Archive for 'News'
Otto Award – New York
On May 15th Stephanie and I flew to New York. Our first day was spent shopping and sight seeing. We took a carriage ride through Central Park and rode the Carousel.
At 7:30 PM on May 16th we attended a performance of “This is your ridiculous life” at Castillo Theatre. The play was an amusing blend of [...]
Posted: May 23rd, 2009 under News.
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Revelstoke
April 2, 2008 we were invited to perform in Revelstoke. Revelstoke is a beautiful community nestled between high mountains. At a little over 700 km it was a long drive through some breathtaking scenery. We had free time between performances so we were able to sightsee and get to know a little of the area. Community Connections invited [...]
Posted: April 4th, 2008 under News.
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Camp Trapping
On Friday Mar 21 and Friday March 28 Street Spirits provided a theatre workshop to Camp Trapping. Both residents and staff took part in the workshop process and created a number of theatre pieces including some narrated image stories and three live action complete plays. The plays explored issues of drug use and impaired driving in [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2008 under News.
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Jessie’s Hope Video Competition
One of our actors, Michelle Frechette, has entered a video competion on body image. You can view her entry here. Entries are judged on the number of viewings they receive.
While you are at Youtube you can check out our latest PSA on alcohol and family. The link is here.
Posted: November 23rd, 2007 under News.
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New York
Street Spirits returned from New York on Tuesday Oct 16 after an intense long weekend. We attended Performing The World 4, an international conference on theatre as an agent of change. We worked with many wonderful people from all over the world and learned a great deal. Members Kayla, Danielle, Allan, Stephanie, Andrew and Teresa [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2007 under News.
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John McInnis
Today Street Spirits provided a presentation at John McInnis Junior Secondary School on the effects of substance use on relationships. Taking part from Street Spirits were Andrew, Al, Tia, Mary and Jason. We lead a discussion with over a hundred students in the library and created some audience interactive scenes using Workout Theatre. Audience participation was [...]
Posted: October 1st, 2007 under News.
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Future Cents Workshop
From Monday to Friday September 10 to 14 we provided a workshop on social action theatre for the Future Cents program. This has become a regular event for us. We provide a workshop for each new contract of the program. The workshop takes the program’s new participants through a week-long process learning performance and play [...]
Posted: September 18th, 2007 under News.
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Terrace and Kitimat
From May 24-26 we were away on tour in Terace and Kitimat. We provided two performances in Terrace. The first was in the Salvation Army Hall down town. The second was at the college. Both shows went well. After completing our show in Terrace we moved on to Kitimat. We had a small audience but [...]
Posted: May 28th, 2007 under News.
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Queen Charlotte Islands
We just returned from our trip to the Queen Charlotte Islands. Click here qci.doc to read my initial thoughts on the trip. If you are from the Charlottes feel free to post a comment.
Posted: May 19th, 2007 under News.
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2007 Sexual Health Disparities Summer School
On May 6 we presented a half day workshop to the Rural and Northern Youth Sexual Health Team at UNBC. Presenting the workshop were Andrew, Al, Krista, Kayla and Shayla. There were 28 participants in all including researchers from UNBC, UBC and Kingston. Participants took part in a theatre process leading to the creation of [...]
Posted: May 7th, 2007 under News.
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