ifsphereWiki
Raymon Montalbetti

Welcome

Educator dedicated to making the impossible possible.

Classroom teacher, grades 1–12, with the Greater Saskatoon Separate School Board. Sessional Lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan since 1984. Conducts workshops for children, youth, educators, actors and dancers.

Performed in theatres, streets, art festivals and films throughout Europe and North America (Bonn, Vienna, Rome, Amsterdam, London, New York, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, Saskatoon).

Participant at Grotowski’s “University of Research” in Wroclaw, Poland.
Member of AMOK Theater Lab Vienna, Austria (1972 -1980).
Actor, director, and artistic director.

Most recent public performance: Grass Jelly (2007)
Image Theatre Presentation @ Safe School Conference (2009)

Icon

... this black&white photo of the northern lights (aurora borealis) has become my adopted tag ifsphere icon …

a photo my father took while working in Fort Churchill Manitoba Canada ... he had till then devoted his life to plasma physics & upper atmospheric research spending nights on the lookout tower photographing the sky …

... place & imagination … the icon spells if … the solid tower & wave lights … visualizes the splendour of the night sky … hints at the mystery of l(if)e …

“As the solar wind interacts with the edge of the earth’s magnetic field, some of the particles are trapped by it and they follow the lines of magnetic force down into the ionosphere, the section of the earth’s atmosphere that extends from about 60 to 600 kilometres above the earth’s surface. When the particles collide with the gases in the ionosphere they start to glow, producing the spectacle that we know as the auroras, ...”(aurora borealis)

... what i love is though much thought goes into such things it is often an intuitive act and then only much later comes the articulation of the process …