Current Projects
Story Garden
Story Garden is a community-engaged theatre project highlighting the stories that shape East Scarborough. Throughout May, workshops, storytelling events, and performances will take place at Cedar Ridge Creative Centre, where professional artists and community members will come together to share, explore, and shape the stories that define us.
What Was My Backyard?
What Was My Backyard? is a touring interactive musical show. It has been developed and presented at a series of Toronto communities and public schools. The Community Arts Guild is the project's current main producer, in partnerhsip with Jumblies Theatre and Theatre Direct.
What Was My Backyard? is inspired by a 1908 newspaper clipping about the discovery of 11,000 year old footprints preserved in blue clay under Lake Ontario, uncovered and promptly destroyed during a construction project. The show combines music, movement and puppetry whimsically to bring to light the Indigenous lives and lands underneath where our homes, playgrounds, parks, streets and backyards now stand: the footprints below and above our city streets, and how we can imagine paths forward.