We were once again pleased to take part in the Ontario Arts Council’s Creator’s Reserve Program this year. The application deadline was December 17, 2010 (changed from Dec. 10). No more applications will be accepted this year.

For general program Info, Guidelines go to: www.arts.on.ca/Page86.aspx

We’re pleased to announce our colleague Clarke Mackey’s new book:
Random Acts of Culture: Reclaiming Art & Community in the 21st Century
http://www.btlbooks.com/bookinfo.php?index=212

Praise for Random Acts of Culture:
The Art Cognoscenti avoid inviting bulls into their china temple. Here is a big bull, filled with research and reason, bellowing with radical creativity.
—John Fox, co-founder of of Welfare State International

• Continuation of The Community Arts Guild, our East Scarborough project – further explorations and adaptations of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale mixed with local stories, leading to several community celebrations, food-art collaborations, and public events in the winter, spring and summer, heading towards a full production in December 2011;
• at Arts4All – further development of a radio play at Pelham Park and Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre;
• at MABELLarts – more park transformation, sewing, food and oral history activities. Go to http://mabellearts.ca for more info.
• In Oct.: a presentation on our music-based works at the Lyric Theatre conference, hosted by Brock University and the Shaw Festival;
• In Nov: a Pure Research project with Nightswimming Theatre, investigating the experience, pros, cons and artistic considerations of telling and presenting our “worst stories”;
• In Feb: a professional development day focusing on composers engaging with communities, including presentations, discussions, workshops and, of course, music – part of a seasonal series of special topic days with members of Raucous Caucus (Clay & Paper, Puppetmongers, Shadowland and Jumblies Theatres).
• developing and recording of music from Once A Shoreline & Bridge of One Hair (with composers Wende Bartley and Alice Ping Yee Ho);
• Workshops and seminars with guest presenters, tentatively including so far: Lee Maracle (in partnership with Community Arts Ontario), and, from Halifax, Tessa Mandel;
• Adaptations of Arts For All Essentials in Vancouver (in partnership with Vancouver Moving Theatre and the Oppenheimer Centre) and Nipissing Reserve (in partnership with the Aanmitaagzi Collective);
• Issue 2 of Out Of Place, with essays by Leah Houston, Lisa Marie DiLiberto and others;

If you’d like to know more or to visit any of our projects or activities, please send us an e-mail.

Many thanks to:

• The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation for awarding Jumblies a 7th Performing Arts Internship grant for musician Julia Churchill;
• The Government of Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) for 3 years of funding for the Multicultural activities of our Scarborough project;
• Toronto Community Housing’s Social Investment Fund, for awarding a new grant to engage TCH tenants from several sites in our Scarborough project;
• the Toronto Community Foundation’s Vital Youth Program, supporting youth outreach and workshops and the formation of a youth troupe for our Scarborough project and production;
• the Canada Council for the Arts, Theatre Section, for funding the 2010/11 creation phase of our Winter’s Tale adaptation in Scarborough;
• the generous individuals who responded to our donations appeal to support participant bus rentals for our Scarborough May event, raising over $3,000; and last, but not least, our faithful core funders: the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council, Community Arts Programs, both of who have granted Jumblies multi-year funding with generous increases.
• Toronto Alliance for Performing Arts TRIP Program, for granting Ruth Howard funds to travel to Vancouver and co-present their 2nd Arts For All Institute, and also to spend time on creative projects at the Valleyview Retreat Centre.

And Jumblies Theatre is proud to be featured on the Toronto Community Foundations new Community Knowledge Centre http://ckc.tcf.ca/