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
3 weeks project residency and performances at the Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, live and online, 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), & 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.
October 2023 - January 2025
‘More Grounds for Goodness’ Tour to: Halifax (with Wonder’neath), Ottawa with No Borders Arts Festival, Gallery 101 & Propellor Dance), Thunder Bay (with Betty Carpick), Haliburton (with Rails End Gallery) & Stratford (with SpringWorks Festival & the Stratford Perth Museum), with Lead Artist Ruth Howard & local artists from each locatoin.
