Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:42:23 -0400
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppetry Workshop in Toronto


Mr. Ashby,

    Good day! My name is Alexander Winfield, a Toronto puppeteer, and I am
very interested in your February 22nd workshop. If there are any positions
remaining, I would like to sign up. How does one sign up? I expect payment
is required before the workshop begins: I am currently finishing up a job
outside the country, but I will return to Toronto on the 1st of February. I
could deliver the down payment after that time.

    I look forward to meeting you in person,

sincerely,

Alexander G. Winfield

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jamie Ashby <jamie.ashby-AT-utoronto.ca>wrote:

> Dear friends in puppetry,
>
> A workshop opportunity for those who will be in the Toronto area this
> February. . . .
>
> Jamie Ashby
>
> BA, MA, PhD Candidate, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University
> of Toronto: "Ideas in Motion: New Work Development at Puppetmongers
> Theatre Company"
> Cofounder and Co-Artistic Director, The Bricoteer Puppetry Project
> Member-at-Large, Ontario Puppetry Association Board of Trustees
>
>
> Creating Puppets out of Everyday Materials and Using Them in
> Improvisational Stories
>
>
>
> Open Door Designs presents a puppetry workshop by the Bricoteer
> Puppetry Project (James Ashby and Grey Muldoon). This storytelling
> workshop will allow participants to transform ordinary items such as
> newspaper, tape, and gift wrap into puppets in an exploration of the
> potential for imagination to transform and reshape the everyday
> world. James and Grey of the Bricoteer Puppetry Project will lead
> participants in a collaboration that will result in the performance
> of short sketches.
>
>
>
> Puppet artists often use newspaper to create maquettes of puppets
> while developing new work. Maquettes act as working models, allowing
> artists to express, demonstrate, or test their concepts. Like a
> sketch in 3-D, maquettes allow artists to explore ideas quickly and
> inexpensively. They can also be enjoyable as an end in themselves and
> as a source of further inspiration. Because of this, the Bricoteer
> workshop should appeal to teachers as well as artists. All
> participants will develop skills in performance, design, narrative
> development, and the communication of ideas visually and intuitively.
> The unique capacities of puppetry, as compared to the theatre of
> human actors, will be explored.
>
>
>
> DATE: Sunday, February 22, 2009 (Deadline to register: Feb. 8)
>
> TIME:            10:00 a.m. =AD 4:00 p.m.
>
> LOCATION:            Open Door Designs, 1597 Dupont Street, Toronto, ON M6P
> 3S8
>
> AGE GROUP:             Adults (min. 5, max. 10)
>
> COST:             $100
>
> INFORMATION:            www.opendoordesigns.ca/(416) 531-1290
>
>
>
> The Bricoteer Puppetry Project
>
> The Bricoteer Puppetry Project was accidentally founded in 2003, when
> Grey Muldoon and James Ashby, complete strangers at the time, came
> together to design and build the puppets for the Graduate Centre for
> Study of Drama production of The Grotesque Farce of Mr. Punch the
> Cuckold by Ramon Maria del Valle-Inclan. They had some help, of
> course, but James and Grey soon became known for their
> rough-and-ready, sometimes bizarre, but always effective style of
> puppet construction.
>
> Grey and James devised the name Bricoteer Puppetry Project for
> several related reasons: 1) to emphasize how they creatively use
> material available =B3at hand=B2 to construct both stories and puppets, a
> tendency encapsulated in the critical term bricolage (bricoteer is an
> amalgamation of the words bricotage and puppeteer); 2) to declare
> openly that they are most interested in pushing the boundaries of
> puppetry, which in many ways already goes beyond what the theatre of
> human actors is capable of doing; 3) to inform others that theirs is
> an ongoing project that always welcomes new collaborators.
>
>
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