PEONY GATHERING - SUNDAY MAY 29 AT 1 PM AT CURLY WILLOW FARM
Runaway Moon is taking a break from the Peony Tea, but don't worry -- we've still got plenty of peonies here! The youth behind this summer's Marionette Magic project (see below for more on this) are offering an afternoon for you to bring your family, as well as a picnic if you wish, and come gather an armload of peonies and drink tea or lemonade! This event is by donation and for everybody. There will also be live music and surprises, and the puppet museum will be open. Click here for directions to Curly Willow Farm in Grindrod.
SHADOW WORKSHOP AND PERFORMANCE - TUESDAY MAY 31 AT 7 PM
Runaway Moon welcomes puppeteer Tim Gosley from Victoria, who will give a shadow performance of Poet P.K.Page's "The Blind Men and the Elephant", followed by a demonstration/workshop on low-tech LED shadow puppetry and live video projection.
Witness the filmic effects of using simple LED flashlights ... See how to make three-dimensional shadow puppets from found or created objects ... Learn to create big effects with small dollars ....
The workshop will take place on Tuesday May 31 at 7 pm at Runaway Moon Theatre's workshop space at Curly WIllow Farm. Cost is $12, or $5 for students. Click here for directions to Curly Willow Farm in Grindrod.
Tim Gosley has been a puppet artist since 1980 and presently resides in Victoria. He is a Gemini Award winning puppeteer on numerous TV puppet series including working with the Muppets on Fraggle Rock and as Basil Bear on Canadian Sesame Street. He creates his own shows for both families and adults in various puppetry styles from childrens' shows to the avant garde, using techniques including LED shadows, object manipulation, and Muppet-style manipulation. Tim is also the festival organizer for the Puppets for Peace Celebration in Victoria (www.puppetsforpeace.org).
Witness the filmic effects of using simple LED flashlights ... See how to make three-dimensional shadow puppets from found or created objects ... Learn to create big effects with small dollars ....
The workshop will take place on Tuesday May 31 at 7 pm at Runaway Moon Theatre's workshop space at Curly WIllow Farm. Cost is $12, or $5 for students. Click here for directions to Curly Willow Farm in Grindrod.
Tim Gosley has been a puppet artist since 1980 and presently resides in Victoria. He is a Gemini Award winning puppeteer on numerous TV puppet series including working with the Muppets on Fraggle Rock and as Basil Bear on Canadian Sesame Street. He creates his own shows for both families and adults in various puppetry styles from childrens' shows to the avant garde, using techniques including LED shadows, object manipulation, and Muppet-style manipulation. Tim is also the festival organizer for the Puppets for Peace Celebration in Victoria (www.puppetsforpeace.org).
MARIONETTE MAGIC - COMING THIS JULY AND AUGUST
This summer, Runaway Moon is bringing another family-friendly marionette show to the Okanagan-Shuswap. We are beginning production of a youth-created and youth-performed marionette play, thanks to the BC Arts Council's Youth Engagement Program.
Between July 25 and August 18th, 2016, this play will tour around the Okanagan and perhaps beyond. Young artists Forrest Elliot, Hana Friedman, Leif Saba, and Aidan Sparks, with the participation of Rosa Saba, are writing, creating, and performing the play.
This story, filled with surprises and fantastical twists, is sure to capture the imagination of audience members young and old. The play will premiere at the second annual Theatre on the Edge festival on July 22-24, 2016 at the Shuswap Theatre in Salmon Arm (performance dates and times TBA). We are thrilled to be part of Shuswap Theatre’s second annual summer festival of bold and brave theatre. Other performances of the marionette play will follow.
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Between July 25 and August 18th, 2016, this play will tour around the Okanagan and perhaps beyond. Young artists Forrest Elliot, Hana Friedman, Leif Saba, and Aidan Sparks, with the participation of Rosa Saba, are writing, creating, and performing the play.
This story, filled with surprises and fantastical twists, is sure to capture the imagination of audience members young and old. The play will premiere at the second annual Theatre on the Edge festival on July 22-24, 2016 at the Shuswap Theatre in Salmon Arm (performance dates and times TBA). We are thrilled to be part of Shuswap Theatre’s second annual summer festival of bold and brave theatre. Other performances of the marionette play will follow.
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MORE ON SHUSWAP THEATRE'S 2nd ANNUAL THEATRE ON THE EDGE FESTIVAL
Following last year’s debut of the highly successful Theatre on the Edge festival, Shuswap Theatre is proud to present the second annual festival July 22-24, 2016. Once again there will be seven productions, each under an hour in length and each show will be presented twice. We have also kept the popular Edge Club with food, drink and live music. More details coming soon on the festival's webpage at http://shuswaptheatre.com/home/theatre-on-the-edge
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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