Tinsel Korey has been honored by her high school in Toronto on their Wall of Fame for their fiftieth anniversary. According to the William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute website:

“In honour of Mackenzie’s 50th Anniversary, we’ve created a Wall of Fame to feature 50 Mackenzie alumni who have contributed to society in a significant way.

The possibilities are endless: Education, Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Sports, Media, Politics, Humanitarianism, Entertainment, Arts, Health Care, Retail, Technology, Law, Real Estate etc. There isn’t an aspect of our community that hasn’t benefited from Mackenzie’s alumni.”

The Wall of Fame entry for Tinsel

“Tinsel Korey is an up and coming actress and musician now living in Vancouver, British Columbia.

In 2003 she landed her first professional TV role, playing a bridesmaid named Jen on the FOX series ‘Tru Calling’ starring Eliza Dushku. In 2004 while shooting Spielberg’s TV mini-series ‘Into the West’ she composed a song of the same title hoping to get it on the soundtrack. Although it did not make it into the movie, it started to become an underground hit. The song eventually caught the attention of actor/producer Jennifer Podemski (Dance me Outside, The Rez) who invited Korey to perform it on the 2008 Aboriginal Achievement Awards. 2008 would end up becoming a very busy year for the artist, as she traveled throughout the southwest performing her songs in various venues. As well an independent film called ‘Mother’s & Daughters? directed by Carl Bessai and completely improvised by the cast (Tantoo Cardinal, Babs Chula, Gabrielle Rose, Camille Sullivan, Tiffany Lyndall-Knight and Tinsel Korey) would be invited into the 08’ Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2009 Tinsel finally made it to Los Angeles where she would audition for the role of a lifetime. Casting director Rene Haynes would bring Korey in to audition for the part of Emily in the movie ‘New Moon’. After weeks of auditioning approx. 800 girls, Summit Entertainment announced that Miss Korey would be the one to bring the beautifully scarred character to life on screen.

Off-screen Tinsel also enjoys painting, and working with youth. She travels all throughout North America teaching acting and music to Native American Youth who want to get into the entertainment industry. The course focuses on the art aspect, helping them bring out their own unique talents.”

TY to Katie for the heads up

This was interesting. We stumbled on this while looking for something else entirely. Roughly six months ago Tinsel Korey took part in an aboriginal rap video for the song Last Word from artist Wab Kinew. You can see the video below and the song is available on ITunes.

This just in from Tinsel’s PR Team

‘True North Sports and Entertainment, owners and operators of the MTS Centre and the Manitoba Moose Hockey Club have invited Tinsel Korey of “Twilight Saga: Eclipse” to speak to Aboriginal youth prior to their hockey game on Saturday, February 13, 2010. The Moose play in the AHL and serve as the primary affiliate of the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL, for the past 10 seasons they have hosted an Aboriginal Youth Night prior to one of the games.

The night has been called “Follow Your Dreams”, the concept is fairly simple in nature, the goals are to encourage First Nations Youth from around Manitoba to pursue their dreams through healthy living and a very specific focus on suicide prevention, due to the high suicide rate amongst First Nations youth. The 63 First Nations Communities around Manitoba were supplied 2500 tickets to bring in youth from their area. Some of the youth travel over 21 hours with long stretches of winter ice roads to attend.

The youth who receive the tickets are then invited to attend a pre-game event at the MTS Centre, the concourse is lined with information and interactive booths that the youth can visit. The booths include education institutions who provide scholarships, community groups, healthy living groups, etc. The youth who attend the pre game event also receive a gift and a meal, so the entire night is no cost to them.

Tinsel will share her views on the importance of education and living a clean, substance free lifestyle.”

According to the press release from Arbor Live:

“Tinsel Korey left her vampire and werewolf friends behind for one night so that she could let her songstress within out.
Arbor Live, a comedy and music show that features the hottest emerging talent from around the globe, invited Korey to perform two songs on the show while the crew was on location in Los Angeles. The episode was filmed on Jan. 15th and the previews of Korey’s stirring performances of her self-penned songs, “Rainy City” and “Letter”, hit the internet over the weekend and stirred up a lot of excitement among Twilight Saga fans worldwide.
“I’m so glad I got to be a part of Arbor Live and jam with Stevie Salas and Marcos Curiel (POD) on my song,” said Korey. “It was such an amazing experience. Working with Stevie is always a lot of fun!”
Korey, who plays Emily in The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, has been performing since she was a child, recording songs for her grandfather and writing her own heartfelt compositions. She was very honoured to be a part of the 2008 National Aboriginal Achievement Awards, where she got to share the stage with Arbor Records recording artist Derek Miller, Jason Burnstick, and Jana just to name a few. Korey’s debut album is set for a 2010 release.
Brandon Friesen, producer of Arbor Live as well as a Grammy nominated, multi-Juno Award (Canada’s Grammy awards) winning music producer, raved about Korey’s performance. “Tinsel is a fabulous talent and we really enjoyed having her on our L.A, set,” said Friesen. “We’re thankful to all our great friends that showed up to our four day shoot and contributed their talents including Marcos Cureil, Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe), Mother Mother, State Radio, Fishbone, Bernard Fowler, Bastard Fairies, Thomas Nicholas Band (American Pie) and many others. Our second season of Arbor Live is definitely one that you will not want to miss.”
Tinsel full performances will air on the second season of Arbor Live, which premieres September 2010. Arbor Live airs every Saturday and Sunday night on APTN (check local listings for time) and is distributed by Tricon. ”

Tinsel has also been working with Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene on the Teens for Jeans campaign’s Haiti Relief efforts.

We just received the following from Tinsel Korey’s team:

Americorp, EyeBehold & Tinsel Korey are teaming up to bring a little extra warmth to the Elders and children in Rough Rock, AZ.

A big thank you to MARMOT (marmot.com) for donating the majority of jackets needed.

It gets pretty cold up in Rough Rock and when we heard Americorp was in need of some jackets to keep the elders and children warm. We got in touch with Chaske Spencer and United Global Shift. They called their friends at MARMOT who have generously donated a ton of jackets. But there always a need for more.

So if you want to help.

Please send a new or unused adult or youth(5-16yrs) jacket by December 19th to:

Rough Rock AmeriCorps Program
c/o Rough Rock Community School
Hwy 59 & Route 8066
HC 61 Box 5050
Chinle, AZ 86503

Here’s an example of the type of jacket that is needed:
http://marmot.com/fall_2009/womens/outerwear/shells/womens_cosset_component

Also, attach a card with your name and address on it and Tinsel will send you a personalized autographed photo as a thank you.

Amanda Bell, the Twilight Examiner, was able to talk with Tinsel Korey about her most recent project and New Moon.
“Q: So I’m really interested in what you’ve been doing, kind of philanthropically. I mean, I’m really amazed at you’ve done with the Quileute Nation, and I’d just like to hear kind of looking back if you would do it again and if we could look forward to seeing you go back to Quileute Nation and teach the kids another time?
A: Yeah absolutely! I talk about it all the time about how I miss them because of how that journey … as much as they feel I gave them something, they gave me something. With their generosity for inviting me there, and I love and care about the kids so much. It’s not just about pushing acting. I wanna go back and make sure I can teach them to employ whatever aspirations that they have. It’s not just about acting, it’s about teaching them what they wanna do. I’m like ‘What do you guys wanna do?’ And they’re like ‘well I like to hang out with my friends,’ and I’m like ‘that’s great because you guys have this beautiful surf area.’ The kids figure out a way in order to make it a surf shop. I just give them some ideas. And they’re like ‘Oh that’s cool.’ It’s just a little bit of things that you don’t think about, like something’s that you like doing and you realize how to make that a career for yourself and still be happy. Some people feel like ‘Oh, I have to take a nine to five job,’ but it’s like no, you can do what you love and make it into a profession. So yeah, I definitely wanna go back there and just look at them and learn more about who are they are as a people. The whole reason I went to the Quileute Nation is that I wanted to know their thoughts about the whole Twilight thing. You know, to get their views on it, and also find out what I can do as an actress in the film to help their causes, and what they wanna say to the world. Definitely want to go back for sure.”

See the rest on the Twilight Examiner.