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If you’re a bird
Be an early bird and get the worm for your breakfast plate
If you’re a bird be an early bird
But if you’re a worm
Sleep late!
- shel silverstein
Early Bird
March 25th!!!is the Early Bird deadline for
Puppet Power 2007 – Puppets as Agents of Social Change: Conference May 25-27
Save $50.00 Online registration and lots more information at www.wppuppet.com Press release about Gary Freidman – our keynote speaker below.
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If you can help us get the word out about our exciting conference that would be great!
Can you forward email bulletins?
Give out brochures?
Put up posters?
Please contact Wendy 228 3373 or wppuppet@telus.net
More than Minimum Wage!
For every 1 hour of volunteer time you give us we’ll give you $12.00 off your Puppet Power 2007 registration fee!
Kids Shadow Puppet Workshop
Wendy to offer shadow puppet workshop at the Creative Kids Museum at TELUS World of Science - Calgary
Sunday March 18th 2007 1:30 – 3:30
Price:
$37.00 for non-members and includes facility admission
$35.00 for members
$20.00 for teachers upon presentation of a valid ATA card
All prices do not include GST. Pre Registration is required. Payment is due upon booking. Phone 268-8302
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Doesn't This Sound Interesting?
Press Release
‘A Bed of Stories’,
Installation by Helene Hugel, Puppeteer
Tallaght Community Arts Centre (TCAC)
Tallaght, Dublin 24, Ireland
Most Beds are Beds
For sleeping or resting,
But the best beds are much
More interesting!
Not just a white little
Tucked-in-tight little
Nighty-night little
Turn-out-the-light little
Bed –
Sylvia Plath, The Bed Book
Exhibition to be opened by Mary Grehan, Arts Co-ordinator, Waterford Healing Arts Trust
Helene Hugel, puppeteer, presents ‘A Bed of Stories’, an exhibition of a work-in-progress which explores a hospital bed as a performing landscape. Helene has developed an experience which helps to empower children in hospital to recreate their bed space through their imagination. The exhibition demonstrates the artistic process during which children in hospital devised with the puppeteer and invites the public to respond.
The exhibition contains documentation of the puppeteer working both in Our Lady's Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and in her studio and includes images created by and with the children. While collaborating with children in hospital, Helene and the children played with ways to transform bed sheets, pillowcases, and the bed frame through storytelling, puppet and set making, and simple movement. The beds magically became the Northpole, the desert, the sea, and the jungle, and the child became storytellers on a journey. Documentation celebrates the child, the artistic and creative process, and the hospital as a legitimate environment in which to create process based children’s theatre.
The exhibition also contains space for the puppeteer’s work-in-progress. This is an exploration of ‘theatre-for-one’ and takes place while the visitor sits in a hospital bed. Helene will be available to perform for the public on Saturdays during the exhibition, Feb10 & 17. Free, by booking only. Please contact Tallaght Community Arts Centre, phone: (01) 462 1501.
Helene will also be using the gallery space as a point of interaction with the public in order to receive feed-back to further develop the work. She will be facilitating workshops in the arts centre with local youth groups during which they will have the opportunity to create and perform their own theatre-for-one using the hospital bed as a performance space. An activity table and display area will also invite the public to respond throughout the length of the exhibition.
This is the final stage of Helene’s research and development of this project. With a co-producer’s support, she plans to create a performance which will travel from bed to bed in children’s hospitals. She hopes to offer the show to festivals and venues with the potential for it to be performed for both hospital and public audiences.
Thanks to Our Lady's Children’s' Hospital
Supported by an Arts Council Bursary Grant
Mentoring by Mervyn Millar, UK
Documentation and curation assisted by Maev Lenaghan, visual artist
Puppeteer Gary Friedman of Sydney, Australia
is confirmed to be a keynote speaker at the
Puppet Power 2007 conference
“Puppet as Agents of Social Change”
Calgary, AB… Gary Friedman’s passion for puppetry has taken his puppets on an around-the-world journey in search of social change. His use of puppets goes beyond entertainment and instead promotes social, environmental, educational and health-related change. In the early 1980's, Gary tackled the battles of Apartheid, Aids, Abuse, Democracy and Elections and eventually 'Puppets in Prison' in the mid-90's. Gary has always taken up the challenge to confront and facilitate change in the world around him. Perhaps the most successful and far-reaching has been 'Puppets Against Aids' which began in South Africa in 1987, and toured the world for over 9 years from Reunion Island to the remote eastern Arctic, working mainly with indigenous people.
In 2003, Gary re-launched educational programs on the South Pacific island of Fiji. Under the auspices of the Red Cross, he assisted in training local puppetry teams tackling Aids, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Dengue Fever, Disaster Management, amongst others.
Today Gary runs a Visual Theatre, Puppetry-in-Education and Puppetry-for-Film and Television consultancy, based at the Sydney Film School in Australia.
Gary will be sharing his experiences with attendees at the 2007 Puppet Power conference. This event is abi–annualconference that explores the power of puppetry beyond performance. It features keynote speakers and hands-on workshops led by international artists and professionals. This year’s theme “Puppets as Agents of Social Change” intends to explore:
• Current puppet usage in political and social etc. activism,
• Puppetry’s existing and potential role in peace, health, religious, environmental and school education programs
• How puppets can be used for community and organizational transformation
Puppet Power 2007 “Puppets as Agents of Social Change”
May 25-27, 2007
Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary
Earlybird Registration available until March 25, 2007
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