Community Arts Guild

As the Jumblies residency draws to its close following the December 2011 production of Like An Old Tale, a new Jumblies Offshoot will be emerge, made up of a group of artists who have come together through our work with Jumblies Theatre in East Scarborough.

The Community Arts Guild is already planning new projects, developing long-term strategies, consolidating partnerships and seeking independent funding for 2012, plans, resources, partnerships and structure, with a view to becoming an incorporated not-for-profit within the next two years. Beth Helmers, former Jumblies Intern and lead artist on the project for three years, is taking on artistic direction, with the other artists (including Sean Frey, Julia Churchill, Laura Hale, Sharada Eswar and Yo Utano) forming a flexible team, which can be joined by other collaborators as desired.

 

Our artistic team is interested in collaboration across disciplines and traditions, particularly exploring intersections of performance and design. They draw on theatre, puppetry, projection and shadow play, installation art (both indoors and out), playwriting, song writing and sound experimentation, culinary and textile arts and film.

The Community Arts Guild will continue its work in East Scarborough, making art in collaboration with Tamil seniors who come together through the Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities (SCHC); families and adults that attend our drop-in activities; children at Willow Park and Eastview Schools; tenants of several Toronto Community Housing buildings; the staff and changing dwellers of the Family Residence shelter and related motels; residents of the nearby Gabriel Dumont First Nations Housing; and local teenagers with who we’ve formed an ongoing youth arts and theatre troupe, and others we hope to meet.