b'DAY IN THE LIFE After her family gave her a nudgeBanff Centre for Arts and Creativity. toward theatre studies, she pursued aAfter returning from Banff, she was three-year program at the Centre forinvited to work with APTN. Thats Indigenous Theatre in Toronto fromwhere I met one of my first mentors, 2000 to 2003 instead.Elaine Bomberry [a performing arts promoter and manager and TV/radio Scott-Moore has the performingproducer of Anishinaabe and Cayuga bug, and still enjoys being onstageheritage], who really helped toas a singer or emcee/host, but sheguide me.quickly became fascinated more by the mechanics behind the scenes. IfAt Bomberrys suggestion, Scott-we were going to do a play, I wouldMoore then worked with the National go in early and watch the techniciansAboriginal Achievement Foundation work around the theatre, she says. Iand its awards program, which has loved watching the hanging of thesince morphed into the Indspire lights, watching the stage managerAwards. At this time, Scott-Moore get everything all in orderjustmet her second great mentor, the sitting close so I could listen to theJewish/Indigenous Saulteaux/Ojibwe/GETTING STARTED production manager and productionAnishinaabe, Lenni Lenape and designer talking. I realized thats whatMtis actress and producer Jennifer Originally, Candace Scott-MooreI wanted to try. Podemski. Jen has been a true friend wanted to be a water protector, soand colleague and just a great person she enrolled in environmental scienceScott-Moore began with stagethat I look up to, says Scott-Moore. and technology. While she enjoyedmanagement work, while alsoShe put all of these opportunities in her studies, she soon found that itstudying production coordinationfront of me to learn and grow, and my wasnt the spark she was looking for.and stage management at theresponse was Yes, I want to do it all.46A CCIB PUBLICATIONFall 2024'