About Us
The Moon Jelly Arts Collective provides intensive arts-based learning experiences for Grades K-7. Our team of creative educators includes award-winning children’s authors, playwrights, theatre and TV actors, visual artists, editors, and storytellers.
Best of all, we are all educational experts, with twenty years of experience delivering detailed arts-based programs and residencies to schools in Canada and internationally.
We are based in Vancouver’s Lower Mainland, on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Our programs are immersive, interactive, and fun, and designed to nurture and ignite creativity. Our educational team will come right to your school to work with students over a series of days or weeks to deliver hands-on activities that will expand curiosity and promote critical thinking. End products may include theatre performances, printed storybooks, and visual arts displays—all crafted by the students and led by our amazing artists.
Our collective includes:
- Dan Bar-el, award-winning children’s author and storyteller with theatrical background
- Dona Park, visual artist, singer, and jewellery maker
- Greg Brown, published writer, editor, and web designer
- Lee Edward Födi, award-winning children’s author with a background in illustration and design—and a love for prop building.
- Marcie Nestman, playwright, TV, film and theatrical actor, and voice-over actor.
- Stacey Matson, award-winning children’s author and editor with a theatrical background
- Vic Mariano, theatrical actor