2011 Workshops and Forums
WORKSHOP: Real time Reviewing -A crash course in reviewing for the Fringe with PLANK Magazine.
Tuesday, August 30th
7-9pm
Westside Church, 1502 Duranleau Street (above Whet [the restaurant formerly known as Sammy J. Pepper])
Cost: FREE
What is the role of the reviewer? What isn’t? How has it changed in a web 2.0 reality? Come to this workshop if you’ve always wanted to be a reviewer. Open to all.
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WORKSHOP: Artist Meets Industry: A Career Development Discussion
Monday, September 12th
2 – 3:15pm
False Creek Gym
Cost: FREE
Kahlil Ashanti (Basic Training) and TJ Dawe (The Slipknot) host this discussion on how to help Fringe artists take their careers to the next level. Using their personal experience both from within the Fringe circuit as well as the entertainment industry, they hope to engage in discussions that will lead artists being able to achieve their career goals.
FORUM: Free Range Theatre! – Site specific theatre at the Fringe
The Only Animal
Monday, September 12, 7pm
Wildhorse Canyon Stage at the AGRO Café
Cost: FREE
Who let these actors out of the theatre? What happens when you take away the walls of the theatre and create site-specific theatre? A free range discussion with The Only Animal’s Kendra Fanconi and participants from the Onsite program, including ItsaZoo‘s Chelsea Haberlin (Stay Away from my Boat @$$hole), Seth Soulstein (Lost in Place), Daniel Martin and Dave Mott from upintheair Theatre. Moderated by Heidi Taylor (Dramaturg, Playwrights’ Theatre Centre), join our panel as they chat and share stories about the Onsite process and site specific theatre in Vancouver.
FORUM: Poetry in Performance
Vancouver
Tuesday Sept. 13th, 7pm
Wildhorse Canyon stage at the AGRO Café
Cost: FREE
Are performance poets the new cool kids on the Fringe block? An esteemed group of poets will deny it in public… Enjoy the Fringe’s panel discussion on poetry in performance, moderated by Rob Gee (FRUITCAKE- Ten Commandments from the Psych Ward) and featuring Fringe veteran Jem Rolls (jem rolls IS PISSED OFF), RC Weslowski (The Wet Dream Catcher), local Slam master Sean McGarragle, Katherine Glover (Burning Brothels: Sex and Death in Nevada), and Julie Peters (Vancouver Poetry Slam’s Women of the World playoff winner). These artists will discuss slam poetry, and how poetry and theatre interrelate, with some actual poetry thrown in!
WORKSHOP: Puppet Magic and Making
Wednesday, Sept 14
12-3pm
False Creek Community Centre Gym
Duration: 3 hours: 90 minutes of puppet making and 90 minutes of puppet magic!
Cost: $60 ( $50 for Fringe Artists and Volunteers)
Maximum: 15 people
Sandra Herd from Awkard Stage with one of their puppets from SMILE.
Want to diversify your skill set as a performer? Ever watch Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock or Avenue Q and think, “I WISH I COULD DO THAT!!” Well, you can. Monster Theatre‘s Tara Travis will lead you through the basic formula for translating your knowledge of physical theatre to the art of hand and rod (“Muppet”-style) puppetry.
And of course you’ll want to create your very own “Muppet” style puppet!
WE CAN HELP! The makers of the puppets for this year’s Fringe show “SMILE”, Awkward Stage Productions’ Sandra Herd and Debbie Wiecke of “I Make Neat Stuff”, team up to demonstrate how to build your own puppet, and will provide the materials and walk you through the production of a starter mouth piece to take home.
Please wear loose, comfortable clothing. Rehearsal puppets and “Basics of Puppetry” booklet will be provided, as will all the materials and tools you will need to construct a puppet mouth.
FORUM: Risky-Business – The art of risk-based theatre
Miranda Allen performing fire poi.
Wednesday, Sept 14, 7pm
Wildhorse Canyon stage at the AGRO Café
Cost: FREE
The perilous world of acrobatics, improv, fire, dance and other theatre that relies less on pretend and more on real. Find out why these people are willing to risk their lives, limbs and dignity to make you laugh, gasp and cry. This panel features Miranda Allen (Willow’s Walk; Ripples in Time), Cameron Tomele (Acrobatic Daredevils), and Trent Baumann (The Birdmann). Moderated by Fringe veteran Chris Gibbs (Like Father, Like Son? Sorry.), these artists will share stories about circus, dance, fire spinning, and other risky theatre.
WORKSHOP: Inclusivity in Theatre: an Open Space Discussion with the GVPTA
Thursday, September 15
1-3pm
False Creek Community Centre Gym
Cost: FREE
How does the Fringe’s inclusive mandate change the audience and artists involved in theatre. What suffers, what thrives, when the audience is the only judge of artistic taste?
Facilitators: Daniel Martin and Adrienne Wong
FORUM: Power to the Puppets – How puppets are fighting their way off Sesame Street
Tara Travis and one of her many puppets.
Thursday, September 15, 7pm
Wildhorse Canyon stage at the AGRO Café
Cost: FREE
From the Broadway hit Avenue Q, to Ronnie Burkett to the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, puppets keep popping up more and more for adults. Why is it so much fun to watch potty mouthed puppets have sex? Moderated by Tara Travis (Houdini’s Last Escape), and featuring a great panel of other puppet masters, including Vancouver-based puppeteer Mauri Bernstein, you won’t want to miss the Fringe’s first panel discussion on puppets!
WORKSHOP: Intro to Burlesque with Razzle Tassel Productions
Friday Sept. 16
1-3pm
False Creek Community Centre Gym
Cost: $20 ($15 for 2011 Vancouver Fringe artists)
- The ladies of Razzle Tassel
Come learn why Burlesque dancing is the new yoga – a combination of exercise, positive self image and creative expression with Vancouver’s premier burlesque company. Join April, Melody and Violet from Razzle Tassel Productions for an advanced introduction into the fun and glamorous world of Neo-Burlesque. In this class, you will be taken through the history of erotic movement, practicing classic moves such as the bump n’ grind, the shimmy, as well as elegant stocking peels and glove removals. An option for the more daring includes application of pasties and the many ways one can twirl a tassel! This session culminates in a cheeky and titillating burlesque routine for stage or for personal use (wink, wink).
FORUM: The Secret World of Magic
Travis performing at the 2010 Vancouver International Fringe Festival
Friday, September 16, 7pm
Wildhorse Canyon stage at the AGRO Café
Cost: FREE
These magicians will secretly discuss the secret world of the secret illusionist. No secrets will be revealed in this intimate discussion about the secret history of this secret art! Moderated by Ryan Gladstone (Every Story Ever Told) and featuring Travis Bernhardt (Things that Never Happen).
