Welcome to our new Executive Director

Isaac Vallentin

The staff and board of the Tatamagouche Centre are pleased and grateful to welcome Isaac Vallentin as our Executive Director.  Isaac brings impressive skill-and-perspective sets to the Centre.  For more than a decade, he has worked as a creative director and business owner focussing on feminist, Indigenous, cultural and ecological projects.  He has worked extensively alongside Indigenous communities, as well as women’s and LGBTQIA+ advocacy groups. He’s led large teams working on multi-stakeholder projects, worked in remote communities across Canada, and held workshops around the world.  Isaac brings a rich mix of talents to his role: team leadership, project management, strategy, event programming, creativity, earth & spirit and community & people appreciation, financial management, film and music-making, grant writing and marketing.  

In 2021, he moved with his partner—they now have a daughter--from Montréal to Pictou, where they have been building community.  He says he is honoured to be stepping into the Executive Director position, and we are honoured that he has accepted the unique challenge of managing a retreat centre as it gradually transitions into an Indigenous-led gathering and healing space.