Arlene Mann, ​Ambassador for the Arts

Arlene Mann was an Educational Assistant, a Parent, and an avid Arts Advocate in our Notre Dame Collegiate community.  Through her support, many students were exposed to music, theatre, art, and even scrapbooking.

As President of the High River Catholic Fine Arts Parents Association, Arlene not only advocated for the arts, but participated in them.  Her leadership helped the school acquire the steel pans that are now being used for our very successful steel pan ensembles.  She played in the inaugural year of using the group as a "Second" in the Highwood Steel Panners, now know as the Pantasia Steel Ensemble.  She also taught crafts and visual arts to many students at Notre Dame Collegiate, and supported the productions of shows including "The Boy Who Killed Pancho Villa" and "The Twits".

​Arlene's advocacy and love of the Arts carries on through this memorial scholarship, given to a Grade 12 multi-disciplinary artist to help them further their studies.

Previous Recipients of the Arlene Mann Arts Ambassadorship Award

2022 - Chelsea Gibbs, Music, Drama, New Media
​2021 - Rebecca Dudgeon, Art, New Media, Drama
2021 - Kaitlyn Devlin, Art, New Media, Drama
​2020 - Phoenix Lepp, Music, Art, New Media, Drama
2019 - Daniel Cheney, Music, Art, New Media
2019 - Jhaycee Miranda, Art, New Media, Drama
​2018 - Kimberly Waddle, Music, Art, New Media
2018 - Tessa Pettigrew, Music, Theatre
​2016 - Ellie Woods, Theatre, Photography, New Media
2015 - Carmen Ng, Music, Photography, New Media
2014 - Natasha Cheney, Music, Art, Photography, Theatre, New Media
2013 - Liam Beaudette, Music, Theatre, Photography, New Media
2012 - Jordyn Beingessner-Kerr, Art, Photography, New Media