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Helen Henshaw

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Helen Henshaw has produced, directed, and written documentaries on many subjects for over 35 years. She worked for Worldwide Television News (WTN) 1993 – 2002, London, England, as North American Producer/Director w/Executive Producer, Jennifer Wilson, together with Storyteller Productions, Australia, for their half hour series: ‘Agenda 21’, ‘Earthfile’, ‘Flightline’, ‘Animal Heroes’, ‘Animal X’, ‘Animal Legends’, ‘Crime International’, & The Effects of War on Children’, for Discovery Europe, US, & Canada, and the BBC, and CBC.

Working in tandem with award-winning performer Lorraine Klaasen, Henshaw created the one-hour documentary, The Legends of Madiba, about Nelson Mandela’s favourite South African performers had a popular 2003 World Premiere at Hot Docs International Film Festival, Toronto, with subsequent screenings at the Festival International Nuits d’Afrique in Montreal, 2004, African Diaspora Festival in New York City, 2004, Rwandan Film Festival, 2005, World Social Forum, Brazil 2005, and International Traveling Festival: Other Worlds are Breathing 2005 – 2010. The Legends of Madiba did a three year run on Bravo! TV in Canada, 2005 – 2008. In August 2021, The Legends of Madiba screened on the Embassy Cultural House website, for National Women's Day of South Africa. 

From 1980 – 2010, Helen worked on many documentaries, feature films, corporate and music videos, and TV series as Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, and Production Manager, for the private sector as well as at La Chaine Francaise at TV Ontario, and at the ONF/NFB in Montreal. She also worked as Location Manager on many commercials, features, and TV shows throughout these years.


EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA 
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,  JoAnna Weil 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson. 

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

​London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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  • Home
    • ECH News
  • Pandemic Gardens
  • Projects
    • Sleepwalking: ECH stands with Hong Kong >
      • Event 1: Revisiting "Ten Years"
      • Event 2: Empty Square
      • Event 3: TO DISSENT
      • Event 4: Sleepwalking at Wordsfest
    • Hotels, Posadas, Pensioni
    • National Women's Day of South Africa
    • A Guest + A Host = A Ghost >
      • Intro
      • Works
      • Videos
      • Chess
      • Robert McKaskell
    • Intercambio / Exchange >
      • Intercambio at Support Project Space
      • Anahí González Artist Multiple
      • Interview with Carmina de Young
      • Akimbo Review by Kim Neudorf
    • Afzaal Family Tribute
    • Name the Children
    • A conversation in memory of Susanna Heller
    • (Be)Longing: Celebration of Asian Heritage >
      • Soheila Esfahani
      • Samar Hejazi
      • S F Ho
      • Sharmistha Kar
      • Heidi McKenzie
      • Niloufar Salimi
      • Ruby Singh
      • Mohammad Tabesh
      • Rita Wong
    • The George Floyd Project >
      • Black Artist Spotlight
      • Local Powerful Black Voices
    • The State of Palestine >
      • Ron Benner - Works on Palestine
      • Freda Guttman - Works on Palestine
      • Jayce Salloum - Works on Palestine
      • Reflections of Young Palestinian Filmmakers
    • The Old East Village
    • at the ECH
    • Stop Extinction! Restore the Earth >
      • Patrick Mahon and Jeff Thomas: A Conversation
      • Art as engagement
      • Retrospective of the Road Show
      • EARTH DAY Cloud to Street
    • International Women's Day >
      • YYZ World Tour
    • Celebrate African Heritage
    • Mexico Cultural Exchange >
      • A Garden of Resistance
      • Intercambio/Exchange
    • Hiding in Plain Sight Exhibit
  • Community
    • Editorial Team & Advisors
    • Contributors
    • Governor General Laureates
    • In Memoriam
  • Background
    • Past Programming >
      • Exhibitions 1983-1990 >
        • Index of Curators
        • Index of Photographers
        • Index of Visual Artists
      • Film 1983-1990
      • Music 1983-1990 >
        • Index of Musicians
      • Performances 1983-1990 >
        • Index of Performers
    • Embassy Hotel History
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