Ruth Howard

Ruth 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.

Adrienne Marcus Raja

Adrienne 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). 

Kelly Campbell

Brandon Houle

Braiden 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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Lindsey Bond

Lindsey Bond is a lens-based artist, art educator, beader and Mother. Bond works with a photo-documentary ethic as a lift-off point to create street level photographic and postcard installations, books and video. Her work explores socio-geographic issues in Canada. Bond’s practice focuses on collaborations and alliances between indigenous and settler communities to further investigate Canadian perception of space, memory and identity. Current projects include: investigating the shifting ground surrounding defunct rail-lines in Manitoba, and the bridge as a metaphor for personal transformation.Lindsey received her BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and studied Visual Communications in Edinburgh, Scotland. Bond’s work has been exhibited across Canada including: Gallery 44; offsite installation on King and Spadina, Toronto; Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture; public transit installation in the Edmonton LRT, Harcourt House Arts Centre and The Richmond International Film + Media Arts Festival.

Ted Longbottom 

Ted Longbottom is a creative artist producing original and unique works of art in story and song.Ted  has inherited the oral and musical traditions of his Métis ancestors. He couples these with a contemporary outlook and understanding to celebrate the Métis culture in story and song. He illuminates the past  to stake out the future. Ted sees himself as a link in a long and vital tradition of storytelling, of cultural preservation and guardianship, and above all, of sharing the Métis way of living. 

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