Greenseeds Music Society

ABOUT US

Mission Statement

GreenSeeds Music is a society of artists, and teachers collaborating to inspire children and youth to express love and care for nature through the arts.

The purpose of the Society is to raise awareness about environmental problems by encouraging children and youth to think about healthier, more sustainable ways of living.

The Society aims to highlight the need for these changes in two ways: by co-creating with children and youth environmentally themed resources, and by engaging children and youth in various age-appropriate activities using the arts, multimedia, and hands-on projects that incorporate green techniques and practices.

Board of Directors

Meet the people behind Greenseeds Music Society!

ERZSI INSTITORISZ

Executive Director

Erzsi is a multi-lingual singer songwriter, Co-Founder of GreenSeeds Music Society, Climate Reality Project Leader involved with the Richmond and Vancouver Climate Hubs, as well as, a Suzuki Speaks and ButterflyWay Project Ranger with the David Suzuki Foundation. She is alumni of the 2020 Leading Change Forum and 2014 IMPACT Leadership Program. Her experience living, playing and exploring in the West Coast sparked a passion for our natural surroundings. She believes that music and art evoke empathy and encourage connections and wants to inspire children and youth to be warriors of the land, water and air through multimedia and events. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

EMMA GRIFFITHS

Director of Research and Policy

Emma is a research scientist at SFU studying how genes in human pathogens

cause disease. She volunteers with the David Suzuki Foundation and the

Dogwood Initiative to promote healthy and sustainable decision making.

While she has been involved in amateur theatrical productions and plays the violin badly, she enjoys watching other people do these things well.

ALYSSA KOSTELLO

Director of Creative Arts

Alyssa is an idea machine: filmmaker, life coach, facilitator, event organizer. She began her exploration of sustainability in art as Artistic Director of NOW! Theatre, and for the last 4 years has been active in greening the film industry. She is a Reel Green Ambassador, a Climate Reality Leader, and alumni of the Leading Change Forum and IMPACT Leadership Program. You can see more of her work at www.alyssakostello.ca

NORMA INSTITORISZ

Director of Education

Norma is a music teacher and Early Childhood Educator, Co-founder of GreenSeeds Music Society and Butterfly Way Project Ranger with the David Suzuki Foundation. Norma believes children reach their full potential when surrounded by adults who respect them as individuals with rights, and resources from the moment of birth; providing them with a rich environment where free play, contact with nature and the arts, leads them to discover the world, and to establish relationships with all living creatures based on respect and empathy.

DAVID ACUNA

Director of Marketing

Cities Are a Synonym of New Thinking. Cities Aren’t Structures. Cities are

People. That’s why my goal is to design solutions that drive user engagement

on key areas of human progress. My skills and expertise are mainly focused

on rapid prototyping and concept design. I’m currently working as the

instructor for the IDEA-X program at the Centre for Digital Media.

CASS GREGG

Technical Director

Cass is a member of the Tsideldel First Nation, located west of Williams Lake, BC, and has studied Recording Arts at the Art Institute of Vancouver. He has also studied guitar and bass for longer than he cares to admit. Once choked on a loaf of bread.