Posted by Larry Gleeson
Vancouver, BC — Vancouver-based actor, filmmaker and activist, Pauline Egan, has been chosen as this 12 months’s recipient for the seventeenth Annual 2024 AFBS Leslie Yeo Award for Volunteerism. Pauline joins a formidable roster of change makers whose volunteerism and repair to the native and worldwide group have served as an inspiration to others. The AFBS Leslie Yeo Award yearly honours one AFBS member’s contributions in the direction of volunteering and group efforts. The award is introduced in honour of Yeo; a founding father of AFBS, whose profession spanned practically six a long time in theatre, tv and movie.
As an award-winning actress, Pauline has a physique of labor that spans nearly 20 years. A few of her most recognizable roles have been enjoying Dr. Erika Myers on widespread SyFy sequence, Sanctuary, visitor starring roles on Supernatural, Blue Mountain State and Household Legislation, and lead and supporting roles in function size movies on Hallmark, Lifetime and Netflix. Pauline will quickly be seen in season 2 of Netflix sequence My Life with the Walter Boys, in 2025. Pauline has additionally produced a number of movies with a concentrate on social justice or activism together with El Mulatto, El Shade Negro and One However Many.
Pauline is a Registered Nurse (QUT) with a Postgraduate in Main Well being in creating nations. 9 years in the past, after writing and directing her first movie Via the Pane, Pauline attended the premiere of her movie on the Hollywood Movie Pageant the place she met a documentary filmmaker who was working in East Africa serving to communities get clear water, sanitation and well being training. It was from there that she started her journey working in group well being in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2015, Pauline volunteered in off-grid communities in Mozambique for five months. Ever since, Pauline has continued to work in East and West Africa together with in Mozambique, Kenya and Liberia, serving to distant communities, who lack the fundamentals of unpolluted water, sanitation, and well being training acquire entry to those primary necessities. Pauline has most not too long ago been working with FACE Africa Worldwide, a corporation based by Saran Kaba Jones, creating, designing and main group water and sanitation initiatives which concentrate on decolonizing assist via capability constructing of native Indigenous peoples in order that they’ll lead the change in their very own communities. One in every of Pauline’s best passions helps ladies discover their voice and grow to be leaders and mentors. This has included her volunteering her time as a mentor for girls in Africa via the Deloitte Girls in Africa Initiative and extra not too long ago in mentoring two ladies from Ghana and Sweden via the 2024 Agenda for Change Girls in WASH and RWSN Mentoring program.
Pauline’s volunteer work started from a younger age in Australia, and continued when she moved to North America. Her service and advocacy has ranged from volunteering and elevating cash for causes together with the Battered Girls’s Help Companies, poverty discount, breast most cancers analysis, Alzheimer’s analysis and consciousness, information canine for the blind, the purple cross and lots of extra. When the devastating Australian wildfires struck in 2020, Pauline and two of her Australian associates got here collectively to arrange an emergency fundraiser for the victims. They raised over $20,000 for the Crimson Cross.
The occasion honoring Pauline the place she might be introduced along with her award is sponsored by the AFBS, Truffles Superb Meals, World Centric, Pender PR and Legend Water Co. The occasion will convey Vancouver’s movie trade and the general public collectively to fundraise for a brand new clear water and well being mission for a group in Liberia. The evening might be MC’d by proficient native actress, filmmaker and voice over artist, Rhona Rees, with performances from Natasha Burnett (When Calls the Coronary heart), and DJ Sam Chimes. There might be giveaways from beneficiant native companions together with William F. White Worldwide Inc./Sunbelt Leases Movie & TV, Whistler Movie Pageant, GEMS, Tightrope Theatre Co, Kristine Cofsky Pictures, Chilly Nostril Studio, Really feel Good On a regular basis Health club and Sauna, Al Miro Studios, Tara Bell Irving (Jackie Lind Casting), The Lumie Co., Really feel Good On a regular basis, Como Taperia, FriendsQuarters Co-working area, and lots of extra! All proceeds from ticket gross sales, raffle entries and the silent public sale, will go straight in the direction of funding a brand new clear water and well being training program in Liberia.
Pauline was nominated for the Leslie Yeo Award by native actor, Mackenzie Grey (Fargo, Man of Metal), and letters of assist for her nomination have been written by her appearing colleagues together with Heather Doerksen (Pacific Rim), Brian Markinson (Mad Males), Jason Cermak (Superman & Lois), Broadus Mattison (Bates Motel), Kirk Caouette (Prey) and Rhona Rees (Wu Assassins).
The celebration will happen at FriendsQuarters Occasion Area and might be an impressed night of kindness, generosity and togetherness. The $40 ticket offers friends with meals, drinks, and brings one particular person clear water for as much as 10 years. The group can also be providing a $15 OFF low cost code for individuals who wish to assist, however could also be going through difficult occasions.
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Occasion Particulars:
Friday, November 22, 2024
Doorways 6:30pm (begin 7:00pm) @ FriendsQuarters in Gastown, 328 W Hastings St
About Pauline Egan
With nearly 20 years of expertise within the leisure trade as an actress, director, author, producer and composer (together with tv, function movies and documentaries), Pauline is enthusiastic about utilizing storytelling for social affect, using the humanities to boost consciousness for world points such because the water and sanitation disaster, poverty and gender inequality.
Pauline is a world chief in well being and improvement, with 9 years expertise in creating well being education schemes and designing sanitation and water infrastructure throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Pauline’s packages concentrate on group peace and belief constructing as a way for sustainable affect for rural and peri-urban group settings, capability constructing of native individuals to steer their packages, and supporting ladies and ladies to seek out their voices and grow to be leaders and alter makers of their communities.
About AFBS
ACTRA Fraternal Profit Society (AFBS) is a not-for-profit, Member-owned, federally included insurance coverage firm working for over 35 years. Members of AFBS are primarily members of ACTRA and the Writers Guild of Canada.
About FACE Africa
FACE Africa is an AFRICAN based, WOMEN-LED 501c3 non-profit group. We imagine that dwelling a dignified life shouldn’t be a luxurious just for some, however a primary human proper for ALL individuals, no matter the place we have been born. Entry to necessities akin to CLEAN WATER, SANITATION, SAFETY, HEALTH, NUTRITION, EDUCATION & FINANCIAL SECURITY adjustments every thing. However this isn’t a actuality for lots of of thousands and thousands of individuals dwelling in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our packages goal to supply very important and SUSTAINABLE infrastructure whereas additionally BUILDING CAPACITY of native individuals (particularly ladies and youth) to grow to be changemakers of their communities. WOMEN and GIRLS are on the forefront of all our coaching and management packages to enhance gender equality and enhance ladies’s illustration in management roles.
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