Greg Trowse/Allie Flower and Seán Dagher (November 24)
This event takes place from 1pm-2:10pm EDT. It will be recorded.
Ships2Shores and the Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship (COVE) are excited to announce a new series: Full STEAM Ahead. Full STEAM Ahead gives Grade 6-9 students the opportunity to ‘go to work with’ some of the coolest marine professionals working in Canada, while also engaging in arts & culture activities. The result is an all-round STEAM experience!
In the first half of each session, professionals will give students a tour of their workplace, cover the day-to-day aspects, explain what led them to their profession, and debunk common misconceptions about the marine sector. In the second half, we will invite Canadian musicians, artists, and storytellers from various backgrounds to engage youth in creative activities, intended to increase cross-cultural awareness and awareness of Canada’s maritime history.
For our fourth session, we will welcome oceanographers Greg Trowse & Allie Flower, and Shanty singer Seán Dagher. Register for Full STEAM Ahead today!
Presenters
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Allie FlowerMate & Content Specialist, Luna Sea Solutions
Now a full fledged ocean fanatic, Allie fell in love with the ocean at a young age while working with her father’s whale watching company. She pursued her passion for science at St.FX where she completed a Bachelor of Science while leading the Varsity Track Team. After graduation, Allie was a part of a 4-man crew in 2019-20 that sailed to the Bahamas from Nova Scotia on a four month voyage. She has since spent most of her time on the water which has pushed her to pursue more education in the marine environment and has earned her SVOP* and STCW Basic Safety* in 2020-21, while working as a deck hand lobster fishing on the Nellie Row! Allie is thrilled to join the team to help get the LunaOcean’s App on the map.
SVOP* – (Small vessel operator proficiency) STCW Basic Safety* – (Standards of Training and Certification in Watchkeeping and Marine Emergency Duties)
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Greg TrowsePresident & CEO Luna Sea Solutions
Greg is an oceanographer, professional engineer, and waterman with over 20 years experience including the most recent decade focused on assisting with development of the tidal energy industry in Nova Scotia. He has assisted with deployment and recovery operations for the large OpenHydro turbines in the Minas Passage, but his focus and passion is on community-scale tidal energy initiatives in the outer Bay of Fundy (Grand Passage and Petit Passage). Greg is also a founding director of SOAR, a not-for-profit organization working to advance applied ocean research needed for responsible and sustainable development of ocean industries working with rural coastal communities.
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Seán DagherSinger, Arranger, ComposerSeán Dagher is an active performer, arranger, and composer of music from various classical and folk music traditions: Celtic, Baroque, Medieval, Arabic, Quebecois, and Maritime. He is artistic director and principal arranger of Skye Consort and is a member of La Nef’s Artistic Committee. Seán often provides arrangements for other ensembles and artists, including La Mandragore, Pierre Lapointe, Shannon Mercer, I Furiosi, Les Voix Baroques, and Les Voix Humaines. His music has been performed across Canada and the United States. Seán has recorded sea shanties and tavern songs for several video game sound-tracks in the Assassin’s Creed 4 series, by Ubisoft. He has also performed and toured with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal under Maestro Kent Nagano.
Seán has worked with the Festival du Monde Arabe creating shows of Middle Eastern and North African music. He has arranged and composed music for audio books with story-teller and musician Suzanne De Serres, Youth Program Director for La Nef, and for American author Sandra Gulland. Seán has also been a composer and sound designer for several theatre productions. Seán has been nominated for numerous ADISQ and Opus awards and won prizes with La Nef and Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer for their concert and CD La Traverse Miraculeuse, with La Mandragore for the concert Convivencia, wand with La Nef for the creation of Leave her, Johnny. Despite all that Seán can frequently be found singing and playing in Irish pubs.
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