Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:06:05 -0400 From: Jamie Ashby <jamie.ashby-AT-utoronto.ca> To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppts with Blind People One of the depressingly few books published by the now defunct Ontario Puppetry Association Publishing Co. was: Oatman, Kae. Breaking through the Barrier: Puppet Play with the Profoundly Handicapped. Willowdale: OPAPC, 1981. I'd hate to describe blind people as "profoundly handicapped," but there might be something in there nevertheless. Good luck, Jamie Ashby PhD Candidate: "Ideas in Motion: New Work Development at Puppetmongers Theatre Company" Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto Co-founder, PuppUTopiate: the *only* puppet company at the Univ. of Toronto Quoting Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net>: > > I used to have a book (wish I had not gotten rid of it) by Nancy Renfroe, I > believe. She had a lot of info in there about puppets with children of all > disabilities. One puppet was the kind you wear around your neck and you put > your hands in the gloved hands of the puppets. I would think this might > work with blind children as they could really touch its parts. > > Mary > > "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." > -Walter Bagehot > > "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the > choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape > ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make > are ultimately our own responsibility."-----Eleanor Roosevelt > > "Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are > dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do > it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many > tomorrows. > > -Michael Landon > > www.gentleteaching.com > > We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are. > > --Oprah Winfrey > > > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Ana Sofia Paiva <anasofiapaiva-AT-hotmail.com> > > To: <puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org> > > Date: 8/14/2006 12:14:17 PM > > Subject: [Puptcrit] Puppts with Blind People > > > > > > Hello everybody! > > > > Anybody knows about anyone working puppets with blind people, specially > > children? > > > > Cheers! > > > > sofia > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > > Admin interface: > http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org > > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org > Admin interface: > http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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