IN CONVERSATION WITH TERRI ANDREWS
Hello. What are your preferred pronouns?
She/Her
How many hats do you wear?
I wear a lot of hats. I have two sets of work hats: When wearing one set, I’m a producer, a director, a performer and a technician. When wearing the other set, I’m a management consultant, a quality/health/safety/environmental auditor and a trainer. Then I have bunch of family hats: wife, grandmother, stepmother, sister. I have a volunteer hat, a dog rescue hat, a coach hat, etc.
What is your primary passion and/or job?
Theatre and music.
Where do you live?
St. John’s and Harbour Grace
Where do you work? (if different)
Primarily in NL
I need/want/wish for:
Health, enough years to do all I want to do.
I would love to meet:
There’s nobody I ache to meet. There are lots of people I’d like to meet on the other side….
I am inspired by:
Strong women
My offerings:
Belief in myself and in others.
What is your impossible dream?
To come to a place where we don’t need rainbows, pink/white/blue flags, orange ribbons, pussy hats, BLM t-shirts, etc. because one day, everyone woke up and the thought that anyone was different was just impossible.
That there was no such thing as cancel culture.
And maybe, to travel the whole world (and live long enough to do it.)
What does process mean to you?
For me, process is what lies behind every success and most mistakes. And the outcome of one process is the input into another. Our processes might be our own, but they also impact others. In my “other life” I push to go beyond blaming people when things go wrong to examine what in the process or lack of it, allows people to make a mistake. Likewise, what in a process will set us up to do well.
In arts, process, is the pathway we take to creativity. And we all have a different one.
What do you hope will change during these times in terms of your practice and connections?
I hope that we all remember how it felt to be without things that we have come to recognize really are important to us. And to let go of the ones that we found really weren’t. I hope that the explorations I have made with electronic communication continue, and some of the work I’ve managed to get abroad continues.
What are connections and conversations you would like to see happen, and/or would like to have?
I would like there to be more communication about the importance of the “soft” industries on our lives and our Province / Country (arts, tourism, non-academic education….) and that the communication is more than lip service. I would like to see more conversations about how isolated, or voiceless or dull people can feel in the absence of exposure to creativity. I’d like to see more conversations about how some people (including kids) learned to connect via social media – focus on how it can be a positive tool, rather than a tool to bully or a mind-numbing replacement for parents, friends, exercise. All the stuff most sane people want.
Is there anything else you would like to share, or would like to be asked?
Lots, but that’s another story.
She/Her
How many hats do you wear?
I wear a lot of hats. I have two sets of work hats: When wearing one set, I’m a producer, a director, a performer and a technician. When wearing the other set, I’m a management consultant, a quality/health/safety/environmental auditor and a trainer. Then I have bunch of family hats: wife, grandmother, stepmother, sister. I have a volunteer hat, a dog rescue hat, a coach hat, etc.
What is your primary passion and/or job?
Theatre and music.
Where do you live?
St. John’s and Harbour Grace
Where do you work? (if different)
Primarily in NL
I need/want/wish for:
Health, enough years to do all I want to do.
I would love to meet:
There’s nobody I ache to meet. There are lots of people I’d like to meet on the other side….
I am inspired by:
Strong women
My offerings:
Belief in myself and in others.
What is your impossible dream?
To come to a place where we don’t need rainbows, pink/white/blue flags, orange ribbons, pussy hats, BLM t-shirts, etc. because one day, everyone woke up and the thought that anyone was different was just impossible.
That there was no such thing as cancel culture.
And maybe, to travel the whole world (and live long enough to do it.)
What does process mean to you?
For me, process is what lies behind every success and most mistakes. And the outcome of one process is the input into another. Our processes might be our own, but they also impact others. In my “other life” I push to go beyond blaming people when things go wrong to examine what in the process or lack of it, allows people to make a mistake. Likewise, what in a process will set us up to do well.
In arts, process, is the pathway we take to creativity. And we all have a different one.
What do you hope will change during these times in terms of your practice and connections?
I hope that we all remember how it felt to be without things that we have come to recognize really are important to us. And to let go of the ones that we found really weren’t. I hope that the explorations I have made with electronic communication continue, and some of the work I’ve managed to get abroad continues.
What are connections and conversations you would like to see happen, and/or would like to have?
I would like there to be more communication about the importance of the “soft” industries on our lives and our Province / Country (arts, tourism, non-academic education….) and that the communication is more than lip service. I would like to see more conversations about how isolated, or voiceless or dull people can feel in the absence of exposure to creativity. I’d like to see more conversations about how some people (including kids) learned to connect via social media – focus on how it can be a positive tool, rather than a tool to bully or a mind-numbing replacement for parents, friends, exercise. All the stuff most sane people want.
Is there anything else you would like to share, or would like to be asked?
Lots, but that’s another story.
The Thriving Together initiative has been made possible through support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
