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o Toronto
International Film Festival Group includes the
Toronto International Film Festival, the world’s
largest film festival; Sprockets Toronto International
Film Festival for Children, presenting the experience
of Canada and international films and culture to families,
children and youth; Special Delivery, providing screenings
and workshops year-round to 3,000 youth living in Toronto
underserved neighbourhoods; the Film Reference Library,
the world’s most extensive English language collection
of Canadian film material; and Cinematheque Ontario,
a year-round screening programme of Canadian, world, and contemporary
art house cinema.
o Tribal
Crackling Wind is a vehicle for the creations
and productions of multidisciplinary dance artist Peter Chin.
Their 2007/8 plans include a production of Transmission
of the Invisible, an ensemble work based on research
into the rebuilding of Khmer classical and folk performing
arts following the 1970‘s genocide under the regime
of the Khmer Rouge. Peter Chin was the recipient of the 2006
Muriel Sherrin Award for International Achievement in
Dance, a Toronto
Arts Council Foundation Award.
o Red Pepper Spectacle Arts encourages,
initiates and supports the collaborative interchange of professional
artists and community resident through the production of cultural
works at the community level. In addition to their partnership
with the native Canadian Centre of Toronto, they work with
many community groups and neighbourhood centres through artist
residencies across Toronto and Ontario. Annually they mount
the Harvest Festival and the Kensington Festival
of Lights.
o YYZ
Artist’s Outlet is an artist run centre
and gallery for the exhibition and dissemination of contemporary
arts. The centre is mandated to support and develop articles
for the most challenging idea in current art practice by presenting
a diverse program of exhibitions, art books and special events.
o Regent
Park Film Festival is a five day festival, designed
to promote an “active multiculturalism” and encourage
cross cultural exchange. Films deal with issues of immigrant
experience, class, race and gender, inner city problems, questions
of cultural identity and sexuality.
o Scarborough
Philharmonic Orchestra presents an annual concert
series at Birchmount Collegiate featuring a diversity of symphonic
music that appeals to a broad audience. As well as the Masters
series of concerts, the orchestra presents educational concerts,
provides scholarships to young musicians and has a composer
in residence.
o Turtle
Gals Performance Ensemble will perform a collective
creation, The Only Good Indian, in 2007. The work
explores native performers from the Wild West shows, burlesque,
vaudeville and silent films and examines iconographic “Indians
on Display”, the mass commoditization of native culture
and the emergence of a pan-Indian identity resulting in the
loss of tribal specificity.
o Tafelmusik
Tafelmusik’s Baroque Orchestra is now in its 27th season.
Under the inspired leadership of Music Director and concertmaster
Jeanne Lamon since 1981, Tafelmusik has achieved international
recognition for its concerts and recordings. Tafelmusik's
success has taken it around the world, with regular tours
across North America, Europe, and Asia. |
