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Ottawa 20/20 Arts and Heritage Plan Renewal Steering Committee Members

City of Ottawa Councillor Mark Taylor, Honourary Chair

Chair, Lilly Koltun, PhD, recently retired as Director General of the Portrait Gallery of Canada, has extensive leadership experience in national collections of Canadian art, photography and archives.  She holds degrees in Art History from the University of Toronto, Courtauld Institute of Art (England) and St. Andrews University (Scotland).  She has lectured and consulted widely in Canada and internationally, has authored and edited numerous publications and was a founding board member of the AV Preservation Trust.  She serves on a national philatelic board and is an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University. 

Vice-Chair, Jacqueline Pelletier is a meeting consultant and facilitator and a past host of various programs on TFO. She currently chairs the Fondation pour l’avancement du théâtre francophone au Canada. She chaired the board and the initial fundraising campaign for La Nouvelle Scène, in Ottawa and was a founding member of the La Cité Collégiale board. Until recently, she was a member of Ontario’s Provincial Advisory Committee on Francophone Affairs. Jacqueline is a Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Pléiade de l’Assemblée parlementaire de la francophonie.

Alexandra Badzak is currently the Director of The Ottawa Art Gallery having recently left the position of Executive Director of the Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum. She also took on several leadership roles within the arts and museum sector such as Chair of the Ottawa Museum Network, a Steering Committee Member of the National Historic Sites Alliance of Ontario and most recently involved in the City of Ottawa's 20/20 Economic Strategy Renewal Group on Arts, Culture and Technology.

Bob Bowes has worked in heritage conservation at the national and provincial levels, serving as Executive Vice-President of the Heritage Canada Foundation and, for the Ontario government, directing the Heritage Branch and Heritage Trust and chairing the Conservation Review Board. Currently, he is Vice-President of the Board of the integrated dance organization, Propeller Dance. He is a Past-President of the community choir, Coro Vivo Ottawa and now sings with Foca Voca, the choir of the Ottawa Folklore Centre.

Meredith Brophy has spent most of her life in Osgoode Ward, and has volunteered with many organizations in that community and beyond. Meredith is a Past President of the Junior Farmers’ Association of Ontario, as well as the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies. Meredith serves as a Director of the Metcalfe Agricultural Society, and volunteers in many capacities with her Church. She has also been involved with Isle in the River Review Theatre Company, and is a founding member of Scene Around Players.

Audrey Churgin is the Executive Director for MASC, an arts education organization that presents professional artists in all disciplines in schools. Audrey brings significant experience in art education, cultural administration and advocacy to the organization, as well as dedicated work on volunteer boards, such as the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama and the Cultural Human Resource Council. She is also a professional visual and sound artist, teaching for over twenty-five years at the Ottawa School of Art.

Peggy DuCharme is Executive Director of the Downtown Rideau BIA (Business Improvement Area).  Significant BIA accomplishments include acquiring authority for management of public space for cultural programming; development of cultural products for the tourism market and involving partnership with the local business community; branding a commercial district as Ottawa’s Arts & Theatre District. She is a board member of the Ottawa Arts Court Foundation and sits on several cultural juries including The Underpass artists and artisans jury and Plein Air art exhibit and sale jury.

Glenn Hodgins is the Executive Director of the Ottawa Chamber Music Society renowned for its presentation of the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival regarded as one of the largest of its kind in the world. Before joining the OCMS he was part of the management team of the internationally recognized Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and a Program Officer with the Ontario Arts Council.

Jaime Koebel is a visual artist, a dancer and a vocal advocate for Aboriginal and Metis organizations. As a youth advocate, she was appointed as an Adviser to the Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Status of Women and in 2005 received a Role Model award from the National Aboriginal Health Organization. Currently, Jaime is completing a Masters of Arts degree with a focus on the healing and health benefits of Metis cultural dance and is also a Research and Development Officer with the Metis Settlements of Alberta. She is co-chair for Carleton University’s Aboriginal Task Force.

Richard Lebel

Richard Lebel has been the Executive Director of the Centre de théâtre francophone d’Ottawa (La Nouvelle Scène) for five years. As one of the pioneers of the mega-show entitled L’écho d’un peuple, he has worked in several fields over the last thirty years, including facilitation, communications, marketing, teaching and management. Among other things, he was responsible for marketing and writing with Mario Godbout Design from 1994 to 2003.

Brad Morden is an Ottawa-based spoken word artist and musician. As the Creative Director of Sounds of Solidarity, the Artistic Director of Little Voice Big Sound and the Cultural Coordinator of Cafe Nostalgica, Brad has worked to support local artists as an organizer and facilitator of multi-medium collaborations. Currently Brad is the host of the ever eclectic SOS Folk Night at the Chateau Lafayette every Sunday featuring some of Ottawa's most outstanding emerging songwriters and poets. 

Huns Rangar is the Executive Producer for South Asian Programming on CHIN 97.9 FM, the only multi-cultural radio station in the Ottawa area. He is a member of the Founding Committee for Ottawa’s first South Asian Festival held in the summer of 2009. Huns is an Arts & Culture enthusiast and his early passion for promoting events for the Youth across Ottawa has transformed into spearheading various Community Efforts.

Christine Tremblay is the founder and Executive Director of the AOE Arts Council. For more than 20 years, she has been working to enhance the cultural life of Ottawa through her experience in organizational and community development, strategic planning, lobbying, fundraising and partnership development. Whatever her involvement, her aim has always been to promote the arts, improve the lives of artists and make arts more visible and accessible. Christine was the recipient of the Victor Tolgesy Arts Award for 2010 in recognition of her major contribution to the cultural development of Ottawa.