DAY OF DELIGHT

Image | Posted on September 23, 2016 by tamararomanchuk

Clay & Paper Theatre presents:

DAY OF DELIGHT!
A Celebration of Love, Courtship & Desire

On Sunday, June 19th 2016 from 1 to 4:30pm, Clay & Paper Theatre invites you to lush and beautiful Dufferin Grove Park for the 14th Annual Day of Delight: A Toronto celebration of Love, Courtship and Desire. Join us and some of Toronto’s most amorous artists, puppeteers, actors, clowns, circus arts performers, singers and dancers as we celebrate the themes of Love, Courtship and Desire for Place, People and Planet!

SCHEDULE
1pm – 4:30pm
Cardboardia (Kids’ Exploratorium)

1pm – 3:30pm
“Looking for Love” Treasure Hunt

1:30pm – 2:00pm
Balfolk Family & Community Dance

2:00pm – 4:30pm
Clay & Paper Theatre – Parade & Pageant of Love
Broulala – Songs of Love
Paromita Kar – Dances of Love
Philip & Lucinda – Circus of Love
Birdbone Theatre – Puppets of Love
Rutherford – Clowns of Love
Matti Palonen – Harps of Love
Akhilanda Collaborative – Mermaids of Love
Clay & Paper Theatre – A Mummers Play of Love
Maracatu Mar Aberto – FINALE – Drums of Love

Featuring Puppetry, Music, Circus Arts, Clowning, Installation, Dance and Theatre by:

– Kids get to explore a cardboard version of the Great Barrier Reef in returning favourite CARDBOARDIA
– A family friendly LOVE TREASURE HUNT throughout Dufferin Grove Park
– Folk dance workshop and all around folk party band, BALFOLK TORONTO
– Opening parade and PAGEANT OF LOVE
– THE COLOURS OF LOVE, a giant puppet and a carnival of colours , inspired by “Holi” a Hindu spring festival. (NOTE: All dry coloured powder and coloured water are water soluble.)
– Innovative accapella jazz ensemble BROULALA
– Central Asian dance mistress PAROMITA KAR peforms accompanied by musician MIKE ANKLEWICZ
– Acrobatic-comedy-kazoo duo PHILIP & LUCINDA
– A table top puppetry show by innovative Canadian puppeteers BIRDBONE THEATRE
– RUTHERFORD in “Barn-Barns for All!” A red nose love story with bananas.
– A giant harp installation built into the trees of Dufferin Grove Park by adventurous luthier and musician, MATTI PALONEN
– Mummer’s play THE RETURN OF THE GREEN MAN
– The reunion of three mermaid sisters in an aerial, movement and live music performance piece, “the way back home”
– FINALE with Toronto’s own Afro-Brazilian drumming powerhouse, MARACATU MAR ABERTO

Hosted by CLAY & PAPER THEATRE

Dufferin Grove Park
(875 Dufferin St., south of Bloor St.W. Across from the Dufferin Mall)
2:00 – 5:00pm
$10/Pay-What-You-Can
INFO: 416-708-3332
clayandpaper@sympatico.ca
www.clayandpapertheatre.org

Cranky Movie Performance and Demo!

Posted on December 1, 2015 by tamararomanchuk

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David Anderson in Yaroslava, Russia, 1989

A rarely seen street theatrical device, the CRANKY MOVIE will be demonstrated this WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2nd, at the Clay & Paper Studios. The fantabulous Mister David Anderson will be putting on a performative demonstration the likes of which have nary been seen on these Toronto City streets in o’er a decade.

Join us for an evening of learning, laughing, and raucous-theatrics from one of the proper Masters in CRANKY MOVIE un-technology! David Anderson has been a street performer for over 45 years, and has graced the international common “stage” countless times throughout. Although his methods may seem mad, his insights are true.

Where: 35 Strachan Avenue
When: 6:30pm – 8pm

We even have snacks!

E-mail our Production Manager, Sandra Mannila, at sandra.clayandpaper@gmail.com to RSVP!

SUMMER SHOW Opens July 23

Posted on July 22, 2014 by tamararomanchuk

This summer a raft of refugee animals gets pushed out of their homes and into Dufferin Grove Park for an epic papier-mâché fight for the future of the planet in Clay and Paper Theatre’s giant puppet tale, Animal Nature.

A neurotic Caribou poet, a storytelling flatulent Possum, a sleep deprived Grizzly with anger management issues, and a lonely Orca lost in her watery dreams, are just a few of the colourful and bold creature characters in Animal Nature. “How did we get pushed to the very edges of the earth itself?” they all demand.

With its cast of puppet tricksters and merrymakers, Animal Nature rallies audiences to love the planet entirely, absolutely, fervently and to find the way back home together. With original and vibrant design, music, dance, and signature Clay & Paper Theatre satire and wit gone awry, Animal Nature is provocative puppetry in public space at its best.

Directed by Clay & Paper Theatre Founder and Artistic Director David Anderson and Assistant Artistic Director, Kathryn Durst, and written by David Anderson and associate artists, Tamara Romanchuk and Anna Sapershteyn, Animal Nature features music direction by Dr.Chris Wilson, puppet sculpture by David Anderson, puppet and scenic painting by Liudmila Lipovskaya, shadow puppets by Craig Morrison, set design by Maria Wodzinska and a stellar cast of emerging professionals: Brendan Austin, Felix Beauchamp, Sam Bowen, Kathryn Allison Durst, Oriane Edwards, Cameron Grant, Laura-Lee Lewis, Jake Runeckles.

Animal Nature runs in Dufferin Grove Park , from July 23 to August 16 (Preview July 22) @7:30pm, Wednesdays to Sundays. The performance is approximately an hour in length. Admission is Pay-What-You-Can, $10 suggested. No reservations are necessary.

VENUE: Dufferin Grove Park (875 Dufferin St., South of Bloor St. W., across from Dufferin Mall.) North of the Children’s Playground

PREVIEW PERFORMANCE: July 22, 2015 @ 7:30pm

PERFORMANCES: July 23 to August 16, 2015 (Wednesday through Sunday) @ 7:30pm

ADMISSION: Pay-What-You-Can, $10 suggested. No reservations necessary.

MEDIA CONTACT: Sandra Mannila sandra.clayandpaper@gmail.com 416.708.3332

PHOTOS: Please contact us at clayandpaper@sympatico.ca production photos. We also welcome media photographers at all Clay & Paper Theatre events.

Where: 35 Strachan Avenue When: 6:30pm – 8pm

We even have snacks!

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Where: 35 Strachan Avenue
When: 6:30pm – 8pm