Candidate: Qathi Gallaher Hart

With 12 years of contributing to the community through creative participation, leadership, mentorship and organizational facilitation, I'd like to bring my participation in the community to the next level. That level is on the board of Ignition Northwest. I feel it is important that our community is represented by a board member with a full career as a performing artist. I intend to bring ears and a voice, representing the community performers, to the boardroom.

Qathi's Arts resume

Stage Production / Performance / Art Installations / Promotion / Volunteer / Mentor

Luminists, Black Rock City 2007 & 2008 Illuminate Procession of fire carriage from Center Camp to The Man. Facilitate and manage 8 person team.

Fire Arts Exposition, San Francisco CA, 05/2006 Backstage Cat Herder: Stood around backstage looking authoritative with a clipboard; Enforcing and maintaining fire dancing safety standards and expectations; Coaxing performers to be timely and responsible; Helped build out performance area.

SF Burning Man Decompression, San Francisco CA, 10/2005 & 10/2006 Assistant Cat Herder: Stood around backstage looking authoritative; Enforcing and maintaining safety standards and expectations.

Fire Dancing Instructor, Oakland CA, 2006 Teacher: Taught beginning basics of poi movement, transitions and choreography, tool construction, fire safety and hands on experience with lit tools.

Fire Coalition, San Francisco CA, 12/2005-03/2007 Member: Our objective is to create an alliance between the fire arts community, San Francisco Fire Department, Entertainment Commission, Arts Commission and the City of San Francisco to: while maintaining our current rigorous level of safety, develop an affordable means by which fire arts can perform legally in San Francisco to increase awareness of the art form; bolster San Francisco's reputation as an innovative arts culture by leveraging our prominent status in the global Fire Arts community.

Reel Grrls, Seattle WA, Fall 2004, Spring 2005 Volunteer Mentor: Reel Grrls is a unique after-school media & technology training program that empowers girls to critique media images and to gain media technology skills in a safe, open environment, mentored by a network of multi-cultural women media professionals. Each year, 70 girls go through our program and graduate with valuable skills in video, audio, and web production. We believe that it is important to give young women the skills to critically evaluate the media they are exposed to and then to empower them to produce their own media.

Northwest Fire Conclave, Black Rock City 2004 & 2005 Volunteer SHIN: Acting regional contact for Burning Man Fire Conclave. Manage communications between Crimson Rose, acting Art Director of The Burning Man Organization, and the email list of regional fire dancers. Coordinate regional fire dancers performances for Burn Night. Facilitate performer tickets.

Seattle Center's Winter Solstice Celebration, 2004 & 2005 Volunteer Fire Dancer: Several Seattle fire performers came together to create a special performance for Seattle Center's Solstice Celebration.

Glass Camp Black Rock City 2004 Saturday Night Performance. Directed regional fire dancer performances for grand performance.

Fremont Art Council's Summer Solstice Parade 6/2004 Donated time and materials to building Gateway.

Fremont Arts Council, Seattle WA, 2003 Present Member, Volunteer: Participating in creating an artistic and fun community to live and learn in.

Critical Massive Fire Coordinator 2004 Blah blah yes no you can't burn – hey when you do, do it over there when I say so.

Cirque de Flambe, Seattle WA, 01/2004-Present Volunteer: Finer fire tricks, fun for all! Circus Arts Workshop Coordinator, develop schedule and publicize classes and workshops, recruit teachers, and teach workshops; Production Coordinator, assisted director as right foot; Performer, use poi, finger torches, palm torches, fire fans, flaming hula-hoop, flaming costumes, staff, fire clubs, eat fire and fire breathing, pyrotechnics and fire effects; Website contributor.

5ive, Seattle WA, 03/22/2003 Community Collaboration and Interactivity. A total sensory experience through performance, music, visual art and more. 5ive pushes interactivity between artists, artists and audience, and within the audience itself. The 5ive Families; Aunty 147, Capital Hill Arts Center, Hazard Factory, Mass, New Style Collective, Pyrosutra, reBirth, The Shunpike Arts Collective, Static Factory, Stronghold Collective, Tribalicious. My contribution, Hearing: enter into a sensory depletion, find your way through the dark to a pod of comfortable light and sound, moving from one pod to another finally to find an interviewer, questions and answers are broadcast outside the room to other interactive spaces.

Treasure Chests, Seattle WA, 05/2002 Fire Dancer: Manage, promote, book; Assist with creative direction of Modern Cabaret Dance Troupe.

Persephone's Choice, Seattle WA 2002 Fire Dancer: Community fire performance debuted June 21st, 2002. Also performed for Seattle Fringe Festival 2002. Danced in two choreographed pieces as well designed and created costumes.

Milk Milk Lemonade, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. BitStreams Exhibit on View 03/22/2001-06/10/2001 Consultant, web cam: Multi-media, interactive installation in national museum. Worked with Artist Lew Baldwin and Technologist, Chris Airola to create a hi-tech interactive installation piece for the Bitstreams exhibit at The Whitney Museum of American Art. Utilizing Flash, PHP, C++, webcam, and corresponding software, spycams, and complex video tracking code developed with the University of Washingtons' Human Interface Technology Laboratory. The piece installed in stairwell of museum, projectors display a flash piece; as people walk through the space they are detected by spycam, and tracked using color elimination to determine their positioning; that information in translated into "input device" or mouse coordinates to position a cursor, causing animated effects within the projected Flash art. Alternately, an online user may visit a website to interact with museum participants.

North American Fire Arts Association, 2001-2002 Contributor: I didn't write the thing, but I did organize early drafts for human consumption. Edited yet to be release V.2.0.

The Mathroom, Seattle WA 11/2000 Collaborated with Chris Airola on Multi-media interactive installation at private event.

Pyrosutra, Seattle WA, 08/2000-10/2003 Performer +: Design/build Website; Manage promotion, booking and publicity of troupe; Program performances, concept, art direction, choreograph, and perform using fire and Ultra-Violet light; Maintain safety standards documents; Design and created costumes; Community project coordinator.

Cassandra's Prophesy, 2002 Freezer Burn 2002 The Bandits Ball 2002 A Benefit to Fight Scurvy 2002 Phoenix Festival, 2000-2002 The Pirates Lair 2002 Big Tent Revival Tour, 2001 Agni, Fire of the Devoted, 2001 Orcas Island Music Festival 2003 Burning Man, 2000-2003 Bite of Seattle 2002 Santarchy, 2000-2003 Santarchy, 2000-2003 Monkey -vs- Robot, 2002 Fashion Underground, 2002 Burning Man Recompression, 2000 & 2002 Burning Man Decompression, 2000 & 2002 It's Like That Still, 2000 Why Not, 2000 Earth Dance, 2000 World Freestyle Ski Championships Park City Main St.Celebration, 2003 Appaloosa Club, Colorado Springs, 2003 Intimania, 2002. Scintillating Rhythms, Intimania Theater Fundraiser. Wa. Assn. of Hospitals, 2003 USC Freak Night VI & V, 2002-2003 Fremont Winter Feast 2002 STARS Cabaret, 2002 Monkey -vs- Robot, 2002 Mystery Spiral, 2002 Fashion Underground, 2002 HEAT, 2002 Mutagenesis, 2001 Gallaher-Airola Wedding, 2001 Fugios, 2001 Burning Man Recompression, 2000 & 2002 It's Like That Still, 2000 Burning Man Decompression, 2000 & 2002 Why Not, 2000 Hunt for Rave October, 2000 Sea-Burns, CoM 2000-2001 ROO$+3R FEST, 2002 Beltane, 2002 Busting Out, The Documentary, 2002

Animated Fusion, Seattle WA. 2000 Founding Member, Core Fire Performer: Conceptualize, choreograph, organize, manage troupe and perform fire presentations. Use poi and staff.

Sparqily, Seattle WA, 1999-Present Proprietor: Hand crafted clothes, costumes and accessories. Focus on fire dance and performance costuming. I've also been known to make great club/playa/resort wear, and straight up cute clothes. I like making reconstructed clothing and have a lot of fun working with what I've got, which tends to make for cool one-offs.

Wearable/Remote Internet Entertainment, Seattle WA 10/1998 Using laptops, head mounted webcams and wireless modems, cyberchix.org webcast private events. Web Work 1997-2004

[nrr] consortium, Seattle WA Collaborator: [nrr] Not Rave Related, the consortium, a group of Seattle area music event promoters putting their heads and resources together. Together we've produced a wide array of events, while I'm no longer involved, the consortium is still going strong with events, and club nights throughout the Seattle area. Sundazed, amplified, electronic music gatherings twice monthly through the summer months (May-September) in Seattle City Parks, (as of this edit) six years pumping the beats out. Bringing friends, community, smiles and music to the park along with our dogs, kids and hula-hoops. My participation spanned 1999-2000 seasons.

QT Productions, Seattle WA 1998-2000 Event Promoter: Alright, I'll 'fes, "Rave Promoter". Volunteer coordination, talent scout booking manager, managing equipment rental, space design and decoration, coordination between space leasers and local Fire Marshals, promotion and marketing by hook or crook, accounting and best of all, being on everybody else's guest list. Partner with Tobe Schultz, produced five events in two years, E-Bot September 1998, I<3U February 1999, Floriala May 1 1999, I<3U2 February 2000. We then discovered Burning Man.

Hero Sisters, Seattle WA, 1998 Volunteer Mentor: A source of encouragement to young girls with unusual dreams living in traditional-oriented families. The group brings together over 150 women, all with non-traditional careers.

Digital Eve Seattle, 2000-Present Member.

Seattle Webgrrls, Seattle WA, 1997-2000 Member, Volunteer: Website Redesign Team, splash design and production 1998. Taught Basic HTML classes. Steering Committee Member, EducationGrrl / Community RelationsGrrl 1998

NW Raves, Hyperreal.org Seattle WA, 1996-2001 Contributor: As I am wont to do, I give all my best to my community, within the underground rave culture in Seattle and the greater Northwest region, I dipped my fingers into organization and communication. Produced quite a few great parties, introduced new music, and introduced musicians to each other for a greater collaborative mix within the community.

Cyberchix.org. Seattle WA 1996-2003 Founder, Volunteer: Plan, organize, coordinate and promote tech industry social events, charity events. Create all promotional material, including flyers and web sites. FireSide Chats: 1999-2001 Bring together people looking to break into the web/high tech industry and the working web/high tech professionals who help define career goals, identify job titles and responsibilities, as well, talk about the reality of motivation, education and building quality work experience. Gobs o' Jobs [gobs] 1997-2001 Maintained email list for posting open job requisitions. Resume matching and reference service associated with web/high tech industry. /wanna/ 1997-2001 Taught basic HTML with Webgrrls and YWCA focusing on educating women and girls, providing a safe environment for support, networking and sharing of knowledge, ideas, skills development and resources.

Guam Special Olympics, Agana Guam. 1995 Volunteer Swim Coach: Worked with differently abled children to develop self-esteem, the spirit of competition, and agility in the water.