Professional Objective is always seeking to be in a position that involves teaching and motivating young people towards academic success and self-development. I want to offer my experience as a Steelpan musician and professional performer as well as my historical background in the steelpan performing arts to youths, also those within the justice system and correctional facilities. I am an individual who enjoys the challenge of creating a productive and positive entertaining environment especially for young hyper active participants. I use the Steelpan instrument for a connective interaction and as a learning experience to encourage mental exploration through music. I am happy to discuss my experience and qualifications with you.  

The professional aim of this objective is to create a wider understanding and relationship within communites here at home in Canada or even in Africa, China and other countries. Therefore, constantly expressing the virtues which animates the African Diaspora. We must always remember the struggle, we must honor the ancestral spirits and tell the story through music and dance and songs. Music has always played a major role in cultures from the ancient times. Culturally all individuals and people advance to different levels of their community, even with access to different or the same material. The invention of the steelpan Instrument is a good example, since the steeldrum was invented in America in the early 1900's. As a cultural anthropologist, my evoling perspectives on cultutal identity, diversity and equity inform my musical art and presentations.

Professional Objective:I am seeking a position that involves teaching and motivating young people towards academic success and self-development. I want to offer my experience as a Steelpan musician and professional performer as well as my historical background in the steelpan performing arts to youths within the justice system and correctional facilities. I am an individual who enjoys the challenge of creating a productive and positive  entertaining environment especially for young offenders. I use the Steelpan instrument for interaction and as a learning experience as encourage through music. During the past several years, I have been instructing students towards a higher education. Thank you in advance for reviewing the enclose resume.  I would be happy to further discuss my experience and qualfications with you. Please contact me at 647 533 3483 0r by e-mail; hameedshaqqa@gmail.com.

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Emblem Act TT

Steelpan must be declared the national emblem of Trinidad and Tobago, by an Act of Parliament in the Emblem Act. The Pan Piper told The Camera at the annual showcase Snowflakes on Steel.
Hameed Shaqq, aka The Pan Piper, made the comment at P.C. Ho Theatre Chinese Cultural Centre as some of Toronto’s finest steelpan orchestras performed in the Pan Arts Network (PAN) 19th showcase last Saturday Pan Pioneer Dr. Lennox Borel, and Women in Pan award winners Natasha James and Arlene Greene were honored“ Now is the time,” Shaqq said, adding that the National Emblems Act states that “The minister may grant to a person who makes an application in accordance with subsection three a license to … display the Coat of Arms in connection with business, trade, profession or calling or with the activities of any body of persons whether corporate or unincorporated. “So an act of Parliament is needed to declare the Steelpan our national emblem and musical instrument. Shaqq noted that “in 1962 the government did not declare the steelpan our national instrument,” so now the government must act.

“The steelpan instrument must be recognized for its level of attainment in the modern world. “The response of our creativity, cultural freedom and oppression, therefore, is as relevant as a symbol of freedom in Trinidad and Tobago as is the Statue of Liberty to the U.S.A.”Shaqq, owner of Steelpan Plus and a former longtime music teacher in Toronto public schools, said pan enriched his life. “I grew up poor but where pan has taken me beyond my Mom – just imagine, she never wanted me around pan, given the perception of negativity. Now and then I send her some pan money,” he said with a chuckle.
He said the steelpan is a unique discovery and a ground-breaking invention in its relationship to music.Shaqq also praised steelband legend Dr. Jit Samarood who passed away recently. “Samarood who won the most Panoramas in the Mecca of the Steelband and Panorama was the first to three-peat. A great soul, thanks for the music.”
Among the performers on Saturday at Snowflakes on Steel was young rising star Kimya Hypolite who sang with Gemeni Pan Grove. She will represent Canada in the 2016 Miss Legacy event in Jamaica and just did an audition for the Lion King in New York City.
PAN’s next event is Sons of Steel on Jan.31 in Trinidad and Tobago.

Make pan official T&T emblem, Pan Piper says added by The Caribbean Camera Inc. on January 21, 2016