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Using spray paint on a fence where Aboriginal mother and grandmother Gloria Black Plume was brutally murdered, AYAP graduate Jesse Gouchey paints a large-scale animation of a bluebird in flight. This award-winning film screened at TIFF and over 70 film festivals worldwide.
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A mask is a vessel which may act as conduit for characters, spirits, and beings to visit. Using objects from Journey of Ten Moons, a Dell’Arte play about early explorers’ hubris combined with a Yurok legend, Xstine casts Coyote, the trickster, as the central hero and villain of this two month exhibition.
Xstine Cook
A puppet maker, theatre artist, community activist, and filmmaker, Cook studied mask and puppetry in Bali, Italy, France, and the West Coast of Canada. She is a Dell’Arte graduate and a founder of Green Fools Theatre and Calgary Animated Objects Society.
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Director’s cut! Calgary’s Bleeding Art Industries creates a fun and whimsical Monty Python-esque stop motion animation to the song, River of Snot by the comedic musical trio The Arrogant Worms. After the screening, director Leo Wieser and fabricator and animator Alyssa Moor will talk about their process and show some of the set pieces and props used in the animation.
BLEEDING ART INDUSTRIES (Calgary)
Bleeding Art Industries is a multi-faceted, innovative production company creating cool things. Focused on creative content, special effects, and custom fabrication, they’re known for high quality work, creative solutions, and ability to turn vision into reality. Bleeding Art Industries produced Canada’s first native 3D and stop motion animated film Skeleton Girl and Twisted Tales for Demented Children.
THE ARROGANT WORMS
Since 1991, The Arrogant Worms have written songs to make fun of our “big dumb world.” Luckily, the world is still dumb and The Arrogant Worms, (Mike McCormick, Chris Patterson and Trevor Strong), still have plenty to sing about including, rivers of snot. Their shows are fast, furious and family friendly. Their quick wit, biting satire and stellar musicianship, appeals to fans from kids to grandparents to Princess Leia.
www.bleedingartindustries.com | www.twistedstories.com | www.arrogantworms.com
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2 to 9 min
Climb the stairs and look for a beckoning hand. Enter a secret arcade of miniature theatres. Cross the palm of each show’s operator with a Toonie or a Fiver. Put on the headphones, and be transported by a brief little puppet show or twisted movie. Prepare yourself for Lilly’s Big Day, run to The Ice Cream Man, capture The Gerbil Who Shot Liberty Vallance, and remember true Friendship lasts.
Come early, or stay late, the arcade will be open. Most shows suitable for families, but not all.
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Alice Nelson and a variety of fun puppets explore humankind’s intricate relationship with water. The younger set will love hilarious stories, historical anecdotes, and fascinating facts. Check out the online study guide with activities to enrich the experience!
Petits cochons dans un canot
Alice Nelson et un nombre varié de marionnettes uniques explorent l’humanité et sa relation complexe avec l’eau avec histoires hilarantes, anecdotes historiques, faits fascinants. Un guide de travail en ligne suggère des activités pour enrichir la connaissance. Idéal pour les élèves de la maternelle à la sixième année ou pour les familles.
WP Puppet Theatre Society
A touring company based in Calgary, WP creates original shows for schools & families, using puppetry to engage and animate curiosity about the world we live in. WP also produces Puppet Power, an international conference series that examines the power of puppetry in the social issues of our time.
Save the date! Puppet Power 2016, May 27-19, 2016.
www. wppuppet.com/pigs-in-a-canoe
Catch Alice Nelson’s other show Ms. Sugarcoat and see Alice Nelson and Wendy Passmore in Thursday Thinking Panel and Breakfast with Sleepy Artists
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Join the class where everyone is special
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, Ms. Sugarcoat is eager to mold the young minds of the future. But university textbooks didn’t prepare her for helicopter parents, entitled high-needs students, and political correctness at the cost of telling the truth. When Pat the Beaver shows up, Ms. Sugarcoat’s delicately controlled world threatens to implode. A hilarious original show written and performed by Alice Nelson, Ms.Sugarcoat won the Audience Choice Poll at Sage Theatre’s Ignite! Festival.
Alice Nelson
Alice is an actor, playwright, director, theatre educator, puppeteer, improviser, mask maker, clown, and founder of Organized Crime Productions. Alice holds an MFA in Ensemble Created Theatre from Dell’Arte Physical Theatre School in California, and works with the renowned Loose Moose Theatre and WP Puppet Theatre. As a volunteer with Clowns Without Borders, Alice has been on four expeditions to South Africa since 2006, performing and teaching clown to children and communities whose lives have been affected by HIV/ AIDS.
See Alice Nelson’s other show Pigs in a Canoe / Petits cochons dans un canot, and catch her on the Thursday Thinking Panel and Breakfast with Sleepy Artists Panel.
www. appliedimprov.ning.com/profile/AliceNelson
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Did you hear an odd thump?
What is that strange scratching sound?
Oh! That trunk is opening! Trunk Puppet lifts the lid off the Big Box of Life containing our creative spirit, pushing the boundaries of how we experience puppetry. By releasing the imposed control of the puppeteer, letting the puppet have a life of its own, what wonders and mysteries, hilarity and havoc will be unleashed? CAOS is proud to support the world premiere of Trunk Puppet, a brand new work, co-produced with Montreal’s Festival de Casteliers.
The Old Trout Puppet Workshop
In the blustery winter of 1999, with the dreaded Y2K looming, a gang of childhood friends huddled on a southern Alberta ranch, seeking mutual protection in case of apocalypse. With the simple reasoning the world will always need puppetry – even in the face of an economic and technological collapse— they founded the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, and premiered to a bunkhouse full of cowboys and Hutterites. Ever since those uncertain, savage days in the wilderness, the Old Trouts have toured the world with their puppets, written and illustrated books, crafted immense sculptures, taught eager young apprentices their secrets, and made films. The Old Trouts also form half of trance-blues band, Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir. Next up (if the world doesn’t end), a show in a Roman amphitheatre in Lyon, France.
CAMP
The Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry is a new institution based in Calgary. Dedicated to training and developing the stylized physical forms of performance and object manipulation, CAMP’s mandate fosters the next generation of artists inspired by these forms of theatre and storytelling. CAMP’s objective is to found a centre that will enable all of these activities. Join our CAMP! Email pete@theoldtrouts.org to pitch in.
www.theoldtrouts.org
Also join Artistic Director Peter Balkwill at the Breakfast with Sleepy Artists Panel and Anne Lalancette for the Moving and Making Puppets workshop.
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The Old Trouts return with a classic. After many years on the road in Europe, the US, and the rest of Canada, they’ve grown wrinkled and semi-feral, but they’ve come home with a promise: to cure your fear of death. Say goodbye to anxiety about difficult choices, dreaded birthdays, and desperate pleas for immortality through fame, art, or progeny. Their collection of famous scenes from the absolute best puppet shows in history, including Edward’s Last Prance, from The Ballad of Edward Grue by Samuel Groanswallow, and the unforgettable Bipsy’s Mistake, from Bipsy and Mumu Go to the Zoo by Fun Freddy, the Trouts will deconstruct your traumatized psyche and reconstruct it so death means nothing. In a way, promising ever-lasting life, through a puppet show. That’s right.
The Old Trout Puppet Workshop
In the blustery winter of 1999, with the dreaded Y2K looming, a gang of childhood friends huddled on a southern Alberta ranch, seeking mutual protection in case of apocalypse. With the simple reasoning the world will always need puppetry – even in the face of an economic and technological collapse— they founded the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, and premiered to a bunkhouse full of cowboys and Hutterites. Ever since those uncertain, savage days in the wilderness, the Old Trouts have toured the world with their puppets, written and illustrated books, crafted immense sculptures, taught eager young apprentices their secrets, and made films. The Old Trouts also form half of trance-blues band, Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir. Next up (if the world doesn’t end), a show in a Roman amphitheatre in Lyon, France.
Visually stunning and endlessly entertaining. – LA Times
One of the best shows of the year… not to be missed. -The Globe & Mail
www.theoldtrouts.org
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Conjuring images of juke joints and out-of-body-experiences.
Join us for a rip-snortin’ fundraiser for the International Festival of Animated Objects. Play games and win fabulous prizes in Carnival Alley. Music by Muerte Pan Alley and Domestic Bear. Food by Devour Catering. Beer Sampling by Village Brewery. Guitarist Bob Keelaghan and drummer Jason Woolley (half of Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir) are joined by virtuoso bassist Rob Oxoby, to stomp big holes in the floorboards as Muerte Pan Alley.
Power, more precisely, powerful is what lunges out from a wailing, slide guitar and howling vocals…brutal and glorious at the same time. –Beatroute Magazine
www.muerte-pan.com
