Hand-Stitching Workshop with Alana McLeod!

Flight Path Installation, 200 Wellesley Street East

Promise in the Park: Flight Path

A 6-week visual public art installation with 50 mosaics pieces made with 200+ community members at E Fry, Dixon Hall, 55+ Group, St James Town Community Corner, Diane Frankling Co-op, Maggie's, Supporting Our Youth, Winchester Public School, and several City of Toronto parks, over the course of 24 mobile workshops.

Photography by Katie Yealland 2015

The Write Stuff 6-week creative writing workshop continues January 18, 2016

Red Dress Productions Announces 2016 Movement, Voice, Creative Writing, and Making Workshops

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

January 2016, Toronto, Ontario

Red Dress Productions is pleased to announce:

Promise in the Park 2016 

Movement, Voice, Creative Writing, and Making Workshops

Photography by Martin Reis 2015

Red Dress Productions has had the opportunity to make art with more than 600 people in the St James Town and Cabbagetown neighbourhoods since the start of the Promise in the Park neighbourhood in spring 2014. We’ve brought art workshops to E Fry Toronto, Dixon Hall, 55+ Group, St James Town Community Corner, Diane Frankling Co-op, Maggie's, Sherbourne Health Centre, Winchester Public School, and City of Toronto parks, and we’ve unveiled 4 new visual public art projects including: Hatch – a 14' x 8' mosaic public artwork that engaged 400+ staff and students at Winchester Public School – Birds of a Feather – a suite of 9 mosaics created with a group of Ernescliffe Non-Profit Housing Co-op members and staff – Cornerstone – a large pebble mosaic in Winchester Square Park– and Flightpath – a 6-week mosaic installation with 50+ components created with many community members.

As we move in to the third year of this exciting project, we’re focusing our efforts on more performance-related art practices as part of script development that will lead to an outdoor community performance in spring 2017. We welcome returning and new participants to join any or all of these new arts discovery and learning workshops:

·       The Write Stuff – a 14-week creative writing workshop with Anna Camilleri

·       Sing Song – a 6-week community choir with Tristan R. Whiston and guest artists

·       Stitch – a 4-week hand-stitching and fabric/costume workshop with Alana McLeod

·       Flight -- a 4-week creative movement workshop with Ill NANA DiverseCity Dance Company

·       Tall Tales – a 3-week theatre workshop with Tristan R. Whiston and Trisha Lamie

·       Saturday Mystery Make and Skillshare – 4 workshops focused on experimenting with materials and methods with artists including Heidi Cho, Shira Spector, and Lee Hicks.

The workshops are drop-in (and we request pre-registration if possible to help us to better plan) – they’re free and materials will be provided – and the workshops are taking place at St James Town Community Corner, except for Flight that will be hosted by Hugh Garner Housing Co-op. We look forward to making art with you! More workshops will be announced in the coming months. If you have questions about any of the workshops or you’d like to talk about your access needs, please contact us.

Best wishes for 2016!

Artistic Co-Directors Anna Camilleri and Tristan R. Whiston
Project Co-ordinator Leslie Peters

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Community Choir - Starts January 18th!

Promise in the Park: The Write Stuff

From our weekly creative writing workshop the Write Stuff: A Collaborative Creative Writing Warm-Up Practice designed by Anna Camilleri

The photos documents collaborative poems created in small groups.

Writers are invited to respond creatively to the word prompts provided in any way: by writing narrative, poetry, word strings, dialogue. Approximately 1 minute per word. 

The word prompts provided: Snowflake, mango, stairs, red, water.

Each writer selects 5 of their words that they want to spend more time with. Those words are rewritten on single word cards.

All of the word cards are collected, shuffled, and taped up on the wall as 4 randomly-placed word clusters.

Writers separate into four groups, each around one cluster, to collaboratively “write” a new piece with the words provided. Some or all words provided could be used, and one or two could be added.

PROMISE IN THE PARK:FLIGHT PATH UNVEILING

Unveiling and celebration of Flight Path October 24th 2015!

 A community engaged/made public mosaic work installed outside of

The St. James Town Community Corner at 200 Wellesley St East, Toronto

 

 

Special Thanks to St James Town Community Corner,

Diane Frankling Cooperative Homes,The Toronto Arts Council,

The Ontario Arts Council and The Ontario Trillium Foundation

 

photo credits: Martin Reis (c) 2015

Promise In the Park: Behind the Scenes, Getting Things Set Up

 

After many months of preparation we are finally getting all the pieces in place for the celebration and unveiling of two community engaged/made public artworks! Here are some behind the scenes photo's of us getting things set up for the events on October 24th.

RAIN WON'T KEEP US DOWN!!!

Special Thanks to St James Town Community Corner,

Diane Frankling Cooperative Homes,The Toronto Arts Council,

The Ontario Arts Council and The Ontario Trillium Foundation

 

photo credits: Martin Reis (c) 2015