Community Arts

For more on the Artscape Wychwood Barns visit http://www.torontoartscape.on.ca/places-spaces/artscape-wychwood-barns

Artscape has transformed the historic Wychwood TTC streetcar repair barns located in Torontos St. Clair and Christie neighbourhood into the Artscape Wychwood Barns a 60,000 sq. ft. multifaceted community centre where arts and culture, environmental leadership, heritage preservation, urban agriculture and affordable housing are brought together to foster a strong sense of community. The Artscape Wychwood Barns is surrounded by a 127,000 sq. ft. new City park.

After seven years of passionate commitment, vision and planning by thousands of individuals and organizations, construction began in March 2007 and was completed in October 2008. The Official Public Opening took place on November 20, 2008.

Video features (in order of appearance):
Tim Jones, President & CEO, Artscape
Councillor Joe Mihevc, Ward 21 St. Pauls, City of Toronto
Jackie Richardson and the Regent Park School of Music Choir
Mayor David Miller, City of Toronto
Kathleen Sharpe, President, Artscape Board of Directors
Ruth Baumann, Chair, Wychwood Barns Community Association
Glen Murray, President & CEO, Canadian Urban Institute
Billie Bridgman, Senior Associate, Artscape
Nick Saul, Executive Director, The Stop Community Food Centre
Lynda Hill, Artistic Director, Theatre Direct
Joe Lobko, Lead Architect, du Toit Architects Ltd.
Elizabeth Cinello, Steering Committee, Friends of a New Park
Peter MacKendrick, President, Taddlewood Heritage Association

Produced for Artscape by Stephen Knifton of popstream.ca

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Created by 6 – 12 year olds during the Digital Animation workshop as part of the 2010 April School Holliday Arts Program.
Tutor: David Pennay

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Fear of a Brown Planet conducted a Harmony Day workshop at Footscray Community Arts Centre

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Footscray Community Arts Centre and City of Melbourne present Crowd Theory @ Footscray station.

Crowd Theory is an ongoing project concerned with how we imagine and inhabit the idea of community. For the first two large-scale photo shoots hundreds of people converged on Footscray Community Arts Centre and Skinner Reserve in Braybrook. This time the photo shoot event took
place at Footscray train station on 2 December 2007.

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Welcome to the Gibson Centre for Community, Arts and Culture, located in the town of Alliston Ontario. Andrea Roylance takes us on a tour throughout the building. Filmed by Sean Derraugh

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Thought and opinions in Woolwich to the idea of an community arts centre containing a theatre space cinema museum and music venue. Using the old ABC cinema in woolwich.watch out for part two.
Help us to give The Woolwich Grand Theatre Cinema a new lease of life.

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Emerging musicians at the OK Corral

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Our old people are special and precious. Warakurna Artists staff and artists travel 100kms to Wanarn community to conduct art workshops with the old people and their families.

The joyous communal activity has a myriad of positive benefits such as reliving boredom and frustration. The workshops are fun and there is a lot of laughter. Nursing staff report that this diversional therapy helps to reduce patient’s drug intake and the old people rejoice in sharing and passing on their important Tjukurrpa with their families who visit them when the workshops are conducted.

Warakurna Artists also takes the old people on bush trips to paint with family and friends. The return to country projects facilitate and promote intergenerational learning and cultural maintenance. This is vital to keeping culture strong.

Very special thanks to the wonderful staff of the Wanarn Aged Care facility and to Margot Howard from NPY Women’s council Aged Advocacy for their generous support.

We hope you enjoy our film.

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Meet the experts cooking

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The Official opening of the Abbey Centre By Mary Coughlan, the centre is the venue for plays by the local drama groups, mainly the Ballyshannon Drama Society who also host an annual drama festival here in the main theatre.

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