WP Puppet Theatre is pleased to curate the PUPPET POWER WORKSHOPS for the Festival of Animated Objects!
From puppet shows to film screening, gallery exhibitions to workshops, from March 13-17, Calgary will come alive with original creations, mythical creature, and curious beats, objects and gadgets by puppet-masters and artists alike to stir your imagination.
WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS:
FANTASYSCAPES: CREATING RICH ENVIRONMENTS TO ENHANCE STORYTELLING
A FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED OBJECTS – WP PUPPET THEATRE PARTNERSHIP
BOW VALLEY COLLEGE NORTH CAMPUS, ROOM N534
SATURDAY MARCH 16, 2019 – 1:00PM – 3:30 PM
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Instructors: Pat Tarr, Sayward Wilkinson, Wendy Passmore-Godfrey
Using natural and found materials together with low- and high-tech light sources, participants will have fun exploring and creating collaborative micro-stories. Based on our experiences in ateliers (studios) in Loris Malaguzzi International Centre on study tours to Reggio Emilia, Italy our goal is to encourage educators to use technology in rich and meaningful ways, and provide children with another language for expression and communication.
CREATING A SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS PUPPET PLAY
A FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED OBJECTS – WP PUPPET THEATRE PARTNERSHIP
MOTEL THEATRE, ARTS COMMONS
THURSDAY MARCH 14, 2019 – 6:00PM – 9:00 PM
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Instructor: Michelle Warkentin
“Mii Other Woman”, Michelle Warkentin’s one-woman puppet musical, gives voice to the invisible aspects of dementia through the power of puppets. Taking from this experience you will be given an outline to support the puppet play process from concept to production, to testing ground to collaboration. Participants who are interested in creating a puppet show will leave with the tools to bring to life their own socially conscious play.
Michelle has been a professional puppeteer for many years writing and producing puppet musicals for children and adults. She is the Artistic Director of Life Stages Theatre.
WORKSHOP FOR KIDS (and the young at heart) FREE!
PUPPET POP UP: ALIENS!
A FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED OBJECTS – WP PUPPET THEATRE PARTNERSHIP
CALGARY CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY MEETING ROOM 14
SATURDAY MARCH 16, 2019 – 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
FREE TO KIDS AND KIDS AT HEART
Drop by the Questionarium on the second floor for the new central library and make your own flexible (literally) alien from sponge foam and bric-a-brac! Make a wiggle puppet friend and put on a show! We’ll help with fabrication but you have to bring your imagination!
PANELS:
THE EMANCIPATED SPECTATOR: HOW AUDIENCE ROLES ARE CHANGING
A FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED OBJECTS – WP PUPPET THEATRE PARTNERSHIP
CALGARY CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY MEETING ROOM 14
SATURDAY MARCH 16, 2019 – 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
FREE! No registration required!
Facilitated by Wendy Passmore-Godfrey. Panelists: Andrew Cooper, Leo Wieser from Bleeding Art Industries, and Mike Czuba from Dancing Monkey Laboratory
In puppet theatre and in greater society the role of the audience is changing. Productions challenge the division between actors and onlookers, participation both offline and online is the norm. Public and private is blurred. Creativity is claimed for everyone. The maker movement explodes. Indie art is mainstream. Citizens demand control of their own destinies. This panel will tackle a discussion on the universality and the differences in audience expectations and roles.
http://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/article/view/67/138
UNIMA CANADA WEST CHAPTER LAUNCH
CALGARY CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY MEETING ROOM 14
SATURDAY MARCH 16, 2019 – 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
FREE! No registration required.
Moderator: Pete Balkwill Panellists: Tim Gosley, Wendy Passmore-Godfrey
Come out and discover more about the creation of a new western Canadian chapter of UNIMA (Union Internationale de la Marionnette – International Puppetry Association). This will be an opportunity for puppetry artists to come together and invest in an organization that will help the dissemination of information related to our work.
https://www.unima.org/en/