Weimar Troetsch-Rivero
Hi! I’m really happy to be working at Anakkara Summer Camp with the NDG Academy of Music as the director of the afternoon program and the visual arts program. I did my DEC in visual arts at Cégep Saint-Laurent and since 2019, I’ve been studying at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), completing my bachelor’s degree in art education and media arts. I have a lot of experience with children. I was a camp counsellor at Camp Massawippi from June to August 2022. As part of my UQUAM degree, I completed two internships teaching art to elementary and high school children. I also have experience tutoring children. I am very excited about developing the summer art program and creating art with children. I’m also fluent in English, French and Spanish and love to dance and play music.
Flora
Hi! I’m really happy to be working for my third summer at Anakkara Summer Camp with the NDG Academy of Music. In 2021, I had the opportunity to work as a volunteer and I loved my experience! In the summer of 2022, I was a full-time counselor. I studied at the Waldorf School in Montreal for 10 years and am currently in Grade 10 at Collège International de Marcellines. I love arts and crafts, design and dance. I also enjoy playing and creating projects with children. I speak French, English and Mandarin and love learning new languages.
Josie
Hi! I’m really happy to be working for my fourth summer at Anakkara Summer Camp with the NDG Academy of Music. I volunteered in 2020 and 2021 and worked full-time in 2022. I was park coordinator last year and have always enjoyed leading the “Silent Scream” with the kids…. I’m in Grade 11 at Royal West Academy High School. I love hiking, baking, reading, and I really enjoy playing and creating with children. I speak English and French.
Edmond
Edmond Forest is a saxophonist studying at the Université de Montréal. He is noted for his versatility and commitment to his community. Edmond has also played the piano since the age of 8, having begun his training with the Petits-Chanteurs du Mont-Royal before continuing it at the CÉGEP de Saint-Laurent as part of his second instrument course. Very early on in his career, he was invited to put his passion for teaching to good use through professional engagements with Collège Esther-Blondin, École Secondaire Émilien-Frenette, the Musique-Entraide organisation and, more recently, Camp Anakkara. He wants to pass on his love of music to young people, and is particularly moved by the contact it creates with novices.
Jesse Finkelstein
He has been interested in music since before he could remember. He plays the guitar, piano, drums, oboe, and ukulele. As an avid musician, Jesse enjoys all genres, and is diverse in his music taste. He has been involved in the Royal Conservatory of Music for piano for almost 5 years. Although he plays a wide variety of instruments, his main instruments are the piano and guitar. As a hobby, he enjoys music production and music creation on his computer, and jamming with other musicians. Not only a musician, Jesse is also a big sports fan. He plays soccer as his main sport, but also enjoys basketball, and swimming. Jesse is currently studying at the Royal West Academy.
Louna Janin
She has always enjoyed the arts. She studied at the Waldorf School in Pasadena and the École Waldorf in Montreal from age 5 to 14 and continued her education at F.A.C.E. (Fine Arts Core Education). She has spent time with children of all ages as a tutor and as a certified babysitter. Violin is her principal instrument and plays the guitar and the recorder as well. She also loves to sing! She is a member of the F.A.C.E. choir and orchestra. She enjoys swimming, hiking and playing with the Anakkara children!
Charlotte Landry-Lemieux
Since November 2020, she has worked as a long-term care educator and lunch facilitator at Vanguard School, a bilingual school for students with learning disabilities. She studied theater at the Cégep de Saint-Laurent and graduated as an early childhood educator in the school environment at the “Centre de Formation Professionnelle de Verdun” (CFPV). She loves music, especially playing the piano and ukulele, and singing. She was part of a choir from 2009 to 2012 (CEM). She has been riding since she was eight years old (classical jumping), has his own horse and loves animals. One of her strengths is the animation of artistic activities (arts and crafts, and improvisation). And she is very happy to share the summer with the children of Anakkara!
Grace Lamfookon
For more than 14 years, she been a busy mother to three children! She has been involved both as a parent and as a counsellor at Anakkara Summer Camp for the past 5 years. In addition, she has experience with children with special needs. She loved drawing, hiking and camping. But what she really enjoys any time that she gets to spend with Anakkara children! She believes in the importance of nurturing the whole child, emphasizing “heart, hands and mind”.
Julien Pilon
She is passionate about music. Being born into a family of musicians, her musical education began when she was just four years old. The first instrument she learned was the piano, and then she started percussion in grade 7, at Collège Notre-Dâme. In percussion, she particularly likes keyboard instruments, like the marimba. She finished her last year with the Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal, after spending 9 years with the organization. She is going to Brébeuf and Vincent-d’Indy (CEGEP). She is always up for a challenge! She loves cycling, it is her favorite sport, and also enjoys tennis and kayaking.
Kris Sossulo
In third grade he started school at the Maîtrise des Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal and then continued his high school at Notre-Dâme Collège. Passionate about music, he was admitted to the Montreal Conservatory of Music in 2018 in piano. He studied his pre-university studies in science at Jean-de-Brebeuf Collège in September 2021. He enjoy most sports especially basketball and soccer, and he cycles on a regular basis. He also loves cooking and reading. He lives in the NDG neighbourhood!