Jumblies Theatre

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Jumblies Theatre
Company type Non Profit
Industry Entertainment: Community Art
Founded2001
Founder Ruth Howard
Headquarters,
Area served
Toronto
Key people
Ruth Howard, Founder and Keith McNair, Managing Director
Website www.jumbliestheatre.org

Jumblies Theatre is a nonprofit organization in Toronto, Canada. Jumblies Theatre engages in collaborations with professional artists and mentors with the goal to expose more of the Toronto population to art.

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Origins

Jumblies Theatre was founded in 2001 by Artistic Director, Ruth Howard.

Practice

Jumblies operates in four main areas: Jumblies Projects, Jumblies Studio, Jumblies Offshoots and Jumblies At Large.

Jumblies Projects involve neighborhoods and communities over a multitude of years as artists create pieces based on research and collaboration. Jumblies Studio is for learning, mentorship and professional growth. Jumblies Offshoots, maintaining collaborative and supportive relationships with communities, artists, and past projects; Jumblies At Large, forming partnerships to infiltrate community arts practice into the cultural mainstream.

Jumblies Projects are typically residencies, which involve hundreds of community participants and dozens of professional artists from a range of disciplines and cultural traditions. Toronto residency neighbourhoods to date include South Riverdale, Lawrence Heights, Davenport-Perth and Central Etobicoke, Scarborough.

The Jumblies Studio has several components, including mentorship, consultancy, seminars and symposia, print and digital resources and Artfare Essentials, an intensive week-long course on the principles and practices of art that engages with and creates community. Versions of Artfare Essentials and other related workshops have been delivered in Toronto and across Ontario and Canada with many partners. Jumblies has mentored many organizations and artists; welcomed many paid interns/apprentices; published two collection of essays (Out of Place); and supported and incubated new projects.

Former Jumblies interns have gone on to establish independent Offshoot organizations as legacies of Jumblies' former residencies in the Davenport West area of Toronto (Arts4All), Central Etobicoke (MABELLEarts), Scarborough (The Community Arts Guild), as well as other community arts projects and organizations in Toronto and Ontario, including Making Room (Parkdale, Toronto), Aanmitaagzi (Nipissing First Nation), Thinking Rock (Algoma Region, Ontario), and Edge of the Woods Theatre (Huntsville).

Projects

South Riverdale (2001) Project Partners: South Riverdale Community Health Centre, WoodGreen Community Centre, Ralph Thornton Centre, Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre and Park, Queen Street East Presbyterian Church, Riverdale Community Business Centre, WoodGreen United Church

Arts4All (2001-2004) Offshoot project (2004–present) Project Partners: Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre, the STOP Community Food Centre, Pelham Park (TCHC), Davenport Perth United Church

Camp Naivelt (2006-2009) Project Partners: United Jewish Peoples Order, Morris Winchevsky Centre, Mayworks Festival

Jumblies Studio (2007–present) Program Partners: Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre, Ontario Trillium Foundation, George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation, The J. W. McConnell Family Foundation

The Community Arts Guild (2008-2012) Offshoot project (2012–present) Project Partners: Cedar Ridge Studio Gallery, East Scarborough Storefront, Toronto Community Housing Corporation, Ontario Trillium Foundation,

Touching Ground: Project Partners: First Story Toronto; Toronto Community Living; Railway Lands Residents Association; Toronto Community Housing Corporation, Continuum Contemporary Music, Evergreen Brick Works, Historic Fort York

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