Cathy Gordon
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Community Projects
The intention of LOST AND FOUND is to create contrasting community-inspired projects across Canada, and eventually internationally, that will serve as both a virtual home and a physical space for the memories of people, places, parts of ourselves, and the objects, words, sounds that represent them. To date, LOST AND FOUND projects include:
– Dinner In Berlin / 2012 (in development)
Photo Credits: Cathy Gordon & David Ayotte / Participant: Myrtha Guirand
Lost And Found Project: Dinner In Berlin
Dinner In Berlin is a series of six private performances set in six culturally / economically different kitchens across Kitchener intended to be experienced once a week over six weeks. The performances are thematically linked together by a common structure – that of having dinner at someone’s private home while also enjoying a professional theatre performance while sitting around the table. Each performance is created with stories of that particular neighbourhood, woven together from historical records as well as personal anecdotes collected from the surrounding neighbours.
Supported by M T Space through the Ontario Art Council Theatre Creators’ Reserve Program
Lost And Found Project: Jardin Communautaire
I have been thinking a lot about gardens (click here for blog)… Commissioned by Théâtre Aux Écuries
Lost And Found Project: Mémoire Mile End
Lost And Found Project travels to Montreal’s Mile End to work with the local community to create Mémoire Mile End: marche un mille dans ses chaussures. Over the course of three weeks, we created a multi-layered project that included both an urban photo exhibition and a multilingual walking tour comprised of stories told by the people who live & work in Mile End.
Click here for more information on the Photo Exhibit.
Click here to learn about the Walking Tour.
Supported by Studio 303 and The City of Toronto through Toronto Arts Council, Toronto Arts Foundation and Luminato, Toronto’s Festival of Arts + Creativity.
Loss In Lansdowne was a community art project in the Bloor and Lansdowne neighbourhood. For ten days The (OMK) Cathy Gordon Collective took up residency at The Toronto Free Gallery and reached out to the community – asking them to lend items of personal significance around the theme of loss. Two weeks later the project culminated in a neighbourhood garage sale and multimedia exhibition.
The intention is to recreate versions of Loss In Lansdowne in other communities and to slowly build a network of artists and non-artists over time and space. We want to create a home for all the memories of lost people, places, and parts of ourselves, and the objects that represent them. We call this larger project: LOST AND FOUND.
Loss In Lansdowne was made possible with a grant from the Ontario Arts Council: Integrated Arts Program.
The (OMK) Cathy Gordon Collective included Megan Flynn and Jeremy Mimnagh as well as many part-time assistants and local participants.
Photo credit: Jeremy Mimnagh