Education AND Outreach
Building on the Festival’s commitment to accessibility, Luminato’s Education & Outreach Programs offer multidisciplinary arts experiences for students, teachers, youth, and families. For more information, please visit Luminato.com/education. ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie Innovative and highly acclaimed contemporary dance company Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie (CLC) has been working closely with the Regent Park community, engaging students, teachers, youth, and families through dance and creative movement workshops, studio drop-in sessions, open rehearsals, and specialty classes to create a collaborative and site-specific performance piece. (For more details about the performance, see page 23.)
LUMINATO IN THE SCHOOLS Luminato is proud to partner with selected schools and specialty programs in underserved communities and neighbourhoods, offering students from grades K to 12 experiential workshops, artist-in-the-school visits, presentations, and discussions. These programs are designed to encourage interactive participation and meaningful engagement with Festival programming and themes while providing enrichment and connections to the classroom curriculum.
The Africa Trilogy Using the diverse narratives of Volcano Theatre’s The Africa Trilogy (see page 28) as a framework to explore Western perceptions of Africa, students and teachers will participate in art, music, and drama workshops.
Luminato wishes to acknowledge the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s generous support of the Festival’s Education and Outreach programs.
Selected members of The Africa Trilogy’s creative team, as well as African musicians, will lead in-school performances, workshops, and discussions, sharing the particular style, creative process, and cultural significance of their work.
Wish Come True Festival by FriendsWithYou Through workshops led by local artist collectives, students will explore the concept of art and play using FriendsWithYou’s Wish Come True Festival public art installation as inspiration for creative discovery.
A Toronto Alphabet In partnership with Small Print Building on the Festival’s programming theme of East/West perceptions, students in grades 4 and 5 will explore their neighbourhood through writing and photography workshops inspired by the new children’s book, City Alphabet by Joanne Schwartz and Matt Beam. The students’ images and written work will be published in a children’s book that will be distributed to selected schools across the city of Toronto. During the Festival, authors from the Luminato Literary Program, including Roddy Doyle, founder of the youth writing centre Fighting Words Dublin, will visit these participating students for a creative exchange and discussion.
Additional support: Candy Lee / Sidney Lee Dream Foundation
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