Otesha
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‘Something so important’
About a year ago I put together this video while I was working directly with the Otesha Project as Programs Director. To develop content for an upcoming fundraiser a number of the staff put together ‘digital stories’ based on our personal reflections on the work of the organization. The cheesyness of my video irks me…
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A story about how every day on an Otesha tour is insane
My friends at the Otesha Project inform me that applications are now open for this year’s slate of tours and I thought I would share a story from way back in summer of 2009 when I was a rookie Programs Director with the organization. My role was to co-manage the organization’s cycling and performing tour…
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Andrew
What started yesterday as just another phone call from a cycling and performing team during a quiet day in the office has become the most tragic event in the history of the Otesha Project. I just got home for the first time since this all started and I just want to post a couple thoughts…
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“…and no one got chased out of town by angry pitchfork-wielding townsfolk.”
Last week I was interviewed for an article in Here Magazine about the Otesha Project cycling and performing tour we will be launching next week from Fredericton, New Brunswick. It was written by fellow Carleton University alum Paige Aarhus and couple of minor warts aside, it’s a pretty fun article. FREDERICTON – Be warned, New…
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Sometimes we do funny things at work
For a long time I have thought that I work in a pretty fun office. In fact, I have come to believe that the main difference between my colleagues and the staff of College Humor is that it is their job to sit around making funny videos while our job at the Otesha Project is…
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Was that you on TV?
Yes. I’m the one with the big hair, the helmet and the engraved hunk of plastic. Watch it here. I was accepting the hunk of plastic on behalf of the Otesha Project, where I now work. More on that later.
Samuel Benoit 