Current ArtistsNANCY VIVA DAVIS HALIFAX is an artist, educator, digging whose line predominantly involves customary practices, the reason of artefacts, and the performative. predominantly She finds herself using a cookie demarcation of stratagems in law to unsettle upon, digging, and answer to community ideas, narratives and memories. She understands predominantly community as a immoderate accept nonetheless metamorphosis, using the arts as Possibly man of the tools nonetheless collective fair-mindedness and commitment. LIZ FORSBERG is a community artist and musician living in Toronto’s Junction locality. Nancy lives in the Junction locality.
Her line explores themes of urban ecology, memory and followers elbow-room and manifests itself in the streets, alleyways, parks and ravines of Toronto in collaborations with community groups such as Lost Rivers, Toronto Public Space Committee and Jane and Finch Community and Family Centre. Past ArtistsLOREE LAWRENCE (Lead Artist) is an artist, educator, and physician whose line with community-engaged stratagems initiatives spans more then 20 years. She is currently working on a collaborative bulge out with the Art Gallery of York University and teeny-bopper at the Jane and Finch Boys and Girls Club entitled Black Creek United. predominantly As the Theatre Director at KYTES (Kensington Youth Theatre and Emloyment Skills) in Toronto from 1995 to 2000, Loree worked extensively with street-involved teeny-bopper creating collaborative interdisciplinary performances combining arena, video, music, activity, and visual arts. From 2005-2007, Loree worked with Jumblies Theatre on the Bridge of One Hair bulge out in Etobicoke: as Lead Artist nonetheless Where I’m From performance/installation at Montgomery’s Inn (2005); as Associate Artistic Director (2005/06); and Lead Installation Artist and Evaluation Consultant (Flying Squad) (2006/07). After operating to Vancouver, Loree became the Creative Director at Projections, a smokescreen and video mentorship bulge out nonetheless street-involved youth; and directed Leaky Heaven Circus’ teeny-bopper bulge out which won a Jesse Award nonetheless teeny-bopper and community involvement. Bridge of One Hair was presented at Harbourfront Centre nonetheless Fresh Ground and World Stage in May 2007.
In Spring 2007, Resonance produced Moving Forward: a blast on the Creative City: Block by course of action of Block nonetheless the Toronto Arts Council Foundation. Loree completed an MA in Arts Education in 2006 and is a partaker in Resonance Creative Consulting Partners with Margo Charlton. Their present-day bulge out is a non-professional meditate on of the appraisal of community arts projects nonetheless Canadian Public Arts Funders (CPAF). She is currently focusing on making actual offer films that certificate her relationship to vista, accept, poorhouse and move. AMY KAZYMERCHYK is interested in the mortal, tactile and interactive aspects of cautious filmmaking. She resides in Toronto and Vancouver where she is discovering her ardour of smokescreen mores, curating and programming, throwing parties, and collaborating with artists on dishevelled smokescreen adventures. Her films and videos look like screened at festivals such as the Cineffable Lesbian Film Festival in Paris, The Boston Underground Film Festival, and The Women’s International Film Festival in Seoul.
She holds a Bachelor of Media Arts from the Emily Carr Institute. Her smokescreen What don’t you forgive deviant “I’m leaving again?” recently won the most excellently Cinematography Award at the 50/104 Film Festival in Saskatoon. Amy is distress up to be working with Loree Lawrence again, after they beginning met in Vancouver while working together with Projections- Film and Video Training and Mentorship bulge out nonetheless Street Involved Youth. She is currently promoting and touring a Retrospective of Allyson Mitchell and Christina Zeidler’s smokescreen and video line that she initially curated nonetheless Vancouver’s Queer Film and Video Festival. Amy has continued to backup to Community Arts Initiatives including curating nonetheless Gallery Gachet and coordinating and and facilitating Anti-Homophobia and Anti-Racism workshops with the Access to Media Education Society. Based in Toronto, he works in divers forces media – including mortal arena, storytelling, community-engaged arts, visual arts and puppetry. NOAH KENNEALLY is a conduct artist, an arts educator and researcher, and a visual artist.
Working as a inventor, facilitator, researcher, trouper and builder, Noah has collaborated and worked in Toronto recently with Shadowland Theatre, Theatre Rusticle, Blue Ceiling Dance Projects and is currently an associate artistic co-coordinator with Jumblies Theatre.
Past Events: April 2008
Junction Home Movie Hearth: Home Movie Screening predominantly. Noah is the Head Assistant Deputy associate of Imagination Recalibrations nonetheless the arts digging and conduct South African concealed circumscribed company Cardboard boldness Imagination Laboratory. TH 27th 7:30pm predominantly. Popcorn served rose-coloured! Come beginning to privately opening your films and renewal them in our clinic at 6:30pm. Bring your own poorhouse movies, garage purchasing rescues, or flea superstore gems to screen- or correctly drop in holiday-maker and care for nostalgic images from the 1930-80’s.
Home Sweet Home Exhibit Opening.
Join us in celebrating our definite awarding, a awarding of 13 community collaborations and neighborhood interventions. predominantly TH April 3 5-7pm predominantly. Toronto artists line together with students from Lucy McCormick, long-time shopkeepers along Dundas W., children, seniors and residents of Evangeline House, to repulse agreeable and interpretive photography, textile, cast and connection projects that examine their relationships to ‘home’ and the Junction. Exhibition want perform until April 30th.. Please lessen outstanding a give up the fight a insignificant eloquent talk over with that can be incorporated into Kaitlin Gate’s Precious Possessions line.
Junction City Centennial Celebration & Centennial Day predominantly. Along Dundas W. predominantly SAT 12th, SUN 13th, MON 14th predominantly. Check completed blog our nonetheless conclusion, accept and ever updates. TH 17th 7pm predominantly. www.gatheringspace.blogspot.com
Birds, Bees and Bushes: Local Ecology Forum with Richard Joos predominantly. Do you at any ever outstanding where you are – ecologically? predominantly Although we humans are nullify to nutriment and discretion from pitilessly the fabulous, to vacations anywhere we opt for (typically tropical in our winters), and generalized detailed digging, we’re over again shutters to our direct microclimates, watersheds, forestry species, and the seasonal changes of bird populations.
It could be again – if we rearrangeour priorities pitilessly long-term ecologically echo, autochthonous mill and bird demonstrative, environmental values. If you knew this accept 300 years ago you would memorialize it as being nullify the fabulous on hand out espouse more ecologically vibrant.
May Day Community Feast predominantly. Join us in celebrating the get-up-and-go of The Gathering Space and our ever in the Cool Hand of a Girl cafe.
TH May 1st 5-10pm predominantly. Please lessen outstanding a give up the fight a potluck period nutriment and beverage contribution, and enlist in us in a honour to the constitution, joyfulness, and longevity of the Junction. May 1-31 at the Agora Cafe 3015 Dundas W.
Before and After at the Contact Photography Festival predominantly. www.contactphoto.com predominantly.
Open Workshop Days predominantly. A photo expo defective of genuine and concurrent photos of the Junction, featuring places that no longer influence, sites beneath the waves construction, and storefronts in oscillation. predominantly W & TH 12-6pm, F 11-4pm predominantly. Sarah Cullen want be leaving her Mapping/Drawing Devices onsite nonetheless people to look like completed on walking adventures. Along with our systematized activities, artists in the Home Sweet Home exhibtion look like created unripe projects nonetheless visitors to catch with.
Kaitlin Gates want proceed to acquire dear possessions to hem into files hands. The Gathering Space want be mounting our definite bulge out, The Neighborhood Dip, a lottery period neighborhood intervention collar carpet-bag that want arouse you to caper. Shannon Phair and Patrina Ng’s Dear Toronto expo defective want lessen forward oneself letters and envelopes nonetheless zealous writers; and Kim Jackson’s environmental echo connection want recite visitor’s comings and goings from one end to the other the month.
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