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OPEN
DOOR DESIGNS was recently commmissioned by the
City of Loveland in Colorado USA to build
a portable puppet theatre that integrated their Stormwater
Engineering Logo into the design. Open Door Designs
took the logo and adding new elements transformed it onto
the surface of the theatre to tell the story of stormwater
travelling from city and mountain. This theatre is now
being used to educate people about water quality in the
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HANK'S
TOYBOX THEATRE
Performing at Kid's Fringe Festival.
Jane McClelland and Mike Petersen
of Hank’s Toybox Theatre will be performing
their own brand of tabletop puppetry at the Toronto
Kids’ Fringe Theatre Festival this summer.
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Come
and see stuffed animals come alive in As You Puppet, a
unique retelling of Shakespeare’s As You Like, starring
teddy bears, kittens, rabbits and frogs. As You
Puppet will premiere Thursday July 2 at 4:50pm.
Showtimes are as follows: |
Thursday
July 2, 4:50pm
Friday July 3, 8:05pm
Saturday July 4, 2:20pm
Monday July 6, 12:40pm
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Wednesday
July 8, 5:40pm
Thursday July 9, 3:45pm
Saturday July 11, 12:25pm
Sunday July 12, 7:05pm |
$10
adults / $5 kids
fringe hotline: 416-966-1062
www.fringetoronto.com
NO LATECOMERS ADMITTED
All shows are in the Palmerston Library,
560 Palmerston Avenue (just north of Bloor). |
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The
Puppets Up! Workshops have now been scheduled.
Click
Here to download the PDF
PUPPETS UP 2009
- August 8th & 9th
Visit
the PUPPETS UP! 2009 website.
The line up this
year is, as usual, very exciting with ten different troupes
coming from across Canada, the U.S., Iceland and the UK. |
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Telling
Stories
“This year, the festival’s Telling
Stories theme has inspired a story writing competition
and a youth production”, says Noreen Young, Puppets Up!
Artistic Director. ”We are going to take the winning children’s
stories and fashion them into a puppet production to be presented
at the festival by a youth troupe comprised of eight local Mississippi
Mills and Carleton Place children”.
The Puppets Up! story writing competition is open to children
ages 8 to 15 and submissions are due by April 30, 2009. Within
1,000 words, entrants will be asked to write a story involving
a bookworm and a kid (boy or girl). A panel of local authors,
booksellers, librarians and artists will judge the results.
The top three competition winners will join Nick, the festival
mascot, in the daily festival parade on both August 8 and 9. They'll
earn prizes in the amounts of $100, $75 and $50 as well. More
Info |
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MARIE-FRANCE
THIBAULT
Another
gift from the Canadian Library Association Conference in Montreal
was an email from Josiane Polidori, Head of Children's Literature
at the Canadian Archives bringing the work of Marie-France Thibault
to our attention. Check out Marie-France's Blog
to see some beautiful work in Shadow Puppetry. |
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NEW
PUPPETS
BY KELLY KIRKHAM |
New
easy-to-operate marionettes from Alexander Mergold |
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NEW
ARRIVALS |
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Why
should you be concerned?
Metrolinx and the Province of Ontario plan to run over 400
diesel trains a day through our neighbourhoods. Diesel exhaust
is a known threat to human health, especially the health
of children and seniors, and is linked to cancer and respiratory
diseases. Diesel trains will spew fumes, create noise and
divide our neighbourhoods. This plan will seriously impact
our quality of life. |
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a couple of years now Ken McMullen of Spring
Arbour Farms has delivered beautiful organic produce
to our door. The green onions are the best I have every
tasted! Ken has recently won a Premier's Award for Agri-Food
Innovation Excellence. |
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Arbour Farm is 50 acres of Edenic Paradise with mixed hardwood
forest, streams and meadows. We are located in Southwestern
Ontario, Canada near Long Point and Lake Erie (about 200km
southwest of Toronto). Half of the crop land is asparagus
the other half is a mixture of fruits, vegetables, herbs
and flowers. We follow organic farming practices to enhance
the natural vigour of the soil. Most of our varieties are
heirlooms predating 1890. These are available as seeds,
transplants, fresh food and preserves. The wild half of
the farm supplies us with maple syrup, native ferns and
flowers and exotic flavours such as wild ginger and wild
grape. It also ensure a biologically healthy and stable
environment in which to grow food without poisons." |
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| KELLY
KIRKHAM PAPIER MACHE WORKSHOP
March 2009
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Kelly's
next workshop will be on
Sunday, September 20th, 2009
at Open Door Designs.
Please
email us to get
on the list.
To Download
the Workshop
Description
Click
Here
or
Call (416) 531-1290 for more information. |
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