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Under the artistic direction of choreographer/dancer Malgorzata Nowacka, The Chimera Project is a renowned contemporary dance company that is committed to building new audiences for contemporary dance by creating works that resonate with audiences through compelling themes and intense raw physicality. In creating work that explodes with high-octane physicality, ferocious technique and dark gritty themes, Nowacka's choreographic works are immersive and exciting journeys that assault the senses; they have repeatedly garnered her accolades, including one of the Top Ten Performances of the Year by Canada's The Globe and Mail and in Toronto's NOW Magazine. The Chimera Project presents an annual season in its home community of Toronto, and tours throughout Ontario and afield to BC and into the US, giving workshops and creation residencies. The company works with a core group of seven dancers and has a touring repertoire of 3 full length works, choreographed by Malgorzata Nowacka.

..."where the future of Canadian Opera is being made today". -Toronto Star Tapestry is an international home for new work creation, development and performance through its unique and highly collaborative work process. Beginning with composers and writers, Tapestry provides guidance and support through the collaborative process of new opera creation. Beyond the premiere, Tapestry seeks opportunities to showcase new works to a range of local, national, and international audiences. These new works, grown out of contemporary situations by living artists, speak directly to the experiences of today’s audiences. Tapestry is also committed to devising innovative, creation-based outreach activities, including the INside Opera Education Program. Over the course of over 33 years, Tapestry has been instrumental in shifting the culture of opera in Canada and has helped to shape a framework for new opera development in Canada and abroad.

One of Canada’s finest and last remaining grand estates, featuring architectural, landscape and interior designs of the 1920’s and 1930’s, Parkwood was home, from 1917-1972, to auto baron R. Samuel McLaughlin (founder of General Motors Canada)and his family. Parkwood is praised by Canada’s Historic Site and Monuments Board as “a rare surviving example of the type of estate developed in Canada during the inter-war years, and is rarer still by its essentially intact condition, furnished and run to illustrate as it was lived within.” The majestic estate that was once a private enclave experienced by a select few is now a National Historic Site, open year-round, to be enjoyed by all. The Parkwood Foundation has successfully raised $5 million to date, for conservation and preservation of this magnificent estate. Your support will help us continue to preserve this important heritage site, for th education and enjoyment of all.

Since 1894, the TMC has received support from people like you who are deeply committed to choral music in Canada. Ticket sales and concert sponsorships cover 35% of the cost of our performances, education & outreach programs. Now more than ever, we rely on sponsorships and personal donations to make up the difference. ___________________________________________ The 150-voice Toronto Mendelssohn Choir has performed on the international stage, including New York’s Carnegie Hall, London’s Royal Albert Hall, and Vienna’s Musikverein. Most recently the TMC participated in a series of concerts as part of the 2010 Cultural Olympiad. At home, the TMC presents over 20 concerts each season, including its own subscription series and guest appearances with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, with repertoire ranging from Renaissance masterpieces to large-scale symphonic works and new compositions.

The Vancouver Chamber Choir is one of Canada’s national treasures, an outstanding professional vocal ensemble noted for its diverse repertoire and performing excellence. The Choir has been performing to audiences at home in Vancouver and on tour across Canada since it was formed in 1971 by conductor Jon Washburn. International excursions have taken the Vancouver Chamber Choir to the USA, Mexico, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Finland, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine. Honoured with the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence by Chorus America, the Vancouver Chamber Choir has to its credit countless performances, 30 recordings, hundreds of radio broadcasts and numerous awards. Recognized by the Canadian League of Composers as foremost supporters of Canadian music, Jon Washburn and the Choir have commissioned and premiered nearly 250 Canadian choral compositions.

Founded in 2011, GRRR is a small 501(c)(3)  rescue organization that serves Chatham County in coastal Georgia as well as the surrounding counties in the area.  Based in Savannah, we are dedicated to rescuing dogs from owners who are no longer able to care for them, from public shelters without a "no-kill" policy and from situations where a dog has suffered abuse or neglect.  We are committed to helping dogs of all ages and believe that no matter what the age or health condition of a dog, we are dedicated to insuring that every dog deserves love, care and compassion.  All dogs rescued by GRRR are then spayed or neutered, receive full veterinary treatment, immunizations and microchips.  We are a foster based organization and all dogs are placed in loving foster homes while awaiting adoption

We're engaging communities worldwide in charting a sustainable future - for all of us! With inclusive participation our goal and mapmaking our medium, Green Map System empowers a diverse global movement that promotes local green living, natural, cultural and social resources. Today, in 1,000 cities, villages and neighborhoods in 65 countries, Green Maps are guiding millions to make climate-smart everyday decisions that promote the uniqueness of home and protect the species that share it with us. Working collaboratively since 1995, we expand the demand for healthier, more vibrant communities with our adaptable mapmaking tools and universal icons, multi-lingual participatory websites, workshops and regional hubs. Transforming local information into global interaction, our interactive Open Green Map platform invites the public to enhance the maps as well as explore them.

Jeffrey Myers, first violinist of the Calidore String Quartet, makes his home in New York City. His chamber music career with the award winning Calidore String Quartet has established an international reputation for its informed, polished, and passionate performances. The quartet won the $100,000 Grand Prize at the inaugural 2016 M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition along with grand prizes in the Fischoff, Coleman, Chesapeake, and Yellow Springs competitions and captured top prizes at the 2012 ARD Munich International String Quartet Competition, and Hamburg International Chamber Music Competition. The CSQ is a recipient of a 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2017 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award. The quartet was the first North American ensemble to win the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, and is currently in residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program.

The Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms (BB&B) Society of Boston was formed in the spring of 2016 by Music Director Steven Lipsitt and the musicians of the former Boston Classical Orchestra. A new Board of Directors, led by Professor Herbert F. Voigt, Ph.D., is determined to continue a beloved and time-honored tradition of great, expertly performed orchestral concerts presented in one of America’s most historic spaces, Boston’s Faneuil Hall. Following debut concerts in March and April of 2016, and thanks to the generosity and loyalty of supporters, BB&B presented a full 2016 – 2017 season of subscription concerts to excited, enthusiastic audiences. Sharing the stunning musical virtuosity of its own professional musicians, world-class guest soloists, and a level of quality that has been the hallmark of concerts in its Faneuil Hall home for many years, BB&B renewed old friendships and developed new ones, laying the groundwork for a bright future as Boston’s newest professional orchestra.

Anna Leigh Tomalis Foundation, known as Anna's Gift Foundation, is a 501(c)3 non-profit fueled by 100% volunteer effort (no paid employees) that eases the suffering of kids with life threatening illnesses. It brings them joy by providing craft kits to relieve the loneliness of seperation from home & friends, boredom of confinement in bed, misery of dreaded treatments, and even at a young age - fear as to survival.  Named after one child, who did not survive a disease that plagued her, Anna's Gift Foundation uses donated proceeds to buy supplies in bulk to make craft kits such as sugar cube castles, pillow making, bracelet weaving, painting, and more.  Kits are supplied to 10 local Children’s Hospitals & contain instructions and all supplies needed.   

Whitesbog Village is a historic company town and farm with 25 historic buildings, blueberry farm fields, cranberry bogs, hiking trails, reservoirs, streams, a picnic grove and the Elizabeth White Gardens. In the early 1900’s, Whitesbog was the largest cranberry farm in New Jersey and its founder, Joseph J. White, was a nationally recognized leader in the cranberry industry. In 1916, Elizabeth C. White collaborated with Dr. Frederick A. Coville of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and successfully developed the first cultivated blueberry here at Whitesbog. Elizabeth developed a nursery here, built her home, Suningive and her gardens of native Pine Barrens plants. Our mission is to restore, protect and enhance historic Whitesbog Village, and to preserve and interpret the White family legacy, inspiring audiences of all ages to experience the origins and past innovations of cranberry and blueberry culture and the rich and unique ecology of the NJ Pine Barrens.

Puppetmongers was established in 1974 by the sister and brother team of Ann Powell and David Powell. Between 1974 and 1989, we toured our shows for family audiences extensively to most major Canadian and US centres as well as in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany and Iran. Since 1990 we have focused on working nearer home, with the addition of short tours to festivals and theatre runs further afield. We create larger, more theatrical shows, involving many artists and self-produce our works in theatres. We have ventured into puppetry for adult audiences with several productions and work with other artists, such as on in composer R. Murray Schafer's Palace of the Cinnabar Phoenix. Most recently we mounted Charles Dickens’ Hard Times. We founded The School of Puppetry in 1996 with courses for adults, as a vehicle for disseminating our vision. This season the course is being incorporated into Humber College’s new Puppet Intensive Program.