Show Home
An exploration into congregate living by people with disabilities and the professionals who support them.
Show Home brings you into a day-in-the-life of people with disabilities living in congregate care and the people who support them.
From 2022-2024, Open Heart artists collaborated with core members and staff from L’Arche Hamilton, Mainstream Niagara, Adults in Motion and other support organizations to explore our ideas of home and our collective vision for a better world. Drawing from these conversations, storyteller and Direct Support Worker, Carlyn Rhamey, has created Show Home, a work-in-progress performance that pokes a little fun at the way things are and imagines the possibilities of the way things could be.
Presented by Open Heart Arts Theatre in collaboration with L’Arche Hamilton
Fall 2022
Open Heart meets with people who access services at Mainstream Niagara for 12 weeks of arts workshops.
February 2023
We present a performance-in-progress at HFTCo’s Frost Bites Festival
June 2023
In partnership with L’Arche Hamilton, we begin weekly show development sessions combining music, storytelling, puppetry, and games that run until Winter 2024.
February 2024
We hold two self-care candle making workshops for Direct Support Workers, in collaboration with Crown Point Candles and with the support of Balancing Act’s LevelUp!
June 2024
We present a final production of Show Home at Theatre Aquarius’ Brave New Works Festival