Jumblies Staff
Artistic Director: Ruth Howard
Development & Partnership Director: Keith McNair
Associate Artistic Director: Ange Loft
Assistant Artistic Director: Nikki Shaffeeullah
Operations Manager: Sam Egan
Fabric & Culinary Artist: Marianne Alas
Communications Manager: Liam Coo
Lead Artist: Julia Hune-Brown
Media Artist & Assistant Arts Manager: Adrienne Marcus Raja
Visual Arts Coordinator: Parker Dirks
Artist-Facilitator: Fiona Clarke
Artist Interns: Karis Jones-Pard, Bianca Morgan
Summer Students: Jamie Milay, Tomas Cavalheiro-Chin, Kaia'tanoron Dumoulin, Theresa Cutknife
Bookkeeper & Finances: Michaela Otto
Cleaner: Liz McCarthy
Touching Ground Festival Staff
Producer: Rachel Penny
Technical Director: Steafan Hannigan
Childcare: Destiny Laldeo, Nika Lennox
Practicum Students
Sanjana Eswar (George Brown College)
Kelly King (York University)
Carolenys Tovar (Create Institute)
Chiamaka Ugwu (Generator)
Jumblies Board
Marilyn Tate, Maggie Hutcheson, Emily Chan, Esther Pflug, Ester Reiter, Sharada K.Eswar, Duke Redbird, Tomas Cavalheiro-Chin
Ground Floor Choir
Director: Shifra Cooper
Accompanist: Johnny Spence
Coordinator: Jackie Omstead
Singers: Ava Bailey, Margaret Bojin, Lisa Marie DiLiberto & Zevon, Jon Field, Ken Harrower, Sandra Kanagasabai, Shelley La Hay, Anna Li, John Norkus, Mario Pietranoni, Janis Proctor, Lily Rovillos, Jennielea Roxon, Shifra Saltzman, Marlene Sheehan-Carey, Margie Sumadh, Herold van de Ven, Vivian Qing Wei, Jumblies staff & others
Ground Floor Dancers
Lead Facilitator & Choreographer: Lilia Leon
Coordinator & Assistant: Julia Hune-Brown
Dancers: Betty Chou, Susan Chou, Mark Fawcett, Victoria Freeman, Ken Harrower, Caroline Manjaly, Janic Proctor, John Pyette, Vivian Qing Wei, Lena Valenzuela, Leonardo Vega, AMY Project participants, Jumblies staff & others.
Ground Floor Maker
Ava Bailey, Destiny Laldeo, Bill Livingstone, John Pyette, Vidia Soran Persad, Daniella Pollari, Daniela, Lachlan, Lucy, Shari, Mikayla, Ronin, Victoria and many other volunteer participants who made this festival possible.
Participating Youth Arts Exchangees
(thanks to the Ontario Trillium Foundation
& Inspirit Foundation)
Kelty McKerracher (from Vancouver)
Julia Siedlanowska (from Vancouver)
Brooke Leifso (from Edmonton)
Candace Neveau (from Sault Ste Marie)
Ashley Riley (from Chippewas of the Thames First Nation)
Jonas Gilbert (from Kahnawake)
Iehente Foote (from Kahnawake)
Adriana Aristo (from Kahnawake)
Raphael Arsenault (from Rimouski)
Eric Diolola (from Halifax)
Merle Harley (from Halifax)
and others tbd
