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| ANIMA-GALA! Thank you Everyone! |
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Posted on 2008-06-01 23:43:18 |
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Thanks to everyone that helped make the Anima-Gala a great success!
The Dedicated Committee: Bonita Van Staalduine, Margo Clendenning, Bill Beauregarde, Karen Mervyn, Barb Maier.
Performers: Mooky Cornish, Empire Circus Cabaret, Cory Mack, AJ Demers, Beverly Rice, the Mark Sadler-Browns, Mel Crump, Pam Atkinson, Ron Dye, TD Sparks, Nadine Charman.
Volunteers: Nelize Joubert, Charine Roy, Albert Ussher, Juli Talerico, Norma Bricker, Stace Simmonds, Robert MeltingTallow, Jeff Stimson, Paul Marshall, Mona Dallmann, Brad Hawkins.
Thank you to our generous Prize Donors: Red Smarteez Marionettes, CPO, echo37, WP Puppet Theatre, Nadine Charman, Terri Gillis, global Fest, Joe Ceci, Pam Atkinson, Storybook Theatre, Photoganda, Kirsten Wagner, One Yelow Rabbit, Penny AP Anderson, Olive Barber, Janet Herbasio, Jubilations Dinner Theatre, Jeff De Boer, Rozsalie Rigon, Xstine Cook, Sean Dennie, Pam Dyment, Jennifer Lynn Bain, University of Calgary, Theatre Junction, Old Trout Puppet Workshop.
Our Board: Grant Poier, Jesse Glasnovic, Sean Dennie, Penny AP Anderson, Pam Dyment, Mooky Cornish, John Holt.
And of course, our marvellous Communications Officer Tamara Nairn!!
Job well done everyone, thank you!
Email us to get involved in planning for the upcoming Festival and Kinetic Sculpture Project!caos@shaw.ca, or sign up as a volunteer, a sponsor,, or send your artist materials for consideration in the next festival (January 2007). Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the pages to find the forms to sign up!
Photo of Empire Circus Cabaret by Jessica Rozon |
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| Posted on 2008-06-01 23:42:47 |
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ALABASTER WHITE BUFFALO SCULPTURE RAFFLE-Draw Date |
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The new draw for this gorgeous stone art work is July 4, 2008.
As a spin-off to the Spirit of White Buffalo project, four offenders in
Drumheller Institution's Native Brotherhood program carved an impressive
alabaster white buffalo sculpture, with a commercial value of $3500.
They donated it to CAOS to raffle off. Tickets are $5, cheap!
The draw will be made February 1, 2008.
Proceeds from the ALABASTER WHITE BUFFALO SCULPTURE will support
Young Spirit Voices, a drama initiative for urban aboriginal youth in Calgary.
To purchase an Alabaster White Buffalo Sculpture raffle ticket, send $5 to:
CAOS, 1030 – 20 Ave SE, Calgary, AB, T2G 1M6.
For information, contact the office: 266-1503,
or email the
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| Posted on 2008-01-30 20:53:45 |
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2009 FESTIVAL DATES ANNOUNCED! |
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THERE IS NO FESTIVAL IN 2008!
Our biennial INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED OBJECTS will take place January 23 - February 1, 2009.
Our website's content management system is grumpy, so we apologize for any confusion.
Sign up to volunteer, as our planning is just getting underway!
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| CAOS wins 2007 Rozsa Award for Innovative Business |
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Posted on 2007-09-25 16:39:11 |
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(From the Rozsa Foundation): Bring together a local artist, a team of professional engineers and inmates from a federal penitentiary and your creativity is bound to be noticed. And so it was as Calgary Animated Objects Society’s (CAOS) Xstine Cook was today announced as the 2007 recipient of the Innovative Business Practice Award from the Rozsa Foundation.
The Innovative Business Practice Award is one component of the larger Rozsa Award for Excellence in Arts Management and consists of a computer and web consultation package from Vital Business Solutions worth $2,000.
Xstine's Innovative Business Practice Award stems from the presentation of the Spirit of the White Buffalo, a massive puppet entered in the 2007 Calgary Stampede Parade. Visualized by a local artist, designed by professional engineers and constructed by inmates at a federal penitentiary, the Buffalo encompasses the true spirit and extent of outreach that CAOS brings as it embraces a wide range of races, cultures and a broad section of society.
Rozsa Award Director, Brenda-Ann Marks comments that “Xstine’s project stood out from the other submissions because of the demonstration of powerful community engagement. While strategic alliances were key to the creation of the White Buffalo puppet, from an administrative perspective, they also helped build organizational profile, and significantly increased human and financial resources for the company. For these reasons, the Rozsa Award Jury felt that Xstine is most deserving of the business innovation prize”.
“Our goal is to increase the profile of the arts management profession, and to recognize outstanding work that is on par with successful businesses in the for-profit world”, says Rozsa Foundation President, Mary Rozsa de Coquet.
The Rozsa Award for Excellence in Arts Management is presented by the Rozsa Foundation, a philanthropic organization that works to promote the Arts through grants, community involvement and public dialogue.
Photo by Sean Dennie of Nancy Sinclair & Spirit of White Buffalo on the Stampede Parade Route
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| Posted on 2007-09-25 16:31:13 |
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Mooky Kisses Boom Town Goodbye |
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Cirque Du Soleil Star Quits Calgary for New York!
Beloved clown and acting instructor Mooky Cornish is abandoning Calgary’s burgeoning economy for the bright lights of New York City. The rising star of Cirque Du Soleil’s “Varekai“ has called Calgary home since 1998. Recently Mooky premiered her new solo show, “The Glories of Gloria Revue” to sold-out crowds at Calgary’s International Festival of Animated Objects. After a west coast tour from Vancouver to San Francisco, Mooky is now hitting the road.
Mooky will perform at the New York Clown Theatre Festival October 21 - 28. The festival features artists from the USA, Canada, Germany, Spain, Norway, & France. In addition to theatre shows, there is a public pie fight, clown Olympics and a clown funeral. The invitation is a welcome opportunity to perform for a broader public. “Theatre should not merely be a commodity, like it is treated here.” Mooky noted, “Theatre is an integral part of life for the good of all.”
With its more developed cabaret culture, and numerous small and medium sized venues, the call of the East for this solo clown has become too strong to resist. “I’ll do my best, really hustle the NY scene, then go to Montreal and hustle there. I receive so many notices for cabarets down East. Once there, I’ll have a better opportunity to get a good gig.”
Mooky is not the first Calgary artist to find the boom is bust for them. Brenda Whiteman and Peter Stinson of Red Smarteez relocated to Saskatoon in April, and Eric Amber of the Three Canadians moved to Montreal 3 years ago. Amber has since opened a burgeoning improv venue, Theatre St Catherine. Mooky said, “I love Calgary, but for me to succeed here, I have to be a producing and marketing genius. I’m a clown. I just need to perform, not make a website.”
Mooky hopes to hustle hard enough to get herself “across the pond” to Europe for the summer festival season, with plans to return to Calgary for her sweetheart’s birthday. She is open to any possibility that opens up, including failure because “that is the nature of clown. The fall is when comedy happens.”
Mooky will be hosting a fundraiser farewell performance of “The Glories of Gloria Revue” at: Velocity Motion Werks Circus Space (#120 – 13226 Macleod Trail SE -beside Canyon Meadows Movie Theatre) on: Sunday Oct 7 at 4 pm.
Tickets are available at the door, and are by suggested donation of $100.
For information call: 697-5586.
For more information on the New York Clown Theatre Festival, go to www.bricktheater.com.
Photo by Sean Dennie.
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| White Buffalo Takes the Trophy |
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Posted on 2007-09-20 10:39:55 |
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After more than two years in the making, Spirit of White Buffalo, a 12 foot tall white buffalo puppet, won first place for “Best Western Theme at the 2007 Stampede Parade, beating out 165 other entries.
Photo by Sean Dennie. See more pics on Facebook at:
Spirit of White Buffalo.
Created and co-ordinated by Calgary Animated Objects Society (CAOS), the White Buffalo was accompanied by Wandering Spirit traditional dancers, Young Spirit Voices youth drama group, and a wagon team of Clydesdales.
The 40 person entry was viewed by 400,000 people on the parade route with many thousands more watching via television on July 6.
Over 300 incarcerated men in Drumheller Institution watched the coverage closely that day to catch a glimpse of “Spirit of White Buffalo”. From March to June, 2007, more than fifteen offenders in the Native Brotherhood program and five in the Vocational Welding program put in an excess of five hundred hours creating the twelve foot tall giant white buffalo.
The welders fabricated a steel rod structure according to a scale model built by Ramsay metal artist Jeff De Boer.
The Brotherhood, who are known for sewing tipis, sewed the canvas and plastic robe.
The fourteen-foot long four person human powered cycle that carries the buffalo was designed and built by a group of mad cyclists in Calgary and Golden BC.
As a spin-off to the project, four offenders carved an impressive alabaster white buffalo sculpture, and donated it to CAOS to raffle off. Proceeds will support Young Spirit Voices, a drama initiative for urban aboriginal youth in Calgary.
Another offender drew an illustration of White Buffalo Calf Woman, which has been printed onto t-shirts for Spirit of White Buffalo volunteers.
Spirit of White Buffalo will tour around the country and beyond to festivals, powwows and parades for years to come as part of CAOS’s mission to build community through artistic experiences & bring recognition to aboriginal stories.
Spirit of White Buffalo has also been honoured with “Most Original Float” at the Peigan Indian Days Parade on August 5.
“The White Buffalo is capable of bringing hope, peace, love, and balance to Humankind. The White Buffalo can create dreams and visions for those who behold her. She shines a huge light on darkness and can open the doors in all seven sacred directions, inspiring never before seen ceremonies that embody all of creation.” –Wapsepnashi Equai
CAOS wishes to thank all who helped with the White Buffalo, including, Sean Dennie, Sharon Jinkerson, Solomon Reece, Richard Van Hazendonk, Caitlin Thompson, Duane Flatmo, Ken Beidelman, June Moxon, Rob Ward, Jim Marika, Wayne Schapp, Colin Martin, Karen Mervyn, Chris & Sue Schapp, Jeff De Boer, Judd Palmer, inmates and staff in Drumheller Institution’s Native Brotherhood & Vocational Welding programs, Rodney Big Crow, Young Spirit Voices & their families, Jackie Soppit & Wandering Spirit Native Awareness dancers, Perry T. Hodder & family, Archer Pechawis, the Cook family, CAOS’s Board & Staff, and many dedicated volunteers.
To find out where White Buffalo will appear next, call Xstine Cook at 266-1503 or email the office.
To purchase an Alabaster White Buffalo Sculpture raffle ticket, send $5 to: CAOS, 1030 – 20 Ave SE, Calgary, AB, T2G 1M6. |
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| Posted on 2007-03-24 08:48:07 |
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CURATOR SPENDS DAYS IN JAIL & OTHER NEWS |
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CAOS News Flash! Curator Spends Days in Jail!
Other News Items in this message:
-Giant Puppet Making in May!
-Say Yes to the Yes Men!
CURATOR SPENDS DAYS IN JAIL
Since the post-festival afterglow deflation, CAOS Curator Xstine Cook has spent two days in Jail at Drumheller Institution. And she may be doing alot more time there in the future. "The place could use a woman's touch" she noted while strolling across "the Yard" last Friday. Her signature orange coveralls, suddenly no longer such a rare fashion find.
Xstine met with Drumheller Institution's Aboriginal Culture Program participants, to discuss creation of CAOS's Giant Buffalo Puppet. Thanks to a suggestion by Richard Runs Amongst Buffalo, Aboriginal inmates are invited to sew a canvas skin for the massive artwork. The body will be fabricated in steel rod, guided by a scale model designed by fine metal sculptor Jeff De Boer. The welders in the Vocational Program will create the body.
WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM
When completed, the Giant Buffalo Puppet will be seen at festivals, powwows, and parades near you. It will be a human powered kinetic sculpture, and its four person chassis was built by bike freeks in Calgary & Golden this past winter. The road test last Sunday, just before the big snow, bewildered, annoyed and amused residents of Jim Marika's new neighbourhood.
SHOUT IT OUT
CAOS gives a Big Thanks to the chassis crew: Rob Ward, Wayne Schapp, Jim Marika & Nicole, Colin Martin, Trevor Andersen, Chris & Sue Schapp, and Karen Mervyn for all their brains and brawn. And thanks to Richard Runs Amongst Buffalo, Jeff De Boer, Doreen Busch, Kelly Boutin, Rodney Big Crow, Glen Quist, the inmates, and Warden Mike Hanly for their contributions to the project.
Click here for more information on the Buffalo and CAOS activities. Phone: 403-266-1503.
LEARN TO BUILD A GIANT PUPPET IN 105 MINUTES
WP Puppet Theatre is thrilled to have Graciela Monteagudo from Bread & Puppet doing a talk and workshop at their upcoming Puppet Power 2007: Puppets as Agents of Social Change conference May 25- 27.
Graciela, who is from Argentina/USA was last in Calgary at the alternative G8 summit with Bread and Puppet Theatre (remember the giant ship in the procession?-that was the work of Graciela and her team).
TIMELINE
Saturday March 24, afternoon: plan and prototype 4 simple giant puppets - bring corrugated cardboard, hula hoops, fabric, spray paint (outside).
In between: Help gather & prep supplies, cut wood or cardboard into shapes.
Sunday May 25: 1- 3:00 help at scheduled workshop at the PP07 conference.
Sun May 25: 3- 3:30 - be part of the parade as a puppeteer, a stilt walker, drummer etc.
Feel free to bring a friend. Donuts will be served!
W.P.Puppet Theatre's Puppet Power 2007
Contact: Wendy Passmore-Godfrey ph/fx 403 228 3373
www.wppuppet.com
YES MEN SAY YES TO CALGARY
Arusha and CAOS are tickled gold lame to announce the YES MEN are coming to Cowtown mid-June to stir up a Stampede Stomp Around - events that offer alternatives to Stampede, while embracing the spirit of community and summer celebration.
The Yes Men are notorious for political satire performances, presenting preposterous theories at serious corporate conferences.
"The Yes Men agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce, ask questions, and then smuggle out the stories of their hijinks to provide a public glimpse at the behind-the-scenes world of business. In other words, the Yes Men are team players... but they play for the opposing team."
Check out their website to grasp the myriad of outrageous piss-takes on serious issues. Keep tuned to find out about workshops and performances in Calgary in June. The Yes Men & their film will be featured as an Arusha Action Film at the Plaza.
email: office@animatedobjects.ca
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| Day 8 - Festival Blog by Michal Lavi |
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Posted on 2007-01-26 18:02:31 |
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Paul Zaloom opened his show last night in the main stage. A maverick shadow puppeteer he folded the story of Karagoz, a queer-secular-humanist-Quaker-Buddhist- agnostic-Arab immigrant, or in short, the mother of all enemies. Paul is an acute political satirist, sharp, cynical and outrageously funny. He is juggling dozens of shadow puppets and articles, all intricately made and ingenious in their application, and the best part is that they accompany a witty text.
Paul performs again tonight and tomorrow night.
And for more trivial things; we do sell raffle tickets as those who came to the shows must know by now. The first prize is a gorgeous skull bicycle that looks like a Harley Davidson for the urban yuppies. The second prize is a Ronnie Burkett hand puppet which after all the rumors that were circulated might increase in value. One can also win a spa package for swirl, a spiritual haven in the heart down town yoga alley. And finally the fourth prize is a 1974 Pontiac Ventura, a rusty red monster, complete with MP3 player, a true ‘chick’s you don’t want to bring home to meet your mother’ magnet or a ‘guys you should not be dating if you had common sense’ enticement.
Please remember that everyone that buys a ticket is a winner as all proceeds go towards financing the festival in 2009. With chance to win one of these magnificent prizes and getting good karma points for a measly $5, it’s the best deal in town.
Festival goers are also asked to kindly fill a survey for the festival. These surveys are Xsitne’s, the curator and the Joan of Arc of puppetry in Calgary, Canada and the entire universe, apple of the eye. Once this was established, our volunteers rose up to the challenge so even if you managed to avoid buying a raffle tickets, you filled the survey up. Such is the life at a young and blooming festival.
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| Posted on 2007-01-25 14:48:24 |
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The Glories of Gloria and more- blog by Michal Lav |
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So much for the good intentions for writing a daily blog, as festivals hectic demands increased and drinking at the Auburn took precedence.
The Glories of Gloria Revue opened on Tuesday night at the vertigo and indeed it was glorious. Going on stage with an enthusiastically ornamented white, puffy dress adorned with bows and beads, looking like a creamy meringue, or a Christmas tree in a heartfelt Christian house, Gloria entered the stage.
Gloria is a “small town gal” that her sole life ambition is to participate in a Broadway spectacle and is one clown tour de force which is silly and hysterically funny. Mooky’s comic timing is genius and her show has the nostalgic, slapstick, Laurel and Hardy feel to it. The closing scene where Gloria dances in an elaborate costume, with a choir girl moves to climb every mountain, a song that could not have been more wrong is ingenious. The Glories of Gloria Revue still plays one more show on Friday at the Vertigo.
Even though Get off the Cross, Mary is over and the crew is safely back in Edmonton (as far as we know), I just thought I will share an observation. In one of the funniest scenes of the play Jesus puppet is in a public washroom examining graffiti written on the urinals. One of them gives the name of a famous puppeteer (which the festival mockingly killed before) as a reference for good time. It is to the credit of the audience in this play that they gasped at this moment, raising their hands and covering their mouth in shock and terror of that blasphemy. It was not nearly as dramatic as when Jesus is betrayed by more than a kiss and is busted by cops at the eve of his crucifixion.
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| SUNDAY JAN 21-blog by Michal Lavi |
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Posted on 2007-01-23 11:31:39 |
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The third day of the festival started again at the Art Gallery of Calgary with Mask Movement Workshop by Robert Faust. A mask master, Robert Faust explores the relationship body movement and mask, a character development through physical expression. Bringing together dancers and a choreographer a visual artist and mask curious, the participants were shown how to tweak their body one limb at the time.
At the Opera house, Get off the Cross, Mary! was playing again in case somebody failed to get offended yesterday. Many more rose to the challenge and filled the venue. Just as shocking as it was the previous day, the show kept beating and biting on clichés and extorting shameful groans of laughter.
Tomorrow features Puppets on Screen at noon at Bankers Hall Auditorium for the down town crowd and the unemployed who can come and see a show at the middle of the day.
At 6:00 PM Arthur Pechwais will give a lecture at the Triangle gallery on Success without College. Although for some, it might be too late, as they spent a good part of their youth and a considerable amount of money that legally belongs to the bank, they should still come. Performance artist, Arthur Pechwais, will give a condensed history of Aboriginal New Media.
At 8:00 PM, Canada’s foremost puppet wizard Ronnie Burkett will read from his latest work in progress: Billy Twinkle: Requiem for a Golden Boy at the Vertigo Theatre.
And finally at 9:30, at the vertigo as well, the Red Smarteez Marionettes (not to be confused with the candy) will present the Kay stories, a show about family and memory.
A grand day, that shouldn’t to be missed, indeed.
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| Posted on 2007-01-21 20:52:56 |
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SATURDAY - JAN 20 - Blog by Michal Lavi |
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The official second day of the festival opened bright and early with a Puppet Making for Kids with Jacquie Paul at the art gallery of Calgary. Sponsored by the ING it was free of charge. Jacquie is a gifted artist with divine patience and a never-ending bag of tricks that transforms bits and pieces into clever puppets. Future festival goers and craft-brave (and is some cases, craft-challenged) parents spent the morning creating puppets and maybe unleashing the puppeteers within their prodigies.
At 2:00 PM the Chiodo Brothers, the master minds behind the puppetry in Team America: World Police introduced Stop Motion animation at the Art Gallery. It was a rare opportunity to see the volume of work that they have done over the years. It was evident from the start that the Chiodo Brothers love what they do. Their passion and enthusiasm for animation and everything that is puppet related has never dwindled in the twenty some years they have been working professionally. And their enthusiasm is catching. The audience was mesmerized and enamored with them.
Listening to them speak is a quite an experience by itself as they seem to be sharing the same train of thought, adding to each other's words and sometimes even completing sentences for one another. It was quite animated!
Charlie, Stephen and Edward Chiodo have been making puppets and filming them since they were kids. They have done it all, from live puppetry with actors, costumes and make up through stop motion to animatronics, and "cg" - computer generated, experimenting with different materials and techniques.
The 7:30pm show had every parental advisory attached to it, together with several other warnings. Or, as Trevor Anderson, the wickedly talented assistant producer of the festival, and the director of Get off the Cross Mary put it just before the show began, “if you didn’t see the signs warning about blasphemous and gay content…well, you’re f*cked”. It was a fair observation.
It pretty obvious that Trevor Anderson and who ever else is concerned with Get off the Cross, Mary! are going straight to hell. It was quite surprising that they did not get there last night. To roaring laugher they played their show, stretching the boundaries of blasphemy. Crude and disrespectful, achingly funny with plunges into bad taste, they re-wrote the passion of Christ with jubilance and disgrace. Jesus came back as a black, sassy, controlling gay queen who puts history right about the sexual orientation of the savior, who did after all spend most of his time surrounded by young men "in dresses with soft names". And what a venue for such a show! the Opera Centre, a former church. It was surprisingly well acted which is often a wild card with Fringe shows, which is where this show was born. Certainly not for everyone, it was a true fringe show and as such found its natural habitat with the Animated Objects Festival. It is playing again Friday, so there is one more opportunity to catch the show.
The last event for Saturday was “Behind the Scenes” of Team America: World Police, the Chido brother’s most well known film at the Uptown Theatre. Apparently it wasn’t an easy choice for them to do the movie. Haviing never made or worked marionettes before, they felt the movie could jeopardize their reputation if they were not be able to pull it off. They refused Matt Stone and Trey Parker, (the scandalous creators of South Park and Trevor Anderson’s neighbors in Hell), twice before accepting “one of the biggest challenges of their careers”.
It is astonishing to get a glimpse and realize what an enormous amount of work, craftsmanship and coordination is involved in such a project. Following their talk with clips from the movie and stills from the making of, they shared anecdotes allowing a glimpse not only to the process of making the film, but also to the eccentric personalities of Matt and Trey. Trivia gems such as Matt requested the puppet of Michael Moore to be filled with ham before they blew it up. That the vomit in the elaborate vomit scene was made of green pea soup and bacon bits. The puppeteer that animated Lisa’s character could not bring himself to do the most raunchy of the explicit puppet sex acts ever seen on screen.
Bringing examples of their work they invited the audience to check out, feel and touch the puppet of Gary, the hero of the movie. They also brought with them puppets skulls (Lisa, Samuel L. Jacjson, and more) in which a radio devices capable of controlling their facial expressions was housed. Also for examination were skin types and face masks, and body parts, showing the intricate work and wonderful detail that went into the construction of these puppets.
And so the first day ended with a bang after offering a daring, talented, creative, funny and well, chaotic program. Let the festival continue!
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| DOWNLOAD CALENDAR |
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Posted on 2007-01-16 23:41:43 |
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Yes! You can now download our event calendar! Go up to the menu in the upper left and click on PRESS. you will find it there! |
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| Posted on 2007-01-16 23:40:01 |
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COMPLETE EVENT LISTING |
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Here is the entire listing of all Festival events:
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED OBJECTS 2007
For tickets call (403) 221-3708 and for info call (403) 266-1503
or visit www.animatedobjects.ca
STAGE SERIES
Chad VanGaalen, Kara Keith OPENING GALABASH
Rock concert and party
FRI JAN 19 – 8:00 PM
Victoria’s Ballroom, 306 - 17th Ave SW, Adults, $20 / $17
Ghostwriter Theatre HEADLESS TERROR
Carnival sideshow illusion
FRI JAN 19 – 8:45 PM & 10:30 PM
SAT JAN 20 – 6:45 PM,
8:45 PM & 10:30 PM
Big Secret Theatre Lobby, 225 – 8th Ave SE, All ages, $2 for 2 minutes
Small Brown Package Theatre GET OFF THE CROSS, MARY!
Satirical gay comedy. Blasphemy warning
SAT JAN 20 – 7:30 PM
SUN JAN 21 – 7:30 PM
Calgary Opera Centre, 1315 – 7th St SW, 60 minutes, Ages 14+, $19 / $16
Ronnie Burkett UNSTRUNG
Reading of work-in-progress, question and answer
MON JAN 22 – 8:00 PM
Vertigo Playhouse,161, 115 – 9th Avenue SE
90 minutes, Ages 14+, $27 / $24
Red Smarteez Marionettes KAY STORIES
Marionette and multimedia vignettes based on true stories
MON JAN 22 – 9:30 PM
TUE JAN 23 – 9:30 PM
SUN JAN 28 – 7:30 PM
Vertigo Studio, 161, 115 – 9th Ave SE
60 minutes, All Ages, $15 / $12 and Sunday $10 / PWYC
Mooky Cornish THE GLORIES OF GLORIA REVUE
Clown solo by Mooky Cornish, formerly of Cirque du Soleil
TUE JAN 23 – 7:30 PM
WED JAN 24 – 9:30 PM
FRI JAN 26 – 9:30 PM
Vertigo Studio, 161, 115 – 9th Ave SE
75 minutes, Ages 12+ $19 / $16 and Tuesday $10 / PWYC
‘Ksan Performing Arts OUR TRADITIONS Presented by Enbridge
An evening of Aboriginal performance from traditional mask to new media
THU JAN 25 – 7:30 PM
Jack Singer Concert Hall, 225 – 8th Ave SE
120 minutes, All Ages
Adults $27 / $24, Kids 5-17 yrs: $15 / $12, Under 5 free, Family $59 / $56
Paul Zaloom THE MOTHER OF ALL ENEMIES
Shadow puppetry, political satire
THU JAN 25 – 9:30 PM
FRI JAN 26– 7:30 PM
SAT JAN 27– 7:30 PM
Vertigo Studio, 161, 115 – 9th Ave SE
75 minutes, Ages 14+ $19 / $16
Faustwork Mask Theatre THE MASK MESSENGER
Mask performance for the whole family
SAT JAN 27 – 12:30 PM & 3:30 PM
SUN JAN 28 – 12:30 PM & 3:30 PM
Vertigo Studio, 161, 115 – 9th Ave SE
55 minutes, All Ages, $12 /$10
Cast of Festival Stars DOLLY WIGGLER CABARET
The best of the fest in an evening of short comedy highlights
SAT JAN 27 – 9:30 PM
SUN JAN 28 – 9:30 PM
Vertigo Studio, 161, 115 – 9th Ave SE
90 minutes, Ages 14+ $27 / $24
FILM SERIES
Chiodo Bros. TEAM AMERICA & BEYOND
The puppeteers from Team America: World Police show clips and discuss their career
SAT JAN 20 – 9:30 PM
Uptown Stage and Screen, 612 – 8th Ave SW
90 minutes, Ages 14+, $13 / $10
Various Artists PUPPETS ON SCREEN
40 minute lunchtime screening of short films
MON JAN 22 – 12:10 PM
TUE JAN 23 – 12:10 PM
Bankers Hall Auditorium, 315 – 8th Ave SW lower level
40 minutes, Ages 14+, $7 / $4
Quickdraw Animation Society LIVE ANIMATION STATIONS
Try your hand at animation
THU JAN 18 – 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
FRI JAN 19 – 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Bankers Hall, 315 – 8th Ave SW, 2nd Level by North Escalators
Drop-In, All Ages, Free
Arusha Action Film THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SESAME STREET
Documentary feature about producing Sesame Street in cultures around the world
WED JAN 24 – 7:00 PM
Uptown Stage and Screen, 612 – 8th Ave SW
107 minutes, All Ages, $10 / $7
LECTURE SERIES
Archer Pechawis, AN OVERVIEW OF ABORIGINAL NEW MEDIA
WED JAN 17 – 12 noon
Stanford Perrot Lecture Hall, ACAD, 1407 – 14 Ave NW
60 minutes, All Ages, Free
Archer Pechawis, SUCCESS WITHOUT COLLEGE
MON JAN 22 – 6:00 PM
Triangle Gallery, 800 Macleod Trail SE
60 minutes, All Ages, $10 / Donation
‘Ksan Performing Arts, ART & HISTORY OF ‘KSAN
WED JAN 24 – 6:00 PM
Triangle Gallery, 800 Macleod Trail SE
60 minutes, All Ages, $10 / Donation
Robert Faust, MASKS ON STAGE: SERIOUS FUN
THU JAN 25 – 6:00 PM
Triangle Gallery, 800 Macleod Trail SE
60 minutes, All Ages, $10 / Donation
WORKSHOP SERIES
Earl Muldon of ‘Ksan PORTRAIT MASK CARVING
FRI, SAT & SUN JAN 19 – 21
Black Forest Wood Company. Bay 7, 603 – 77th Ave SE
Adults $255 (includes wood) Phone 255-6044 to register
Jacquie Paul PUPPET-MAKING FOR KIDS Presented by ING Direct
SAT JAN 20 – 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Art Gallery of Calgary, 117 – 8 Ave SW
Drop-in, All Ages, Free!
Chiodo Bros. STOP-MOTION ANIMATION
SAT JAN 20 – 2 PM
Art Gallery of Calgary, 117 – 8 Ave SW
90 minutes, Ages 12+ $10 / Donation
Robert Faust MASK MOVEMENT / PHYSICAL THEATRE
SUN JAN 21 – 1 PM
Art Gallery of Calgary, 117 – 8 Ave SW
90 minutes, Ages 12+, $10 / Donation
Lynn Jeffries TOOLBOX TALK
SAT JAN 27 – 10 AM
Art Gallery of Calgary, 117 – 8 Ave SW
90 minutes, Ages 12+, $10 / Donation
Paul Zaloom POLITICS & ART: OIL & WATER?
SUN JAN 28 – 11AM
Art Gallery of Calgary, 117 – 8 Ave SW
90 minutes, Ages 12+, $10 / Donation
EXHIBITIONS
‘Ksan, Sean Dennie WHEN WE ARE ONE
DEC & JAN ALL DAY
Stride Gallery, Truck, New Gallery +15 Window Galleries
2nd Floor, 225 – 8th Avenue SE
All Ages, Free
Studio C PUPPET POWER PRESENTS
JAN 2 – 30, MON–FRI 9–4 & SAT 11–4
Studio C, Art Central
9, 100 7 Ave SW
All Ages, Free
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| DOWNLOAD GUIDE & EVENT LISTING |
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Posted on 2007-01-09 12:10:21 |
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A complete listing of all our events is available for download on the PRESS page of this website. Our schedule is also in our program guide, available in downtown issues of FFWD Jan. 11 - it will also be printed in FFWD Jan. 18. All shows are listed on this website. If you would like a copy of the program guide mailed to you, please call (403) 266-1503 or email office@animatedobjects.ca |
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| Posted on 2006-12-09 12:52:12 |
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TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE |
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The Chiodo Bros., puppeteers of "Team America: World Police" will be coming to Calgary to participate in the Interational Festival of Animated Objects! They will give a Stop-Motion Animation workshop at the Art Gallery of Calgary, and present "Team America and Beyond" at the Uptown Screen! Both events Saturday, January 20, 2007 Check our "Artists" section of this website for more information, and call (403) 221-3708 for tickets! |
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| THE IFAO FESTIVAL PASS |
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Posted on 2006-12-09 12:31:11 |
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An unbelievable deal to see ALL shows in the festival. Pass is fully transferable.
Buy early [before January 7] $109
Buy late [from January 8 onward] $129
That's less than $5 a show if you buy early.
The Pass can only be purchased through the Festival Box Office by phoning (403) 221-3708. Quantities are limited!
The pass by itself is not a ticket. Please call the Festival Box Office to reserve your tickets at least 72 hours in advance. |
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| Posted on 2006-09-08 18:07:56 |
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RONNIE BURKETT - UNSTRUNG! |
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Internationally reknowned puppet master Ronnie Burkett joins us on January 22, 2007, without his carved playmates in an exclusive and intimate setting to read from his new work and share the mystery of his genius.
A special one-night-only presentation at the 2007 International Festival of Animated Objects!
TICKETS: $27, general seating. On sale at Vertigo Theatre: 403-221-3708.
WHEN: Monday Jan 22
WHERE: Vertigo Playhouse, at the base of the Calgary Tower
YES THIS NEW SHOW WILL BE IN THE UPCOMING 2007 FESTIVAL!! |
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| Kinetic Sculpture Project |
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Posted on 2006-03-30 22:58:51 |
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Get involved with CAOS's Kinetic Sculpture Project!
We are now gearing up to build our very own kinetic sculpture this summer.
A Kinetic Sculpture is a human-powered, artistically enhanced vehicle that races over land, mud, and water, holding up to six people.
If you are interested, contact the office: 266-1503, or email us caos@shaw.ca. Check out Kinetic Sculpture wizard Duane Flatmo's site! (the pic is "Mega-sore-ass" by Duane Flatmo. www.duaneflatmo.com |
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| Posted on 2006-03-30 22:57:13 |
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ANIMA-GALA! What a Night! What a PArty! |
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Anima-Gala! our first ever fundraiser took place Sat. March 25 at the Auburn. Burlesque, comedy, music, puppet making and carnival games. It was a blast! Oh, and we raised some money too! Thank you to everyone who helped out!
Mooky Cornish, Empire Circus Cabaret,
www.empirecircuscabaret.com
Prize giveaways were all night!! Everybody wins!
Email us to get involved!caos@shaw.ca, or sign up as a volunteer, a sponsor,, or send your artist materials for consideration in the next festival (January 2007). Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the pages to find the forms to sign up!
Photo of Frank Meschkuleit by Sean B Dennie |
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| Halloween Scream! |
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Posted on 2005-11-21 15:13:47 |
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Xstine & Mooky, along with Austin Tufts and Keegan Tufford ran a Scary Things workshop at Ramsay School. Lots of kids came out and made ghost rod-puppets, bats, and spiders.
On October 30, CAOS and the Ramsay kids made a terrifying Haunted House for Ramsay's Halloween Scream event! The Haunted House was a little too scary for the smaller kids, but the older kids did a great job of keeping it spooky. Big thank you to Janice Francey, and her lovely girls, Sam, Sarah & Shawna, for helping set up everything, run the front of house, AND tear it all down! We couldn't have done it without you!
Check out the pictures from the 2004 Halloween Scream in the Dec 04
Ramsay Newsletter.
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ALABASTER WHITE BUFFALO SCULPTURE RAFFLE
As a spin-off to the Spirit of White Buffalo project, four offenders in
Drumheller Institution's Native Brotherhood program carved an impressive
alabaster white buffalo sculpture, with a commercial value of $3500.
They donated it to CAOS to raffle off. Tickets are $5, cheap!
The draw will be made January 2, 2008.
Proceeds from the ALABASTER WHITE BUFFALO SCULPTURE will support
Young Spirit Voices, a drama initiative for urban aboriginal youth in Calgary.
To purchase an Alabaster White Buffalo Sculpture raffle ticket, send $5 to:
CAOS, 1030 – 20 Ave SE, Calgary, AB, T2G 1M6.
For information, contact the office: 266-1503,
or email the
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