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A unique play opening soon at Evergreen Brick Works offers guests a chance to experience some of Toronto’s most significant history first-hand. ‘Memory in the Mud’ will transport audiences to Toronto’s past, as it leads guests on a tour of Evergreen Brick Works, formerly Don Valley Brick Works, while reenacting life there during Toronto’s early days. The play will bring Don Valley Brick Works back to life, telling the stories of people who lived and worked at the quarry before it was filled in and landscaped for public use. For almost 100 years, bricks made from the quarry’s clay and shale-rich mud built many of Toronto’s most-well-known buildings, including Casa Loma and Queen’s Park. Suitable for all ages, the interactive production aims to connect Torontonians to their past, highlighting the challenges and hardships faced by the people who helped build their city. The roving theatre performance explores the lives of those who founded and worked at the site, including German
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A city is not only bricks and mortar, it is the people who have lived and loved within the walls they have built.
– Kathleen Payne, artistic director
prisoners-of-war forced to toil there during internment, and the many homeless men who slept there during the Great Depression, taking advantage of the warmth radiated by its brick-baking furnaces. Along with personal stories, the play, presented in partnership with Words in Motion, also showcases the importance of the quarry and the work done there. Making its debut in 2011, the show, which earned critical acclaim, will feature more original, historic architecture this time around. “We are delighted to once again present these spellbinding stories to the public, and to make visitors to Evergreen Brick Works more aware of these great but little-known Canadians,” >>>Event, page 8
Staff photo/ADAM DIETRICH
PEACE ON PARADE: Mahnoosh Eslahi from the Children’s Peace Theatre carries a puppet down Danforth Avenue during the peace it possible parade on Friday. The children’s peace theatre has had day camps in theatre, music and art which culminated in a parade and a play. For more on the project vist us online at www.eastyorkmirror.com and for more photos, see page 3.
Women rebuild lives at local inn LISA QUEEN lqueen@insidetoronto.com Fifteen months ago, struggling with mental illness and on the verge of becoming homeless, Jane Smith was making plans to kill herself. Fortunately, she visited her doctor, who had treated her for worsening depression for
years, and heeded the physician’s advice to go to a hospital emergency room. At the hospital, Smith, not her real name, was properly diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed medication. While there, the 45-year-old woman also learned about St. Clare Inn, a home in a residential neighbourhood in East York
that helps homeless women with mental health challenges rebuild their lives. The home proved to be lifesaving for Smith, who stayed there for a year and is now living in a midtown apartment. “They have a special place in my heart,” she said, wiping away tears. >>>linda’s, page 8
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