name: Pamela Sackett
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about: Pamela Sackett, B.A., Liberal Studies, Antioch University Seattle '90, is the founding artist and director of Emotion Literacy Advocates (ELA), a nonprofit organization that creates and produces learning tools incorporating language and visual arts, theatre, music, and science to address cultural and environmental issues with social-emotional awareness.Pamela's work generating and producing art in service to social change began in the theatre with "Crazy in the Mainstream" (1991), her play based on the stories of six mentally and emotionally ill people. Sackett's social arts continued with "Speak of the Ghost: In the Name of Emotion Literacy" (1994), her book of rhythmic prose; and "Trigger of Light" (1996) sponsored by Seattle Repertory Or Pamela Sackett, B.A., Liberal Studies, Antioch University Seattle '90, is the founding artist and director of Emotion Literacy Advocates (ELA), a nonprofit organization that creates and produces learning tools incorporating language and visual arts, theatre, music, and science to address cultural and environmental issues with social-emotional awareness.Pamela's work generating and producing art in service to social change began in the theatre with "Crazy in the Mainstream" (1991), her play based on the stories of six mentally and emotionally ill people. Sackett's social arts continued with "Speak of the Ghost: In the Name of Emotion Literacy" (1994), her book of rhythmic prose; and "Trigger of Light" (1996) sponsored by Seattle Repertory Organization and Seattle Repertory Theatre.Pamela was the first teaching artist to do an artist residency for Seattle Repertory Theatre Company's Outreach and Education at the King County Youth Detention (KCYD) jail school. Her "Creative Writing for Emotion Literacy” program was also a first for the KCYD facility.Under Pamela's guidance, ELA's first learning tool was launched: "ELSOTA! (Emotion Literacy School ON THE AIR)," a series of vignettes written and performed by Pamela with local actors, recorded, engineered and narrated by Guy Nelson at Seattle's KUOW studios (NPR affiliate). ELSOTA! was endorsed by Seattle Public School District's Health Education Department and integrated into Seattle's high school health education curriculum district-wide. For ELA's next learning tool project, Pamela created, performed and produced "The Full Spectrum Birthday Song" and spear-headed a pilot program by coordinating partnerships with twenty-three social service agencies in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington to integrate the learning tool into programs for children and parents. Pamela's third learning tool for ELA, "The Ducks &amp; Us Song," uses music and storytelling as an alternative to signage to convey both the science of wildlife protection along with the social-emotional nature of human engagement with wildlife. Pamela wrote the song and performed it with local artists and thirty-two eleven year-old boys from the Northwest Boychoir.Pamela expanded the project by creating an internship program for Art Institute of Seattle seniors and, within one semester, the collaboration rendered an animated version called "The Ducks &amp; Us Songbook Movie." Pamela coordinated a Washington state tour involving sixteen cinema houses, screening the film as a pre-feature. The film went on to be an official selection at the 2011 Salish Sea Ecosystem Film Festival in Vancouver, B.C., is playing, in perpetuity, at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco and can be found in UCLA and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts &amp; Sciences film archives. Pamela is also the author of the theatrical monologue five-book series "Two Minutes to Shine" published by Samuel French, Inc., New York. "Saving the World Solo," Pamela's second book of rhythmic prose has been performed in arts venues regionally and internationally, featured in special interest conferences, including the Family Policy Conference of Washington, The International Human Learning Resources Network Conference in Mexico and Innovations in Arts and Health Symposium in Canada. Pamela's third work of rhythmic prose creatively tackles death from an emotion literacy advocate's perspective and personal vantage point: "Booing Death: with Shpilkes &amp; Rhyme." Her most recent book is "I Can: Twelve Ways to Witness the Heart." ...more