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  • Happy Holidays from Ahimsa Kids, Live From Burnaby Village Museum

    The winter holidays to us at Ahimsa Kids are all about spending time having fun and laughing with folks we love.  It is for this reason that Lori and I take a break from the pre-holiday craziness each year to be goofy and shoot a holiday card together. We admit, we add quite a bit of fun on a regular basis while working together at our set tutoring agency in Vancouver, but we love to step it up for special occasions!

    A typical bit of Erica / Lori silliness, as caught by the talented Jeremy Lim.

    This year’s shoot was even more delightful than usual, as we were fortunate enough to shoot at the Burnaby Village Museum, which is such a magical place.  What an absolutely perfect location for two gals that have a love for hands-on learning and engaging in creative ways!  If you haven’t been, you must go.  Burnaby Village Museum is a living history museum, with historic interpretors dressed in period clothing there to spin tales for you of BC’s history.  Having worked in such environments in my teens and twenties, I can tell you I view such sites with a discerning eye and am not easily impressed.  Burnaby Village Museum impresses me.  It is a place of magic.

    To experience a bit of the magic yourself you can visit the Museum from noon until 8 pm each day, up until January 2nd, 2011.  Who knows you may even see Rudolph.  He was after all created there.

    After that the Museum doesn’t reopen until May 2011, except for special event openings.  Hoping they host their scavenger hunt again in February and March.

  • PB and LA: A Lesson From A Studio Teacher in Vancouver

    We have some cool teachers working with us!  Was reminded of that by this Language Arts set teaching activity that Lori Yearwood, one of our Studio Teachers in Vancouver, recently did with Charlie Tahan on the set of Charlie St Cloud.

    Lori wanted to stress the importance of including details in his writing. To do this, she had him write out how to make a peanut butter sandwich. She then followed his instructions to the T.  So if he wrote, ‘put jam on the bread’, she would sit the whole jar on top of the bread because he did not specify to use a knife.

    Charlie is a funny kid, so at the end of his instructions he wrote that ‘it is always important to add your own flare’. Being two fun and silly soles, this then sparked Lori and Charlie to turn the lesson into a big food art competition.  Their creations:

    Set Teaching Activity: PB and LA
    The final entries in the mini home economics/language arts set teaching activity delivered competition style. Which plate would you vote for?

    Wish I’d been there to see this!  Would have been a hoot! This is just one example of how our set teachers make learning an enjoyable experience for students who are often away from home as they work on a production.

  • Lori Goes Viral with Zac Efron

    Howling with laughter!!!  Always knew our very own Lori Yearwood was a Rock Star,  but the paparazzi pics that spread virally of her with Zac Efron on the web today proves it.

    Zac Efron
    As seen on popsugar.com, Lori’s paparazzi pic!

    Not much of a celebrity hound or quite frankly an advocate of star power, but I have to say that it was interesting to see how a paparazzi pic taken of our very own star, Lori Yearwood, could go viral on the web in a day.  She’s on:

    • celebuzz
    • the velvet hot tub
    • ocean up
    • socialite life
    • popsugar

    …. and the list goes on.  And the funny part, the info they gave on all these sites isn’t even accurate.  Same misinformation across the board.  Just goes to show you that not everything you read, especially online, is true.

    As for the original photographer? Not a clue, but glad nobodies jumping out of the bushes to shoot me.

  • Vancouver’s Got A New California Studio Teacher!

    A little known fact about our company is that Ahimsa Media has a boutique set teaching division, Ahimsa Kids, geared to providing engaging and inspired teachers to teach child actors on set in BC.  Well, Ahimsa Kids had some very exciting news yesterday, they got their first ever California Studio Teacher for teaching the young actors from LA who come to BC to work on film or TV productions!!!!

    An enormous congratulations to Lori Yearwood on obtaining her California Studio Teaching License!!!  We are so, so proud of you and appreciative of the hard work you put into obtaining the certification!   Well done you gorgeous girl!

    trips up the coast
    Lori has had to make a few trips up the coast to obtain her license, all the while planning future lessons for child actors on set in BC!