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2011 FESTIVAL GUIDE (9 MB)
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FESTIVAL SWAG
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WELCOME TO CAOS
RAD – Ramsay Art and Drama Club
Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30,
Starting Sept 1 at Ramsay Hall – 1136 8 St SE
$75 for first Program Session (9 thursdays) or $10/night drop in
Full and Partial Scholarships available for Ramsay residents
Kookum & Mushum Clowns with Mooky Cornish by Chrystene Ells
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BLUEBIRD FLIES TO TIFF
Xstine Cook & Jesse Gouchey’s animated film “Spirit of the Bluebird”
has been accepted to Toronto International Film Festival, and about 20 other festivals.
Click below to donate to our Indiegogo fundraising campaign
to help get Spirit of the Bluebird to Toronto!
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The Great Ramsay Kinetic Sculpture Race
June 19, 2011
2 pm at Ramsay Rocks
(behind Ramsay School on Spiller Road SE, Calgary)
Bring your artistically enhanced human-powered machine to Ramsay Rocks.
Parade and Race it for the Glory at 2 pm.
Bring your wheels from 11 to 1:30 and decorate to your heart’s content.
Then Parade and Race for the Glorious Prizes at 2 pm.
We are looking for Volunteers to Assist with the Kinetic Sculpture Race from 9 am to 5 pm on Sunday June 19 (yes, we know it’s Father’s Day, sorry.)
Contact Kyle or call 403-266-1503 to sign up and help out!!
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Thank you to all our fabulous Sponsors, Volunteers, Venues, Audience Members, and of course, the Artists for an amazing 2011 Festival of Animated Objects.
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CURATOR’S MESSAGE
“New this year is our move to Inglewood, the heart of where art lives. It’s fitting to celebrate hand-made self-taught art forms like mask and puppetry in Calgary’s original downtown district, home to the entrepreneurial and artistically-minded. Instigated by a new partnership with Casteliers puppet festival in Montreal we moved our dates to March to bring you amazing European work from Stuffed Puppet of Australia via the Netherlands, and Dockteaterverkstan of Sweden. Our mandate to present emerging and established artists gives you a chance to catch a premiere by Circo de Nada and WONDERHEADS, or be part of Ronnie Burkett’s writing process.
To our festival community, the artists, sponsors, volunteers and audience, thank you for the role you play in bringing this special art form to life. ”
- Xstine Cook
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The 5TH BIENNIAL
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED OBJECTS!
March 9-13, 2011
Tickets: (403) 294-9494
Online: Epcor Centre
Info: (403) 266 – 1503
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FESTIVAL STAFF
Xstine P. Cook CURATOR & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Kat Hansen ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Rachel Escoe ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Skye Perry PRODUCTION MANAGER
Johanna Schwartz MEDIA RELATIONS
Stephanie Hawking ABORIGINAL PROGRAMS OFFICER
Richard Van Hazendonk CULTURAL ADVISOR
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
John Holt PRESIDENT
Sean Dennie VICE-PRESIDENT
Poul Bay TREASURER
Juanita Dawn, SECRETARY
Michal Lavi DIRECTOR
Kathleen “Mooky” Cornish DIRECTOR
Jesse Glasnovic DIRECTOR
Aviv Fried DIRECTOR
Kerry Clark DIRECTOR
Xstine Cook FOUNDING DIRECTOR
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SPIRIT OF THE BLUEBIRD
short film by
Jesse Gouchey & Xstine Cook
- photo by Sean Dennie
Spirit of the Bluebird, a new short film by Xstine Cook and Jesse Gouchey is on the verge of being released!
Using spray paint on a fence and garage where Aboriginal mother and grandmother Gloria Black Plume was brutally murdered in 1999, Cree artist Jesse Gouchey paints a large scale animation of a bluebird in flight. The beauty and freedom of the bluebird’s motion is contrasted with remembrances of Gloria’s surviving family members, who give an emotional glimpse of a woman lost to violence and the injustice of the legal system. The creation of the film culminated in the beautiful mural you see Jesse standing in front of. A fitting tribute to a woman who embodied the bluebird spirit.
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SPIRIT OF WHITE BUFFALO
Summer called Spirit of White Buffalo to Key First Nation, Saskatchewan to work with children and youth at their traditional Culture Camp on the August full moon.
Led by Anishnabae multi-media artist Sharon Jinkerson-Brass, the team consisted of mask/puppet/stilt artist Xstine Cook, photographer Sean Dennie, their children Maezy, Medina and Zaiyah, clown Mooky Cornish, Tlingit dancer and singer Heather Bell, theatre and electronic artist Kyle Hinton, dancer/singer Jaese Lecuyer, music teacher Natasha Platt, artist Chrystene Ells, and amazing man-of-the-world, CAOS President John Holt.
- Kookum and Mushum Clowns with Mooky Cornish photos by Chrystene Ells
We are in great need for donations to support this important, though costly venture. Charitable tax receipts issued for all donations. Please send cheque or money order to: CAOS, 1030 – 20 Ave SE, Calgary, AB, T2G 1M6.
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WALK AROUND THE MEDICINE WHEEL
Anishnabae filmmaker Sharon Jinkerson-Brass traveled to Calgary in January to share teachings of the Medicine Wheel in Elementary schools. We also traveled back to Drumheller Institution to work with the Native Brotherhood.
In June we present the DVD of the creation of Piitoayis‘s original aboriginal opera “The Native Book”, which was created by Natasha Platt with the children of the school.
- Sharon Jinkerson-Brass
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SUCKATHUMB
Bloody thumbs! A starving brat! Spontaneously combusting cats! A child’s imagination runs wild in the Canadian wilderness, fueled by her mother’s horrific bed-time tales.
Directed by Xstine Cook, and starring Cirque du Soleil clown Mooky Cornish, this twisted 9 minute film also features animation by Chrystene Ells and puppets by Xstine Cook.
Suckathumb played at the Calgary Underground Film Festival!!
Catch it at an upcoming Prairie Tales 13 screening near you.
- Augustus Who Would Not Have Any Soup – Illustration by Chrystene Ells
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COZ WE’RE FRUM RAMSAY… ROIGHT?!
Every week this winter, CAOS’s Ramsay Art Club families created masks for halloween, paintings, mobiles and other projects. Thanks to the dedicated parents of our emerging artists for supporting the kids, and also for the great food and the good times. RCA website.
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DEVICE TO ROOT OUT STINK ACTUALLY WORKS!
The community of Ramsay created the Device to Root Out Stink!
A Giant Dead Chicken! Drumstick Relay Race! Kiddie Egg Races!
Screening of “Chicken Run” on the wall of Lilydale Chicken Plant!
And of course, a BBQ! (chicken donated by Lilydale).
Unveiled at the crack of the whip and a burst of flame crowds of joyous families spontaneously danced the Chicken Dance.
Device to Root Out Stink Slideshow!!!
And after all that… Lilydale received orders to clean up.
Now.
And it’s been sold to Sofina.
Maybe art really can change the world. Okay, and Ecojustice too.
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THE GREAT RAMSAY KINETIC SCULPTURE RACE
For the Glory!
Bring your human powered art and race it for the Glorious prizes on Father’s Day at Ramsay Rocks.
Behind Ramsay School on Spiller Rd SE, in Ramsay. All Ages
- Leo and Megan as Cap’n & Crew of the Jolly Roger
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CURTIS POULSON WINS THE WHITE BUFFALO!
First-time Festival goer wins the Alabaster White Buffalo Sculpture, carved by the Native Brotherhood in Drumheller Institution, after buying ticket from Siamese Twins at the Galabash! Congratulations Curtis!
- Curtis Poulson!
The Fifth Biennial
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED OBJECTS
runs March 9 – 13, 2011
Spring! Calgary becomes an exploding hotbed of masks, puppetry and all things animated. We present mainstage shows, films, workshops, lectures and exhibitions at various venues in coolest Inglewood and downtown.
The Festival is curated by Xstine Cook
The 2011 Festival tickets on Sale NOW
Explore the site!
For information call (403) 266 – 1503
2009 FESTIVAL ARTISTS
Kiarra Albina
Torbjörn Alström
Arbour Lake Sghool
Pam Atkinson
Axis Theatre Company
Big Sky Multimedia Storytelling
Calgary Puppet Club
Crawdaddy’s Odditorium
Dojo Workhorse
Dolly Wiggler Cabaret
E.A.R.
Chrystene Ells
Four on the Floor
Ghostkeeper
Sharon Jinkerson-Brass
Alice Nelson
Victor Reece
Jamie Tea
The Wet Secrets
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ABOUT CAOS
Spawned in the shadow, or shall we say stench, of a chicken factory in 2003, the Calgary Animated Objects Society, a.k.a. CAOS, burst onto the art scene with a mandate to develop and promote the arts of puppetry, mask, and animated objects. Bringing the world’s best manipulators to Calgary is our primary obsession.
