Runaway Moon Theatre is flowing into the new year with Reflection, a new community project celebrating water. During the next few months, we will be hosting FREE workshops that explore water in a variety of ways, through dance/movement, fabric design, ceramics and music – all inspired by the many forms water takes: rushing streams, still puddles, snowflakes, frost, fog, torrential rains! You can help tie-dye a length of fabric, make a simple water-bearing vessel, or jump into some watery movement. Share your time and creativity and make something beautiful and unique! What we create will become a part of a large-scale community performance in July at the Kingfisher Environmental Interpretive Centre on the banks of the Shuswap River. We welcome people of all ages, experience and mobility to participate in this project.

Click here to download your own copy of our Workshops brochure (PDF 1300KB)

Workshops

Ceramics – Making Mud
This ongoing series of ceramic workshops is led by a number of experienced artists. Join them in creating water-bearing vessels using a variety of handbuilding methods and your imagination!
   Sunday, April 18 10am-5pm, Collecting Clay & Pit Firing - Stephen Plant - venue tba
   Saturday, May 22 1-4pm, Daniel Stark - Timbercreek Hall

Music – Roar, Splash, Trickle
Is splashing your hands in water a kind of music? We will explore the subject of water from a musical point of view. Using melody, rhythm and movement the group will look for ways to create water sounds both vocal and instrumental. These workshops, led by Murray MacDonald, will be informal, playful and accessible to everyone.
   Thursdays, 7-9pm at the Enderby Museum
   February 18, March 4 & 25, April 15 More dates tba

Fabric Design – The Rippling Stream
All ages and experience levels are invited to come and ornament fabric with images inspired by water. Participants will learn simple ways of decorating fabric based on traditional techniques from around the world.
   Sunday, Feb 21 1-4pm - Deb Humphries - Timbercreek Hall
   Sunday, April 11 1-4pm - Shibori - Marion Lee and Uschi Eder - Timbercreek Hall
   Sundays, March 7 & 14 1-4pm - Akira Hansen - Enderby United Church
   Saturday, May 15 1-4pm - Bleach Patterning - Deb Humphries - Timbercreek Hall
   Saturday, June 5 3-9pm - Screen & Block Printing - Deb Humphries - Enderby United Church

Movement – Go with the Flow
Kristi Christian will be leading workshops throughout the winter and spring playing with water motivated movement. What is the difference between a trickling stream and a raging thunderstorm? Come and contribute your ideas and creativity and help to develop a vocabulary that has something to say to everyone. No ‘dance’ experience required.
   Saturdays, Feb 13 & 27 3-4pm - Kristi Christian - Anglican Church Hall, Enderby
   Saturday, Apr 17 3-4pm - Kristi Christian - Anglican Church Hall, Enderby
   Sunday, May 2 3-5pm - Jaci Metivier - Contact Dance - Anglican Church Hall

We have been contributing a small column to the North Valley Echo / Okanagan Advertiser, entitled "Reflections on Water", based on people's reflections. Is there anything that you have heard, noticed, or thought, that amazes you about water? Do you have a favourite poem? Please share it with us!

Email us at info@runawaymoon.org or call us at 250-306-3935 for more info.

Newsletters & Photos

April 2009 Newsletter (Adobe PDF - 500KB)

May 2008 Newsletter (Adobe PDF Version)

August 2007 Newsletter (Adobe PDF Version)

March 2007 Newsletter (Adobe PDF Version)

A Kernel Of Truth Picture Gallery (from September 29, 2007)

Add yourself to our newsletter & email list (no more than 6 emails a year)

OUR MISSION: "To create innovative puppet theatre and community arts experiences that engage the imagination and offer alternate perspectives."nati
n and offer

FINDING US AT CURLY WILLOW ORGANIC FARM
In Grindrod, turn right off Highway 97A at SureCrop Feeds onto Tomkinson Rd. We're about 1 km down this road, at the very end. If coming from Sicamous & Mara, it's a left turn at SureCrop Feeds. During events we will usually have a sign at this turn off.

From Enderby and points south, take Highway 97A north to Sicamous. The turnoff in Grindrod is 10 km north of the main traffic lights in Enderby.

From Salmon Arm via Highway 97B, turn left at Highway 97A towards Sicamous. The turnoff in Grindrod is 3.7 km north of the 97B/97A intersection.