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1 A Message from the Artistic and Executive Directors

Welcome to Jungle Book!

This fresh and energetic take on the classic story challenges the notion of human domination of the animal world. In that sense, it addresses head-on, the colonial perspective of the original stories. Craig Francis’ and Rick Miller’s version of Jungle Book continues our exploration at YPT this season of the seven ancestral teachings of the Anishinaabe — in this case, the concept of Respect. How can we learn to respect all the components of our natural and man-made world?

We hope you enjoy this visually inventive adaptation! We look forward to seeing you at more shows coming up soon.

ALLEN MACINNIS NANCY J. WEBSTER Artistic Director Executive Director

YPT is situated on lands and waterways that have known human activity for more than 15,000 years. We acknowledge the ancestral lands of the Dish with One Spoon Territory, and more recently Treaty 13. This includes the Mississaugas of the Credit who are part of the Anishinaabe Nation, the Wyandot Nation, also the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of Six Nations, and any other Nation, recorded or unrecorded. Miigwech, Nya-weh, Thank you for letting us gather here today.

For more information on Indigenous learning at YPT, please visit YOUNGPEOPLESTHEATRE.ORG/ABOUT-YPT/ 2 INDIGENIZEUS YOUNG PEOPLE’S PRESENTS

Written & Directed by Craig Francis & Rick Miller Adapted from the works of Rudyard Kipling Produced by Kidoons and WYRD Productions in association with The 20K Collective

CAST Raksha//Messua/Others Mina James Levin Valayil //Buldeo/Others Matt Lacas //Maya/Others Tahirih Vejdani

CREATIVE TEAM

Co-creator/Director/Stage Manager Craig Francis Song Lyrics Kipling/Miller/Francis (select performances) Puppetry Consultant Frank Meschkuleit Co-creator/Director/Production Manager Rick Miller Shadow Puppetry Consultant Eric Woolfe Production Manager/Technical Director James Kendal Fight Consultant Siobhan Richardson Stage Manager Andrew Dollar Line Producer, Asolo Rep Celine Rosenthal Executive Producer Jeff Lord Dramaturgy, Asolo Rep Paul Jens Adolphsen Set/Costume/Props/Puppets Co-Designer Astrid Janson & Kris Karcher Set/Costume/Props/Puppets Co-Designer Melanie McNeill Dramaturgy, YPT Allen MacInnis & Lighting Designer Rebecca Picherack Stephen Colella Multimedia Designer Irina Litvinenko Directing Consultant Richard Clarkin Sound Designer/Composer Debashis Sinha Graphic Design & Marketing Logograph Original Song Composer Suba Sankaran

OFFICIAL SITE: junglebook.ca SOCIAL: TW @kidoons / IG @kidoons / FB @junglebookshow

Jungle Book was developed with assistance from and originally produced at the Asolo Repertory Theatre, Michael Donald Edwards, Producing Artistic Director, Linda M. DiGabriele, Managing Director. Additional dramaturgy and development support for the Canadian premiere was provided by Young People's Theatre.

*Kidoons and WYRD Productions engage, under the terms of the Independent Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. Jungle Book is presented under the Reciprocal Agreement Between Actors' Equity Association of the United States and Canadian Actors' Equity Association.

Photo, video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

The performance will run approximately 65 minutes, followed by a Q&A. 3 Creators' Notes

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same… - Rudyard Kipling, IF

That poem hung in a frame in the upstairs hallway of my childhood home in Montreal. As I experienced the “Triumphs and Disasters” of youth, those words always reminded me to keep things in perspective. Maybe that’s part of what drew me to study architecture - this desire to build things through perspective, never losing sight of the broader picture.

Kipling’s writing has come in and out of favor in the 100+ years since he published his many stories, songs and poems. When Craig and I decided to follow Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea with Jungle Book, we had to wade carefully into the waters of colonialism and cultural appropriation. For example, Kipling tended strongly towards a dominance of humans over nature, and of modern over traditional cultures. But no matter how you interpret his writing, you have to admire his gift for storytelling, his love of animals, and his concern for a right relationship with the natural world.

That was our starting point: to go back to Kipling’s Jungle Book (actually TWO Jungle Books) and to view the stories through a modern lens. In so doing, we can hone in on themes and stories that resonate today, and help us all gain perspective on how to live more respectfully with nature, and with each other. When Baloo the sloth bear teaches Mowgli the “” there are very clear echoes of my beloved poem IF, which Kipling wrote 16 years later.

I hope these stories resonate as deeply with you as they continue to do with me. Let Mowgli and our talented cast and creative team carry you deep into the jungle, and bring you back into your city, filled with dreams of a better world.

To the wild. RICK MILLER CO-CREATOR/DIRECTOR

This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tusk and claw. Oh, hear the call! Good hunting all that keep the Jungle Law!

I first discovered Rudyard Kipling at around age eight through hisJust So Stories: how the elephant got his trunk, and so on. His writing brilliantly combined archetypal myths with authentic human emotions and real animal traits. It was exciting to read, and it fired my imagination. Of course, Rick and I are not the only ones to have been entranced by his beloved writing: but I hope to bring a new vision of to a new generation who may have both a more advanced view of nature than Kipling's generation, but less direct contact with it.

We included Kipling's version of how the tiger got its stripes in this adaptation: the play is a labour of love combining poems and stories from The Jungle Book and , along with our own characters, poetry, and take on humanity's troubled relationship with "the wild".

Mowgli begins the play disconnected from humanity and nature; torn between the animal and human worlds. This tug-of-war within Mowgli between his two families, and his search for belonging, are feelings to which every child can relate. This production continues the vision we began with Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea of bringing traditional art and new technologies together, as well as bringing us together with our own audiences in a darkened theatre. It's about connection. We want to connect with you, to experience a unique story in a fresh way, to emerge from our "hour of pride and power" with your own imagination fired, and a little bit of jungle in your spirit.

CRAIG FRANCIS CO-CREATOR/DIRECTOR

4 Thank you!

Jungle Book was developed in association with The 20K Collective; Kidoons commissioned and produced it, with development assistance from Asolo Repertory Theatre and a gift from Edie Winston. Workshops took place in 2017 and 2018 at Dancemakers Studios and Glendon Theatre in , and Asolo Rep in Sarasota. The world premiere was at Asolo Repertory Theatre in June 2018. Additional dramaturgy and development support for the Canadian premiere was provided by Young People's Theatre.

We thank the following for helping us to let in the jungle!

Jeff Lord

Michael Donald Edwards and Linda M. DiGabriele at Asolo Rep

Allen MacInnis, Craig Morash and Stephen Colella at Young People’s Theatre (YPT)

Edie Winston

Architectural renderings generously provided courtesy of KPMB Architects

The Joy McCann Culverhouse Charitable Remainder Trust

Script developed with support from Factory Theatre via an OAC Creators' Reserve Grant.

Concept developed with our brilliant workshop and development artists: Guifré Bantjes-Ràfols, Beryl Bain, Michael Dufays, André Du Toit, Séan Baker, Miriam Fernandes, Anita Majumdar, and Natalia Gracious.

The Francis, Miller, Lord and Baptist families

Andrew Mestern at the Stratford Festival for the brass cutouts.

Greg Wilkie at Solotech.

The Toronto connections: Deb Doncaster and Earth Day , Ravi Jain, Sandra Laronde, Jason Knight, Deborah Knight (DKPR), Duncan Appleton, and the crews and teams at Glendon College Theatre, Dancemakers Studios, and Young People’s Theatre.

Produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.

Thanks to our Kidoons videos partner organizations across Canada and the US.

We would like to acknowledge funding support from the Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.

5 Cast

MINA JAMES LEVIN VALAYIL RAKSHA/BAGHEERA/ MOWGLI MESSUA/OTHERS Levin is thrilled to be Mina is an actor, reprising his role as improviser and writer. Mowgli after playing Select credits include: runs at Asolo Rep. and ‘Mila’ in Sultans of the Pasadena Playhouse. Streets (YPT; Dora His theatre credits Award for Outstanding include Bhangin’ It Performance, (La Jolla Playhouse); Ensemble); ‘Puppeteer’ Poster Boy (Public Theater and Williamstown in 1991 (Theatre Center/RISER Festival), Theater Festival); Monsoon Wedding (Berkeley ‘Ensemble’ in the 2018 Diversity Fellowship Repertory Theater); A Gentleman’s Guide to Showcase (Second City), ‘Helena’ in All’s Love and Murder (Florida Studio Theater); Well That Ends Well (Canadian Stage/ The Fabulous Lipitones (New Theatre, Virginia Shakespeare in High Park), ‘Kristyna’ in Repertory Theater, Florida Studio Theater). Paul Dunn’s Outside (Roseneath Theatre), Levin’s film credits include the short films ‘Ensemble’ in Antigonick (SummerWorks Thoughtless, The Lip Readers and Metros. He Festival). Film: Auroras (Dir. Atom Egoyan). is trained at the Steppenwolf Theater School, Mina is passionate about cooking, biking, Conservatory, and Berklee College of and doing bad accents. Mina would like to Music. He wants to thank his mom, dad and thank Rick, Craig and everyone at Kidoons brother for their endless support and love! and YPT for letting her get to play in the “For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and Jungle. Mina would also like to extend the strength of the wolf is the pack!” gratitude to her husband, Jake, and her rescue doggo, Annie, for all their love and support. TAHIRIH VEJDANI SHERE KHAN/KAA/ MAYA/OTHERS MATT LACAS AKELA/BALOO/ Tahirihi is a Toronto- BULDEO/OTHERS based actor, singer, music educator and conductor originally Matt is excited to bring from Regina, the jungle to Toronto. Saskatchewan. She He is a proud graduate is beyond excited to of both Dawson be making her YPT College’s Theatre debut! Select theatre credits include: HMS Program and Randolph Pinafore, Treasure Island, The Pirates of College’s Triple Threat Penzance, Elektra (Stratford Shakespeare Program. Matt has had Festival); Portia’s Julius Caesar (Shakespeare the privilege of working on stages all across in the Ruff);The Men in White (Factory Asia, Europe, US and Canada. Selected Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew (Driftwood Credits: A Brimful of Asha, Ben Hur (Festival Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Tarragon Antigonish); Fabulous Lipitones (Miracle Theatre); The Hobbit, Shrek The Musical, Theatre); Les Moutons (Japan Tour Corpus Honk! A Musical Tale of the Ugly Duckling Dance Projects). Matt is also the founder (Globe Theatre). Select film/TV credits:Kim’s of We Are Here Productions, a non profit Convenience, InSecurity (CBC); Let it Snow theatre company that aims to turn art into (Netflix). Thanks to everyone at Kidoons and tangible aid for those in need worldwide. YPT for all their hard work on this show. It’s Matt would like to thank his family, friends time to let in the jungle again! and Rosie for keeping me grounded. @is_that_mattlacas

6 Creative Team

CRAIG FRANCIS JAMES KENDAL CO-CREATOR/DIRECTOR PRODUCTION MANAGER/ TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Craig is a writer, illustrator and multi- James is a freelance disciplinary creator. technician, carpenter With The 20K and artist currently Collective, he co- based in Toronto. His created with Rick Miller long and varied career in Jungle Book, Twenty performance began at a Thousand Leagues young age with classical Under The Sea, GAME of CLONES and training in voice, violin, and 10 years as a Princess and the Pea (Kidoons and WYRD classical ballet dancer. James has expanded his Productions). He is adapting Frankenstein skillset into the realms of lighting, audio and (Kidoons/WYRD) with Rick Miller and Paul video design, and carpentry along with stage Van Dyck; and is a producer, dramaturg and and production management throughout Stage Manager for Miller's BOOM, BOOM the past decade. James has worked on many X, and BOOM YZ (Kidoons/WYRD/Theatre acclaimed productions - currently touring ). Craig performs improv, and his internationally for who we are in the dark with theatre credits include The Refugee Hotel Peggy Baker Dance Projects and Jungle Book (Teesri Duniya). He lives in Montreal, has with Kidoons/WYRD Productions. James looks illustrated books, cartoons, and voiced forward to bringing Jungle Book to the world series and video games. with this wonderful cast and crew.

ANDREW DOLLAR RICK MILLER STAGE MANAGER CO-CREATOR/DIRECTOR

Much of Andrew’s Rick is a writer/director/ recent work has been actor/musician/ with VideoCabaret on educator who has their productions of performed in five To Good To Be True, languages on five Confederation: Part 1 continents, and who and 2, The Great War, Entertainment Weekly Trudeau and Levesque. called “one of the 100 Other recent credits include: Cliff Cardinal’s most creative people alive today”. He has CBC Special, The Second City Guide to the created shows such as the BOOM trilogy and Symphony, Krapp’s Last Tape with Theatre MacHomer; (with Daniel Brooks) Bigger Than Passe Muraille, Stellavision with Stella Walker Jesus and HARDSELL; (with Robert Lepage) in Keno City, Yukon. Geometry of Miracles, Zulu Time, Lipsynch, and Possible Worlds; (with Craig Francis & Kidoons) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under JEFF LORD The Sea, GAME of CLONES, Jungle Book, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Frankenstein and Princess and the Pea. Rick is from Montreal, and lives in Toronto with The co-founder of his partner Stephanie Baptist and their two WYRD Productions, and daughters. the President of Kidoons, Jeff has executive produced internationally successful touring productions, including Rick Miller's BOOM (Kidoons/WYRD), BOOM X (Kidoons/WYRD/ Theatre Calgary), and BOOM YZ; and The 20K Collective's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jungle Book, Princess and the Pea and Frankenstein (Kidoons/WYRD). Jeff has a lifelong passion for combining art and technology. Through the Kidoons Network, his artist collaborators help Not-for-Profit organizations and corporate clients to tell their stories onstage and online, with a vision to inspire and empower all generations. 7 ASTRID JANSON REBECCA SET/COSTUME/PROPS/ PICHERACK PUPPETS CO-DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER

Astrid’s production Rebecca is a Toronto- design work has based lighting designer. been seen on stages and Dance across Canada, from companies include: the Arts and Culture Adelheid (Heidi Centre in St. John’s, Strauss), The Blyth to the Pacific Theatre, Buddies in in Victoria, BC. Canadian theatres include Bad Times, Canadian Rep, Factory Theatre, 12 seasons at the Stratford Festival, nine GCTC, Tarragon Theatre, RMTC, National seasons for Soulpepper Theatre, The Arts Centre, Mammalian Diving Reflex, Canadian Opera Co., The Shaw Festival, Volcano, Theatre Passe Muraille, Mirvish, Canadian Stage, Citadel Theatre, National HUM (Susanna Hood), Zata Omm (William Ballet, National Arts Centre, Manitoba Yong), Nightwood, . She Theatre Centre and most theatres in has received three Dora Awards and many Toronto. She designed the costumes for nominations for outstanding lighting design. 13 of Michael Hollingsworth’s Village of the Small Huts play cycle for VideoCabaret, most recently Confederation: Part 1 and IRINA LITVINENKO 2. Other recent credits include set and MULTIMEDIA DESIGNER costume design for For Colored Girls… and set design for Vimy for Soulpepper Theatre. Her TV career includes award winning films, Irina is a creative artist, specials and series. Civic projects include graphic designer, Expo ’86 and a Discovery Gallery for the and video production ROM. Internationally, Astrid has designed artist. Irina has been a in Germany, Amsterdam, Paris, Sweden, longstanding multimedia Philadelphia, and New York. She collaborator with Rick has been recognized with numerous awards Miller and Craig Francis, for her design work, including 18 Dora including production Mavor Moore Awards, a Gemini Award, of video sequences and design elements for and the Silver Ticket Award for Lifetime MacHomer, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Achievement in the Theatre. In June 2016, The Sea (Kidoons and WYRD Productions); Astrid received an Honorary Doctor of BOOM X, and BOOM YZ (Kidoons/WYRD/ Letters from Wilfred Laurier University. Theatre Calgary). She is the Multimedia Designer for Jungle Book and Frankenstein (Kidoons/WYRD). Irina is the designer and MELANIE MCNEILL production editor of Kidoons.com animated series, has worked on multimedia campaigns SET/COSTUME/PROPS/ for theatres across Canada and the U.S., PUPPETS CO-DESIGNER and managed event marketing campaigns internationally. Melanie’s select credits include: Annie (YPT); twelve History DEBASHIS SINHA Plays (VideoCabaret), SOUND DESIGNER/ Space Opera Zero, COMPOSER The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy, A stalwart and consistent and more (Eldritch Theatre); Le Menteur, presence in the Canadian Dom Juan, Le club des éphémères, and sound world, Debashis more (Le Théâtre français de Toronto); If I has realized projects in Could Throwback Time, and more (Second radiophonic art, sound City). TV credits include: Production art, theatre, dance and Designer for Échappe-toi si tu peux (Unis music across Canada TV); Art Director for Balade (Unis TV); and and internationally. A winner of two Dora specialty props/puppets/sets/costumes Awards for Best Original Sound Design, for all in house shows (TfO). Melanie has his credits include productions with: The received three Dora Awards, four Dora Stratford Festival, Soulpepper Theatre, The nominations, and a Prix Rideau. Melanie is a Shaw Festival, Why Not Theatre, Peggy graduate of Ryerson Theatre School, and a Baker Dance Projects, The Theatre Centre, member8 of ADC. Nightwood Theatre, YPT, Theatre Passe performing in over 20 countries across Muraille, Tribal Crackling Wind, Project six continents with Autorickshaw, master Humanity, Volcano Theatre and Necessary drummer Trichy Sankaran, FreePlay (a Angel, among others. His live sound cappella/live-looping) and Retrocity (80s practice on the concert stage has led to a cappella revue). Performance highlights appearances at MUTEK, the Guelph Jazz include performing for Peter Gabriel, Nelson Festival, the Banff Centre, The Sound Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Symposium, ISEA, Madrid Abierto, and and performing with Jane Siberry, Lorraine other venues. Sinha released The White Segato, Bobby McFerrin and The Swingles. Dog on Berlin record label Establishment in Suba is in-demand as a vocalist, choral early June, 2018. www.debsinha.com director, arranger, educator, composer and sound designer. She has composed and produced music for theatre, film, radio and dance. Highlights include collaborations with SUBA SANKARAN Deepa Mehta, the CBC and two seasons at ORIGINAL SONG the Stratford Festival. Theatre composer/ COMPOSER sound design credits include Komagata Maru Incident, The Aeneid (Stratford Festival); For Coloured Girls…, Tiger Bamboo Dora Award-winning, Festival (Soulpepper); The Enchanted Loom JUNO-nominated (Cahoots Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing world/fusion vocalist (Tarragon Theatre); Same Same, But Different Suba Sankaran has (Nightswimming Theatre); The Penelopiad effortlessly combined (Nightwood Theatre); Bombay Black musical worlds, (Nightswimming/Cahoots Theatre).

For Discussion After the Show

• Which animal character in the play do you relate to the most, and why? • Who do you think is the most powerful animal in the jungle – Shere Khan, or Kaa? Explain your choice. If you think it is another character, explain why. • Some of the animals do not want to accept Mowgli into the wolf pack because he is an outsider. In what ways are people sometimes made to feel like outsiders? What are some of the things we can do to make others feel included? • Why do you think Shere Khan responds to humans the way he does? • Who do you think should be in charge of making the laws of the jungle, and who should make them for humans?

Visit our website to see the Study Guide for this production: youngpeoplestheatre.org/schools/jungle-book-study-guide/

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10 YPT Staff

Allen MacInnis Nancy J. Webster Craig Morash Nick Tracey artistic director executive director senior director of senior director of finance administration

ADMINISTRATION & ARTISTIC Edgar Chua Stephen Colella Odelia Lee director of operations associate artistic accounting assistant director & dramaturg

EDUCATION & PARTICIPATION

Karen Gilodo Aimee Bouchard student placements: associate artistic director, community programs manager Andreea Ionescu education Judy Nguyen Molly Gardner Katherine Sanders education manager associate director, education resident artist educators: Lindy Kinoshameg Marjie Chud Jill Ward (on leave) community engagement Deborah Drakeford education & participation facilitator Mark Kreder administrative director Erica May-Wood

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PATRON SERVICES Becky Loi Lourdes Mendoza Guy Legault Jonathan Blumenthal front of house manager custodian Adriana Catalina Bronwyn Davies Solis Lozano Dany Dimitrova William Balogh ushers: Peter Mundell Abigail Fernando assistant front of house Günce Akpinar Ivy Odziemkowski Lydia Gabay manager Justin Alves Odunayo Olalere Don Kendal Lauren Fahey Gillian Arnold Karen Rivera Victoria Kung assistant front of house Daniel Bell Quinton Samuel Naomi Luker manager Amelia Blaine Stephen Schroeder Amina Malden Tarah Hamilton Julie Thompson Alexandra Sergueeva Ester Ayala Lindsay Ivan Mai Shimozato part-time custodian Kiara Kim guest services support Sipora Westreich Nora Allman Roberts Isabella Romano

11 YPT Production Staff

Joshua Hind Ilana Harendorf Mike Mills* director of production head of wardrobe head of audio Shanna Miller Taylor Lindsay* Rafiz Chowdhury* technical director studio technician head stage carpenter Dan Fletcher* Lokki Ma Ryan Wilson* head electrician head of props head scenic carpenter

*Employees of YPT represented by Local 58 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

Board of Directors

Jenine Krause, co-chair David Scandiffio,co -chair

Jennifer Arp Alayne Metrick Colin Bohm Joseph N. Micallef Tabatha Bull Seanna Millar Roger Cattell Chris Pitts, past-chair Carol Chiu Julie Soloway Holly Coll-Black Carl Spitzer Jo-Ann Davis Will Stewart Shauna Emerson-O’Neill Bob Tam Anshu Grover Rebecca Tascona Neil Macdonald Cassandra White

About Young People’s Theatre

YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE is the oldest professional theatre company in Toronto and is a national producer and presenter of theatre for young audiences – the first and largest of its kind in Canada. Over the past 54 years YPT has staged many of the most important plays that form the canon of work for youth in our country. The enriched learning experiences of YPT’s Education & Participation Department also provide young people with opportunities to develop their whole being. At Young People’s Theatre we strive for a positive and lasting impact on the emotional, social and intellectual development of young people – giving them the chance to grow into the unique and wonderful people they were born to be.

Young People’s Theatre is embarking upon Room for Imagination – a $50 million comprehensive campaign to build a new home. YPT has been operating for the last four decades in a re-purposed Heritage building owned by the City of Toronto. Today, the company is bursting at the seams. It is time to create a child-friendly, state-of-the-art facility to ensure long-term sustainability for an already financially-successful children’s charity. For more information, contact YPT's Executive Director, Nancy Webster: [email protected]

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Mermaids: $1,000+ Amana Robert Nicholson Anonymous Aine O'Flynn*** & Steve Braun Autism Ontario Orr Property Services Carrier Enterprise Canada Chanrouti Ramnarine Carol Chiu* Gregory Robic, in honour of Susan & David CI Institutional Asset Management Scandiffio Consumer Choice Awards S. M. Blair Family Foundation Cora Restaurant, Front Street Servocraft Limited Dawn Drayton*** Anadi Shrivastava ETFO Humanity Fund Barbara Shum & Manos Vourkoutiotis David Futterer*** Gary Slaight, in memory of James Arthur The Henry White Kinnear Foundation Ginou Hogg, Shain & Scheck Professional Julie Soloway* Corporation Susan & Will Stewart* iA Financial Group Thorek, Scott and Partners Chris & Julietta Lynch, for our children Gabriel John & Joan Warren*** Family and Mikayla Lois Wilson Neil Macdonald* Susan Witteveen *** & Daniel McClure Kevin Malone Robert E. Wray McCabe Promotional

Genies: $500+ Lois Adamson & Evan Bonnah-Hawkes Geoff Lowe Jennifer Arp* Phil McDowell Rida Al Barazi & Norah O’Donnell** Pamela Mordecai David Brady David Parsons Scott Brison The Paul Butler and Chris Black Foundation at Edgar Chua** the Toronto Foundation Sue & Don Comish*** Allan Penning** & Ian Mitchell Tatiana Dacosta Diane Osak & Steve Hurowitz Donna Duncan Brian Quirt Emmanuel Evdemon Marty Shapiro Kevin Fullan Thomas*** & Deborah Spencer Ida and Roger Gilodo Darie Urbanky GroupSource David Williams*** The Henry and Berenice Kaufmann Foundation Jennifer Wolff Irwin Hpuld, in memory of Judith Gould York Catholic Teachers Susan Langley*** 16 Elves: $250+ Anonymous (4) Rick Lee & Laurie Shapiro Trevor & Lynly Bailie The Pilkington-Henniger Charitable Trust Chilvers Family Fund, held at the Vancouver Christine Quintana Foundation Penny Richards Stephen Colella** & Rebecca Harrison Liana Sanders** Gisella and Anthony Gallucci Scheffler's Delicatessen & Cheese Karen Gilodo** Liz Sheffield** Robert Gontier & Ned Loach Yves Siciliano, in honour of Isabelle Marilyn Hamilton Ivor & Renee Simmons Colin & Ellen Johnson Sarah Spencer Linda Keyworth Jean Wilson

Sprites: $100+ 312 Optical Studio Richard Goldhar Adrienne Miranda Mary Catherine Anderson**** Brenda Graham Malcolm & Myrna Morash Anonymous (4) Alan Harris Darcy Morris Brian Beirne Lyn Harrison Craig Nathanson Hilary Blain Judith and Barry Hayward, in Dana Osborne Martha Bohm, in honour of honour of Meagan Gail Packwood Colin and Josie Bohm Kathryn Heller-McRoberts Tara Pidwerbeski Aimee Bouchard** Tamara Hennigar Gwyneth Pryse-Phillips The late George Brady Leanne Herbert Rupal Shah Lawrence Brunner Frances Hogg Bassem & Shameela Debbie and Neil Burgess, in Suzanne Hood Shakeel**** honour of Gillian Michael Hotrum Anne Simmonds Patricia Castellarin**** Elizabeth Howson Sandy Stienecker Cynthia Chan Lloyd Ilekys Julia Stratta Marjie Chud Clayton Jackson Sunnybrook School in Eva Chyong Cherry Karpyshin celebration of the life of Hennie Corrin Heather Khoury Gerda Davy Brian Douglas Cox Amy Langer, in memory of Swartz*** Family Alice Cranker Zelda Kloner Flax Larry Swartz Jeff Cummings Katherine Laughman Peter Tay Sue Dahmer Amy Lee Sharon Taylor Maureen Davey Odelia Lee ** & Jim Yau Sandy Tecimer Angie Docking Guy Legault** Pascale Thibodeau Rasha El Sissi, in honour of Taivi Lobu Sandra Tulloch Richard Sutton Faith Malach Fatema Valji Leota Embleton Bob Mazin & Lyla Weisstub Sara Walton Catherine Eustace**** Shawn McCarthy** Barb Ward Heather Farina Sally Medland Jill Ward** Gina Faubert Alayne Metrick*, in memory Faith Zigelstein Sheila Gallimore**** of Nancy Webster's mother Audrey Gao Beverly Mills

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