Jumblies Theatre + Arts is proud to announce a two week celebration of Grounds for Goodness, an evolving, touring project created over three years, with many art forms, participants and places. From February 12-26, 2022, Grounds for Goodness will take up residence at the Small Arms Inspection Building (SAIB) in Mississauga to share this growing body of work in an online and in-person activation.

In person events will include an evolving multi-media exhibition, drop-in art-making and story-sharing, pop-up workshops and performance, and music and dance rehearsals unfolding in the public space. Online programming will feature daily stories, virtual tours and short film screenings, glimpses of performances, conversations and more. The activities are suitable for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities.

This landmark Grounds for Goodness episode will showcase new musical works by young composers Christina Volpini, Arie Verheul van de Ven and Robert Fleitz, in collaboration with Continuum Contemporary Music. It will feature dance creations with Kashe Dance. Visitors will be able to leaf through and contribute to a growing collection of story cards about acts of goodness epic and intimate, from historical and personal. The many community and arts partners to date for the project include the Arab Community Centre of Toronto, Weston-King Neighborhood Centre’s Senior Art Group, Aanmitaagzi Storymakers (Nipissing First Nation), Ottawa Valley Creative Arts, Kenora Association for Community Living, and Vancouver Moving Theatre’s Downtown Eastside Heart of a City Festival.

Grounds for Goodness, a touring project conceived of and led by Jumblies’ Artistic Director Ruth Howard, explores the theme of “social goodness”: why and how people sometimes behave in good ways towards each other in difficult times. The project adapted to virtual and remote modes during the pandemic, resulting in an eclectic collection of stories, short videos and performance works, contributed to by hundreds of participants, available for all to see at any time by visiting the Grounds for Goodness evolving website at groundsforgoodness.ca.

Jumblies is a Toronto-based organization with a national and international reach that engages in collaborations between professional artists and diverse people and communities, and mentors and supports others to do so. Jumblies expands where art happens, who gets to be part of it, what form it takes and which stories it tells.

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