DANCER-IN-residence: Terrill maguire
Dance Artist-in-Residence Terrill Maguire has had an extensive and wide-ranging career in dance and related arts. Her creation and performance life have been located in her native California, New York, Toronto, and Ottawa. Her work has been presented in theatres large and small, on television and film; in trees and forests; fountains, galleries, city streets and historical sites. She has a long-standing commitment to engaging people of all ages in creative interactions through community arts initiatives, and has spent over a decade working in remote communities in northern Ontario, bringing artists of varied disciplines to join her in working with under-served youth on reserves.
Musician-in-residence: Victoria Yeh
Victoria Yeh is a Toronto-based fusion electric violinist. Her unmistakably unique style can be seen on stages across the country as a soloist and band member ofBarlow-Yeh-McNeil, Don’t Look Down, Groove Chakra, and Michael White’sOrchestral Zeppelin. She also currently serves as Concertmaster for theSummerhill Orchestra, Musician-In-Residence for theHeliconian Club, Chair for Brazil Strings, and co-host for theToronto Creative Strings Workshop. www.VictoriaYeh.com
PlayWright-In-Residence: hannah Rittner
Hannah Rittner studied Dramatic Writing at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU where she graduated with distinction. Hannah’s play, Three Women Mourn the Apocalypse, was a finalist for the 2018 Safewords New Canadian Play Prize. Her screenplay, Desire, won the award for the best Canadian short screenplay at the Hollywood North Awards. Hannah has been nominated twice for the internationally celebrated Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Love and Exile and The Unbelievers. She was a semi-finalist for the inaugural 2018 Ellen Ross Stuart Award. Her company, LACE Productions, produced the Unbelievers at the 2016 Summerworks Performance Festival. The play gained national attention from the Globe and Mail for merging theatre with social change.
Hannah will dedicate her residency to further develop and workshop Cassandra (The Tree Play), The Passion (or How the Rose Blossoms), and The Life and Death of Ana Petrovna.
Hannah will dedicate her residency to further develop and workshop Cassandra (The Tree Play), The Passion (or How the Rose Blossoms), and The Life and Death of Ana Petrovna.
VISUAL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: Beth james
Beth James is an emerging artist living and working in Newtonville, Ontario. She holds a graduate certificate from the Haliburton School of Art and Design and a BA in visual arts from York University.
She is fascinated by the artistic process, always pushing her materials and ideas to grow creatively and to generate new ideas. She uses paint and colour to tell abstracted stories that connect to nostalgia, memory and past experience. Lines are often featured as a vehicle for telling dynamic stories and creating rhythm in her pieces.
She is fascinated by the artistic process, always pushing her materials and ideas to grow creatively and to generate new ideas. She uses paint and colour to tell abstracted stories that connect to nostalgia, memory and past experience. Lines are often featured as a vehicle for telling dynamic stories and creating rhythm in her pieces.
Writer-in-residence: Cindy watson
Cindy Watson fell in love with the written word reading Green Eggs and Ham aloud for the first time as a young girl and the love affair has been lifelong. She is the award-winning author of Out of Darkness: The Jeff Healey Story (Dundurn) and Unloved and Endangered Animals (Enslow). Her book, Myth of a Man’s World is due out next year. Cindy is the founder of the Muskoka Authors Association, Chair of the North Words Literary Festival and past Regional Director of the Canadian Authors Association.Cindy holds a BA from U of T’s Victoria College, an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School, and has recently attended Humber College’s renowned Creative Writing School. After a long career as a social justice lawyer, advocating for women, Cindy has founded Women On Purpose, dedicated to encouraging women to live a life with purpose and on purpose.
