2019

1st Annual Event of Celebrating Cultures

In 2019, in the context of multicultural day, Jamii brought together three visual artists who were invited to capture the diversity of the people of the Esplanade with live portrait drawings. Accompanied with lively music and cultural stories this event was a celebration of the rich cultural fabric of our community.

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Visual artists: Alicia Herbert, Alison Garwood-Jones, and Andrew Patterson worked on capturing people through portraits encapsulating the beauty within us in their own artistic style.

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Live performances from: 

Haitian storyteller Djennie Laguerre

Indigenous storyteller Jim Adams

Québécois musician and singer Valérie Descheneaux 

Syrian violinist Iman Abdul Razzak

and Albanian theater director Indrit Kasapi 

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Visual artist Alison Garwood-Jones also wrote a blog post about our event read it HERE.

In partnership with Théâtre Français de Toronto and CORPUS.

With the support of Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage and Ontario Arts Council.