cSPACE Projects

Synergy Mornings: Led by Linda Kee
2023-11-10 10:30 - 12:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire, 381 2 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 5E9, Canada
Friday, November 10

10:30-12pm

Synergy Mornings – led by Linda Kee

Synergy Movement Class, as designed by Synergy Partner Yoga Founders Francisco Morales-Bermudez and Salim Rollins.
Move. Create. Connect. https://synergypartneryoga.com/

Free

email: thereallindakee@gmail.com to reserve a spot
Image attached: “SynergyMornings.png”

Hong Kong Mah Jong with CALL
2023-11-10 15:15 - 18:00, 2023-11-17 15:15 - 18:00, 2023-11-24 15:15 - 18:00 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
This weekly group starts Friday, September 1st and continues until the end of the year.
Sharpen your memory while having fun!
Here’s another reason to renew your CALL membership – or to join now.
Register on our website.

Sherry Kennedy presents This is Me
2023-11-10 18:00 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop- Studio Theatre, 1721 29th Ave. SW, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Music has always been Sherry’s life. Now, that journey arrives on stage as This Is Me: Celebrating a Life of Song. Join her for a night filled with longtime favourites, original works, and good times.
The show begins at 7:30pm and doors open at 6:00pm on Friday, November 10th. A cash bar by Aroma will provide refreshments.
Sherry is joined on stage by bassist Kai Poscente, pianist Derek Stoll, multi-instrumental Brad Steckel, percussionist Robin Tufts, and singer Lisa Ryan. This quintet of talented musicians promises to make the evening an unforgetable jubilee.

CALL of the UKE
2023-11-11 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-11-18 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-11-25 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Do you enjoy singing and playing in a group setting? If so, the CALL of the UKE Interest Group is for you!
You should have an understanding of the ukulele and basic chord formations. Group participants will introduce and lead a song of their choice each week . Facilitators will assist as required.
Saturdays, 10am – 12pm
Room #310
cSPACE Marda Loop
Register on the Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners website. Free for CALL members. Drop-ins are welcome for one session.

Freedom Through Theatre: Exploring Presence
2023-11-11 10:30 - 12:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire, 381 2 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 5E9, Canada
Saturday, November 11
Pubic hours; 10:30am-6pm

10:30am-12pm
Exploring Presence
Theatre for Kids and Youth

Free

email: theareallindakee@gmail.com to reserve a spot

Freedom Through Theatre: Activating Images
2023-11-11 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire, 381 2 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 5E9, Canada
Saturday November 11th, 2023
Public Hours: 10:30am-6pm
1pm-3pm
Activating Images
A Forum Theatre Workshop
Free
email: theareallindakee@gmail.com to reserve a spot

Building Trust: A Forum Theatre Workshop
2023-11-11 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire, 381 2 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 5E9, Canada
Saturday, November 11
Open Studio 10:30am-6pm
Remembrance Day

4pm – 6pm
Building Trust

A Forum Theatre Workshop

Free

email: theareallindakee@gmail.com to reserve a spot

Magpahayag (to usher in): A Filipinx Forum Theatre Exploration
2023-11-12 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
Magpahayag
Join us for an open rehearsal of an exploration of Filipinx Forum Theatre. Inspired by Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, it’s an opportunity you won’t want to miss!

Wrist Wallet Fabrication
2023-11-14 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | cSPACE King Edward, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
For Call Members
Suite #310
cSPACE Marda Loop
Great gift idea that you can make while expressing your creativity. Adjustable wrist wallet keeps keys, money or cards safe & secure and hands free. 2 pockets, zip and flap closure. Great gift. Use at home or travel.
Limited number of participants. CALL members register now for this 3-hour workshop with Helen Berscheid: Tailor, Quilter and Seamstress.
More information about supplies on the webpage.

Pillow Fort Art Making Session
2023-11-15 15:00 - 20:00, 2023-11-16 15:00 - 20:00, 2023-11-18 08:00 - 21:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
cSPACE Eau Claire
381-2nd Avenue SW
Come hang out in our pillowfort and make some art. All art-making materials will be included, it’ll be fun!
Instagram: @canvas.yyc

Canvas presents a Pillowfort Installation
2023-11-21 19:00 - 22:00, 2023-11-22 19:00 - 22:00, 2023-11-23 19:00 - 22:00, 2023-11-24 18:00 - 23:00, 2023-11-25 12:00 - 18:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
cSPACE Eau Claire
381-2nd Avenue SW
Come see the finished pillowfort installation surrounded by an exhibit of local artists’ works presented in a friendly environment. All ages welcome!
Instagram: @canvas.yyc
For info please contact: canvas.yyc11@gmail.com

Intermissions from Singapore (Online Only)
2023-11-24 01:00 - 02:00 (America/Edmonton) | ONLINE
Join our hosts from Singapore!

Intermissions! an online networking and idea exchange hosted by special guests. Spend an hour of informal conversation, exploring ideas around puppetry and materialism – from those who have everything to those who have nothing, our obsession with stuff, and material metaphors.
Intermissions from Singapore will be hosted by Frans Hakkemars. Frans is a solo puppeteer and a puppeteer with Koomans poppentheater in The Hague. He also works together with Droomtheater Rotterdam, is a councillor for NVP-UNIMA-Netherlands, co-editor of the Dutch quarterly “The World of Puppetry”, and a member of the Publication and Contemporary Writing Commission of UNIMA.
Topic: To be announced
Guests: To be announced
Time: Friday, November 24th at 01:00 HRS MST
NOTE: We really do mean 01:00 HRS MST! This is 09:00 HRS in Amsterdam and 16:00 HRS in Singapore.
To translate this into your own time zone use https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Intermissions! begin with a 10-minute presentation designed to spark ideas, followed by 2-3 breakout rooms, ending in a quick summary and call to action.
If, for any reason, the Zoom meeting link provided to you experiences technical issues, we will immediately send you an alternative link via email (or Eventbrite). This link will connect you to the event hosted on Google Meet, another reliable and user-friendly video conferencing platform.
This event is part of the 2023 Festival of Ideas – an annual conference, produced by W.P. Puppet Theatre Society. It explores the theory and practice of how puppet power promotes and impacts positive social change. In 2023 we ask, how can puppets, ‘metaphors of matter’, help us address our material world?

Festival of Ideas 2023 Online Bundle
2023-11-24 01:00 - 2023-11-25 20:30 (America/Edmonton) | AB
Purchase the online bundle and enjoy all eight online events and a $10 savings!

Festival of Ideas 2023 Online Bundle
Join us for the **Festival of Ideas 2023 Online Bundle** – a virtual gathering of brilliant minds and creative thinkers! This exciting event will begin on **Fri Nov 24 2023 01:00:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)**, bringing together a diverse community of artists, innovators, and those who push boundaries from around the globe.
Get ready to immerse yourself in a series of thought-provoking discussions, interactive discussions, and inspiring performances. Our lineup of speakers is packed with master puppeteers, renowned thought leaders, and change-makers who will share their insights and ideas on a wide range of topics.
We will send you an email closer to the date with the links for all eight events that are part of our ONLINE bundle. These include:
November 24th
1AM MST I﻿ntermissions from Singapore – online networking and idea exchange
5PM MST M﻿ix and Mingle – Join Wendy Passmore-Godfrey – Artistic Director & Event Curator – for an online conversation and meet up to kick off the festival.
7PM MST P﻿uzzle Theatre performs Plastique
N﻿ovember 25th
9AM MST I﻿ntermissions from England – online networking and idea exchange
11AM MST R﻿iku Laakkonen’s “Evolution from a Diaper to a Puppet” – development of communal methods of puppet and object theatre.
1PM MST T﻿ea Kovse’s “We are the Shakespeare’s of our own lives” – discussion on the stories hidden within objects
4PM MST I﻿ntermissions from Iowa – online networking and idea exchange
7PM MST P﻿uzzle Theatre performs Disposable
For full descriptions of the events please see our website.
We look forward to seeing you!

Opening Event – Mix & Mingle – Curatorial Musings (Online Only)
2023-11-24 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Edmonton) | ONLINE
Join Wendy Passmore-Godfrey – Artistic Director & Event Curator – for a FREE online conversation and meet up to kick off our 2023 Festival.

Opening Event: Mix & Mingle – Curatorial Musings, on Friday November 24, 2023 at 17:00 hrs MST.
Together with WP Puppet Theatre staff, performers, puppeteers and you! we’ll tease apart the question posed in this year’s theme – how can puppets, ‘metaphors of matter’, help us address our Material World? The disparate world of ‘downsizing challenges’ to ‘refugee poverty’ We’ll play some idea activating games, we’ll share the resources that led us to this question, we’ll show some cool pictures and we’ll invite your stories and thoughts on how we call for action.
This is a fun informal session, everyone is welcome. Bring your own virtual beverage, dress in your PJ’s, join from the comfort of your home. We can’t wait to mix, mingle, and muse with you!
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MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:
Puppet Power 2023: Festival of Ideas – Material Puppets
The Festival of Ideas is an annual conference, produced by W.P. Puppet Theatre Society. It explores the theory and practice of how puppet power promotes and impacts positive social change.
In 2023 we ask, how can puppets, ‘metaphors of matter’, help us address our material world? The friendly two day hybrid event features performances, hands-on workshops, panels and talks that will look at the interplay between the ‘ephemeral essence’ and ‘literal presence’ unique to puppet theatre. What can ice puppets, brick puppets, plastic puppets or even puppets from adult diapers offer in the “Story of Stuff”?
International and local presenters inspire through in person and online streamed sessions. Informed by puppets, we will create a call to action on the disparity of “too much stuff” versus “poverty of resources”.
Past participants include educators, therapists, helping professionals, artists, students, thought leaders and idea generators. They say “There is a lasting value, I loved connecting with other artists and the information is relevant and usable in my work. I can’t wait to use my puppet power!”
Join us for the 12th iteration of our Festival of Ideas!
Date: Friday, November 24th and Saturday, November 25th, 2023
Time: Various – due to the live online offerings of the festival. Please read start times carefully and use a time zone converter to find your local time. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Location: cSPACE (1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB T2T 6T7) AND online.
Delivery: Puppet Power 2023 is a hybrid event, with in person events happening at cSPACE with many events also being offered through online streaming. Please check spam folders for Zoom links.
Age: Due to concept and theme discussions, this event is recommended for ages 18+.
Accessibility: We are committed to the purposeful inclusion of all people. We strive to reduce barriers and we value everyone’s participation in our programs. If you identify a challenge to you, or others attending, please contact us – we recognize our limitations as a small organization.
Tickets: We are doing a stepped release of tickets – keep checking back to see what’s next. Please see “Events” for individual tickets. Follow us WP Puppet Theatre and @wppuppet and sign up to receive our newsletter. For the full festival schedule, click here.
Early Bird: Purchase your tickets before October 31st and be entered in a draw for a lovely gift. One entry per purchase.
If, for any reason, the Zoom meeting link provided to you experiences technical issues, we will immediately send you an alternative link via email (or Eventbrite). This link will connect you to the event hosted on Google Meet, another reliable and user-friendly video conferencing platform.
Donations: When you donate to W.P. Puppet Theatre Society, your gift makes a difference! Every dollar goes directly toward our programs that strive to impact positive change… like the Festival of Ideas or VIEW from the Inside, or Family Puppet Pop Ups. Your generosity means we can provide tickets to marginalized groups or create bursaries for students or pay our artists a living wage. All gifts of $20 or more will be acknowledged with a tax-deductible receipt. Donate when you check out today or through Canada Helps.

Intermissions from England (Online Only)
2023-11-25 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Edmonton) | AB
Get ready for exciting virtual conversation, “Intermissions from England”!

Intermissions! an online networking and idea exchange hosted by special guests. Spend an hour of informal conversation, exploring ideas around puppetry and materialism – from those who have everything to those who have nothing, our obsession with stuff, and material metaphors.
I﻿ntermissions from England will be hosted by Cariad Astles from the United Kingdom. Cariad has been the course leader of BA students in puppetry at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London since 2006. She is also a lecturer at Exeter University, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Plymouth in Theatre and Performance, a puppeteer, a performer and workshop leader. Since 2016 she has been President of UNIMA International’s Research Commission.
T﻿opic: To be announced
G﻿uests: To be announced
T﻿ime: Saturday, November 25th at 09:00 HRS MST
We’re using a 24 hour clock. This is 11:00 HRS in New York and 16:00 HRS in London, England. To find your time zone use https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Intermissions! begin with a 10-minute presentation designed to spark ideas, followed by 2-3 breakout rooms, ending in a quick summary and call to action.
If, for any reason, the Zoom meeting link provided to you experiences technical issues, we will immediately send you an alternative link via email (or Eventbrite). This link will connect you to the event hosted on Google Meet, another reliable and user-friendly video conferencing platform.
T﻿his event is part of the 2023 Festival of Ideas – an annual conference, produced by W.P. Puppet Theatre Society. It explores the theory and practice of how puppet power promotes and impacts positive social change. In 2023 we ask, how can puppets, ‘metaphors of matter’, help us address our material world?

Puzzle Theatre – Workshop (In person)
2023-11-25 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Edmonton) | cSPACE Marda Loop (formerly cSPACE King Edward), 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, #4th Flr, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Join us for an engaging Puzzle Theatre workshop!

Puzzle Theatre – Workshop
This in-person event will take place on Saturday November 25, 2023 at 10:00 – NOON MST at cSPACE Marda Loop (1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB T2T 6T7) in the 4th Floor RGO Treehouse.
In this hands-on workshop, professional puppeteers Pavla Mano and Csaba Raduly will share their expertise. They will provide tools to the participants on how to use their creativity with whatever they have to hand. They’ll cover some basic or more advanced techniques of manipulation and fun exercises in creating characters from different materials. There will be great story sharing, good conversation and lots of take-away inspiration.
Great for puppeteers, movement artists, drama teachers and anyone excited about puppet animation or creativity in general!
“Puzzle Theatre has a unique style by combining various types in the traditional and the contemporary: drama theatre, object and puppet theatre. The company distinguishes itself by the coloured amalgam of styles and the great diversity of means of expression that it proposes. Leaving the audience the freedom to interpret the unmentioned, to freely associate ideas and allowing them to feel what is not explicitly told.”
Location: RGO Treehouse Classroom. cSPACE Marda Loop top floor (beautiful mountain views). Elevators go to the top floor. cSPACE is an accessible space, enter from parking lot on the north side of the building. Free street parking, cycling infrastructure like bike racks and showers, convenient access to public transit, Bus routes 6, 7, 107, 13.
Accessibility: We are committed to the purposeful inclusion of all people. We strive to reduce barriers and we value everyone’s participation in our programs. If you identify a challenge to you, or others attending, please contact us – we recognize our limitations as a small organization.
Limited space so don’t delay booking your ticket. Intended for ages 18 +.
This event is part of the 2023 Festival of Ideas – an annual conference, produced by W.P. Puppet Theatre Society. It explores the theory and practice of how puppet power promotes and impacts positive social change. In 2023 we ask, how can puppets, ‘metaphors of matter’, help us address our material world?

Riku Laakkonen:”Evolution from a Diaper to Puppet” (In person or Online)
2023-11-25 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Edmonton) | cSPACE Marda Loop (formerly cSPACE King Edward), 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, #4th Flr, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Join us for an interesting talk with Riku Laakkonen, a pioneer in the development of communal methods of puppet and object theatre.

Riku Laakkonen: “Evolution from a Diaper to Puppet”
Zooming in from Finland, Riku shares his work with the elderly in his talk “Evolution from a Diaper to Puppet”, work that aims to de-stigmatize this object of care. This is a clear example of the power of Applied Puppetry*.
Following the talk will be a Q&A.
Riku writes: “In my research I explore collaboration with material objects and elderly people who have memory disorders. In different artistic experiments I asked “what object is used daily by all those who live and work in nursing home? I determined it was the adult brief or diaper. Material objects are an essential part of interaction between humans and their environment. We employ objects in different contexts and use them all the time. When the adult brief, the object of care, was relocated into an artistic context it became a protagonist. Nurses and elderly persons were invited to see not just a disposable object, but a puppet, a voice and a conduit for expression.”
Riku Laakkonen is a puppeteer, director, actor, and teacher. After studying at DAMU (Theatre Academy of Music and Art) in Prague, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, and Turku University of Applied Sciences he has been working with both professionals and amateurs. He is one of the founding members of the Centre of Stage Animation Research (founded 2007). He started his artistic doctoral studies at the Tampere University’s Center for Research Theatre Work in August 2020. His thesis “Object expression and social death: Animation with Kanssa building the weak agency of the elderly” is part of the wider Kone foundation-financed Social Death at the Threshold research project.
This session will be of particular interest to social workers and therapists, working with the elderly. However, the information will be transferable to many settings and concerns. For ages 18+
Date: Saturday, November 25 2023
Time: 11:00 HRS MST
Location: cSPACE (1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB T2T 6T7) or online Zoom link. cSPACE offers free parking, cycling racks, convenient access to public transit, and is located along bus routes 6, 7, 107, 13. The theatre is an accessible space, enter from parking lot on the north side of the building.
Accessibility: We are committed to the purposeful inclusion of all people. We strive to reduce barriers and we value everyone’s participation in our programs. If you identify a challenge to you, or others attending, please contact us – we recognize our limitations as a small organization.
If, for any reason, the Zoom meeting link provided to you experiences technical issues, we will immediately send you an alternative link via email (or Eventbrite). This link will connect you to the event hosted on Google Meet, another reliable and user-friendly video conferencing platform.
T﻿his event is part of the 2023 Festival of Ideas – an annual conference, produced by W.P. Puppet Theatre Society. It explores the theory and practice of how puppet power promotes and impacts positive social change. In 2023 we ask, how can puppets, ‘metaphors of matter’, help us address our material world?
*Applied Puppetry, a term coined by Matt Smith FHEA, University of Portsmouth, is the field of ‘puppetry beyond performance’. Puppetry that is used as a communication and expressive tool in settings such as education, therapeutic interventions, social action, institutions and other social settings.

We Are The Shakespeares Of Our Own Lives (In person or Online)
2023-11-25 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Edmonton) | ONLINE
Join Tea as she discusses the stories hidden within objects.

Imagine a day in your life when you need to suddenly leave your home forever and you can only pack one suitcase. What will you take? Lots of objects have a practical value, but some of them carry stories about precious moments of our past. With these objects we can recreate the feeling of home wherever we go.
Zooming in from Slovania, Tea Kovše will share her research of personal objects in an eldery home, because the elderly have very strong experiences of losing and recreating their home. She also works with young people, as we all carry precious moments inside us and these are locked in particular objects.
In individual meetings and workshops she works with a variety of people to find the way of telling these stories through story telling, music and puppetry.
Join her research method and share her vision to create puppetry by any means and remember to bring your precious object!
Date: Saturday, November 25th
Time: 13:00 HRS (MST)
We are using a 24 hour clock. This is 21:00 HRS in Austria and 15:00 HRS in New York. To find the time in your time zone check https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Accessibility: We are committed to the purposeful inclusion of all people. We strive to reduce barriers and we value everyone’s participation in our programs. If you identify a challenge to you, or others attending, please contact us – we recognize our limitations as a small organization.
If, for any reason, the Zoom meeting link provided to you experiences technical issues, we will immediately send you an alternative link via email (or Eventbrite). This link will connect you to the event hosted on Google Meet, another reliable and user-friendly video conferencing platform.
Intended for 18+.
ABOUT: Tea Kovše, born in Slovenia, is a puppeteer who explores the performing area within puppetry, physical theatre and street theatre. After completing MA Dramaturgy at the Academy of theatre, radio, film and television (AGRFT) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, she co-founded Gledališče DELA (Theatre WORKS) – www.zraven.si – a performative theatre based on puppetry, movement and music. The theatre’s performances focus on social relations and phenomenons such as: boredom, burnout, mindset and stigma. She developed the puppet movement method Puppet Parkour where she examines the relationship between puppet movement and public space. During the “corona time 2020” she created the Miniature Puppet Theatre MOŽ! – www.mozi.space – in which she is researching topics of isolation and mental illness. In the year 2022 she co-founded, with Yves Brägger, a puppet theater named Teater Štrik / Theater Strick (www.strick.page) in Klagenfurt and joined The Red Noses company Austria. She lives and works in Klagenfurt/Celovec, Austria.
Read Tea’s blog: https://ojoj.blog/en/
This event is part of the 2023 Festival of Ideas – an annual conference, produced by W.P. Puppet Theatre Society. It explores the theory and practice of how puppet power promotes and impacts positive social change. In 2023 we ask, how can puppets, ‘metaphors of matter’, help us address our material world?

Unveiling Post-Consumer Paper’s Potential with Puppets (In Person)
2023-11-25 13:00 - 15:30 (America/Edmonton) | cSPACE Marda Loop (formerly cSPACE King Edward), 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, #4th Flr, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
In this hands-on workshop for Reggio-inspired educators, participants will discover the storytelling potential of post-consumer papers.

Guided by artist and educator Jennifer Stables, participants will delve into the art of crafting handheld mask puppets and exploring their use in the classroom. Participants will be invited to engage with a variety of post-consumer papers (magazines, newspapers, tissue paper, gift wrap, office paper, old books, paper bags, etc.) by folding, bending, cutting, and crumpling them. They will be encouraged to play and explore using their sense of sight, sound, smell, and touch. They will be asked to reflect on the story of the paper. Where did it come from? Who has it been? This exploration will allow educators to gain a deeper understanding of the materials and explore their potential for creative expression.
Following this exploration, participants will have the opportunity to share their findings and insights with one another. This conversation will hopefully foster a sense of community and inspire new ideas and approaches to working with papers.
Building upon their discoveries, participants will then be guided to create their own handheld mask puppets. Rather than following a step-by-step process, participants will be encouraged to apply their discoveries and insights to their own unique creations. They will be invited to use techniques such as layering, crumpling, and folding the paper to create different forms.
To finish the mask puppet, a wooden dowel will be attached to the back to create a handle. Participants will be encouraged to explore moving and performing their mask puppets. There will be time for presentation, sharing, and reflection at the end of the class.
Join Jennifer on Saturday, November 25th, from 13:00 – 15:30 HRS (MST) for this engaging workshop.
Bio: Jennifer Stables is an experienced Artist and Art Educator with a background in Reggio-Inspired teaching and learning. Her whimsical artwork includes puppets, paintings, sculptures, and illustrations. She has created community art programs, worked as an art educator and classroom teacher, and currently works as an Artist in Residence for schools in Calgary and surrounding areas.
