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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 Smoke, and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Jared Hendricks-Polack, Jessica Irene Joyce, Ira Kazi, 
Shelley Kopp, Jenna Rose Sands, Mireya Seymour, Venus Tsao, Diana Tamblyn, and Michelle Wilson. 

VIRTUAL TOUR
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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. 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. 

The Embassy Cultural House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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The Embassy Cultural House is thankful for the mentorship program established by Western University's Visual Arts department and the continued support of the students and Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
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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

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum and other treaties, colonized as London, Ontario. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial.

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