Sister J SpiritVoice
SISTER J SPIRITVOICE is a passionate artist, musician, singer, producer, educator, and consummate friend to honeybees. Her purpose in life is to open hearts through sound, vision, music and vibration … as the honeybees have opened hers.
She studied Visual Arts Media at University of Southern California, La Jolla, while working on soundtracks for Documentary Recordings, an OmniMax film production company. In San Diego, CA she was both the sound engineer and production manager for national radio spots and voice-over dubs. And her studio production work with advertising agencies included projects with motivational speakers like Anthony Robbins (The Power Within) and Ken Blanchard (The One Minute Manager). Her aesthetic sensibilities and business administration skills developed further at a noted business interiors firm in Seattle, WA where she also advanced her studies in screenwriting.
In 2005, Sister J discovered the world of bees. In addition to being a beekeeper and bee educator, she served as Editor for What’s the Buzz, the 2008-2009 quarterly newsletter for the Buncombe County Beekeepers Chapter (BCBC). She is serving as one of the Directors of BCBC and was also integral to developing content and curriculum for the 2009 Western North Carolina Beekeepers School held on the campus of Warren Wilson College outside Asheville, NC. BCBC has more than 400 active members and is one the largest beekeeping chapters in the United States.
Sister J’s deep commitment to the honeybee, children’s education, multi-media, and music brought her to the shores of The Honeybee Project. As the new Executive Director, she will co-creator and direct the Project’s expansion of Multi-BEE-Media, an interactive educational website component, community outreach and world-wide connections to the Project. She created and appears as SJ Bee, a character she has developed who cross-pollinates between her children’s educational activities with The Honeybee Project and her music, SJBeeMusic.com. Sister J is traveling the world — educating, enthusing,empowering, interviewing, and documenting children about honeybees – connecting children with children, by way of her blog.
She has also composed and recorded the song, Watch Over my Honeybees, which will be part of a compilation CD available 2010. Part of the proceeds from the on-line download of this song will be donated to funding The Honeybee Project’s creative visions.
