What's New > IATSE Canada - Black Hair Education free course
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IATSE Canada Local 822, with the generous support of the Canada Performing Arts Workers Resilience Fund (CPAWRF), is pleased to offer this course free of charge.
→ Black Hair Education
Date: Saturday March 25, and Sunday March 26th
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Meridian Hall, 1 Front St E, Toronto ON M5E 1B2
This course is being instructed by Mykael Jackman, a leader in the hair industry for 30 years. He is a Red Seal hairstylist/Barber Certified Teacher with cross-culture experience in various areas of the hair industry, including stylist awards, photo shoots, platform artistry, salon ownership, on set hairstylist, module facilitator for IATSE 873, workshop facilitator, chair Instructor for Durham Hairstylist Academy and mentor and trainer for Skills Ontario Competition participants. Mykael, together with his wife Ursulla and 3 of his 5 children, Star, Israel and Isaiah continue to be passionate and display leadership as hair industry professionals.
This course will help to demystify some of the art of manipulating textured hair for a variety of styling purposes. It is about building knowledge and skills in the areas of product use, braiding techniques and silk-press styling as well as many additional tips and tricks. The students will learn how to identify various curl patterns, which products to utilize, how to perform a number of hair braiding extension techniques, how to utilize the hot-comb and flat iron to achieve the popular silk press results/dread loc formation skills and black hair techniques for styling.
This course is open to all performing arts workers and is being offered at no cost as part of the trainings the IATSE is providing through the Canada Performing Arts Workers Resilience Fund.
These courses are open to all performing arts workers and offered at no cost as part of the trainings the IATSE is providing through the CPAWRF.
To access this training free of charge, you must contact Michelle DiCesare at businessagent@iatse822.com. Please indicate Black Hair Education in the subject line.
Space is limited. Register quickly. Share this information with your networks!
IMPORTANT:
For more information about the trainings OR if you are interested in accessing training funding through the Canada Performing Arts Workers Resilience Fund, please contact International Representatives Jason Vergnano jvergnano@iatse.net or Cindy Jennings cjennings@iatse.net.
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