Artists:
From Toronto/Ontario: Ruth Howard,Leah Houston, Adrienne Marcus Raja,
From Winnipeg: Lindsey Bond, Kelly Campbell, Darla Contois, Brandon Houle, René Joshi Sims, Albert McLeod, Ted Longbottom, Süss & others TBD
Partners & Contributors:
Funders:
Canada Council for the Arts
Ontario Arts Council
Project Opening
Creative Manitoba
300-245 McDermot Avenue
Friday, Jan. 12, 4:00 – 5:30pm
Artmaking Drop-In
2:00 – 5:00pm
6:30 – 8:30pm
Finale Event & Presentation
Artist Profiles
Ruth HowardRuth Howard is the founding Artistic Director of Jumblies Theatre. She and Jumblies have created multi-year residencies resulting in large scale performances, in a series of Toronto neighbourhoods, resulting in large-scale productions and lasting Offshoot organizations. She has worked across Canada and in England as a theatre designer, has taught at many universities, colleges and schools, amentored many emerging artists and organizations, and won many awards for her work. In 2015 Ruth and Jumblies produced the west-to-east-coast Train of Thought tour with partners across the country. Her most recent projects with Jumblies include the May/June 2017 Touching Ground Festival of new works in Toronto and the ongoing Four Lands tour, visiting Winnipeg in January 2018. |
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Adrienne Marcus RajaAdrienne explores a range of practices which blends in painting, puppetry, audio, installation, moving images, and photography. As a Malaysian with a Kelabit and Hainan ancestory, she is a multi-disciplinary artist currently living in Toronto. Her works has been presented nationally and internationally. She is an MFA graduate of Ryerson University in Documentary Media. She also holds a BA degree in Mass Communication and Television Production from Curtin University. She is the first recipient of Jumblies’ Al Levitt Memorial Award. She enjoys travelling as well as learning alongside people from different backgrounds and communities. She is currently the Tour Coordinator for Jumblies’ most recent collaborative touring project, The Four Lands. She is also Jumblies’ Arts Management Intern (thanks to an Ontario Arts Council Compass grant). |
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Kelly CampbellKelly Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, graphic arts, and music. They received their BFA from the University of Manitoba School of Art in 2017, and have completed several alternate art education programs since, including aceartinc.’s Cartae Open School, Plug In ICA’s summer institute, and a Creative Manitoba mentorship with artist Jaime Black. Their work has been shown throughout Winnipeg and has won several awards, including Nuit Blanche’s Emerging Voices grand prize and aceartinc.’s Scott Wachal memorial bursary.
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Brandon HouleBraiden Houle is an Indigenous actor from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He started acting when he was 11 years old when he started his young acting training at Manitoba Theatre for Young People. Since then, he’s been in a feature film, numerous plays and short films. At the age of 18, Braiden started teaching theatre and film to Indigenous youth at MTYP for a short while before departing to Vancouver to further his acting at the prestigious acting program of Studio 58 where he recently graduated from. Braiden is now back and forth in Winnipeg and Vancouver. |
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Darla ContoisDarla Contois is a Cree/Salteaux performer, playwright, poet and teacher. She graduated from the Centre for Indigenous Theatre’s professional training program in 2014, attended David Smukler’s National Voice Intensive and premiered her solo show White Man’s Indian at Summerworks 2017 in Toronto. She was awarded the Emerging Artist award for her work at the festival. Along with performing she has also been teaching storytelling and drama workshops across the country. |
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René Joshi SimsRené Joshi Sims is a Winnipeg artist with a heart for projects that invite everyone in. She works primarily with children and adults who have intellectual disabilities. René is a graduate of Creative Manitoba’s Community Collaborative Arts Training Program, MAWA’s advisory mentorship program, and Alberta College of Art and Design.
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Ted Longbottom![]() |
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SüssMulti-instrumentalist Süss has released two albums of original songs, worked as the musical director for local independent professional and instructional musical theatre productions, made radio for CBC Radio1, and played the western flute in a middle-Eastern band. Süss plays and writes on the piano, synth and guitar. Their songs are harmonically lush, full of surprises, catchy and sad. Süss is grateful to be working as a musician on Treaty 1 territory. |
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