Frolick
Feed Your City is an incorporated not-for-profit organization, developing initiatives in the field of urban
agriculture involving such themes as biomimicry, permaculture, biodynamics and food education.
This past summer, FYC played a key role in the development of a 2000-plant species rooftop garden
atop the Big Carrot, one of Toronto’s largest and oldest farmer’s market grocery stores, located in the
Danforth neighbourhood.
We are part of a growing number of people, passionate about the need for local organic food choices
but knowledgeable of how to implement urban agricultural techniques is scarce. This initiative is part
of a growing global movement of technological and scientific innovation. Rooftop gardening FYC’s focus and are they developing
the latest technologies for most efficient widespread use. Can the average gardener learn to transform their own rooftop into a successful harvesting garden? How does FYC share its knowledge, skills and
resources? Such topics will be explored for the purpose of understanding how best to educate more
people about this innovative and much needed solution.
2. Frolick Collective and Theatre
The Frolick Collective was birthed in Summer 2011 out of FYC’s latest initiative of gathering
communities to celebrate through multi-disciplinary arts projects (focus being on theatre), the
transformation of unused rooftops into imaginative and practical urban gardens. Frolick’s produced an
eclectic version of Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to mark the unveiling of the rooftop
garden to the community. The six day festivity included the opportunity to socialise while enjoying
fresh food, prepared by Frolick members, from the garden’s harvest. Currently, the next show is being
written and work-shopped to begin early November, with prospects for expanding their community
outreach.
Propagating heirloom seed collections, developing urban eco-systems, gathering local harvests,
preparing healthy food, utilizing perma-culture pillars of design to expand multi-disciplinary arts
projects, and showing people the ease and splendour of challenging our corporate food sources are
among the ways Frolick is now ‘feeding our city’. The connection made with the community at large,
through transformational theatre, is the key ‘food for thought’.
The main goal of using theatre is to entertain! Which different styles/genres
of shows succeed in different contexts? Is participatory theatre useful and if so, how can Frolick
facilitate a safe, creative, fun environment for audience members to explore? How does Frolick build
relationships with new artists and integrate them into the multi-disciplinary goal for the shows? What
demographic and class of people is Frolick attracting; if it’s just those who can afford high-end organic
produce, how can Frolick reach out and become accessible to disadvantaged communities or to
those who are not aware about food security issues. How does Frolick define success? Our audience base will
evaluate how Frolick is carrying out its mandate to connect, educate, and inspire communities about
the possibility of an emerging ‘Holistic Renaissance’.
agriculture involving such themes as biomimicry, permaculture, biodynamics and food education.
This past summer, FYC played a key role in the development of a 2000-plant species rooftop garden
atop the Big Carrot, one of Toronto’s largest and oldest farmer’s market grocery stores, located in the
Danforth neighbourhood.
We are part of a growing number of people, passionate about the need for local organic food choices
but knowledgeable of how to implement urban agricultural techniques is scarce. This initiative is part
of a growing global movement of technological and scientific innovation. Rooftop gardening FYC’s focus and are they developing
the latest technologies for most efficient widespread use. Can the average gardener learn to transform their own rooftop into a successful harvesting garden? How does FYC share its knowledge, skills and
resources? Such topics will be explored for the purpose of understanding how best to educate more
people about this innovative and much needed solution.
2. Frolick Collective and Theatre
The Frolick Collective was birthed in Summer 2011 out of FYC’s latest initiative of gathering
communities to celebrate through multi-disciplinary arts projects (focus being on theatre), the
transformation of unused rooftops into imaginative and practical urban gardens. Frolick’s produced an
eclectic version of Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to mark the unveiling of the rooftop
garden to the community. The six day festivity included the opportunity to socialise while enjoying
fresh food, prepared by Frolick members, from the garden’s harvest. Currently, the next show is being
written and work-shopped to begin early November, with prospects for expanding their community
outreach.
Propagating heirloom seed collections, developing urban eco-systems, gathering local harvests,
preparing healthy food, utilizing perma-culture pillars of design to expand multi-disciplinary arts
projects, and showing people the ease and splendour of challenging our corporate food sources are
among the ways Frolick is now ‘feeding our city’. The connection made with the community at large,
through transformational theatre, is the key ‘food for thought’.
The main goal of using theatre is to entertain! Which different styles/genres
of shows succeed in different contexts? Is participatory theatre useful and if so, how can Frolick
facilitate a safe, creative, fun environment for audience members to explore? How does Frolick build
relationships with new artists and integrate them into the multi-disciplinary goal for the shows? What
demographic and class of people is Frolick attracting; if it’s just those who can afford high-end organic
produce, how can Frolick reach out and become accessible to disadvantaged communities or to
those who are not aware about food security issues. How does Frolick define success? Our audience base will
evaluate how Frolick is carrying out its mandate to connect, educate, and inspire communities about
the possibility of an emerging ‘Holistic Renaissance’.