“The Countdown Public Art Project is a province-wide initiative that creates outdoor monuments in public spaces to honour survivors of gender based violence and to imagine, or count down to, a world without gender based violence. 

“Countdown” is produced and led by Red Dress Productions with local leadership and community and civic partners, and the support of project advisor Women’s Sexual Assault Centre of Renfrew County.

During 2020 and 2021, we are proud to partner with Maggie’s Resource Centre in North Hastings and Lanark County Interval House and Community Support in Lanark County. Two pebble mosaic public artworks will be collaboratively created and permanently installed, one in Almonte/Mississippi Mills, and one in Bancroft/North Hastings. These two new Countdown monuments will succeed the eight others created with communities in Pembroke, Eganville, Killaloe, Pikwàkanagàn First Nation, Peterborough-Nogojiwanong, North Bay, Carleton Place and Brantford since 2016.

Red Dress Productions gratefully acknowledges 3-year project funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, operating funding from the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council, and additional support from EVA-Renfrew County. 

Red Dress Productions is hiring Community Art Ambassadors for the Countdown Public Art Project!

Remuneration: $1,000 honorarium for 50 hours of work (at a rate of $20/hour)
Length of Contract: April to August 2021 

Through community engaged art, the Countdown Public Art Project works to increase the public’s understanding of gender-based violence. There are eight Countdown Public Art pebble mosaic monuments across Ontario in Pembroke, Eganville, Killaloe, and Pikwàkanagàn First Nation, Peterborough-Nogojiwanong, North Bay, Carleton Place, and Brantford, created in collaboration with community members. This year, a new pebble mosaic will be built in Bancroft/North Hastings. 

The Countdown Public Art Project is produced and led by Red Dress Productions with local leadership and community and civic partners. In North Hastings, we are proud to partner with Tamarack/Maggie’s Resource Centre. 

We are looking for Community Art Ambassadors who are passionate about the Countdown Public Art Project and its goals, and who are keen to help connect people in North Hastings with the project. Find the full job description (PDF and Word doc) here.”

For more information, please visit: https://reddressproductions.org/current-projects/countdown-project/

-from Red Dress Productions
Graphic design by Tariq Sami, photography by Maureen Macmillan