Drift Seeds text captioned video trailer - April 26, 2016

Click here for our video trailer!
https://vimeo.com/214858861?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=29220

Video description: the camera pans over a clothesline on a sunny and breezy day. Behind the clothesline is a wooden fence. Fixed to the line with wooden clothespins are off-white fabric pieces, cut in large triangles. They are all printed and swaying in the wind with various bird and plant prints in earthy green, yellow, and copper colors. 

The audio voicover is subtitled and runs across the screen with the following text: (choir director speaks during first rehearsal) "The song is by composers Spy Denhomme-Welch and Catherine Magowan - there should be two pages..." (choir singing) "All the birds of the air. Fell a-sighing and a-sobbing. When they heard the bell toll for poor Rock Robin."

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Red Dress Productions presents 

DRIFT SEEDS

A poetic parody for people living in absurd times 

PERFORMANCES

Friday June 9 & Saturday June 10 @ 7pm and Sunday June 11 @ 1pm

Winchester Park, Toronto

From Bleecker Street to Rose Avenue, and from Carlton Street to Wellesley Street, over 100 performers and artists across a spectrum of ages, abilities, and identities will come together to present a vibrant, multi-sensory theatrical production with elements of live description and integrated ASL performances to their communities.

Phone - 647-937-1470   Email - promiseinthepark@gmail.com 

URL - reddressproductions.org

We aim to offer barrier-free arts programming. Please contact us if you have any access needs such as ASL interpretation or live/audio description.

Red Dress Productions produces original multi-disciplinary artwork that strives for innovation, inclusion, and excellence that elicits dialogue and creative exchange transforming community spaces with public art. Since 2005, Red Dress Productions has engaged 4000+ contributors creating 15+ community artwork projects, producing several original stage performances, and touring urban & rural Canada.

Employment Posting - Deadline April 26, 2017

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Deadline: Wednesday April 26, 2017

Red Dress Productions is seeking 5 post-secondary students from May 1 to June 15, 2017 to support our community performance of Drift Seeds, and original outdoor play (with the possibility of work on other RDP projects beyond June 15.)
The positions are funded by HRSDC’s Canada Summer Jobs program. For all positions you MUST be a post-secondary student returning to school in the fall, and be under 30 years of age. Scheduling is variable and includes performances in the evenings and on weekends. Please read the “Eligible Participants” section on the web page: http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/…/epb/yi/yep/prog…/scpp.shtml

Work will include:
• Participating in the Community Performance of Drift Seeds including performance, stage management, and making art objects
• Supporting the leadership in rehearsal and community art workshops
• Outreach activities and administrative tasks
• Workshop and rehearsal preparation including material and venue set-up and cleanup
• Team meetings and one-to-one meetings
• Hands-on support to project participants
• Other tasks based upon needs of the projects
• Working knowledge of another language (including ASL*) would be an asset

*Students who have a working knowledge of ASL will work with a team of Deaf performers and professional ASL-English interpreters towards interpreting the performance for a Deaf audience. This will involve focused rehearsal over 10 weeks under the guidance of Deaf performer Sage Willow. One goal of this project is to incorporate Deaf and disabled people into the performance and to create inclusive spaces for all.

APPLICANTS MUST:
• Be equity seeking and/or experience barriers to employment;
• Have an ability to work with a diversity of community members;
• Be interested in learning about community engagement and/or collaborative art;
• Be punctual, reliable, nonjudgmental, and conscientious.

TO APPLY:
Please submit an email application to with one attachment that includes: 1) A brief letter of interest telling us about why you’d like to work on this project and your artistic experience or interests and 2) Your resume, including two references.

The application deadline is Wednesday April 26, 5pm. 

Red Dress Productions produces original multi-disciplinary artwork that strives for innovation, inclusion and excellence that elicits dialogue and creative exchange, transforming community spaces with public art. Since 2005, Red Dress Productions has engaged 4000+ contributors creating 15+ community artwork projects, producing several original stage performances, and touring urban & rural Canada.

Drift Seeds performances June 9, 10 & 11, 2017

Red Dress Productions presents
DRIFT SEEDS

A poetic parody for people living in absurd times

Performances JUNE 9, 10 & 11, 2017Winchester Park, Toronto

From Bleecker Street to Rose Avenue, and from Carlton Street to Wellesley Street, over 100 performers and artists will come together to present a vibrant, multi-disciplinary, theatrical production to their communities.

Drift Seeds: a poetic parody for people living in absurd times

Winchester Park, Toronto

Friday June 9 & Saturday June 10 @ 7pm and Sunday June 11 @ 1pm

It’s not too late to become involved in Drift Seeds on or off stage!

CHOIR Monday evenings April 24 & May 1, 8, 15 & 29 (Location to be confirmed.)

ART MAKING workshops & rehearsals

Wednesday evenings @ Hugh Garner Co-op, 550 Ontario St.

Saturday afternoons & evenings April 24 to June 3 @ Diane Frankling Co-op, 85 Bleecker St.

We aim to offer barrier-free arts programming. Contact us for more information and to find out if there is anything we can do to create access to our workshops or events.

Phone - 647-937-1470   Email - promiseinthepark@gmail.com 

URL - reddressproductions.org

All our workshops and events are FREE and no registration is required. 

Red Dress Productions produces original multi-disciplinary artwork that strives for innovation, inclusion, and excellence that elicits dialogue and creative exchange transforming community spaces with public art. Since 2005, Red Dress Productions has engaged 4000+ contributors creating 15+ community artwork projects, producing several original stage performances, and touring urban & rural Canada.

[Image description: 5 bird people are standing next to one another. The first and second are looking to the left; the first has a large seed in its beak; the third is looking to the right;  the fourth and smallest bird person -- also carrying a seed -- is looking to the right; and the last is looking to the left, with one wing raised in the air. They appear to be gathered for a event.]

Announcing a New Pebble Mosaic Project in Winchester Square!

https://vimeo.com/205315492?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=29220

February and March Choir and Visual Art Workshops with Red Dress Productions!

Join us as we prepare for the Drift Seeds performance in June 2017 -- a new work created over the last three years with Winchester Park and St James Town communities.

Choir

Learn songs that will be performed in Drift Seeds

Mondays, 6:30-8:00 pm

February 6^th to March 27^th

All Ages

Art Making

Make art objects large and small,

paper mache and more

Mondays, 5:30-8:30 pm

February 6^th to March 27^th

All Ages

Workshop Location:  Our workshops will be hosted at Hugh Garner Housing Co-op, located at 550 Ontario St, Toronto, ON M4X 1X3

We are accessible by College streetcar as well the Parliament, Sherbourne and Wellesley buses.

Our studio is wheelchair accessible. All workshops are free, and no registration is required. You’re welcome to come to one or all workshops. We aim to provide barrier-free arts programming. Please get in touch with us about access needs, or with any questions.

EMAIL: promiseinthepark@gmail.com 

CALL: 647-937-1470

URL:  http://www.reddressproductions.org

BLOG: www.reddressproductions.blogspot.ca

FB: reddressproductions  

VIDEO: vimeo.com/reddressproductions