The Ontario Culture Days Festival saw thousands of free community events during the past year, many of which were in Guelph.
One of those events has won the Best Collaborative Program award as part of the festival’s Spotlight Recognition Program.
'Reshaping Ruins,' an art project organized by the City of Guelph Museums & Culture, along with artistis-in-residence Silas Chinsen, Sophia Chilton and Caleb Bray, won the Best Collaborative Program award, which was introduced this year.
The interactive art project aimed to reanimate the Goldie Mill Ruins with community-made visual art, poetry and music. It started with an open call for poetry, which was turned into a choral composition with local singers. The composition was later turned into more abstract, ambient music.
The final event featured the ambient sound and projections of paintings, light, and video footage of life in Guelph, all of which interacted with the audience movements, casting shadows onto the three-story building.
The project organizers were given the award for their efforts to combine creative visions.
You can read more about the project here.
