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Toronto, ON - December 10, 2012: Albert Schultz, General Director of the Young Centre for the Performing Arts and Artistic Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company, today announced a special partnership with The Stop Community Food Centre. Every year Soulpepper collaborates with a local community group to raise funds during the holiday season. This month all patron donations following performances of A Christmas Carol go directly to The Stop. Also in support of The Stop, on Saturday, Dec. 15, Dickens' Kitchen at the Young Centre will open for a pay-what-you-can community meal, with hot soup provided by The Stop's chefs. Dickens' Kitchen will take place during The Word Festival, a four-day celebration of Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday.
DONATIONS FROM A CHRISTMAS CAROL PATRONS
The incredible generosity of Soulpepper patrons has raised over $20,000 each year for the last year five years for various food-based nonprofit organizations across the city; this year Soulpepper has teamed up with The Stop. Patrons of A Christmas Carol are encouraged to support The Stop's mission to increase access to healthy food in a manner that maintains dignity, builds health and community and challenges inequality. Each donation will be matched by three very un-Scrooge-like donors: The Sprott Foundation; Butterfield & Robinson; and Kate & Greg Sorbara. Soulpepper's holiday favourite, A Christmas Carol, with Joseph Ziegler as Ebenezer Scrooge, runs until Dec. 29.
DICKENS' KITCHEN
As part of The Word Festival, a celebration of Dickens’ 200th birthday, The Stop will be serving pay-what-you-can soup at the Young Centre on Saturday, Dec. 15 from noon to 8 p.m. Warm up, listen to carolling by the Young Centre City Choir or Dickens being read in lobby, and contribute to The Stop’s thriving food programs and community advocacy.
The Word Festival at the Young Centre runs from Dec. 12 to 15 and features Miriam Margolyes in Dickens' Women, The National Theatre of the World's Impromptu Splendor, free staged readings of Dickens' short stories and a live-streamed reading of A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations and Oliver Twist. Tickets and more information can be found at youngcentre.ca/thewordfestival. Tickets for Dickens' Women range from $30-$40, $20 for students, (HST and service charge included). Tickets for Impromptu Splendor are $20, $15 for students (HST and service charge included). The Word Festival is sponsored by BMO Financial Group.
Tickets for A Christmas Carol range from $22-$68 (plus service charge) and are available by calling the Young Centre box office at 416.866.8666 or by visiting youngcentre.ca. $22 tickets are available for 21-30 year-olds at stageplay.ca. StagePlay is sponsored by TD Bank Group. The Young Centre for the Performing Arts is located at 50 Tank House Lane, in the Distillery Historic District, Toronto, ON. A Christmas Carol is sponsored by CIBC.
Photo: The Young Centre, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects.
2012-12-10
Toronto: Soulpepper and the Young Centre partner with The Stop Community Food Centre