Jumblies Theatre and the Community Arts Guild Present:

Lost and Found Evolving Gallery

Cedar Ridge Creative Centre, 225 Confederation Drive, Scarborough, Ontario M1G 1B2
May 21 – 30, 2013

Featuring work created in Scarborough over the past season:

• A film and radio play – two parts of the Lost and Found Triptych to be completed in the fall
• Songs from the Nagamo Project, sharing Toronto’s Indigenous songs and history
• Short performances by our Scarborough Youth Troupe
• Costumes and excerpts from A Journey to Changeland, a pageant created with students from Willow Park Junior Public School
• Drop-in activities and performances on the Doors Open Toronto weekend, May 25 and 26
• An interactive and growing installation of visual arts and sound

Opening Soirée – May 21, 5-8:30pm
Join us for a performance by the Scarborough Youth Troupe, the premiere of the Lost and Found film and radio play, a presentation of When the Fish Met the Turtle by Sharada K. Eswar and Rosary Spence, and a performance on the mridangam by percussionist Sarma Donepudi.
PWYC admission.

5-6pm: Community meal and youth presentation
6-6:30: General public arrivals and gallery viewing
6:30-8:30: Public showcase

When the Fish met the Turtle is a theatrical telling of the creation story from the “Indian” perspective. The piece uses songs, chants and stories from the Hindu mythology and Cree creation stories.

Closing Reception – May 30, 7 – 9 p.m.

Celebrate the close of our season with highlights from the Evolving Gallery in its final state of evolution.

Download the gallery schedule

Gallery Hours

May 19: 1-4pm
May 20: Gallery Closed for Victoria Day
May 21 – 22: 10am-8pm
May 23: 10am-6pm
May 24 – 26: 10am-4pm
May 27 – 29: 10am – 8pm
May 30: 10am – 9pm

The Lost & Found Evolving Gallery is produced through a partnership between Jumblies Theatre, The Community Arts Guild, the City of Toronto’s Arts Services, Cedar Ridge Creative Centre and Cedar Ridge Studio Gallery.

Contributing Artists: Ruth Howard (Artistic Director of Jumblies), Sean Frey (Interim Artistic Director of the Community Arts Guild), Beth Helmers (Concept-creator of the Lost & Found Triptych & Returning Artistic Director of the Community Arts Guild), Marianne Alas, Rebecca Bruton, Shifra Cooper, Sarma Donepudi, Sharada Eswar, Katherine Fleitas, Victoria Freeman, Marie Gaudet, Peter Jones, Ange Loft, Emma Manchester, Keith McNair (Jumblies Managing Director), Douglas Merriman, Sarah Miller (a Metcalf Foundation Intern), Cathy Nosaty, Rosary Spence, Sasha Tate-Howarth, Andrea Thring, participants in the Lost and Found Triptych, the Nagamo Project, Willow Park students, and the Scarborough Youth Troupe. With visiting guest artists Sid Bobb, Penny Couchie and members of Aanmitaagzi from Nipissing First Nation.

With thanks to: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Government of Canada, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Toronto Community Foundation, George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation, The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation.

TTC Directions to the Cedar Ridge Creative Centre:
From Kennedy Station, take the Scarborough RT to the Lawrence East station. Take the 54 Lawrence Ave. E. bus to Scarborough Golf Club Rd. Walk along Scarborough Golf Club to the second street south of Lawrence – Confederation Drive. Walk up Confederation Drive (east) until you reach Tingle Crescent. At Tingle, turn right, and walk toward the Centre.

For more information, email info@jumbliestheatre.org or call 416-203-8428.

Apparently there are still some places in the:

1. HUMBER COLLEGE PUPPETRY INTENSIVE
June 3 to 15, 2013
Application deadline extended to May 15

The 12-day, hands-on program focuses on object animation, puppet manipulation, puppet design and construction, and ensemble building. Participants will develop original material, and ultimately present their creations to an invited audience at the end of the workshop at Humber’s Black Box Theatre. This intensive course is a unique collaboration between both the Theatre Performance and Theatre Production programs.

Workshops leaders include Ann and David Powell, and long-time Jumblies associate Faye Dupras – former Metcalf Intern and director of Bridge of One Hair.

For more info. go to: http://www.humber.ca/scapa/programs/theatre-production/puppetry-intensive

AND Puppetmongers are hosting their annual:

2. FRESH IDEAS IN PUPPETRY
Sunday May 26, 2013

- a day-long mini-conference and festival, showcasing artists taking new and ground-breaking directions in puppetry.
Robert Gill Theatre, University of Toronto
Advance tickets available and advised

For more info. go to: http://puppetmongers.com/fresh-ideas-in-puppetry-day/

Who is that on the left?

This week at Arts4All we had a mixture of old faces, new faces and made faces (masks!). It was exciting to see our masks again after they had come back from their beautiful makeover with Sonja – some now modelling lovely curly hair and cloaks. And of course it was great to catch up with the Arts4All gang and the amazing artists Liz, Kit and Sarah – can you work out who is who? There seems to be another person in the picture.  It must be the newest employee of Jumblies …Andrea Thring! She definitely has the Jumblies spirit, getting right in on the action on her first day.

Andrea unmasked!

And what a great first day it was seeing the Arts4All players show off their hand crafted masks and getting used to how they feel to wear and work with as they get ready to shoot their video in High Park, which is going to be used in the upcoming production ‘I was a Brave Child’. This project seems to be right up Andrea’s street as she has previously worked with masks as well as clowning and theatre performance, including collective creations, topical work and her own original work. Andrea has a Masters in Drama therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies, an alternative psychology university. She has also worked on many different projects around the world including the Freedom Theatre in Palestine, the Cultural Odyssey’s Media Project – an HIV circle, working with women who have been incarcerated – and as an intern she assisted Armand Volkas, the creative and clinical director of Center for the Living Arts, on his program ‘Healing Wounds of History’. This project looked at cultural groups in conflict involving Palestinians, Israelis, Jews and Germans as well as a separate group working with people who are Tamil and Sinhalese. Andrea is looking forward to be able to set up a Drama therapy practice in Toronto that will run alongside her work for Jumblies. I can’t wait to work with her in the coming months!

By Sasha Mattock

Andrea is with Jumblies through March thanks to partial funding from Cultural Human Resources Council.

Jumblies Theatre is pleased once again to take part in the Ontario Art Council’s Theatre Creators’ Reserve Program. We are inviting applications for community-engaged theatre creation projects and projects with substantial community-engagement components. Within this primary criteria, we accept applications from artists and artist collectives of all backgrounds and stages of their careers,  living in any area of Ontario, and working in any tradition and language.

Download the program guidelines and application form (in the format of your choice) here:
TCR guidelines 2012-13
TCR application 2012-13 fillable Word form
TCR Application 2012-13 printable pdf form

Download Jumblies Application Info. here: Creators’ReserveInfo_12,13

Our deadline for submissions is December 30, 2012. Contact info@jumbliestheatre.org with any further questions. If you are not sure whether your project meets the community-engagement criteria, please get in touch to clarify before applying.