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Rebekah manages the Community Arts Investment Program and is responsible for pursuing and securing all of LAC’s project, program and operational investments through grant applications, corporate sponsorships, in-kind donations, and community partnerships. Meet Rebekah Morrison-Wize Rebekah Morrison-Wize, since returning to her hometown of London in 2003, has dedicated herself to the London arts community within her position as Officer, Development, and Investments with the London Arts Council. Rebekah holds a BFA Honours Degree in Dance from York University. Living 20 years in Toronto, Rebekah worked with the Dancer Transition Resource Centre, Canada’s National Ballet School and Canadian Stage Theatre Company. Rebekah manages the Community Arts Investment Program and is responsible for pursuing and securing all of LAC’s project, program and operational investments through grant applications, corporate sponsorships, in-kind donations, and community partnerships. Rebekah and her husband Glen, have two beautiful daughters and two spoiled cats. She is a voracious reader of historical biographies and through the pandemic has discovered the joy of bird watching. Ask Me Anything - with Rebekah Morrison-Wize What is your artistic background? I began dance at age three with traditional Highland Dance and competed for several years. At eight, I began formal training in classical ballet, jazz and later the modern techniques of Limon and Graham. I hold a Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance from York University. Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? I can pinch with my toes. Name some favourite films/books/albums/works of art. I have a very eclectic selection of favourite films. The Lion in Winter I think tops the lot. Katherine Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Antony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton, good Lord! Dr. Zhivago, another classic. But I also love We Bought a Zoo, Spirit-Stallion of the Cimarron and absolutely anything with Ryan Reynolds. Music, can’t even begin the list of favourite albums, but artists – Annie Lennox, P!nk, Lady Gaga, always the Beatles, Bowie, Prince, Dave Matthews and Dave Grohl. Ayn Rand’s We the Living is a favourite novel and the entire Asian Saga series by James Clavell. What are you happiest doing, when you’re not working? Our family loves to escape by canoe to do some interior camping in Algonquin Park. From an early age, my daughters and I love sitting at the dining room table painting, colouring and doing puzzles together.

CULTURE DAYS 2018 (September 28th - 30th, 2018) ​ From September 28-30, London Arts Council celebrated our 9th year of participation in Canada's national celebration of arts & culture by bringing engaging, creative, and participatory art activities to four corners of the Forest City — from Museum London to Old East Village, from Masonville Place to White Oaks Mall — and venues between. Featured events: multi-disciplinary, large-scale calligraphy performances at Museum London's new Centre at the Forks a 3D thread-drawing installation and family-friendly art activities at London Public Library a weekend of Indigenous art, student art, workshops, hip hop, DJing, live music, and dance battles curated by Ill at Will crew at B13 (The Baker's Dozen) mosaic-making workshops, live metalwork, a graffiti free-wall, and innovative bike tread art in Old East Village collaborative sculpture-building and poetry activities at South London Neighbourhood Resource Centre interactive modern dance displays, performances by London Arts Live artists, community murals, and a pop-up artist studio at Masonville Place and White Oaks Mall ​ ​ Funders of Culture Days 2018

A video of the Poet Laureate Scrabbling Poetry project - by the London Arts Council

Drawing on memories to create memories WHAT IS CAIDC? Connecting through Art in Dementia Care provides art experiences for seniors and older adults living with dementia. Through twelve-week collaborative projects that draw on the memories, experiences, and interests of participants, the program offers an innovative, client-centred therapeutic recreational approach and creates memorable impacts on participants, their families, artists, and their communities. ​ The CAIDC program is a partnership between McCormick Dementia Services (MDS) and the London Arts Council and is available to clients of the McCormick Day Program, the largest dementia care day program in Ontario. Each CAIDC project is collaboratively designed and implemented by MDS staff and a professional artist-educator from the London Arts Council's LAIR roster. Current projects include dance with Ruth Douthwright, drama with Dan Ebbs, songwriting with Joanne Does, and visual arts with Tricia Edgar. The process and profound impact of CAIDC's 2017 pilot project was documented as part of The McCormick Club web documentary.