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What Is This Campaign About?
The @SaveoourSara Campaign is a FWYC Adventure, following the work of the SOTMSC's online Sonnet Videos. With each donation you are determining how we help our heroine, Sara T. Clown, combat her wrongful conviction of running an Underground Balloon Animal Fighting Ring. Think of it as a "Donate Your Own Adventure".
But Why Donate?
All funds raised through this campaign actually go to the 2014 Shakespeare-In-Hospitals Program. Your support helps us fund a portion of the program's productions costs:
Props/Costumes..............$211.75
Rehearsal Space Rental....$555.00
Travel Expenses...............$150.00
Theatre Rental..................$425.25
Labour.............................$648.00
Other means of fundraising are being used for this project is well. Message us to learn more about it at [email protected]
But What, Wait, WHAT IS the Shakespeare-In-Hospitals Project?
The Shakespeare-In-Hospitals Project engages members of the health-care sector of Toronto who are in healing or transitional processes. It provides psychosocial support in health-care facilities and communities facing high turnover rates and isolation to increase flexible communication and seamless patient/client care. Classical and modern theatre practice is employed with discussion, interactive exploration, and performance as tools to break down physical, economic, and social barriers in these locales.
The SiH Project is founded off of 3 Principles:
Relief:
Often people in hospitals, retirement homes and hospices are restricted to a bed or a floor or a ward. We offer a distraction from their healing and transitional processes, to bring them out of their situation and into one that they can control and interact with.
Accessibility:
While most hospitals have recreational therapy programming, accessibility is always an issue, and the amount of interaction patients or clients can receive in these programs is constantly fluctuating based on their conditions.
We provide scenes, monologues, and choral pieces for performances and interactions by performing in various mediums including: Private Room (or One-on-One) Format, Open-Space Format, and Staged Format. This allows us to tailor performances to any environment or location for any patient or client regardless of their condition.
Community Engagement:
Communities exist in hospitals too! Whether it is among patients, their families, or the staff. It is easy to forget this when focusing on treatment, or transitioning back into everyday life. When patients engage with their hospital/health care facility’s community, they provide themselves with more opportunities to emotionally cope with the treatment they are receiving. SiH further supports this dynamic by giving a new and innovative way to interact and bond with their community, even if it is only for a short time and allow them to have a uniquley positive experience during their stay.
Throughout our public showcases, we will be sharing our own stories and experiences, thereby facilitating a creative discussion among the involved communities to encourage further future interaction beyond the program.
Previous facilities have included:
CAMH
Toronto Western Hospital
Toronto General Hospital
Sunnybrook Health Centre
Tapestry at Village Gate West
Princess Margaret Hospital Lodge
Sick Kids Hospital
Lord Dufferin Senior’s Centre
Adelaide Women’s Resource Centre
Hospice Dufferin
Matthew’s House Hospice
Cedarbrook Lodge
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Previous units have included:
Pediatrics
Oncology
Acute Care
Geriatrics
Lobbies
Mental Health Inpatient
Mental Health Outpatient
Veteran’s Centres
Waiting Rooms
Cafeterias
Pre-Op
Post-Op
Front Foyers
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1) Don't want to donate online? Email [email protected] with "DONATION/SPONSORSHIP REQUEST" in the subject heading.
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3) Tweet the campaign with the twitter handle @SaveOurSara or with the hashtag #ShakeHospitals and follow us on twitter!
4) In Toronto? Come to our end of year show! (Dates and Location TBA)
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