Centre for the Arts

Supporters

Building the Centre

"We believe the proposed placement will enrich Sam’s grasp of the arts beyond the classroom and are honoured by your considering this request. Former students working with your institution have had extraordinarily rich experiences and learned much from the opportunities you provided."

Aynne Johnson,
Dramatic Arts Education, Co-Coordinator,
Artist-in-Community Education, Queen’s University

2004

Board of Directors

Sarain Boylan, Chair - Actor, filmmaker
Rajiv Maikhuri, Secretary - Film producer
Saroj Bains, Treasurer - Journalist, filmmaker
Janine Pearson, Director - Head, Voice Department, Stratford Festival of Canada
Al St. Louis, Director - Spoken word poet
Elinor Reid, Director - Film producer
Chris Bolton, Ex-Officio - Vice-chair, Toronto District School Board
Advisory Board

Dan St. Amour, Truck Packaging Manager, William F. White International Inc.

Heather N. Segal, Lawyer
David Fox, Actor

Troy Miller, Filmmaker

Patrick Garrow, Actor
References

John Greyson, Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Film, York University
Colleen Petch, Coordinator of Student Services, Greenwood College School

John van Burek, Artistic Director, Pleiades Theatre

How You Can Help
If you support the work of the Centre please support us financially. Join our Sponsorhsip Programs! Help send a teen to Film Camp, sponsor a professional artist to continue training, a new play reading or an Independent Film Screening. Our thanks to all the supporters who have generously donated money to the Centre.

The Centre is run by people participating in and leading the projects and everyone is welcome. If you have an idea for a project let's discuss it. Most of our work is done by volunteers:

Building the space, the website, the brochure, screenings, the Youth Association etc.

Sponsorship Program

The Sponsorship Program has allowed professionals, youth and anyone else with limited financial resources, to participate in programs at the Centre. This opportunity is helping to meet the need people have to be in a space where they can give expression to what is on their minds.

Be a Friend $25
Assist an Arts Professional to take a Training session $150
Sponsor one Teen to attend Film Camp $400

Help develop new Projects $1,000 - $5,000

Support the Building Fund to keep our Space $5,000+

All sponsors will be listed on our website and have a tribute plaque mounted at the Centre in their name, which will be seen and viewed by all CFA patrons and students. Your real assistance is essential to the growth of this independent project.

Partners:

William F. White International, Inc., Technicolor Creative Services and Kodak Canada.

Sponsors:

Rancho Relaxo, Dufflets, Dominion, Bell Mobility, Bravo!FACT, Staples Business Depot, Canon Canada, Kalendar Restaurant, Kwik Kopy, Motoretta, TheatreBooks, Alphacine Toybox, Toronto, Precision Transfer and Currie's Art Supplies.

Supporters:

Guberman, Garson, Bush Immigration Lawyers, Franklin Templeton Investments Corp., Red Pegasus, BetterBuilding Material, Rocco Galati, David Fox, Michelle Adams, Lewis Goldberg, Robert Haufrecht, Arnell S. Goldberg, Zachary Cox, Paul Alkhoury, John Greyson, David Krae, Aquila Pictures Inc., Brian Ehrenworth, Frameworth and Peter Martin, Ryerson Theatre School, Director's Guild of Canada, Paul Lippi.

Organizations We Partner With:

David Calderisi, York University Grad Film Department, The CO., Breathe Electric with Melanie Windle, Dish Pictures, Kensington Carnival Arts Society, Book Publishers of Ontario, Dogtooth Theatre Group, Humber College Film Department, Queen's University, Arts in Community Education, Easy Productions and Southpaw Theatre.

Volunteers

The Centre is run by people initiating projects and running them. The organization and base of the Centre guarantees the success of the projects and together all the work gets done. As the permanent space is a condition for work to be done and for people to develop, it needs support to grow. The volunteers are the Centre. The Centre is the point—“the centre”-- and everyone who participates fills out the circle around the focal point and hence, presto, you have Centre for the Arts. If you have any ideas for projects or want to participate in what is going on please join us.

Striking the First Nail

Before we officially opened the doors to the new Centre for the Arts we began construction of the studios and to mark that beginning we had a champagne ceremony. Called on ‘the night before’ notice twenty-five supporters showed up at 11:00am and we clinked plastic glasses, drank cheap champagne and toasted: Striking the First Nail. We stated then that it is everyone who is building the Centre not just one individual. It is a social place and is being built and supported socially. By people in the community who need a permanent space to meet and work. A tradition was immediately formed whereby everyone who came to our space over the first few months took a hammer and hit the same nail in the middle of a piece of 2 x 4, thus, everyone Struck the First Nail. People loved to be part of this construction. It lifted the spirits of the front-line soldiers who were slogging to get the project underway and meeting all the problems head–on.

These photos attest to our history and the way the Centre began and still grows.

All for one and one for All!

Left to Right: Jeff Berg, Justin Tensen, Anthony Boylan, Jonathan Collard

Chair Card
January 2003

This CHAIR fundraising campaign invites you to help build the not-for-profit Centre for the Arts. By contributing $25.00, you become a FRIEND of the Centre and your funds help to buy chairs and other equipment for the space. The CHAIR campaign is both literal and figurative, providing a practical way to include everyone who supports the Centre’s aims and efforts. This is your invitation to come to the new Centre for the Arts.

Renee Hackett

Matt Hilliard-Forde

David Hirsh

Tamara Hickey
Adam MacDonald

Rosa Laborde

Jodie & Damon Runyon

David Fox

Amrit Bains

Evan Young

Manuel Gitterman

Carmine Raviele (Gato Nero)

Tom Butler