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The Art of Collaboration | A public lecture/presentation | 7pm, March 28, 2014

On Friday, March 28 at 7 PM, Anna Camilleri and Tristan R. Whiston will give a free public lecture on The Art of Collaboration, a presentation illustrated with images and short video clips that offers an overview of RDP’ s process of multi-phase projects and residencies in Toronto communities. 

The presentation – which will touch on models for artistic, and community engagement, consensus building, ethics, challenges, facilitation, partnerships, arts-based research, site-specific and public art, and the creative process –  will be followed by time for questions and informal discussion.

About Anna Camilleri and Tristan R. Whiston

Anna and Tristan have created and led a several multi-phase, large-scale multi-community projects and residencies in Toronto, and across Ontario, as well as national touring stage productions. Recent works include "Everyone. Everywhere.” (2013) in Etobicoke with Arts Etobicoke and Amnesty International, "Homage" with the Church Street Murals Project (2013), “Dwelling” with Diane Frankling Co-operative Housing (2012), and “Trace”, an interactive audio and performance installation that will tour Canada in 2014/2015.  

Anna and Tristan have a combined 40+ years of experience as multidisciplinary artists, and teaching credentials at many universities, colleges, and high schools. Camilleri’s “home” artistic disciplines are literature and performance and Whiston’s are theatre and music; and together, they entered the dynamic realms of socially engaged (ceramic, glass, and mixed media) public artwork in 2006.  They have been recognized with several awards and distinctions from the LAMBDA Literary Foundation, the Association of Independent Publishers, the American Library of Congress, and the Premios Ondas and the New York Festivals (for international radio broadcasting).

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“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