Stay in touch for opportunities to join us for training, knowledge exchanges, wellness strategies, and gatherings for staff, Grassroots groups, youth and community this Fall!
We wish to acknowledge the Ontario Trillium Foundation Resilient Communities Fund. In 2022-23 Children’s Peace Theatre (CPT) engaged in a Strategic Clarity project with the Grassroots groups on our Platform, our youth and with the community to guide us through this transformational chapter for CPT.
We had the opportunity to learn about Indigenous frameworks from the Interim Artistic Director Kayla Sutherland. Our Engagements introduced the medicine wheel to our Platform groups and invited us to consider how we can align our lives and work around the emotional, physical, mental and spiritual aspects of life.
The engagements included a meal and introductions to our new team to build right relationships. We were so thrilled to rebuild old relationships with some of our Grassroots groups and meet new ones!
We aligned our engagement questions with our Three Organizational Pillars: RECLAIMING ART AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE, KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER and BUILDING RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS. Multiple themes emerged from the conversations around how people want to engage with us, the space and the land. We heard over- whelming positive feedback and learned that the community is looking for more in depth support and partnerships. They are excited to re-imagine the space so that everyone that shares thoughts and good ways of being can have a place to create, share, work and be.
We conducted trainings with youth and staff. We are grateful to have spent significant time building relationships with the Oshkaabewisuk sharing learnings, re-imagining the space and hosting quarterly events together. Participating in the development of the community, young people came together to uphold that love and care that is the heart of the land that CPT is on. They used space for ceremonies and land based healing as well as dedicating themselves to complete the music studio and maintaining space for other young people to create.
We hosted four quarterly Feasts on the Equinox and Solstice nights and had the chance to share food, workshops, and ceremony with our communities.
A huge thank you to Myia Davar who guided us through the process and helped us to develop our questions and harvest our learnings.
Thank you to all the staff and community who have dedicated themselves to keeping the doors open through the trials and tribulations of this transition year, and to all of you who continue to work with us to build indigenous and black intersectionality and solidarity in all its forms.
We are excited to announce we secured funding from the Red Cross Resilient Communities to continue to engage our communities with our Old Way Project that will integrate Indigenous and Black traditional knowledge systems that prioritize spiritual, mental, emotional and physical aspects of life into our work.
Thank you to all the staff and community who have dedicated themselves to keeping the doors open through the trials and tribulations of this transition year, and to all of you who continue to work with us to build indigenous and black intersectionality and solidarity in all its forms.
We are excited to announce we secured funding from the Red Cross Resilient Communities to continue to engage our communities with our Old Way Project that will integrate Indigenous and Black traditional knowledge systems that prioritize spiritual, mental, emotional and physical aspects of life into our work.