Cedar Ridge

Cedar Ridge Creative Centre, operated by Toronto Cultural Services, is a vibrant arts and cultural hub housed in a historic mansion in east Scarborough. Originally built as a family home in 1912, Cedar Ridge has been serving the community since 1978. The site continues to provide a space where artists and artisans can experiment, cultivate and share their creative talents with the community. Cedar Ridge Creative Centre offers instruction in the visual arts and various crafts for all ages and is home to the Cedar Ridge Gallery, which hosts a diverse roster of exhibitions featuring local and emerging artists. The Centre offers classes and workshops year round in drawing, painting, pottery, sculpture, fibre arts and other art forms, art camps for children, curriculum-linked educational programs and community outreach programs. Surrounded by lush gardens and parkland overlooking the picturesque Highland Creek valley, Cedar Ridge is a popular venue for community gatherings, outdoor arts festivals and other cultural events.

Toronto Cultural Services embarked upon this partnership with Jumblies as a means of engaging members of the surrounding underserved community in the arts and further animating Cedar Ridge Creative Centre as a lively arts hub.  Jumblies has been in residency at Cedar Ridge since 2008, with a home base in the Gardener’s Cottage. The Jumblies residency has been a highly successful partnership, with collaboration over a 3-year period leading up to the large-scale community theatrical production of Like An Old Tale. Through this partnership, several new arts workshop spaces have been created in southeast Scarborough.  The residency has also brought new resources to the community, engaging hundreds of residents in art. As a host and partner in the Jumblies artistic residency, Cultural Services was able to further its goals to develop and promote opportunities for artistic expression and arts education and encourage access to the arts for all through community arts development initiatives.