Red Dress Productions: 2012-03-11

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Announcing the CTCHC Community Mosaic Project!

We're very proud of and honoured by our partnership with Central Toronto Community Health Centres, which is home to both Queen West Community Health Centre and Shout Clinic in downtown Toronto's original Queen West neighbourhood.

Over the past two months, we've met with more than 150 project contributors to: inquire and listen; brainstorm ideas, themes, and motif; and experiment with visual expressions using simple materials and accessible approaches to art making. This arts-based participatory research is an important part of a consultation process that will ultimately shepherd us toward the conceptual development of a design that reflects project contributors and the communities that intersect at the centre, and the artistic, aesthetic, and cultural traditions found in neighbourhood including Anishinabe, Chinese, Portugeuse, graf/street art, and punk.

Join us at an upcoming community meeting (at Central Toronto Community Health Centres, 168 Bathurst Street just south of Queen) if you would like to contribute to the creation of this new artwork:

March 14th, from 2 pm to 4 pm

March 21st, from 5 pm to 7 pm

April 4th, from 2 pm to 4pm

Snacks and TTC tokens available.

Red Dress Productions and Central Toronto Community Health Centres gratefully acknowledge the support of the citizens of Ontario through the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto Public Realm, Transportation Services, and the TD Bank Group.

Please visit the CTCHC page (soon to be posted at the top of this view) where you'll find our open studio schedule and project credits.

Open studio will be located on the centre's 1st floor where we'll build this new collaborative public artwork from April to June.

For more info contact:

Lorraine Barnaby (project coordinator)

Tel 416-703-8482 ext 333

Email lbarnaby@ctchc.com

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RED DRESS PRODUCTIONS (RDP) creates and disseminates original interdisciplinary performance, and works with/in communities on large-scale, community-engaged public artworks.

Founded in 2005 by Artistic Co-Directors Anna Camilleri and Tristan R. Whiston, RDP is particularly interested in the relationship between community narratives and urban public space.

CONTACT

Anna Camilleri and Tristan R. Whiston

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CURRENT

Promise in the Park: The Winchester Park Public Art Project, a 4-year community engaged permanent and ephemeral public art project.

 ASSOCIATE ARTISTS

Katie Yealland

Wy Joung Kou

Sage Willow

Jelani Ade-Lam

Alana McLeod

Ill Nana DiverseCity Dance Company

Syrus Marcus Ware

Heidi Cho

Parker Dirks

Alvis Choi

Shaunga Tagore

Kike Olajumoke

Moynan King

Andrenne Finnikin

Domanique Grant

Henry Campos

Pascal Trudel

Shamila Miller

Andrew Henderson

Jay Stewart

Emily Jones

Dorian Johnson

PUBLIC ARTWORKS

Everyone. Everwhere., 2013, a community engaged mixed media public artwork project in partnership with Arts Etobicoke, Creative Village Studios, and Amnesty International;

Dwelling, 2012, The Diane Frankling Housing Co-op Memorial Project, a 4'x12' mixed media visual project;

centre, 2012, the CTCHC Community Engaged Public Artwork Project;

Many Hands Make Light Work, 2011, a community engaged public artwork in partnership with the Sherbourne Health Center (18'x 8');

Flux, 2010, The 519 Church Street Community Center, based in the Church/Wellesley neighbourhood, Toronto (27’ x 5’) ;

untitled, 2009, The Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto project, based in the St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood, Toronto (4 panels, each 5' x 2.5' high);

Scape, 2007, Bleecker Street Co-operative community, based in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood, Toronto (17' x 5') ;

Tribute, 2006, Bleecker Street Co-operative community, based in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood, Toronto (12' x 8').

PERFORMANCE WORKS

Sounds Siren Red, workshop production in December 2004 (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre) : Sounds Siren Red, full professional production in January 2006 (Alchemy Theatre) ; Sounds Siren Red tour: Victoria, Vancouver, Kingston, Boston and Seattle ; The Acting Out Against Violence Project, a multi phase Ontario-wide public education arts initiative in partnership with Toronto Rape Crisis Centre, and the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres ; State of the Queer Nation, staged reading in February 2008 (Buddies in Bad Times Theatrre) ; Never Man’s Land, full production in February 2008, Alchemy Theatre ; Still Breathing Fire, full production in July 2008, Vancouver’s 10th Annual Pride in Art Festival. 

Camilleri and Whiston have collaborated on many community art projects since 2004, including Central Toronto Youth Services’ Gender Play Theatre Project for 6+ years as Artists in Residence.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Ontario Trillium Foundation, Neighbourhood Arts Network, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Arts Foundation, Toronto Arts Council, Laidlaw Foundation, FADO Performance Centre, New Adventures in Sound Art, Park People, Arts Etobicoke, Amnesty International, Emmanuel College (University of Toronto, The Church Street Murals Project, Sherbourne Health Centre, the 519 Church Street Community Centre, St. Lawrence Community Centre, Central Toronto Youth Services, the Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto, Diane Frankling Housing Co-operative, OWN Co-operative, the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres, Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Pride in Art Festival, Stone Tile International Inc, and Tile City Inc.