Timeline

Nov 2023 - June 2024

Touring engagements in Halifax (with Wonder'Neath), Ottawa (with No Borders Arts Festival & Gallery 101), Thunder Bay (with Betty Carpick and other artists), Haliburton (with Rails End Gallery), and others.

2017 - 2018

Project conception and research

Dec 2018

Montreal session: making first mini clay figures

Feb 2019

Creative explorations with Aanmitaagzi at Big Medicine Studio, Nipissing First Nation

June 2019

Story cards invented for about 50 participants in Toronto Creative Music Lab

June 2019

Explorations with composers, artists, friends and Gather Round Singers at The Ground Floor Studio located in the Cityplace neighbourhood, Toronto

Sept 2019

Workshop with Julie Salverson's Theatre and Witnessing class, Queen's University, Kingston

Oct 2019

Activities at Bernard Betel Centre for Seniors, North York

May 2020

Online workshops with Thinking Rock Community Arts

June 2020

Virtual creative explorations with composers Robert, Martin and Arie

July 2020

Video experiments at Camp Naivelt, with Ruth and Adrienne, and Robert’s music,

Aug 2020

Art activities week, live at Camp Naivelt, and online with AlgomaTrad, producing 2 performance versions of The Whole Village

Aug 2020

Besa Box prototype built by Adrienne

Aug 2020

live week with Ruth and local artists in Killaloe, Ottawa Valley, with live-streamed installation and performance at Studio Dreamshare, Pembroke

Sept 2020

Online workshops with several groups of women from the Arab Community Centre of Toronto, in partnership with MABELLEarts

Sept 2020

Some People Might be Good movement explorations at Dufferin Grove Park

Sept 2020

Gather Round Singers and artists rehearse In This Moment and Besa

Nov 2020

groundforgoodness.ca website officially launched by Shifra and Adrienne

Nov 2020

Vancouver virtual residency, co-produced with Vancouver Moving Theatre, as part of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, including premier performance of Besa,  work-in-progress performance of In This Moment, and new performance by DTES participants and Toronto and Vancouver artists,

Nov 2020

back at Big Medicine Studio, for some creative explorations with Aanmitaagzi, making a mini-tipi and exploring a story: The Light Inside Us All,

Dec 2020

Online sessions with art classes from Thistletown Collegiate Institute, Rexdale, Toronto,

Dec 2020

Online development sessions for Some People Might Be Good, composed by Robert Fleitz, in partnership with Continuum Contemporary Music,

Jan 2021

Mini-monument-making and soundscape workshops with Weston King Neighbourhood Centre Senior Art Group, with Catherine Moeller, Rakefet, Ruth and Arie,

Feb 2021

Story Cards sent to participants of 3 online Art of Community workshops,

March 2021

Virtual tour to Kingston, Ontario, engaging two of Julie Salverson's theatre classes at Queens University, resulting in two short videos,

March 2021

Coffee Grounds for Goodness, ع القهوج: workshops led by Natalie Fasheh, with Arab women and Gather Round Singers, sharing coffee stories and a Palestinian folk song.

March 2021

New works related to Grounds for Goodness created by Cheldon Patterson and Tamyka Bullen, with Jumblies artist and Gather Round Singers,

April 2021

Online performance event for Coffee Grounds for Goodness, We Are Ants, Krampus and Queens Students’ videos, shown to Gather Round Singers and guests,

April 2021

collaboration with CultureLink's Nai Choir for newcomer/refugee children, to create an online musical performance of The Whole Village,

May 2021

Virtual tour to Kenora, in partnership with the Arts Hub of Kenora Association for Community Living, resulting in a short video,

MAY 2021

Apart & Parcel: 12 artists commissioned to create short new works inspired by Grounds for Goodness and displayed in the Ground Floor Window Gallery,

June 2021

Grounds for Goodness short films shown at Jumblies online Community Arts Exchange Reunion,

June 2021

Online workshop and presentation of Some People Might Be Good, composed by Robert Fleitz, in partnership with Continuum Contemporary Music,

Aug 2021

Another week of outdoor art-making at Camp Naivelt, inspired by Four Days to Find Goodness story, originally told by Victor Lyon, and interpreted this week by Jesse Wabejigig

Oct 2021

Gather Round Singers rehearse Arie and Christina’s Grounds for Goodness pieces,

Oct - Nov 2021

Grounds for Goodness films shown a No Borders Art Festival, Ottawa, and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival,

Nov 2021

Hamilton Artfare Essentials, including Grounds for Gooness themes and stories,

Dec 2021 - Jan 2022

Movement rehearsals at The Ground Floor and online with Kashe Dance,

Jan 2022

Students from Brock University and Centennial College Theatre Departments engage in Grounds for Goodness creative projects,

Feb 2022

2 weeks project celebration and performances at the Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, live and online, in partnership with Continuum Contemporary Music and Kashe Dance, Studio Dreamshare and others, with premiere performances of Some People Might Be Good (Robert Fleitz), So Here I Am (Christina Volpini), and In This Moment (Arie Verheul van de Ven),

March - June 2022

Grounds for Goodness iteration in Welland Ontario (with Femmes du Feu Creations), and planning for other project visits and legacy activities.