The Department of Illumination have teamed up with Toronto’s Kick Start Arts on a new project: Circles of Joy, a festival of joyful stories brought to life! Over the winter, the two organizations facilitated a heartwarming series of online storytelling workshops sharing stories of joy.
From these workshops, almost thirty audio stories were recorded and are now housed in an online Archive of Joy. A selection of 18 artists of various disciplines from PEC and Toronto were then invited to choose a story from the archive and create an artistic response to it. All of this culminates in an in-person festival on May 14 from 1-5 PM at Picton’s Macaulay Heritage Park, where the public are invited to experience these joyful artistic creations. It will be a day of interactive fun, including live music, dance, art installations, puppets, food and more!
Tickets are available now on Eventbrite.
