{"id":72092,"date":"2021-09-01T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=72092"},"modified":"2021-09-01T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:00:33","slug":"scoop-grain-theatre-partners-opera-inreach-education-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/09\/01\/scoop-grain-theatre-partners-opera-inreach-education-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Against The Grain Theatre Partners With Opera InReach For Education And Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_72093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72093\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72093\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/ATG-OPERAINREACH.jpg\" alt=\"L-R: Opera InReach Co-Founders Daevyd Pepper and Andrew Adridge, and Founding Director of Operations, Daniela Agostino. (Photo: Daniel Denino)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R: Opera InReach Co-Founders Daevyd Pepper and Andrew Adridge, and Founding Director of Operations, Daniela Agostino. (Photo: Daniel Denino)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Against the Grain Theatre (AtG) has announced a new partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2020\/08\/11\/feature-opera-inreach-looks-to-expand-operas-reach-in-trying-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Opera InReach (OIR)<\/a>, a national collective, that will develop educational materials revolving around AtG productions. The one-year agreement extends through the 2021-2022 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntering into a year of partnership with Against the Grain Theatre will enable [Opera InReach] to understand the impact we wish to have in the opera sector from a new and exciting perspective. I\u2019m thrilled that an organization as community-centric as AtG is willing to take us on to deepen its societal impact,\u201d says Andrew Adridge, co-founder of Opera InReach in a media release.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Common values<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The partnership was developed in recognition of the similarity in values shared by the two organizations, emphasizing equity, inclusion, access, and social justice issues, along with the wish to increase collaboration and share knowledge throughout the opera industry.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The partnership will provide mentorship and skills development for OIR.<\/li>\n<li>It allows AtG to enlarge their ability to engage with communities across the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Robin Whiffen, Executive Director of Against the Grain Theatre, commented in a release. \u201cWe are thrilled to be working with the team at Opera InReach over the course of AtG\u2019s 2021-2022 season. Their energy and passion are well aligned with our values at AtG and we can\u2019t wait to deepen this relationship to bring opera and educational programming to young people on Turtle Island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previous work between the organizations has already foreshadowed this kind of cooperation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a July blog post, the two companies collaborated on a statement about the representation of women in opera.<\/li>\n<li>The post referenced AtG\u2019s production of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/06\/29\/scrutiny-grain-theatre-strikes-gold-holsts-savitri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>S\u0101vitri<\/em><\/a>, which works against the usual stereotypes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt is so exciting to see this partnership coming to fruition! We are looking forward to beginning our work with Against the Grain Theatre by offering students across Canada opportunities to learn and engage with opera in new and meaningful ways. We believe that their ability to engage with existing opera-goers and new audiences will give us lots of great material to create entryways into opera for youth across Canada,\u201d says Daevyd Pepper, co-founder of Opera InReach.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the Grain Theatre (AtG) has announced a new partnership with Opera InReach (OIR), a national collective, that will develop educational materials revolving around AtG productions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":72093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,22,39,43],"tags":[186,37345],"yst_prominent_words":[11782,14193,10966,6985,10976,10965,37341,26155,8973],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/ATG-OPERAINREACH.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-iKM","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72095,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72092\/revisions\/72095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72092"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=72092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}