Naivelt Project

Photograph by M. 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.

Ruth Howard, Jumblies Theatre and the community undertook a project spanning 3 summers to celebrate Naivelt’s history and support its survival. This project lead to:

Summer 2008: The Twelfth Children’s Jewish Work Commune Re-enactment and performance of Oy di velt vet vern yinger (Oh, the world will grow younger), at Camp Naivelt

May 2009: Remount of Oy di velt vet vern yinger in Toronto for the Mayworks Festival

View footage from Oy di velt vet vern yinger Summer 2008 or the Oy di velt vern yinger Mayworks trailer.