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In January we were so happy to move into our new downtown space - The Ground Floor. From here, we offered an array of activities for artists, interns and community members, and continued to explore Toronto’s invisible landscapes and indig-enous and colonial histories, perceptible and hidden. Meanwhile, we took our learning activities around Ontario and coast to coast, delivering workshops with partners in each place.

At home, we were excited to launch Platform A, in collaboration with Arts for Children and Youth, Art Starts, and SKETCH/CUE: a special initiative of the Toronto Arts Council, to cultivate inclusive and community engaged arts in Toronto. Up North we produced The Four Lands of Nipissing, a residency at North Bay’s White Water Gallery in collaboration with Aanmitaagzi; and contributed to Thinking Rock’s parade-making project for The Rivers Speak at Mississauga First Nation and Blind River.

In Toronto we supported several new projects and productions: The Bain Collective’s Homemade

Jumblies TheaTre makes art in everyday and extraordinary places with, for and about the people and stories found there. Our art entwines with and grows out of life’s details and rituals, and our community is open-ended and rooted in people doing something together. We dismantle boundaries and connect disparate elements. We create fleeting utopias and lasting ripples. We say, Everyone is welcome, and grapple with the implications – aesthetic and social – of meaning it.

Stories; the Community Arts Guild’s Train Payanam, and Red Dress Productions’ Promise in the Park. In the Spring, we collaborated with The Nagamo Collective and Arts For Children & Youth to produce A Pageant for All Seasons with Dundas First Nations School.

Jumblies interns were placed in all of these projects, as well as with our independent Offshoots: Arts4All, MABELLEarts, Making Room Community Arts, and The Community Arts Guild. Throughout the year, we laid tracks for Train of Thought: our spring 2015 west-to-east-coast collaborative community arts tour.

Once again, we are grateful to have worked with so many wonderful artists, and for the support we received from our Board of Directors, partners, colleagues, many volunteer participants, and, of course, our funders, all of whom we mention in these pages. We hope you enjoy this Annual Report, which gives a glimpse of our year’s work in Toronto, Ontario and across Canada.

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Keith McNair Managing Director

Ruth Howard Artistic Director

A YEAR OF TOUCHING GROUND AND TAKING FLIGHT

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Exploring invisible landscapes and Indigenous history through: • Launch of Turtle Quilt project,

designed by Phil Cote

• Singing and sewing with Scarborough Aboriginal women’s group, Rosary Spence and Marianne Alas

• Exploring footprints, ancient and modern

• Investigating the history of CityPlace land

• Learning with Duke Redbird, Phil Cote and Victoria Freeman

• Creating with Aanmitaagzi and Jumblies artists and youth interns

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Offshoots: Independent locally-based not-for-profits sparked by Jumblies residencies and mentorship.

Arts4All’s

produced two Early Years Plays, telling stories by

WORKsHOps:• Artfare Essentials held twice in Toronto,

due to popular demand

• 2-day Collaborative Writing workshop with Liz Rucker

• Mock Jury with Loree Lawrence (OAC) and Andrew Suri (TAC)

• Monthly Oral History and Art-Making Group, with guest presenter, Steve High from Concordia University

• Miniature-making with Clayton Windatt

• Presentation by Ruth and Sid Bobb at OAC Mentorship Event

• Community Arts Intro for 20 teachers at Canadian Stage

• 2 workshops with Shula Strassfeld from the Dance Exchange, Washington DC

• Anti-Oppression with Naty Tremblay

Jumblies new home as of January 2014 is on the ground floor of a Toronto Community Housing complex in the midst of the new development of CityPlace.

We held a Grand Opening and inaugural exhibition (Miniature Worlds and Invisible Landscapes) in March and a celebration of Toronto Arts Council Micro-Grants from all 4 Platform A partners in June, as well as many workshops for our artists, interns, staff and local and Toronto-wide partners and participants.

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HOmEmADE sTORIEs:a site specific pageant by Sean Frey, Pamela Schuller and The Bain Co-op Collective

A pAGEANT FOR ALL sEAsONs:with the Nagamo Collective, Dundas First Nations School and Arts for Children & Youth

pROmIsE IN THE pARK:a multi-year community arts residency by Red Dress Productions

Independent locally-based not-for-profits sparked by Jumblies residencies and mentorship.

ARTs4ALL: produced two Early Years Plays, telling stories by elders for the very young

COmmUNITY ARTs GUILD:mounted its first independent production: Train Payanam, based on lost and found stories by Tamil Seniors

mABELLEARTs:created its 4th Annual Light In Midwinter Parade, with the theme of Invincible Summer

mAKING ROOm:presented the Feast of Flags to celebrate the publication of their third book “John Blank’s Bags”

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A special initiative of the Toronto Arts Council: Mentorship, Micro-grants and Partnerships for community engaged arts in Toronto

Partners: Jumblies, Arts for Children & Youth, Arts Starts, SKETCH/CUE

:Jumblies provided eight $1,000 grants from the Toronto Arts Council to emerging artists for their own community arts projects with mentorship from Jumblies and Offshoots.

From Top Left; Lorenzo Pagnotta, Pam Snell, Faten Tabousi,

Junyee Wang, Alvis Choi, Ben Lee, Tamara Swartz, Y Josephine

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are from Toronto, North Bay, Nipissing First Nation, Sault Ste Marie and Mississauga. They include students from the University of Toronto, York University and George Brown College; partnerships with Aanmitaagzi, Thinking Rock, Jumblies Offshoots; and funding from Platform A (Toronto Arts Council), the Metcalf Foundation, Theatre Ontario, Cultural Human Resources Council, Employment Ontario, Canada Summer Jobs and Ontario Summer Experience Program.

Names this page (top left to right): Arber Makri, Faeghan WIlliams, Adrienne Marcus Raja, Jessica Shane, Miranda Sharp, Adam Beamish, Andrea Thring, Lisa Bozikovic, Mackenzie Konecny, Amy Siegel, Kristi White, Molly McGregor, Jonathan Vallely, Dillon Cox

This page: Nirven Armoogum, Pam Snell & Group, Olivia Wallace, Tasheena Sarazin, Rosary Spence, Robin Sutherland, Percy Campos, Zoe Jenkins, Roxanne Martin, Sonja Rainey, Pam Snell, Sarah Miller, Veronica Diaz, Sasha Tate-Howarth

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Development for our Spring 2015 west-to-east-coast tour: Train of Thought, with funds from The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, the Ontario Trillium Foundation and sponsorship from VIA Rail.

WORKsHOps: Halifax and Ship Harbour, Nova Scotia with the Deanery Project and Wonder’neath.

Edmonton with Ground Zero Productions.

Montreal with Contactivity, NDG Seniors and RECCA.

Winnipeg with ACI Manitoba.

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with Vancouver Moving Theatre, including collaborative devel-opment of their Big House multi-year project.

pUBLICATIONs:Ruth Howard reviews Doug Borwick’s book, ‘Building Communities, Not Audiences’ for the Canadian Theatre Review’s Spring 2014 issue.

Jumblies supports the publication of Tessa Mandel’s book, ‘Using the Creative Arts for Transformational Learning’, to be published in 2015.

A two -week occupation of the White Water Gallery in North Bay, with continuous public drop-in activ-ities and workshops for special groups (Conspiracy of Three Writers, students from the Centre for Indigenous Theatre), and a final Gallery Hop perfor-mance event, in collaboration with Aanmitaagzi.

WORKsHOps: Sioux Lookout with The Creative Arts Circle Huntsville with Edge of the Woods Sudbury with Myths & Mirrors Killaloe with Ottawa Valley Creative Arts Open Studio Algoma Region with Thinking Rock Community Arts.

mENTORsHIp & COLLABORATION:Myths and Mirrors Thinking Rock Community Arts (The Rivers Speak) Aanmitaagzi (Dances of Resistance).

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GOvERNmENT FUNDERsCanada Council for the ArtsCitizenship and Immigration CanadaCultural Human Resources CouncilCultural Strategic Investment FundHuman Resources and Skills Development CanadaEmployment Ontario/St Stephen’s Community HouseOntario Arts Council Ontario Summer ExperienceOntario Trillium FoundationTheatre OntarioToronto Arts Council

pRIvATE FUNDERsThe Metcalf FoundationThe J.W. McConnell Family Foundation

BOARD OF DIRECTORs Co-Chair: Marilyn TateCo-Chair: Mara ShaughnessyTreasurer: Susanne BurkhardtSecretary: Yonah LewisMaggie HutchesonEsther PflugChandra Kolamba TantregeMarlo Taylor

CONsULTANTsJumblies Studio Evaluation Partner: Rachael Van FossenTrain of Thought Production Manager: Bill PennerIT Consultant: John PennerOffshoot Artistic DirectorsCommunity Arts Guild: Beth Helmers,Arts4All: Elizabeth RuckerMABELLEarts: Leah HoustonMaking Room: Michael Burtt

CORE vOLUNTEERs:Bill LivingstoneJohn Pyette

sTAFF Artistic Director: Ruth HowardManaging Director: Keith McNairOperations Manager: Lisa NabieszkoFinancial Coordinator: Michaela OttoStudio Coordinator: Michael BurttWebsite Manager: Vanessa DenovAnnual Report Designer: Venetia ButlerAnnual Report Photographs: Nirven ArmoogumKatherine Fleitas (peacephoto.com)Elizabeth LottAdrienne Marcus-RajaCylla Von TeidemannClayton Windatt and othersCleaner: Liz McCarthy

pARTNERs AanmitaagziACI ManitobaArts4AllArts For Children & YouthArt StartsBain Arts CollectiveCedar Ridge Creative CentreCity of Toronto Arts & Cultural ServicesCommon Weal, SaskatchewanCommunity Arts GuildConcordia Theatre & DevelopmentCreative Arts Circle, Sioux LookoutDavenport Perth Neighbourhood & Community Health CentreEdge of the Woods Festival, HuntsvilleGround Zero Productions, EdmontonMABELLEartsMaking Room Community ArtsMyths & Mirrors, SudburyNative Child and Family ServicesOttawa Valley Creative Arts Open StudioRaucous CaucusRed Dress ProductionsSKETCH/CUESt. Clare’s Multifaith HousingThe Centre for Mindfulness StudiesThe Deanery Project, Nova ScotiaThinking Rock Community ArtsToronto Community HousingVancouver Moving TheatreWhite Water Gallery INTERNs &

mICRO-GRANTEEsListed with pictures on previous pages

Marianne AlasLiza BalkanSid BobbJon CadaChristine CharetteJulia ChurchillHelah CooperShifra CooperPhil CotePenny CouchieNimiiki CouchieKit CurrieBen DietschiSharada EswarJanice FinlayKatherine FleitasVictoria FreemanSean FreyMarie GaudetDonna GilesSarah King GoldVarrick GrimesMike Hirschbach

Peter JonesLilia LeonAnne LedermanChristina LellaAngela LoftDarren NakogeeLou-ann NeelCathy NosatyThe O’ShravesJuliet PalmerKaryn RecolletDuke RedbirdLindsay SarazinThaila SarazinTyler SarazinLib SpryEmilyn StamKeirsten ToughNaty TremblayMartin van de VenClayton WindattTara Windatt

REsIDENT ELDERWe were proud and honoured to welcome Duke Redbird as our Resident Elder for the year.

Al Levitt (Clockwise from top): Once Upon A Shoreline (2004), Like An Like An Old Tale (2011), Twisted Metal & Mermaids Tears (2000), The Magic Fish (2002)

This year many of us at Jumblies were deeply saddened by the passing away of beloved and

long-time Jumblies volunteer, Al Levitt. Al’s life story had inspired a song (The Smell of Rubber) for the 2000 production of Twisted Metal and Mermaid’s Tears, taking place in his life-long home of South Riverdale. Al was the puppet-maker and performer of this and every subse-quent Jumblies production, up until Like An Old Tale in 2011. Jumblies commemorated Al with the first Al Levitt Award to Jumblies intern Adrienne Marcus Raja.

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Marinucci & Company Chartered Accountants Licensed Public Accountants

December 30, 2014

We have audited the accompanying financial statements of We have audited the accompanying financial statements of Jumblies Theatre, which comprise the balance sheet as at June 30, 2014, and the statements of operations and changes in net assets and cash flows for the year then ended, and other explanatory infor-mation.

Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presenta-tion of these financial statements in accordance with Canadian accounting standards, and for such internal control as manage-ment determines is necessary to enable the preparation of finan-cial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial state-ments based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with Canadian auditing standards. Those standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments , the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances , but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained in our audit is sufficient and appropriate to provide for a basis for our audit opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all mate-rial respects, the financial position of Jumblies Theatre as at June 30 and the results of its operations , changes in net assets and its cash flows for the year then in accordance with Canadian ac-counting standards for not-for-profit organizations.

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AUDITOR’s REpORT

reVeNues 2013 2012Earned: 61,379 41,087private: 154,716 136,197Government: 412,938 349,161In-kind contributions: 50,786 70,342

Total revenues 679,819 596,787

eXPeNsesArtistic:Artistic fees 89,143 50,217Artistic salaries 178,787 145,168Collaborative partnership 58,000 112,500Production and technical salaries/fees 45,172 19,210Project and production costs 33,392 8,819Prof. development and documentation 10,458 51,986Other 12,791 11,105 427,743 399,006Operating:Operational salaries and fees 132,002 90,875Rent incl. new Fort York Blvd. venue 26,752 2,726Fundraising /development 5.903 13,373Operations & Administration 28,401 19,937 193,058 126,911

In-kind expenses: 50,786 70,342

Total expenses 671,587 596,259

*In 2013/14, this line is just documentation. Professional development costs have been integrated into other lines.