Jeff Bateman Email & Phone Number

Sooke, Bc

Http://Www.Jeffbateman.Ca

I'm now effectively retired from freelancing. Clients over these years have included Tourism BC; Tourism Association of Vancouver Island; Northern Vancouver Island Tourism; City of Burnaby Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services; Westworld Magazine (Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan and Manitoba editions); Vancouver Magazine (contributor; music columnist); Western Living Magazine; Macklam Feldman Management; Phamasave Canada National; Oceanside Tourism Association; Promise Magazine (St. Paul's Hospital Foundation); Fulcrum Publications; Royal Roads University; Carol Marks George Publicity; and Canada Wide Publications/The Art Department.

Volunteerism in Sooke Transition Sooke (aka Sooke Transition Town Society) ~ President (January, 2014 to September, 2018)~ Core team member since 2010 ~ Co-founder of the TS working groups Zero Waste Sooke and the Sooke Multi-Belief Initiative. ~ Appointee to Wild Wise Sooke working group ~ Edward Milne Community School Society: President (2015-18) ~ Sooke Farmland Trust Society: Founding board member (2013-17) ~ District of Sooke appointments: * Climate Change Action Committee chair (2015/16)* Community Centre Advisory Committee (2015/16)* Community Grants (2012)* Economic Development (2011) ~ Campaign Manager for Alanda Carver, JDF Electoral Area campaign (2011) ~ Social media content provider in whole for Transition Sooke, Sooke Region Food CHI and Awareness Film Night, and in part for Sooke Yoga & Wellness, EMCS Society Programs, Zero Waste Sooke and Wild Wise Sooke.

My freelance association with Canada's weekly music industry trade magazine began in Toronto in 1988, and continued in Vancouver from 1990 onwards as west coast correspondent, columnist, reviewer, feature writer and consulting editor. I was The Record's senior managing editor in its final two years as a print publication.

Full-time editor of The Music Scene/La Scene Musicale, a magazine published in English and French editions for songwriter and composer members of the Performing Rights Organization of Canada (1983-88). Staff positions with the federal Ministry of Transportation (1978/79), the Canadian Institute of Travel Councillors (1979/80) and the Global Television Network (1980/81). Over this decade-long period I also freelanced with Teen Generation magazine, the Globe and Mail's Broadcast Week, Tourism Ontario, Program Guide (Maclean Hunter cable-TV monthly), Music Express, Network, International Environment Reporter (Washington, D.C., trade weekly), Moving To Publications (city guidebooks), and the Retter Business College.