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Meet our 2020 - 2021 SOCIRC YOUTH AMBASSADORS!
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Said
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Dai
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Joshua
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Abebe
Our amazing ambassadors will be representing Toronto & SoCirC at the National Social Circus Gathering: CIRKASKINA leading SoCirC in creation, and into our 3 year growth project! 
... our 2020-2021 team of circus, social, and management people... 
click photo to learn more...
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Jason J. Brown Video Production & Tech
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Marsha Kennington-Consultant, facilitator, core member
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Dee - Dance Facilitator, Core Member
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Rachel :Founder -Coorinator -ED Lead Social Circus Facilitator
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Abe -Circus Facilitator - core member
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Jen - Community Volunteer, core team
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Bex - Circus Facilitator - core member
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Jaya -- -----Project Manager----- & Digital Transitions Coordinator
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Erin Ball ----- Access Liaison ----- [A single rope hangs from the ceiling. Erin, white, is wrapped in the rope, mid-air. She wears a green skin tight bodysuit and has mid-length red hair in a side ponytail. Her lower legs end below the knees. Below her are mannequin legs with plants and vines flowing out of them from the top. She hangs, upside down, just above the mannequin legs, touching the plants with her hands.]
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Samantha - social circus facilitator
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--- Rebecca Leonard --- Head: Rigging/ Operations Lead Social Circus Facilitator
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Maya Hall - Circus facilitator -core member
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Louis. Circus Artist and social circus facilitator.
..our amazing board of directors... 
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Keley - Director
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Jean - Chair
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Amy -Treasurer
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Lee - Director
our roster of amazing special guests facilitators...
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Athena. Circus Artist, Yoga and Circus instructor.
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Emma. Trauma Counselor (and circus aerialist )
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Grace. Circus Artist and social circus facilitator.
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Hayley. Social Circus Instructor.
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Ilana. Social Worker (& recreational circus artist)
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Angola . Circus Artist and social circus facilitator.
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Ana. Circus Artist and social circus facilitator.
...our community partners, funders, supporters and friends...
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Pedestrian Sunday's Kensington (Market) street festival has been hosting our youth street performances every summer for SoCirC's Red Light Project
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Cirque du Monde (Cirque du Soleil's social action department), an official partner of SoCirC, hosted a benefit performance of Luzia their latest show to raise funding for SoCirC helping enable us to run The Red Light Project for our 3rd year!
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Sketch has been hosting SoCirC's Red Light Project for the past 3 years for our drop in Social Circus programs for street involved and other marginalized youth 16-29
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Thanks to the generous funding from  Ontario Arts Councils SoCirC artists have been doing social circus programs in alternative and unique public secondary schools for the last 4 years, always partnering with school with high populations of youth on the margins. We have also been funded by TDSB for various intensive programs for which the youth often continue with us in our community drop in programs both at SKETCH and Art gallery of Ontario.Check out our school partners below! Thanks to all of the teachers, social workers, Educational Assistants, Principals, and other school staff to help make the programs a success.
   
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The Triangle Program
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Quest Collegiate & Recovery Centre
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Contact Alternative
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The Aboriginal Education Centre
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Heydon Park Secondary School
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Oasis Alternative: Arts and Social Change
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ODSS Special Needs and Dance Programs
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Central Tech. Special Needs Program

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The Toronto Arts Council generously funded SoCirc's Red Light Project 2015 and 2016
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We appreciate the discounted and donated equipment for our workshops from Higgins Brothers Juggling Equipment!
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Lookup Theatre, a Toronto friend and partner has an initiative as part of their organization called Talk to Youth Lately: a youth circus troupe formed specifically for youth who have had mental health experiences, with whom we have done collaborative workshops and some SoCirC participants get to move on to perform with the TTYL group.
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Scarborogh's Warden Wood's program has brought in some of SoCirC team to provide Workshops for Warden Woods youth programs. See project section to check out more about this project!
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The Art Gallery of Ontario hosted and funded our free drop in programing 2013-2015 at the Gallery with Syrus Ware! Read more on our projects page or click logo
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Art Starts Art Starts is an award-winning charitable, not-for-profit organization that uses the arts as a vehicle to encourage social change and hosted SoCirC programs.
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