History
Founded in 2002, Red Pepper Spectacle Arts is a creative home for a growing community of emerging and established artists. We provide a forum for resource sharing and collaborative creation in diverse media.
We have facilitated small and large-scale engagements in a wide variety of media including drawing & painting, story creation, mask making, puppetry, mosaic, sculpture, ceramics, print making, magazine creation and publishing, digital media design and technology, photography, music creation & recording, video production, textile, theatre design, and community-wide multidisciplinary festivals.
Red Pepper has project-based and/or ongoing programming relationships with Na Me Res (Native Men's Residence), the Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Gaa Dibaatjimat Ngashi, the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and with the community at large by facilitating arts activities at pow wows, schools and community centres.
We have partnered and collaborated several local arts organizations including Native Women in the Arts, ArtStarts, Jumblies Theatre, Shadowland Theatre, Theatre Direct, Project Random, Regent Park Focus, Harbourfront Centre, and Arts Etobicoke. Partner organizations included St. Stephen`s Community House, Toronto Community Housing, and Unison Community Services.
In 2012-13, Red Pepper's artistic leadership evolved from our founding co-directorship of Andy Moro and Gabriella Caruso to the sole artistic directorship of Gabriella Caruso. Red Pepper has maintained its original mission and mandate with a stronger focus in its community arts development and longstanding relationships Gabriella forged prior to the organization's beginnings.
We have facilitated small and large-scale engagements in a wide variety of media including drawing & painting, story creation, mask making, puppetry, mosaic, sculpture, ceramics, print making, magazine creation and publishing, digital media design and technology, photography, music creation & recording, video production, textile, theatre design, and community-wide multidisciplinary festivals.
Red Pepper has project-based and/or ongoing programming relationships with Na Me Res (Native Men's Residence), the Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Gaa Dibaatjimat Ngashi, the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and with the community at large by facilitating arts activities at pow wows, schools and community centres.
We have partnered and collaborated several local arts organizations including Native Women in the Arts, ArtStarts, Jumblies Theatre, Shadowland Theatre, Theatre Direct, Project Random, Regent Park Focus, Harbourfront Centre, and Arts Etobicoke. Partner organizations included St. Stephen`s Community House, Toronto Community Housing, and Unison Community Services.
In 2012-13, Red Pepper's artistic leadership evolved from our founding co-directorship of Andy Moro and Gabriella Caruso to the sole artistic directorship of Gabriella Caruso. Red Pepper has maintained its original mission and mandate with a stronger focus in its community arts development and longstanding relationships Gabriella forged prior to the organization's beginnings.