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Roksan Kohen Parfitt (she/her)
Manager / Program Coordinator
Roksan is a visual artist / workshop facilitator, an immigrant settler from Türkiye. Her work evolves around the concepts of time, transformation, environment and connections to nature.
She is the co-founder, manager and program coordinator at Yellowhouse Art Centre Society.
JOHN ROBERT PARFITT (he, his)
Board Director / Chair
Carpenter, builder, multi disciplinary artist, actor. He co-founded YHACS.
He maintains and improves the beloved Yellowhouse Art Centre Venue.
Dayna Szyndrowski (She, HER)
Board Director / Treasurer
With a background ranging from business to arts, Dayna Szyndrowski is excited to join the Yellowhouse board as it continues to grow and serve this island so beautifully.
Caitlin Hertzcarrick (She/Her)
Board Director
Caitlin is a privacy consultant and musician who has lived on so-called Galiano for 6 years. Her solo electronic music project Meteoric focuses on themes of social justice, especially feminism. Caitlin is a co-founder and co-producer at Active / Passive Performance Society.
@meteoric.xx (instagram, facebook, bandcamp)
@activepassiveconcerts (instagram, facebook)
Amos Hertzman (He / him)
Board Director / Secretary
Amos has been with YHACS since 2019 He is an amazingly friendly and helpful person, a very skilled Sound designer, Audio Artist, Musician known as Follow Twin and THASH Band soundcloud.com/thefallowtwin
He is the co-founder and co-producer at Active / Passive Performance Society on what is called Galiano Island
Jodie Bard (She, HER)
Board Director
Jodie joined the YHACS Board in 2023 She is an expert on Creative communications and makes toys for tots at Twig Toys. She works as the Administrator at Galiano Island Community School and supports Galiano Community members in many ways.
Deblekha Guin (She, HER)
Board Director
Raised in Six Nations territory Guin has been an uninvited settler on the unsurrendered territories of the Penelakut, Lamulchi, and other Hul’quim’in’um speaking Nations for the past 27 years. Shortly after arriving on what is colonially known as Galiano Island, Guin got swept up by a merry band of creative misfits determined to start a film school in the woods. After a few years with the Gulf Islands Film and Television School (GIFTS), and just before completing her MA in Communications from SFU, Deblekha founded the Access to Media Education Society (AMES), a non-profit dedicated to engaging marginalized youth in personally and socially transformative storytelling through digital media, artistic collaboration, and peer facilitation. Since AMES’ inception, she’s been instrumental in co-designing, coordinating and overseeing a multitude of participatory media arts initiatives, and related school-based outreach programs. In May 2020 Guin was recognized for her extensive work with BIPOC-centred creative communities when she was granted an “Intercultural Trust Award” at BC’s Anti-Racism Awards Ceremony.