Jumblies is a Toronto-based organization with a Canada-wide reach that engages in collaborations between professional artists and diverse people and places, mentoring and supporting others to do so as well. Jumblies expands where art happens, who gets to be part of it, what forms it takes and whose stories it tells. This imperative has led them outside of specialized art venues and to place radical inclusion at the core of their work. They say ‘Everyone is welcome!’ and embrace the joys and challenges, social and aesthetic, of meaning or trying to mean it.
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The Gather Round Singers is a radically inclusive community choir, made up of singers of mixed ages, abilities, and backgrounds.
The choir upholds core values of access by: avoiding auditions; learning music by ear; providing transportation, healthy food, language interpretation/translation, personal care workers, on-site childcare; using accessible venues, and welcoming new members at any point in the process (sometimes up to and including the day of a performance!). For over a decade, the Gather Round Singers have been a part of Jumblies’ core Toronto projects, performing newly-commissioned works.
Program
songs from the edges
Presented as a part of Jumblies Theatre’s larger multi-year project “blue skies, red earth & tall pines,” the choral performance songs from the edges features a suite of new music from award winning singer & composer Suba Sankaran plus other selected works performed by the Gather Round Singers and guests (including Autorickshaw and the Community […]
September 21
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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