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Hours are MON to FRI, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Closed: DEC 24 - JAN 4
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(403) 221 - 3708
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Suite 161, 115 - 9 Ave SE
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FESTIVAL PASS
See all the shows in the festival for one low price.
A limited number of festival passes are available.
$109 from November 18 to December 24.
$129 from January 4 to Feb 1.
Available at the Box Office. Please note that the pass by itself is NOT a ticket. Call Festival Box Office to reserve your tickets.
YOUNG SPIRIT VOICES IS BACK!
Young Spirit Voices, a drama group for aboriginal youth is back this spring, getting ready to rock the Calgary Stampede Parade with Spirit of White Buffalo!
Spirit of White Buffalo is the giant white buffalo puppet CAOS has been building with participation from bike fanatics, jailbirds, university students, and artists. Participants of Young Spirit Voices will learn performance skills and then show them off at the 2009 Calgary Stampede Parade, and other events.
The first round of classes take place Sundays in May (but NOT the May long weekend) and will teach stage presence, performance skills, and group ensemble, led by Alice Nelson, renowned for her work in South Africa as part of Clowns Without Borders. Oh ya, you might learn how to be funny too.
Age range: 7-19. (but if you are out of that range and really want to participate, call us)
Young Spirit Voices dates:
Sundays: May 3, 10 (yes, on Mother’s Day!) 24, and 31.
-Further classes & rehearsals will take place in June/July.
Parade Day: July 3.
To register, send an email to office@animatedobjects.ca. Or call 403-266-1503
Fees are negotiable, with full scholarships available. If you have a desire to perform, create, sew, direct, puppeteer, dance, or help backstage, we have a spot for you!
Presented by Calgary Animated Objects Society
CURTIS POULSON WINS THE WHITE BUFFALO!
First-time Festival goer wins the Alabaster White Buffalo Sculpture after buying ticket from Siamese Twins at the Galabash! Congratulations Curtis!
Curtis Poulson Wins the White Buffalo Raffle!
The Fourth Biennial
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED OBJECTS
runs January 23 – February 1, 2009
For ten days every second January, Calgary becomes a winter hotbed of masks, puppetry and all things animated. We present mainstage shows, films, workshops, lectures and exhibitions at various downtown venues.
The Festival is curated by Xstine Cook
The 2009 Festival will feature artists from Canada, the USA and Sweden.
Explore the site!
For information call (403) 266 – 1503
For tickets call (403) 221 – 3708
ARTISTS
Big Sky Multimedia Storytelling
STAFF
Xstine P. Cook FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Trevor Anderson ASSOCIATE PRODUCER & FILM CURATOR
Skye Perry PRODUCTION MANAGER
Stephanie Hawking ABORIGINAL PROGRAMS OFFICER
Richard Van Hazendonk CULTURAL ADVISOR
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
John Holt PRESIDENT
Sean Dennie VICE-PRESIDENT
Poul Bay TREASURER
Michal Lavi SECRETARY
Kathleen “Mooky” Cornish DIRECTOR
Jesse Glasnovic DIRECTOR
Aviv Fried DIRECTOR
Kerry Clark DIRECTOR
Xstine Cook FOUNDING DIRECTOR
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.
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