PLEASE
NOTE
Open Door Designs' Retail
Store will be closed
Tuesday, May 5th and
Thursday, May 7th
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FRONT
PAGE NEWS
The Kelly
Kirkham Workshop at Open Door Designs is featured on the
front page of the May 08 MY
VILLAGE. |
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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
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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
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Open
Door Designs will be participating in the upcoming
Canadian Library Association National
Conference May 29-June 1 in Montreal
Guest
passes are available.
Email
us or call (416) 531-1290 if you are interested in receiving
one.
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This image features an area map, 1899, and a photograph
of Perth Avenue, 1916, with the familiar water tower in
the distance.
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You
are invited to attend a lively discussion about how we
define our neighbourhood on Wednesday, May 13 at 7p.m.
at the Perth Avenue Housing Cooperative (120 Perth). Local
history buff Michael Monastyrskyj will show some old photos,
and Urban Planner Beate Bowron will speak about neighbourhood
identities. A Q&A will follow. All are welcome to
attend this free event.
For details, contact us by email or call Kevin at 416-537-1128.
Website: www.fuzzyboundaries.ca
As in those days, nobody really knows what to call our
community. A number of different names have been used
since Shedden Farms became a neighbourhood in 1887.
Some local residents have formed a group called Fuzzy
Boundaries to initiate a naming process for the area.
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REHEARSAL
SPACE NEEDED |
Local
puppeteers looking for rehearsal space for May and
June. Space could be anything from a classroom to
a garage. 24/7 access. Can afford small remuneration.
Contact
Mike Petersen for more information at mike.petersen@3web.net
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Open
Door Designs is pleased to now stock 3
Bags Full puppets from Bolivia |
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An
Original Concept
Developed and Handcrafted by Ayni Bolivia
$40 each
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Anyi
Bolivia
Anyi Bolivia is a network of indigenous artisans
from across Bolivia. It helps women gain self
esteem by teaching them the skills necessary to
become wage earners for their families. It also
enables many artisans to remain in rural communities,
thus avoiding the trap of urban poverty. |
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Ocean |
Woods |
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Set includes 10 animal finger puppets which
snap into the painted scene
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Pouches come in six themes
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| Check
out the new PUPPET
RESCUE PAGE. You will see some of the rescued,
vintage and used puppets that now share lodgings with
puppets by ALEXANDER MERGOLD,
KELLY KIRKHAM, KRISTY WILSON, STEVEN BARKLEY
and of course OPEN DOOR DESIGNS. |
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