ALBUM: photos from behind the scenes to the unveiling by Susan Ashukian

Mosaic workshop at Arts Etobicoke | Photo Credit: Susan Ashukian

Mosaic workshop at Arts Etobicoke | Photo Credit: Susan Ashukian

Photo Credit: Susan Ashukian

Mosaic Installation | Photo Credit: Susan Ashukian

Photo Credit: Susan Ashukian

Unveiling on June 10,  2015 | Photo Credit: Susan Ashukian

Louise Garfield, Executive Director of Arts Etobicoke 

 Photo Credit: Susan Ashukian

The Team |  Photo Credit: Susan Ashukian

Album: An Intersection of Human Rights and Community Arts for The Pan Am Path

The Pan Am Path is an 83km trail connecting Toronto’s communities: an active-living legacy of continuous path for walking, running, biking and wheeling. The Art Relay takes artists from across the city to animate and activate sections of the trail. Red Dress Productions and Arts Etobicoke collaborated to produce Album, a permanent public artwork for The Art Relay, in conjunction with Friends of the Pan Am Path and Amnesty International's Project: Urban Canvas—a mural series celebrating the 60^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 

Album is inspired by Article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and have a family -- and aims to expand the notion of family to include people of all genders, sexual orientations, and families of all compositions as defined, created, and chosen by families.


THANKS!

We particularly want to recognize and thank the founders of Friends of the Pan Am Path for working over many years to create The Pan Am Path and Art Relay, a visionary project of colossal scale which has afforded opportunities to countless organizations, artists, and communities across Greater Toronto from north Etobicoke to Toronto's lakeshore to Scarborough east. A heartfelt thank you to Friends of the Pan Am Path, our presenting partner Arts Etobicoke for yet another wonderful collaboration, and Lambton House for hosting our unveiling event. 

ALBUM CREDITS:

Anna Camilleri, Artistic Director & Designer (Red Dress Productions)

Tristan R Whiston, Artistic Co- Director & Co-Lead Artist (Red Dress Productions)

Katie Yealland, Production Lead & Installation Technician (Red Dress Productions)

Kike Olajumoke, Mosaic Maker (Red Dress Productions)

Wy Joung Kou, Mosaic Maker (Red Dress Productions)

Doug Reid, Installation Technician (Red Dress Productions)

Heidi Cho, Site/ Production Assistance (Red Dress Productions)

Shami Nkundineza, Site/ Production Assistance (Red Dress Productions)

Parker Dirks, Site/ Production Assistance (Red Dress Productions via Jumblies Theatre)

Kimberley Williams, Production Assistance (Red Dress Productions via CREATE)

Leslie Peters, Social Media (Red Dress Productions)

Shira Spector and Heather Ervin, Coordination (Arts Etobicoke)

Louise Garfield, Executive Director (Arts Etobicoke)

Devon Ostrom, Curator (Friends of the Pan Am Path)

Gracia Dyer Jalea, Programming Manager (Friends of the Pan Am Path)

Andrea Chrysanthou-Charles, Marketing & PR Manager  (Friends of the Pan Am Path/ Lotus Leaf)

Elena Dumitru, Toronto Regional Development Coordinator

(Amnesty International Canada)

Susan Ashukian, Photographer (Amnesty International)

Martin Reis, Photographer (Friends of the Pan Am Path)

June 10, 2015 - unveiling event - Photo credit: Martin Reis

  Ill NANA DiverseCity Dance Company performs at our unveiling event!
 Photo credit: Martin Reis

  Ill NANA DiverseCity Dance Company

Devon Ostrom,  Curator (Friends of the Pan Am Path)

'Album," a mixed media mural unveiling, June 10, 2015, Etobicoke

Photo credit: Martin Reis

Photo credit: Martin Reis

Photo credit: Martin Reis

Photo credit: Martin Reis

Photo credit: Martin Reis

Photo credit: Martin Reis

Photo credit: Martin Reis

Photo credit: Martin Reis

New Pan Am Path Mosaic Celebrates LGBT Athletes

“Everyone. Everywhere.” A Mural Recognizing Personhood Before the Law

Arts Etobicoke is pleased to announce Everyone. Everywhere.— a community engaged mixed media mural initiative in partnership with Amnesty International’s Project: Urban Canvas, Creative Village Studio, and with the generous support of the  City of Toronto’s StreetART program.

RED DRESS PRODUCTIONS is honoured to steward the creation of Everyone. Everywhere. through a community engaged artistic process.

Everyone. Everywhere. revolves around the idea embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 6, which states:

“Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law”. 

Louise Garfield, Executive Director of Arts Etobicoke says, "Our ongoing work with neighbour Creative Village Studio and their clients, who have intellectual disabilities, brings this human rights issue into sharp focus. People who are differently able and their contributions (artistic and otherwise) are often invisible to and undervalued by the general public. Our proposed mixed media mural will bring these artists’ work into the public realm and marry their artwork with the human rights awareness of Amnesty International’s Project: Urban Canvas, which seeks to bring Toronto public attention to human rights in a series of 30 murals.

The message is a strong one: recognizing everyone as a person before the law. The connection we hope to make between this concept and the real lives of our neighbours at Creative Village will shine a light and focus others in our community and the broader GTA to become more aware of ALL the people living in our community and how art can facilitate real change in our society.”

The site for Everyone. Everywhere. is the 100 ft x 3 ft. bridge on the South East side of Islington Ave, just south of Dundas Street West, in Etobicoke. 

Please join us at a community consultation:

Monday July 29, 2013

7-9pm

at Arts Etobicoke

4893A Dundas Street West

Contact info:

Shira Spector, Arts Etobicoke Programs and Outreach Coordinator

Shira@artsetobicoke.com

Ruth Cumberbatch, Arts Etobicoke Fundraising and Communications Manager

Ruth@artsetobicoke.com

416 622 8731