Tea and Bridges (May/June 2006)
Tea and Bridges was a week-long celebration of our second year in the Mabelle/Islingtonneighbourhood, including workshops, installations in local shop window and at Montgomery’s Inn, performances at Islington Middle School and by our youth project, participation in the Village of Islington’s Meet The Street Festival, community festivities, and work-in-progress performances of segments of our new piece, Bridge of One Hair, in the Toronto Community Housing auditorium at 5005 Dundas. The full production of this new work will premier at Harbourfront Centre in April 2007 as part of the new Commissioning Program: Fresh Ground
Artistic Director: Ruth Howard Composer: Alice Ping Yee Ho
Director: Faye Dupras Musical Director: Erna Van Daele
Other Key Artists: Loree Lawrence (a Metcalf Intern), Noah Kenneally, Cath Campbell, Penny Couchie, Trevor Schwellnus, Shadya Yasin, Hawa Jibril, Faduma Ahmed Alim, Leah Houston, Zsuzsa Kelemen, Les Stockley, Diana Tso, Heather Frise, Maggie Hucheson, Marianne Alas, Malina Bondi, Anne Kong
Musicians: Faduma Nkruma,Chantelle Grant, Kristin Mueller-Heaslip, Vilma Vitols, Orly Bitov, Graham
Hardgrove, Renwick Herry, Nancy Kershaw, Rob MacDonald, Martin van de Ven, Sarah Morrison, Gregory Oh
Partners: Toronto Community Housing, Montgomery’s Inn, Village of Islington BIA, Islington Middle School,
Art Gallery of Ontario, York University’s Viva Project
Funders: Ontario Trillium Foundation, Social Investment Fund, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Theatre Ontario, Laidlaw Foundation, Raptor’s Foundation, Harbinger Foundation
