FALL/WINTER 2011-12 WORKSHOPS
NOW BEING SCHEDULED

*Alexander Mergold: Marionette, Tabletop & Mold Making
*Mike Harding: Foam & Fur

We are in the process of scheduling the Fall
Workshops. Please check here for those that
have been already scheduled and watch future
newsletters for more info.
You can also get on a mailing list to get a note when
particular workshops are scheduled by emailing and
indicating the workshops you are interested in.

Also, if you can put together a group of 4 or
more we are more than happy to schedule any
of the workshops to suit your timetable.

BASEMENT STUDIO
NOW AVAILABLE
FOR RENT

The basement studio is now finished and available for rent
for small meetings and events. A beautiful clean new space, there is approximately 350 sq ft of floor space. 2 tables, 12 chairs, microwave, kettle, coffeemaker, fridge and bathroom.

Rates:
$15/hr - 8 hour minimum
$20/hr by the hour.

more info: info@opendoordesigns.ca , (416) 531-1290

PUPPETS TO GO in T.O.

Bob Nathanson & Friends are visiting from the USA. Bob will performing
in Toronto libraries as shown below and then again, at Puppets Up! in Almonte.
Don't miss it! Visit the Puppets to Go website click here.

This slide show is a series of photos from most of the productions being presented this year. Click Here to go to the Puppets Up Website for more information.

The Pedaler’s Wager
Dufferin Grove Park, Toronto
Stationary Shows: 7pm Weds - Sunday and 2pm Friday in Dufferin Grove Park
Mobile Matinees: 2pm Saturday & Sunday
until August 14.
MORE INFO
Written & Directed by David Anderson & Amira Emma Routledge
Design by Amira Emma Routledge
Music Direction by Chris Wilson & Nuno Cristo

Clay & Paper Theatre proudly presents our first ever bicycle-based mobile play: The Pedaler’s Wager. This original comedy features puppetry, live music, and our very own CYCLOPS: Cycling Oriented Puppet Squad. Each weekend audience members are invited to cycle from act to act alongside performers, literally following the troupe to the show's conclusion.
We invite you on a journey through an epic tale of modernity, as spun by a peddler and his troupe who risk their livelihoods to tell this story of societal transformation. When a small family is forced to leave their riverside home, cajoled by developer Baron Boots, his consort Lady Grabsome, their disastrously hungry son Otto, and a smooth-talking PR Department, where will they go? Pushed into the new life of the Future, how will the family survive?
This ambitious undertaking is the culmination of three years of development establishing Clay & Paper Theatre's CYCLOPS: Cycling Oriented Puppet Squad. This show will take Clay & Paper’s unique brand of theatre to the streets; animating and energizing Toronto’s public spaces, promoting active living, and drawing attention to urban environmental issues through original bicycle-infused theatre.

Puppet Gift Tags

$1 each or 6 for $5

I am also pleased to say that we now have some provenance on these wonderful Czech puppets were brought into the store. They are in mint condition and we now know that they were made after 1948. They were purchased "as old" in the early 1950's.

Radek Licek from the Puppet Museum in Chrudim in the Czech Republic wrote this about these puppets:

"The puppets displayed in your slideshow are small marionettes from a serial production for family theatres. They were manufactured by Mr. Lubor Svorcik (*1911 - ?) from Pardubice, Czechoslovakia.
He obtained a licence for "a production of art puppets" in 1948. He designed and produced the puppets himself, only with a help of his wife until the early 1980´s."

The 26 puppets are about 10" tall and including the controller 24" tall. The owners would like to sell them. They are available individually @ $35 ea or the set of 26 for $780. If you would like to purchase them, please contact us at info@opendoordesigns.ca or call (416) 531-1290.

These beautiful photos (Photos © 2009 Coralie Chappat) taken from this blog: www.mardecortesbaja.com full of interesting things - found when the extreme heat made surfing (the net) interesting...

"The shows date from the 18th Century, when a French dentist, Laurent Mourget, adapted a character from the Commedia dell'Arte -- Polichinelle, called Punch in England -- and cast him as the rambunctious star of short puppet shows, which he used to attract clients. (He pulled teeth for free and made his money selling painkillers after the procedure.) Eventually Polichinelle morphed into Guignol, a poor tradesman with great wit and a strong sense of justice, who was constantly getting the better of those he tangled with.

The shows proved more popular than his dental practice, so Laurent devoted himself to them, and they spread to all parts of France. Many of the Guignol companies that survive today can trace their decent back to the dentist and his children, who carried on their father's work."

scottish falsetto sock puppet theatre
Absolutely nothing to be said!
Here is the link to Kev f Sutherland's website

VOLUNTEER NEEDED

This note from Susan Berman of the Perth Dupont Community Garden:

" Our garden is looking for one or two people interested in flowers and roses, to help with our Front flower Bed, and our Native Plant - Butterfly Garden."

* For more information please contact Susan: perth-dupontcg@frogstar.com
* perth-dupont.parkcommons.ca

SUMMER ADVENTURE CAMP
Junction Triangle Outreach Location

Camp Registration now open
Ages: 5- 17
July 4th- August 26th

More info: www.dovercourtkids.com

email: Tony Palermo: paldover21@kwik.net

June Harlowe Foods
1627 Dupont Street
(Between Dundas & Symington, south side)
Toronto, Ontario
M6P 3S8
416.848.1984

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AT EVANGELINE

Donations may be dropped off at Open Door Designs or email Nancy Davis Halifax for more information.