PROJECT

Year
 2017

Communities Visited
Bracebridge, Burk’s Falls, Gravenhurst, and Sundridge

Interviews Conducted
60

The project culminated in a multimedia performance at the Other Side Gallery in Huntsville as part of Edge of the Woods Theatre’s Nuit Blanche North, an overnight multi-arts street festival.

Listen to some of our stories from Bracebridge, Burk’s Falls, Gravenhurst, and Sundridge on our interactive storymap.

Was 5 years old, and standing out where the train station was, and you could here the train coming and blowing the whistle. And then all of a sudden it arrived in Bracebridge, and it was full of soldiers, all returning from the war.
— Ken Veitch, Storyteller, Bracebridge, ON

CREDITS

Chad Dembski - Lead Storygathering Artist & Audio Editor
Kari Pederson - Storygathering Artist & Tiny Town Camera Operator
Jesse Cotton - Local Youth Artist & Technician
Andrew Cameron - Local Youth Artist
Samantha Madely - Designer
Rob Feetham - Performer
Sean Cotton - Musician

PARTNERS

The project was supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario 150and local partners, the Edge of the Woods Theatre/Nuit Blanche North and the Muskoka Community Foundation. We are also grateful to the Town of Sundridge, Village of Burk’s Falls, Bracebridge BIA, and Gravenhurst BIA for their outreach support.

PRESS

MUSKOKAREGION.COM | The Tale of a Town Comes to Muskoka, Sundridge

MUSKOKAREGION.COM  | Downtowns a big part of upcoming performance theatre

YOUR.TV MUSKOKA


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