Train of Thought (Community Arts Tour)

Train of Thought is an evolving Canadian community arts journey from west to east coast, with on-board activities and over 20 stops along the way.

In developing the idea for Train of Thought, Jumblies Theatre and partners asked what theme merited such a huge cross-country undertaking, a question that led to a focus on collaborations and alliances between First Nations and settler/immigrant artists and communities: the most challenging and urgent matter that all of us are grappling with and learning about from our different regional and cultural perspectives.

Thus, Train of Thought takes a counter-colonial route to collect and share stories, buried histories and imagined landscapes of the land where we live: as it might have been, as it is, as it could be: drawing on perception, memory, history and imagination; merging whimsy and serious intent, bringing together artists and community members, the land's first people and all those who have found refuge here over the years and generations.

Train of Thought is an evolving community arts journey from west to east coast, with on-board activities and over stops along the way.

The tour is an imperfect and incomplete adventure - part of a longer and unending imperative to learn, connect and help to change tracks.