New Projects - Naivelt Project

Photograph by Michaela Otto

Camp Naivelt is the eighty-year-old, still-existing summer home of a secular, Jewish, socialist community; a remnant of cottage country captured by suburban sprawl on the Credit River in Brampton; a haven for idealists, artists and activists: a community swaying between deterioration and renewal, whose future is direly threatened by economic and urban forces.

Oy di velt vet vern yinger (Oh, the world will get younger): a work-in-progress performance about Naivelt’s past, present and future Camp Naivelt, Eldorado Park, Creditview Rd. Brampton, Ont. (call or e-mail for directions by car or Go Transit)
Sat. Aug. 9th, 2:00, 5:00, Sun. Aug. 10, 11:00, 2:00, 5:00
admission: $10, reservations necessary as space is limited.

This performance is the culmination of 3 years of community arts research and is a multi-arts  exploration driven by recorded and live music and soundscape, with simultaneous installations using dance, song, visual arts, projections, audience interaction and sewing. The show runs for less than an hour, but plan to come for longer, and visit Naivelt and our cottage installations.

Artistic Team: Ruth Howard, Noah Kenneally, Sean Frey (a Metcalf Intern), Lisa Marie DiLiberto, Martin van de Ven, Michelle Silagy, Sybil Goldstein, Michaela Otto, Maggie Hutcheson, Liz Rucker, Michael Burtt, Leah Houston, along with an able crew of Naivelt teenagers and community members of all ages, and based on the research of Ester Reiter and the memoirs of Manya Lipshitz, Avram Himelstein and other oral histories from the community.  

contact: 416-203-8428         info@jumbliestheatre.org