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| Logo design: Barbara Klunder |
Community Arts Guild
In 2008, Jumblies embarked on a new residency in the Kingston Galloway/Orton Park area of East Scarborough, Toronto - at the invitation of the City of Toronto Cultural Services. We settled into the Gardener’s Cottage, on the beautiful grounds of Cedar Ridge Creative Centre and Gallery. From there we have been bringing people in and venturing out to form relationships with all sorts of people: families lodged temporarily in local motels; Tamil Seniors, local public school students, Cedar Ridge artists and craftspeople, newcomer youth, residents of Gabriel Dumont First Nations Housing Co-op, tenants of Toronto Community Housing, neighbouring home-owners and others.
We celebrated our first three seasons with evolving gallery events at Cedar Ridge: Nesting (2009), Like An Old Tale Work-in-Progress (2010), and The Three Lands of Scarborough (2011). We also renovated a basement suite at the Lido Motel as an arts drop-in space, and set up a costume shop in a Food Bank. All along we explored the themes, stories and imagery of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, as catalysts for new stories and imagery. This culminated in December 2011, in large-scale production, a Scarborough telling of The Winter’s Tale – the final version of Like An Old Tale - with a cast and crew of several hundred. Click here to find out more about this production.
Following this, the project has entered its Legacy and Sustainability phase, under the ongoing name of the Community Arts Guild and the emerging Artistic Direction of Beth Helmers.
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| Dillon Cox & Loentes Puppet, Like An Old Tale, Dec. 2011, Photo: Katherine Fleitas |
Artists & Staff, 2011-12
Lead Artists: Beth Helmers1, Sean Frey
Community Engagement Coordinator: Hillari Blumfald
2010/11 Ar tists & Staff: Marianne Alas, Penny Couchie, Sharada Eswar, Katherine Fleitas, Varrick Grimes, Laura Hale, Caroline Hollway, Keith McNair, Yo Utano, and others.
Professional Interns: Julia Churchill
2, Alex Draghici2, Esther Maloney3, Sonja Rainey1
Youth Interns: Dillon Cox4, Helah Cooper, Shifra Cooper, Sasha Tate-Howarth5, Gehan Kolamba Tantrege, Zoe Jenkins4
1 funded by the Cultural Humanities Resource Council of Canada
2 funded by the George Cedric Metcalf Foundation
3 funded by Theatre Ontario PTTP
4 funded by Employment Ontario through St. Stephen’s Community House
5 partly funded by Service Canada
