Danilo Baracho of The Box Factory

CO-PRODUCED BY HARBOURFRONT CENTRE

OCTOBER 14 - 22 HARBOURFRONT CENTRE THEATRE

ADMISSION IS FREE

The Water Series is an evocative nine-screen, twenty-speaker voyage that spans Harbourfront Centre Theatre. Through sound, moving image and architecture, artist Naomi Jaye invites visitors to journey through the profound interplay between water and grief. 

The multi-disciplinary three part installation starts with MRI, where the viewer is witness to a woman’s experience inside a magnetic resonance imaging machine for breast cancer screening. It continues with POOL, where they sit inside a community pool change room as women undress. The third, SAIL, acts as the connective tissue in the exhibit, a moment of reprieve — the viewer is bathed in calm waters.

“My mother died of breast cancer ten years ago. After her death I started swimming at my local pool. I also started having annual MRIs as part of a high-risk breast cancer clinic. The grief I felt was profound, like I was constantly surrounded by water, at times drowning and at times floating. This installation is an emotional record of that time, of how grief can be funny, absurd, quiet, and calm. It is complex.” 

Naomi Jaye

Show Runs

October 14 - 22

Saturday October 14 10AM-6PM

Sunday October 15 10AM-6PM

Wednesday October 18 4-8PM

Thursday October 19 4-8PM

Friday October 20 4-8PM

Saturday October 21 10AM-6PM

Sunday October 22 10AM-6PM

Location

Harbourfront Centre Theatre

231 Queens Quay W, Toronto

Free Admission

Donations being collected for
the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

No ticket required 

Tickets

Credits

Created by

Naomi Jaye 

Installation Producer

Petek Berksoy

Video Content Producer

Kurtis Leon Baker

Cinematographer

David Nguyen

Choreographer

Molly Johnson

Casting Director

Marsha Chesley

Production Designer - MRI

Lorenzo Savoini 

Editor

Emmanuel Albano

Sound Designer

Erik Arnesen

Sound Recordist/Boom

Jake Moss

Video Documentation

by the Box Factory

Performers

Maxine Stirling Dawe

Wanjiku Wamugo

Maria Wicinski

Molly Johnson 

Sahra Cohen

Ruth Cortez

Harbourfront Centre Theatre

Chief Executive Officer – Marah Braye

Chief Programming Officer – Iris Nemani

Chief Operations Officer – Massimo DeMaria

Director, Planning & Special Projects – Heather Waddell

Director, Production – Jamie Rodriguez

Manager, Visual Arts – Marlee Choo

Manager, Visitor Services – Christopher Hackett

Production Manager – Bill Zeilstra

Stage Carpenter – Mike Susz

Head Electrician – Julia Davis

Audio Engineer – Patty Saad

Stage Technicians at Harbourfront Centre are represented by Local 58 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its territories, and Canada.

Community Programming Manager

Celeste Cole

PR

B. Rebel Communications

Graphic, Web Designer and Social Media

Rosie Glass

Evren Kayhan

Celeste Cole