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto,
Montreal, Inuvik and Rochester N.Y.
    GEORGE was the Artist-in-Residence for the month of in February of 1988
at the Visual Studies Workshop of Rochester, New York. This residency at
that post-graduate program was funded both by the National Endowment for
the Arts and the New York Endowment for the Arts.
    IN 1978 / 1979, while managing the volunteer program and training the
volunteer crews for Canada's largest community access facility, Roger's
Cable TV Metro Toronto Channel 10, originating (at that time) an average of
two hours per night went live to air & another 30 minutes of original taped
programming. George provided the production staff.
    HIS involvement in the teaching of mass media dates to the early 1970's
& the Radio McGill community broadcast licence application to the Canadian
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    GEORGE uses  PC/Windows, MACs & AMIGA DOS computers  to write, edit and
design in the print media and for preparation of budgets for his
productions with a spread sheet program; he prepares project proposals,
scripts, tape logs and the like with word processing programs; tax, other
accounting, invoice, purchase order & inventory lists are taken care of
with the office programs he operates.
    HE has also trained students in PC/Windows program operation; Amiga-
DOS; MACs and desktop publishing programs.
   GEORGE is a self-starter, who can be task or objective oriented & is
motivated to help others create.  HE is able to work independently or take
direction.
    HE is flexible; evolutionary and well organized with demonstrated
leadership skills.  HE is naturally inquisitive & trained to be perceptive
and experienced with a variety of cultural & ethnic realities.
    AS a successful self-employed freelancer George  has a set of skills
that few possess - being able to attend to detail while not losing sight of
the big picture.
    AT Dawson College, he edited the weekly student newspaper; the daily
College publication known as "The Daily Bull" and sat as a student member
of the College's Constitutional Negotiating Committee.
    DURING his studies at Dawson College, George founded The North American
Psychohistorical Study (NAPS) as a Learned Society for futures research and
at the McGill University's Sesquicentennial celebrations, he and other
members of the Senior Analytical Committee participated in the Learned
Societies conference and chaired NAPSs Senior Analytical Committee.
    GEORGE'S extensive readings run from his career oriented library of
communications texts to futurists, anthropologists, historians, biographers
and philosophers.

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GEORGES LESSARD,=20
Freelance Communications Arts, Training, Management & Mentoring
7305 Ch du Huard, Lac Pilon, Mt. Rolland, Quebec, Canada. J0R 1G0=20
Voice & Fax (514) 229-3666 =20
E-mail  media@ietc.ca

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Gandhi)

"The fool wonders, the wise man asks."  (Benjamin Disraeli)

Original material =A9 copyright 1996 George Lessard
May be quoted, resent, reproduced, stored or forwarded provided this
copyright notice is attached.
Text quoted or forwarded is the property of other copyright holder(s).

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