Summer of '17 Update

Rex has a 15 minute, one woman play in this site-specific theatrical event. "Photographic Evidence" is about a remarkable woman photographer, granddaughter of Susanna Moodie, one of the first to photograph portraits in the Canadian North West and High Arctic. Nicolle Wilson brings Geraldine Moodie to vivid life  in this Mixed Company production directed by Simon Malbogat.
Come and stroll along the Humber River in Toronto and see all six vignettes and find out about remarkable events and characters associated with the river. .

Rita --CBC Radio’s The Doc Project: a documentary about Rita has just been posted as part of a series featuring 15 black women:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/docproject/upclose/rita-deverell-fought-her-way-on-stage-and-50-years-later-she-s-still-fighting-1.4207626

Rita and Anthony --Crestwood Preparatory School Oral History Project: Our grade 10 friend Anthony Radford-Grant crafted an excellent historical video doc about Rita:

http://www.crestwood.on.ca/ohp/

Rita--Canadian Race Relations Foundation: Check out Rita and others on the CRRF website: http://www.crrf-fcrr.ca/en/about/community/item/26468-deverell-rita-shelton

 Rita --Lakehead University Orillia: At the June 10^th. Convocation Rita had the great thrill of receiving the Honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters:

http://www.ilrtoday.ca/lakehead-orillia-convocation-ceremonies-to-celebrate-honorary-degree-and-civitas-recipients/

 Rita --ROM Trustee: Rita was appointed by Order in Council to the Royal Ontario Museum’s Board of Trustees in January 2017. 

Rex -- has received a commission to write the text for the new hymn to celebrate the 190'th anniversary of First Baptist Church, Halifax.(September 24, 2017)