Porch Dances - Neighbours and friends dancing together, from afar!

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Get dancing with friends and neighbours with CAHEP and the City of Thunder Bay!

Calling friends and neighbours! Join us for this fun and creative dance project! This is for EVERYONE - whether or not you've danced before! You do not need any special training, just a love of dance and willingness to perform!

Small groups living in the same households, families and individuals will sign-up to gain access to an original piece of music and instructional dance video provided by local artists. Participants will have time to independently learn the short dance piece, and then modify the moves to be suitable in their own spaces. Finally, participants will perform on October 12th in their yards, balconies etc. while wearing masks and submit video footage to become part of a Porch Dance final performance video, to be released during the final week of Culture Days!

Please note: if you live in another neighbourhood in Thunder bay not listed above, but still would like to participate, please contact us directly!

ALL physical distance protocols must be followed and participants are asked to wear masks while dancing/filming their final performances and anytime they are practicing with those outside of their social bubble. For further details regarding Covid-19 restrictions and policies follow the links below:

Thunder Bay District Health Unit:

https://www.tbdhu.com/coronavirus

Public Health Ontario:

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/diseases-and-conditions/infectious-diseases/respiratory-diseases/novel-coronavirus/public-resources

Links

• Visit us on Facebook to learn more! facebook.com
• Register your team: forms.gle
• Help support CAHEP! Make a donation through Canada Helps. canadahelps.org

Organizer

Community Arts & Heritage Education Project (CAHEP)

Vision:

Enriching lives through arts and heritage education.

Mission:

Delivering arts and heritage education programming in efficient and effective ways by:

Promoting arts and heritage via CAHEP’s In-school and Community-Engaged Art Programs;

Staging multiple public showcases for the work of participants in CAHEP’s In-school and Community-Engaged Art Programs;

Arranging exhibits, hand-on workshops, and demonstrations by CAHEP-involved artists across the City of Thunder Bay to celebrate, promote, and educate the public about the value of, the arts and heritage;

Providing meaningful and measurable professional development opportunities for Northwestern Ontario new generation, emerging, mid-career, and established diversely-situated artists, i.e., artists from various social locations such as gender, race, class, culture, ethnicity, age, ability, sexuality, nationality, and educational level backgrounds — including Indigenous, Francophone, and ethnically diverse artists as well as artists who are differently-abled;

Supporting artist-run programming and/or participant-centred programming facilitated by artists;

Ensuring accessible and inclusive programming for participants regardless of their various social locations, i.e., gender, race, class, culture, ethnicity, age, ability, sexuality, nationality, and educational level backgrounds;

Engaging in community outreach and partnership building with groups and individuals from various social locations — or interchangeably from diversely situated groups and individuals;

Recognizing the transformative possibilities of arts and heritage projects.