E:Post ~ February 2006

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Photograph by Michael Mayberry, Oklahoma. www.psa-photo.org

Favorite quote from young audience member:
“…you shouldn’t eat too many flies ‘cause they taste yucky”
(Do we want to know how you know?)

Get your tickets now!
The Day began by Raining Frogs…a puppet show for families.

W.P. Puppet Theatre Society is pleased to present “Frogs in a Blue Bucket”. Featuring intriguing puppets, a wonderful sound & music score, engaging storytelling and lots of laughs! “Frogs…” follows the story of young Sally who has caught a frog in her bucket. Prompted by frog fables from around the world, Simon’s Science project and her very eerie dream about the future, she learns that she must return her frog to the river.

Tickets are $5.00 Advance or $7.00 at the Door. To purchase or for information call 228 3373. Recommended for ages 5 years old and up. Door prizes too!

W. Puppet Theatre acknowledges with thanks, on going funding from: Alberta Foundation for the Arts and The Calgary Region Arts Foundation. “Frogs in a Blue Bucket” was produced with funding from ECOTRUST

Call for volunteers to help at Frogs shows

If you can help with set up/clean up or front of house on any of the above performance dates that would be wonderful. Volunteer as a family or an individual – get some free tickets! Call Wendy at (403) 228-3373.

Thanks to donors to W.P. Puppet Theatre Society
for door prizes, silent auction items

Toydreams
310-555 Strathcona Boulevard SW

The Happy Cooker Emporium
735 Strathcona Drive

Galleria Arts & Crafts
1141 Kensington Rd. NW.

NEW OPPORTUNITY for W.P.T.S. Memberships

If you volunteer for 4 hours in a fiscal year, for WPTS then you can be a member!

Receive: Discounts at performances, our Just Kids Advanced Puppet Club, our Calgary Puppet Club for Adults and our Puppet Power Conference

Plus: Invitation to a FREE Members Only Mystery Guest speaker and potluck lunch! Watch the Epost for details.

Or if you prefer to give us money!
Adult: $30.00 per year
Receive a set of funky WPTS greeting cards

Junior (under 12 years old) : $15.00 per year.
Free puppet kit

Puppet Power 2007 – Puppets as Agents for Social Change
Spring 2007 (exact dates) TBA

Call for Proposals

WP Puppet Theatre is currently looking for workshop proposals that address: current puppet usage in political and social etc. activism, puppetry exists and potential role in peace, health, religious, environmental and school education programs, how puppets can be used for community and organizational transformation and other similar themes.

Please see our website www.wppuppet.com for the complete call.

Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia

Institute of Puppetry Arts is pleased to announce the first session of a multiyear training program. The unique 6 week course, entitled ANIMOTION will run Feb 20 – March 21 2006. Cost is $1500 (tax included) all are welcome to apply. A course description and application form may be viewed and downloaded from www.mermaidtheatre.ns.ca.

Six Short Puppet Films
"The Kay Stories" by Red Smarteez Marionettes

The Kay Stories at ‘Picture this Film Festival’
The Rozsa Center, University of Calgary
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Screenings start at 7:00 Admission $7.50

The Kay Stories were written and produced by award winning Calgary puppet filmmakers, Brenda Whiteman and Peter Stinson of Red Smarteez Marionettes. This series of six short films feature a musical soundtrack by Cameron Falkenhagen (Sage Theatre) and were filmed in Calgary by Alberta cinematographer Patrick McLaughlin (waydowntown, Six Figures

The Kay Stories are a touching and humorous memoir, told with puppets, of the life of Kay Whiteman, a woman with a developmental disability whose determined nature and supportive family helped her enjoy a full life. The short films tell of six occasions when Kay traveled from Grande Prairie on holidays to visit her sister, Brenda, in Calgary. Most often, they would go shopping, but, when meeting Brenda's friends or new people, Kay showed a disarming wisdom that was an example to us all.

Produced with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers.
Find the NEW slideshow at www.kaystories.com.
Peter Stinson, Brenda Whiteman -Red Smarteez Marionettes
(403) 230-8445
info@redsmarteez.com

Info on: Picture this.International Film Festival
(403) 717-5610
info@ptff.org, www.ptff.org

$10,000 Urjo Kareda Residency Grant for an Emerging Artist

This $10,000 grant is made possible by an annual donation from the Youssef-Warren Foundation and allows the successful applicant to spend up to 20 weeks at the Tarragon Theatre, working on a self-created program in collaboration with an artist or artists in the applicant’s chosen field of interest.

All applications must be received at Tarragon – by mail, courier, or in person (no faxes or e-mails) – by April 28, 2006.

For further information about the award and application procedures, please email Andy McKim, Associate Artistic Director, at andy@tarragontheatre.com.

Get Hooked! ...On Volunteering at Bow Habitat Station

Bow Habitat Station is a unique new "eco-park", which includes the Sam Livingston Fish Hatchery, the Pearce Estate Park Interpretive Wetland, and a new Visitor Centre about fresh water, fish, and aquatic habitats (currently under construction).

Fascinated by fish? Take part in the care of 3 million trout, or help with the daily needs of our display fish as an aquarium assistant.

Care to share? Become a BHS Host and help in our visitor information booth or interpretive wetland.

Good at gardening? Join the "Weed Eaters" or the planting crew and help re-naturalize Pearce Estate Park.

Love to fish? Share your love of angling with others through our fishing education programs.

Got a nose for detail? Help us get the word out about Bow Habitat Station by conducting research, updating the database, or preparing a mail out.

For more information, attend one of the Information Sessions or contact Kristin Dyer, Volunteer Coordinator, Sam Livingston Fish Hatchery Volunteer Society, at 297-7066, 1440 - 17A Street S.W., Calgary email slfh.vs@gov.ab.ca Web at www.bowhabitat.gov.ab.ca.

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