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SPACE ALLOCATIONS FOR REGIONAL FAIR SITES

Each Regional Fair site was allocated TWO student spots at the Provincial Fair.
Sites participating in the Young Citizens program were invited to send those students to the event.

 TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS

As travel arrangements were finalized they were posted on the chart below:

ARRIVAL AND CHECK-IN PROCEDURE

Check-In at the residence was at 3 p.m. A registration desk was set up in the large common room
(You enter the building, go past the residence office on the left, straight ahead through the doors, up a few steps to the common room.)
Liz Kerr, President of OHFA, our Head Counselors, Susan Walmer and Sarah Brydges, plus other volunteers were there to greet you and get you registered.

Air and Bus travelers came by cab while the majority of train travelers were transported by a Student First bus from Union Station.

Students arriving by car arrived between 3 and 4 p.m.

Counselors registered  their students and were given their counselor duo-tangs, t-shirts, meal tickets, and keys for their rooms and the rooms of students.

When delegations arrived in Toronto they were met by OHFA volunteers.
Carol and several volunteers were at Union Station to meet train passengers.
Wayne was at the Toronto Island Airport to meet airline passengers.
Another volunteer was at the bus station to meet the delegation from Grey Roots Regional Fair.
The volunteers assisted with luggage, washroom breaks, and getting to transportation to transfer delegations to Wilson Hall.

CHECK-OUT PROCEDURES

Most delegations checked out on Monday morning before the showcase.
Following breakfast projects were transported by the students to the showcase area which is located across the street from Wilson Hall.
Well-labelled luggage was stored in the large storage area behind the front desk where were picked up at the end of the day.
Counsellors collected room keys and handed them in to Carol White or Wayne Hugli before the showcase.

 THE ENCAMPMENT AT FORT YORK


The Encampment
A Thomas+Guinevere Creation
(Thom Sokoloski & Jenny-Anne McCowan)
The Encampment runs June 8-24, 2012 at Fort York

Commissioned by the City of Toronto and Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity,
for the Bicentennial Commemoration of the War of 1812

The Encampment is a unique form of artistic practice by art duo Thomas+Guinevere (Thom Sokoloski & Jenny-Anne McCowan) where the metaphor of archaeology turns a historic site into a large-scale ‘temporal village’ and a glowing sculptural grid against the night sky.

The 2012 version of The Encampment focuses mostly on the unknown civilian history of The War of 1812 and premieres as part of the Luminato Festival and City of Toronto Bicentennial Commemoration of the War of 1812.

From June 8-24, the final installation of 200 tents will transform the grounds of Fort York National Historic Site into a massive expression of art and history.

Thom Sokoloski and Jenny-Anne McCowan, worked with Creative Collaborators (over 100!) to create The Encampment. Like archaeologists, the Creative Collaborators commit to “getting their hands dirty” in unearthing and transposing civilian stories into art installations within each tent for the public to experience. Each installation is meant to evoke the story it represents - 200 stories of love, loss, survival and patriotism will be explored, as well as those of collaboration, deception, greed and betrayal.

Romance and heartbreak, plot twists and tragic deaths at sea, the stories of the people involved in the War of 1812 can be shocking and soap opera-like.

 But according to a duo of artists behind a site-specific installation called The Encampment, it is when you learn about the people that brings the historic war to life.

"It is not about line-ups of soldiers shooting each other, although that is important, no doubt it helped define the boundaries and the future of the country, but at the same time it was those people and their stories..." that brings the war to life, explained Thom Sokoloski, who along with Jenny-Anne McCowan, is working to unearth those stories for the art installation.

The Encampment, a commission by Luminato and the City of Toronto for the War of 1812 commemoration, will take place on the grounds of Historic Fort York, where 200 tents will be set up referencing the 200 years since the War of 1812.

The installation will be created over a three-month period in which Sokoloski and McCowan work with "creative collaborators", with an everyday people with an interest in the War of 1812. People can apply now to be a collaborator.

Sokoloski, who lives in Leslieville, and McCowan, from Spadina and Eglinton avenues area, have been working together since 2006 as Thomas + Guinevere. The pair has mounted previous versions of The Encampment in Toronto, New York and Ottawa.

"The Encampment is a frame for content wherever we go," Sokoloski explained. "It is a metaphorical archeological dig."

The Encampment at Fort York will be the largest temporal public participatory art work in the history of Canada, Sokoloski said.

"Each of the tents will house the history or the story of one individual who lived during the War of 1812," McCowan said. "The idea is you enter and get your moment with that tent, with that story."

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