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SUMMER'S COMING, TIME TO MAKE YOUR MARK
with MAKING OUR MARK!
Sheatre presents a totally new workshop for youth this summer, MAKING OUR MARK!
Art and mural-making with Trevor Pfeffer
Theatre and improvisation with Joan Chandler
Creative writing and poetry with Kateri Akewenzie-Damm
Songwriting and voice with david sereda
Learn by doing: learn techniques from professional artists as you make your mark with
- a mural you design,
- a scene you write and act in,
- a poem you create and perform
- and a song you write and sing.
You can focus on one art form you're most drawn to, or experience something you've never done before: attend part or all of this multi-arts workshop. What we create will spring from two points of view: 1) kids today and 2) the Metis people in Owen Sound.
You'll work with other youth aged 12-20. No previous experience or special knowledge is necessary!
MAKING OUR MARK IS A COLLECTIVE PROJECT. We'll work on a lot of the project together as a group, and some things will be created by just one person – but together we'll decide which particular themes and stories we'll focus on. We'll explore these stories and ideas using visual art, theatre, poetry and music. Our idea is to let these arts come together in an exchange, and to enrich each other -- just like the participants with different interests and backgrounds will come together and enrich each other. What we create will be developed and linked together into a staged presentation onsite. Here's how we'll do it!
GETTING INTO THE STORY: At the beginning of the workshop, Joan Chandler (theatre), david sereda (music) and Trevor Pfeffer (mural artist) will kick things off with the group, playing cooperative games, telling stories and deciding just what this mural is going to be about. Special guests will talk about Metis history and current status as a culture within Canada. We'll brainstorm ideas for themes and stories that best represent our community as a whole now and in the past. We’ll play with themes of “community” and “heritage” and “your culture”. Then we’ll create a storyboard for the project. Participants will present their ideas to the United Way and the Metis Association for approval, since the murals are in their building and office space.
MAKING OUR MARK WITH MURALS
July 2 – July 25
Led by Trevor Pfeffor, students will create graffiti style murals from sketches to full two-storey wall-size paintings. If you ever wanted permission to draw on the walls or to cover them with graffiti – this is it!!!
MAKING OUR MARK ON THE PAGE
July 7 – 11
Kateri Akewenzie-Damm leads the group in creative writing and poetry and performance technique. Some of the poetry will be included in the murals.
MAKING THE MURALS COME TO LIFE
July 21 – August 2
Joan Chandler and david sereda will lead this stage of the workshop, where participants respond to the stories in the murals by creating theatrical scenes and characters and songs, and by integrating their poetry.
We'll culminate in a public unveiling and performance on August 2 that brings together the best of everything we've developed over this month-long exploration.
DATES: The workshop runs from July 2nd until August 2nd (Monday through Friday) at the United Way and Metis Centre located at 380 9th Street East in Owen Sound.
COST: FREE! (donations are accepted)
WHO CAN ATTEND? Youth 12-20.
Making our Mark is brought to you by Sheatre in partnership with The United Way of Bruce-Grey and with the support of The Metis Nation of Ontario, and generous funding from Theatre Ontario and The Ontario Arts Council.
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TO REGISTER, contact:
Francesca Dobbyn, The United Way at 519 376 1560
Or email us at sheatre@sheatre.com |
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POETRY WORKSHOP
with Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and David Sereda in Owen Sound
A unique four day writers’ retreat workshop in the art of writing, presenting and performing poetry is happening in Owen Sound from July 7 -11.
Led by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and David Sereda, each person will create their own unique work, and participate in composing with others and developing their relationships to ideas, words and content.
This workshop is for participants over the age of 13, including adults.
They will take place from July 7 – 11 from 10:00 – 4:00 daily at
The United Way building, 380 9th St. E., Owen Sound.
Supported generously by Theatre Ontario, there is no registration fee; donations are gratefully accepted.
The themes of this workshop celebrate community today and the history of the Metis. Select passages from these new works will be included in wall murals within the United Way building. Poets will have the opportunity to read selected poems aloud to an audience on August 2.
In this workshop you will: focus on developing your own voice, originate seed ideas and your own concept and cultivate it into a polished work of art, write individually and collectively, and share in a dialogue about digging into the creative core and other topics of interest to writers.
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm is an Anishnaabe writer, collaborator, publisher, Indigenous arts advocate, and communications consultant from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. Her writing has been published in the collection my heart is a stray bullet, a chapbook bloodriver woman, and in anthologies, journals, & magazines in Canada, the U.S., Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, France, Italy, Germany & Ireland. Her spoken word CD standing ground, was released in 2004. In 2005-2006 Kateri was featured in a segment of the tv series, Heart of a Poet. In 2007 she was featured in the documentary Words from the Edge. She compiled and edited Without Reservation, an anthology of erotica by Indigenous writers, which was released in Canada & Aotearoa in 2003.
david sereda has been called one of Canada's finest singer-songwriters. “David Sereda sings like an angel and writes like a sinner.” said author Michael Ondaatje. He’s performed on stages coast-to-coast and on national TV and radio, including concerts at venues such as Harbourfront and the Glenn Gould Studio (Toronto), festivals (Vancouver Folk Music Festival, and Summerfolk) as well as special events (Tribute to Joni Mitchell, Harbourfront, Toronto) and international conferences (International Conference on AIDS, GMPlace, Vancouver). David is also known as a music director, composer, and an actor. He has been nominated for two Dora (Toronto theatre) awards. As Associate Artist with Sheatre, he co-leads creative workshops inspired by the passionate life and art of painter Tom Thomson, and co-wrote the full-length musical “TOM” with Joan Chandler. David also performs the touring concert Songs in the key of Tom. He has recorded three albums on his independent label Rocky Wednesday Records, and has another two CDs in the works. “The Blue Guide” has just been released on iTunes.
To register, please contact Francesca Dobbyn, The United Way of Bruce Grey, at 519-376-1550 or email us at sheatre@sheatre.com
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