entertainment community art founded 2001 founder ruth howard headquarters toronto ontario canada area served toronto key people ruth howard founder and keith mcnair managing director website www.jumbliestheatre.org jumblies theatre is a canadian community arts theatre company with the overall concept of social inclusion . contents 1 origins 2 mandate 3 practice 4 projects 5 productions 6 further reading 7 see also 8 references 9 external links origins edit this article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information . please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject s importance use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance . june 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message jumblies theatre was founded in 2001 by its artistic director ruth howard . ruth s work is inspired by various artistic traditions including the british community play form pioneered by the colway theatre trust and brought to canada in the 1990s by dale hamilton . in bringing the community play form to toronto ruth howard and jumblies theatre adapted it to reflect her evolving artistic interests and toronto s urban community realities . the company maintains community arts guiding principles of inclusive community engagement a value that everyone is welcome and a focus on artistic quality and respect for process and product . mandate edit jumblies makes art in everyday and unexpected places with for and about the people and stories found there . our art weaves into and grows out of life s details and rituals ; our community is open ended and based on people doing something together . we dismantle boundaries and connect disparate elements . we create fleeting utopias with lasting ripples . we say everyone is welcome and grapple with the implications aesthetic social and practical of meaning it . 1 practice edit jumblies has three intertwining strands jumblies projects creating new works through multi year residencies passing through phases of research creation production and legacy ; jumblies studio training and mentoring artists and providing opportunities for professional development and hands on learning ; jumblies offshoots maintaining relationships with communities artists and past projects ; jumblies at large collaborating with mainstream arts organizations and infiltrating community arts practice in to mainstream arts . 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 . jumblies makes art with for and about people and places forms cross sectoral partnerships employs diverse artists and engages local people to create new works . 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 . the studio has delivered artfare essentaisl in toronto and across canada including in vancouver nipissing first nation regina and montreal ; trained many interns ; held additional professional development workshops and seminars ; published two collection of essays out of place ; and supported and incubated new projects . former jumblies studio 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 aanmitaagzi storymakers in nipissing first nation edge of the woods festival huntsville and making room community arts parkdale toronto . projects edit 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 mabellearts 2004 2008 offshoot company 2008 present project partners montgomery s inn city of toronto culture division toronto community housing corporation madbakh islington junior middle school mabelle community action committee camp naivelt 2006 2009 project partners united jewish peoples order morris winchevsky centre jumblies studio 2007 present program partners davenport perth neighbourhood centre ontario trillium foundation george cedric metcalf charitable foundation the j. w. mcconnell family foundation launched in 2007 as a training and mentorship program . through the program artists participate in workshops learning sessions and apprenticeship opportunities in community arts . 2 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 george cedric metcalf charitable foundation touching ground project partners toronto community housing corporation productions edit twisted metal and mermaids tears 2000 i m taipingi too 2001 more or the magic fish 2002 the land of three doors 2003 once a shoreline 2004 your name is written in the sky 2005 where i m from 2005 tea and bridges 2006 bridge of one hair 2007 hawa jabril book launch 2007 pidgeon creek pageant 2008 oy di velt vet vern yinger oh the world will grow younger 2008 oy di velt vet vern yinger remount at mayworks 2009 nesting 2009 like an old tale workshop 2010 like an old tale 2011 train of thought 2015 further reading edit jumblies poem by edward lear easy to say reflections on the roles of art and the artist in canadian adaptations of the colway community play form funded by canada council for the arts rachael van fossen and ruth howard jan 2005 produced short video on once a shoreline process as part of documenting engagement vancouver ruth howard jan. 2004 the cultural equivalent of daycare ruth howard funded by in print dialogue community arts ontario 2004 the aesthetics of including everyone ruth howard alt theatre fall 2002 . is anyone political any more canadian theatre review edited by kim renders julie salverson and jenn stephenson fall 2011 . out of the tunnel there came tea chapter in viva community arts and popular education in the americas suny press and between the lines edited by deb barndt 2011 placemats for september 11th critical perspectives on canadian theatre in english vol .17 political popular theatre ruth howard ed . julie salverson general editor ric knowles playwrights canada press 2010 . easy to say ruth howard and rachael van fossen off the radar web publication by the canada council for the arts interarts section 2005 . holding on and letting go ruth howard canadian theatre review 1997 . see also edit community art community theatre ruth howard ann jellicoe founder of the colway trust references edit jumblies theatre . retrieved june 4 2013 . jumbliestheatre.org external links edit official website university of victoria trillium great grants award inclusion once a shoreline jumblies studio retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title jumblies theatre & oldid 725782305 categories theatre companies in torontocommunity theatrehidden categories articles with peacock terms from june 2016all articles with peacock terms navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent 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