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Festival seeking houses, apartments for cast, crew
The Blyth Festival is again on the
hunt for adequate housing in the
months leading up to the 2019
season, which will see five
productions on the Memorial Hall
stage.
Festival General Manager Rachael
King says that this season the
Festival will be bringing upwards of
75 professionals (artists and crew
members) to the village over the
course of the season. At its peak, the
Festival will have 44 people in Blyth
or its immediate surrounding areas at
the same time.
Currently, King says she’s between
eight and 12 spots short and the clock
is ticking. In addition, many of the
artists coming to Blyth this season,
King said, don’t have cars of their
own, meaning their housing must be
within walking distance of Memorial
Hall and basic amenities.
King says the Festival is looking
for apartments and houses to rent for
the summer months, rather than
rooms in otherwise occupied homes.
Many of the artists are coming for
temporary, but extended periods of
time, so they’re looking for
accommodations in which they can
put down some roots for a few
months, she said.
The need for housing is
exacerbated by the fact that this
year’s cast is bigger than casts of
previous years. In addition, the
Festival often employs a good
number of artists from the Stratford
area who commute to Blyth for work
at the Festival. This year, there are
fewer commuters and more artists
looking to stay in the village for their
time with the Festival.
For example, King said, there are
16 cast members across the first two
shows of the season alone. Part of
that expansion has to do with the
Festival’s opening show, Jumbo,
which will feature a full cast of
circus performers.
Homeowners, landlords or anyone
with some space to spare are
encouraged to call King at 519-523-
9300 or e-mail her at
rking@blythfestival.com.
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
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alternating them so the CCRC has
one of its flagship events every year.
The second project Smith and the
CCRC are currently working on is
the National Policy Creative, which
is an adaptation of a program
currently in place in Holland that
works to advise federal decision-
makers.
The concept comes to the CCRC
straight from Hans van der Loo, who
was a speaker at the 2018 R2R
conference, delivering the opening
keynote presentation, entitled
“Wake Up: This is (Y)Our Only
Home”. Van der Loo is involved in a
number of initiatives in Europe and
has been able to connect Smith to
the Dutch think tank that has
inspired the concept.
Smith says that every year in
Holland since 2005, a group of 20
scholars, recent graduates and other
intellectuals get together to
brainstorm better policy for the
country. The statistics show, Smith
said, that many of the
recommendations made by the
group over the last nearly 15 years
have been adopted and made into
federal policy.
Smith says he’s very excited by
the possibilities of a similar
collective in Canada. It would be
adapted, however, to fit the CCRC
model and the infrastructure already
in place in Blyth, bringing in artists
and creative residents, as well as
critical thinkers, into the fold in the
hopes of affecting change in the
country.
Whether it’s research and
development, the creation of surveys
or a number of other concepts, the
collective in Holland has proven its
worth and Smith hopes that a similar
model could do the same for Canada
and its federal government.
In May, Smith will be travelling to
Ottawa in the hopes of drumming up
support for the program with an aim
of getting it off the ground very
soon.
Smith says that there are over 100
universities in Canada and
harnessing that intelligence and
creative thinking will be crucial to
the success of this project.
The third project the centre is
currently at work on is “Rurality”,
an app that will aim to connect those
in rural and remote communities
across Canada.
Again, the idea grew out of last
fall’s R2R conference and Huron-
Bruce federal Liberal candidate
Allan Thompson’s Market Street
Strategies and how they worked to
broadcast the goings-on of R2R to
the world.
The app, Smith says, would cost
the centre a fair bit of money, so it
may take time, but he says it’s a
great concept that could really have
a place in the CCRC’s work going
forward.
Smith said that while things with
the CCRC are changing and it’s in a
period of transition from 14/19 to
the centre itself, it is an exciting time
and one that’s filled with potential
and possibility.
Steven Sparling of 14/19 agrees,
saying it’s an exciting time for the
village and for the future of the
CCRC. While the physical location
of the centre is currently in
transition, he feels there are a lot of
positive possibilities for the centre in
its future.
When the opportunity to sell the
land along King Street in Blyth, the
former home of Blyth Public
School, came along, Sparling said it
made sense to find a new home for
the CCRC.
When 14/19 was launched, it
made sense to work to locate the
CCRC on a site that had served as a
learning centre for Blythites for
decades through Blyth Public
School, Sparling said. A lot has
happened in the last five years, he
said, and the centre doesn’t
necessarily need to be at that
location to be successful.
Part of that successful future is a
fundraising campaign that Smith has
undertaken, working to raise $6,000
to help fund the centre’s work in the
coming months. At press time,
Smith was over halfway to his stated
goal, but still requires help.
To donate to the CCRC, visit
www.ulule.com/ruralfuture/ and for
more information on the centre, visit
ruralcreativity.org.
CCRC funding campaign started
Awarded
As the Blyth Broomball Association handed out its annual year-end awards earlier this month,
a number of Senior division players saw their hard work and talent rewarded. Back row, from
left: Christopher Dolmage, Midget Boys most improved; Kortney Hoggart, the Bantam Girls
sportsmanship award; Addie Treble, Midget Girls Bullets most dedicated; Heidi Badley, Midget
Girls Bullets most improved; Paige Kennedy, the Midget Girls Bullets sportsmanship award;
Allison Toll, Midget Girls Ice most improved and Evie Reid, the Midget Girls Ice sportsmanship
award. Front row, from left: Dawson Hoggart, Midget Boys most dedicated; Regan McMichael,
Bantam Girls most improved; Alexis Eveland, Bantam Girls most dedicated; Ethan Blake,
Bantam Boys most improved; Caleb Westra, Bantam Boys, most dedicated; Philip Holtzhauer,
the Bantam Boys sportsmanship award and Alex Boven, the Midget Boys sportsmanship
award. Absent was Abby Bos, Midget Girls Ice most dedicated. (Photo submitted)
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