FLOATING LANTERN CELEBRATION - SUNDAY SEPT 25th at 7 pm - BC Rivers Day
Join us for Last Minute Lantern Making Workshop
Sunday Sept 25th 3-5:30 pm @ Enderby Chamber of Commerce/Info Centre
These are free events. Volunteers needed with canoes/kayaks/boats for launch and gathering of lanterns - call us at 778-443-4000
Help celebrate BC Rivers Day with our annual Floating Lantern Celebration - a floating glowing art spectacle with hundreds of lanterns launched at dusk to honour our BC Rivers.
Lanterns get launched once it's dark (about 7:15) on the Shuswap River at Belvidere Park in Enderby (at Chamber of Commerce/Info Centre by the bridge).
Arrive 6:30 or before with lanterns so we can prepare them for launch and for best viewing spots.
Lanterns are guided by our volunteers with canoes/kayaks/boats and removed at the boat launch at the end of Kildonan Ave (by Riverside RV Park).
The success of the Lantern Float Celebration depends on the time, commitment, and creativity of community participants! Lanterns are simple and fun to make. Depending on how elaborate the design, a lantern can be made in less than an hour. There are different types of lanterns that can be made during a workshop and participants can create more than one if they feel so inspired.
Donations to Runaway Moon Theatre Society are always welcome to support our projects. We thank our many volunteers who help make this annual event a success.
Sunday Sept 25th 3-5:30 pm @ Enderby Chamber of Commerce/Info Centre
These are free events. Volunteers needed with canoes/kayaks/boats for launch and gathering of lanterns - call us at 778-443-4000
Help celebrate BC Rivers Day with our annual Floating Lantern Celebration - a floating glowing art spectacle with hundreds of lanterns launched at dusk to honour our BC Rivers.
Lanterns get launched once it's dark (about 7:15) on the Shuswap River at Belvidere Park in Enderby (at Chamber of Commerce/Info Centre by the bridge).
Arrive 6:30 or before with lanterns so we can prepare them for launch and for best viewing spots.
Lanterns are guided by our volunteers with canoes/kayaks/boats and removed at the boat launch at the end of Kildonan Ave (by Riverside RV Park).
The success of the Lantern Float Celebration depends on the time, commitment, and creativity of community participants! Lanterns are simple and fun to make. Depending on how elaborate the design, a lantern can be made in less than an hour. There are different types of lanterns that can be made during a workshop and participants can create more than one if they feel so inspired.
Donations to Runaway Moon Theatre Society are always welcome to support our projects. We thank our many volunteers who help make this annual event a success.
Runaway Moon Theatre Society - Annual General Meeting
Thursday Sept 29 at 7 pm at the Enderby Museum
Join us to find out how to get involved! Help support us with our funders by attending our AGM (less than an hour of your time really helps us out). Get involved in local art and spectacle - join our Board of Directors. Yet another successful year, with more to come! Thanks once again to the Enderby Museum for providing our meeting space.
Robin and the Timeless Forest - New youth-created marionette show for all ages
Robin and the Timeless Forest is a youth-created marionette show for all ages, brought to you by Runaway Moon Theatre this past summer. This show was small in scale but extraordinary in effect and captured the imagination of hundreds of audience members young and old over a three week Okanagan / Kootenays tour.
Thanks to everyone involved in Robin and the Timeless Forest for a very successful tour! Thanks also to our enthusiastic audiences.
Young artists Forrest Elliot, Hana Friedman, Leif Saba, and Aidan Sparks, with the participation of Rosa Saba, wrote, created, built the puppets and sets, and performed the play. Directed by Nikki Shaffeulah, the young artists were mentored by Stephan Bircher (lighting), Zompopo Flores (puppet tech), Molly March (set design and story) and Artistic Director Cathy Stubington (story, direction and puppet design). The production was made possible by the Youth Engagement Program of the BC Arts Council. Thanks also to Bruce Taylor and Picardi Marionette Theatre, and a big thanks to Rosa Saba for her promotional and tour logistics skills.
Thanks to everyone involved in Robin and the Timeless Forest for a very successful tour! Thanks also to our enthusiastic audiences.
Young artists Forrest Elliot, Hana Friedman, Leif Saba, and Aidan Sparks, with the participation of Rosa Saba, wrote, created, built the puppets and sets, and performed the play. Directed by Nikki Shaffeulah, the young artists were mentored by Stephan Bircher (lighting), Zompopo Flores (puppet tech), Molly March (set design and story) and Artistic Director Cathy Stubington (story, direction and puppet design). The production was made possible by the Youth Engagement Program of the BC Arts Council. Thanks also to Bruce Taylor and Picardi Marionette Theatre, and a big thanks to Rosa Saba for her promotional and tour logistics skills.
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Meet the Cast of Robin and the Timeless Forest
There are four young adults with theatre backgrounds who have helped create the play and are now performing it...
There are four young adults with theatre backgrounds who have helped create the play and are now performing it...
Hana Friedman (17) is an accomplished violin/violist, dancer, and gymnast. She has played in the Okanagan Youth Orchestra under Rosemary Thomson and in many dance ensembles, often garnering honours at provincial music and dance festivals,
She has been part of Runaway Moon with her family for many years, as a musician in many of our community spectacles. Recently she joined Zompopo Flores and her sister Ella to create the soundscape for the community play Tuwitames. She is the Mourning Dove in the Bird Stilt Chorus. We have been fortunate to have her perform at many “Peony Teas” and to have her as participant and youth facilitator for In the Shade Arts Camp.
She has been part of Runaway Moon with her family for many years, as a musician in many of our community spectacles. Recently she joined Zompopo Flores and her sister Ella to create the soundscape for the community play Tuwitames. She is the Mourning Dove in the Bird Stilt Chorus. We have been fortunate to have her perform at many “Peony Teas” and to have her as participant and youth facilitator for In the Shade Arts Camp.
Forrest Elliot (21) is a recent graduate of the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria. In the summer he comes to the Shuswap where he milks cows on his family farm. He’s been involved in community theatre since he was ten, and particularly enjoyed playing Huckleberry Finn in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Gallery 7) and Judah in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Forrest is multi-talented and loves dancing and doing cartwheels. He has participated in the Calendario Wheel visual art project. Forrest is very excited about delving into the world of puppetry as it is entirely new to him.
Aidan Sparks (20) is a multi-talented young man, presently studying folklore at Memorial University in St.John’s Newfoundland, where he has spent his spare time creating puppets. Last year he was in Vancouver learning/teaching with CircusWest, where he began while attending the Langley Fine Arts School. He has been onstage and backstage for several plays at Shuswap Secondary School and Shuswap Players, and has studied dance as well.
Aidan has been part of Runaway Moon’s stilt chorus as a child, and embodied a Red-tailed Hawk in the Bird Stilt Chorus more recently. He was a sparrow in Episode of Sparrows.
Last summer Aidan and two friends unearthed a giant puppet of Runaway Moon’s, and took it to the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival. Aidan is keen to do more spectacle puppetry.
Aidan has been part of Runaway Moon’s stilt chorus as a child, and embodied a Red-tailed Hawk in the Bird Stilt Chorus more recently. He was a sparrow in Episode of Sparrows.
Last summer Aidan and two friends unearthed a giant puppet of Runaway Moon’s, and took it to the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival. Aidan is keen to do more spectacle puppetry.
Leif Saba (19) [centre in photo with Forest Elliot (left) and Aidan Sparks (right) ] sat in on many production meetings during his growing up years, which has given him an overview of both artistic and practical aspects of theatre. He was Assistant Stage Manager for the marionette play In the Time of Miracles and for A Small Miracle which took place throughout the town’s streets and shops. He was Mamillius in the puppet version of The Winter’s Tale at the Belfry, the Fairy Postman in The Faerie Play, Bird Boy in The Maize Show, and Compost for A Lot on Your Plate, for which he created a puppet show about a tomato. He was the Robin in the Bird Stilt Chorus. He has been a chorister and board member for Shuswap Community Singers, and is presently a science student at UVic.
21 Ways To Make The World Last Longer
A Puppet Play for Adults with family-friendly content!
Thanks to everyone involved in bringing 21 Ways to Make the World Last Longer to the stage in Victoria and Salmon Arm in March of 2016. We hope to present this play again in the not too distant future.
A Review
"21 Ways to Make the World Last Longer is a hope-filled, solutions-focused, jubilant celebration of ordinary people taking simple and incremental steps to effect change; it’s a gentle nudge and reminder for everyone that actions count—mightily." "There is a true sense of profound and often hard-won life lessons." "Craftsmanship is extraordinary" - Janis La Couvée, a Victoria-based Arts blogger, in her review of the play. (Click here to read the full review)
"21 Ways to Make the World Last Longer is a hope-filled, solutions-focused, jubilant celebration of ordinary people taking simple and incremental steps to effect change; it’s a gentle nudge and reminder for everyone that actions count—mightily." "There is a true sense of profound and often hard-won life lessons." "Craftsmanship is extraordinary" - Janis La Couvée, a Victoria-based Arts blogger, in her review of the play. (Click here to read the full review)
"21 Ways to Make the World Last Longer" is a practical, hopeful, and simple tribute to the beauty of humanity. This brand new puppet play for adults and mature youth is a 90-minute funny and dramatic sharing of the kooky and maybe necessary approaches to living on an endangered planet.
Sally is learning about the spring birds who visit in and around her small town in British Columbia; Peter is teaching his 97-year-old mother to take the bus in eastern Ontario; Laura remembers a disappointing Christmas; Greg is doing his best to avoid the internet; and Ross is meditating ... as fast as he can. These are just five of the 28 puppet characters that you will meet in the documentary-style puppet production.
Sally is learning about the spring birds who visit in and around her small town in British Columbia; Peter is teaching his 97-year-old mother to take the bus in eastern Ontario; Laura remembers a disappointing Christmas; Greg is doing his best to avoid the internet; and Ross is meditating ... as fast as he can. These are just five of the 28 puppet characters that you will meet in the documentary-style puppet production.
Zompopo, Cathy, James and Sarah May with puppets Greg & his dog Helga
"21 Ways to Make the World Last Longer" is a new original production co-written by Cathy Stubington and James Fagan Tait, and directed by James Fagan Tait. Core puppet makers and puppeteers Cathy Stubington and Zompopo Flores are joined by guest performers James Fagan Tait, Sarah May Redmond and Tom Jones (well known to Runaway Moon and Caravan Farm Theatre audiences) to bring this wonderful story to life.
Using the magic of Runaway Moon rod puppetry and an eclectic quintet of puppeteers, this production is sure to make you wonder, remember, and reflect. Runaway Moon invites you to celebrate the small ways that regular folk make a difference in the world.
Using the magic of Runaway Moon rod puppetry and an eclectic quintet of puppeteers, this production is sure to make you wonder, remember, and reflect. Runaway Moon invites you to celebrate the small ways that regular folk make a difference in the world.
The production of "21 Ways to Make the World Last Longer" has been generously supported by:
British Columbia Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and The Hamber Foundation
British Columbia Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and The Hamber Foundation
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