Animating Historic Sites
Partnership Program
Toronto Arts Council has partnered with City of Toronto Museum Services and the Royal Ontario Museum to provide opportunities for artists to re-imagine and animate five Toronto Heritage sites and the ROM through engagement with their histories, local contexts, and communities. The historic sites are Gibson House Museum, Montgomery's Inn, Todmorden Mills and Zion Schoolhouse. Programming Grants provide opportunities for curators/producers to present a series of programs and events at selected sites and the ROM. Exploration Grants provide the opportunity for curators/producers to engage with community, landscape, volunteers and the site staff to explore ideas for future projects. Museum Services and the ROM contribute matching support in the form of space, historical knowledge and research resources, extended hours, staffing, marketing and promotion.
Animating Historic Sites and Museums Recipients (2015)
Exploration Grant Recipients
Pigeon Collective will conduct research in the Ornithology Department at the ROM towards an exhibition and publication project on the subject of pigeons.
Trinity Square Video will conduct a sound based research project exploring hidden narratives at Todmorden Mills from January 1 to June 30, 2016.
Programming Grant Recipients
Bill Burns will create a series of interventions including a children's choir and farm animals to bring together the ROM collection with a broader community from the city, the suburbs and the farm in the fall of 2016.
Kaeja d’Dance will perform a new creation by Allen Kaeja and a remount of Karen Kaeja’s Flock Landing during the winter and spring of 2016 at Montgomery's Inn.
Single Thread Theatre Company will produce "Turkey Shoot", a site-specific play about the Gibson family, at the Gibson House in March 2016
Tapestry Opera will produce a new opera Bandits in the Valley – Music and times from the Brooks Bush Gang and other Don Valley Dwellers in the summer 2016 at Todmorden Mills.