Oct 2024
References: Provided upon request
Education
University of Calgary
School for The Creative and Performing Arts2018 MFA in Drama/Technical Theatre, Alberta, Canada
Specialization: Costume Design and Scenography
Universidade Estadual Do Paraná
Faculdade de Artes do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
2015 Bacharelado em Artes Cênicas (bachelor in scenic arts)
Teatro Lala Schneider
Curso técnico em teatro, Curitiba, Brazil
2011 Graduação técnica em melodrama (technical acting school in soap operas)
Employment & Freelance Experience
Ongoing
- Operations Director at Generator Performance, Part-Time, June 2022 - current
Past
Arts Management
- Research Fellow, The Calgary Black Empowerment Fund & Mountain Standard Time Performative Art, Calgary, Alberta, Part-time, December 2020 - June 2021
- Artistic Associate and other roles at Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre, June 2018 - December 2021
Selected Artist-Producer Projects
- This is NOT what I meant to tell you, an independent audio installation directed by Rimah Jabr, and visual art by Bianca Guimarães, Belgium 2024 & Toronto 2022
- Clothing, Co-created by Barbara England, Mark Hopkins, and Bianca Guimarães, Producer Vicki Chau, Presented by Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre, Interactive Theatre, Calgary 2023
- Stages of Transformation, multi year project of research led by Nikki Shaffeeullah, Mpoe Mogale, and Amber Williams-King, illustration titled “unsettled” by Bianca Guimarães, Online 2022
- SHED| knowing each other as different and the same, a collection of works choreographed by Pam Tzeng, project management Bianca Guimarães, Calgary 2022
- 我的名字是张欣恩 (Gimme chance leh) by Chromatic Theatre, Directed by Jenna Rogers and Thomas Gueddes, Costume Design Bianca Guimarães, Theatre, Calgary 2020 & 2021
- Argumento, Directed by Fabiola Pimentel, written by Raissa Castor and Amanda Macedo, Bianca Guimarães, Short-Film, Curitiba, 2020
- Molière30, a site-specific interactive installation a creation of Grupo Nômade, Costume and Sculpture Design by Bianca Guimarães, Curitiba 2015
Training & Volunteer
- Center for Sexuality, volunteer, current 2024
- Suicide Prevention Training, upcoming, 2024
- Politics of Trauma, 2023
- Trauma of Money: Professional Certification, 2023
- Financial Literacy Non-Profit Workers & Independent Theatre, 2022
- ThisGen Fellowship, Why Not Theatre, 2020
- Anti-Racist Theater: A Foundational Course by Nicole Brewer, 2020
- Bystander intervention training organized by the University of Calgary Student Conduct Office, 2020
- Visual Thinking: Drawing Data to Communicate Ideas by Catherine Madden, 2020
- Visual Thinking: How to Create Sketchnotes to Capture and Synthesize Content by Catherine Madden, 2020
- Trauma-Informed Conflict Resolution by Margeaux Feldman, 2020
- Bystander intervention training by Centre for Sexuality, 2019
- Effects of Trauma and Violence in Adult Learning by Dr. Jenny Gorsman, 2019
