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Registration Now Open For West Coast Collaborative Puppetry and Storytelling Arts Conference 2017

3/12/2017

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Cultivating Moral Imagination Through Puppetry and Storytelling
West Coast Collaborative Puppetry and Storytelling Arts Conference 2017
July 27 - 31, 2017
​Location: Olympia Waldorf School, Olympia, Washington, United States
~ Hosted by Ripples Puppetry of Olympia, Washington
 

"What the free spirit needs ... in order to be effective is moral imagination." ~ Rudolf Steiner in The Philosophy of Freedom

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"Puppetry is one of the most important therapeutic impulses ... a stimulus of the highest order of healing forces." ~ Michaela Glöckler
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Dear Friends of Puppetry!

This gathering of puppeteers is meant to link to the East Coast puppetry conferences which have been led by Janene Ping and others. It has long been a dream of Janene’s to have West Coast gatherings alternating with East Coast gatherings. Janene has been working with us in imagining and planning the conference and will join us as a presenter and participant in the conference. I was fortunate to be able to attend last year’s conference in Hawthorne Valley. It was extremely inspiring and delightful! I am happy to be a part of the planning and hosting of our West Coast conference!

Please contact me with questions or if you are interested in presenting a puppet show of your own at the conference!

With warm greetings,

​Marjorie Rehbach


Registration
  • Please use the online registration form or you may request the registration forms to be sent to you in the mail. The conference is a 5 day event and the fee is $425 (USD). Early bird discount applies for registrations sent in on or before April 22, 2017.

​Presentations
  • Janene Ping: Working with Archetypes in Tales
  • Nancy Mellon: What is Meant by "Moral Imagination" and its Relevancy for Today
  • Jennifer Aguirre: Puppetry for Different Ages
 
Workshops
  • Bio-dynamic Storytelling with Nancy Mellon (more ... )
  • The Silk Marionette ~ Exploring Ethereal Form and Gesture with Janene Ping (more ... )
  • The Art of the Themed Multi-Pocket Puppet Story Apron with Jennifer Aguirre (more ... )
 
Performances
  • The 7th Grade from Olympia Waldorf School will present their marionette play: "Vasilisa, the Beautiful."
  • Please let us know if you or your group would like to bring a puppet show to share! (You will receive a discount on your conference fee for this!)

Lunches
  • We are committed to serving healthy, nourishing, mostly organic food. Once you are registered, we will send you more detailed info.
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Cultivating Moral Imagination Through Puppetry

3/12/2017

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​West Coast Collaborative Puppetry Arts Conference 2017 / July 27 - 31, 2017

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Grades 1- 8 Puppetry Curriculum for Waldorf Education

 Presentation Description

This presentation will give an overview of the full puppetry grades curriculum program developed since 1998 at the Sierra Waldorf School. This puppetry curriculum draws from Waldorf Education’s grades curriculum, the Waldorf handwork curriculum and the history of puppetry as it compliments and relates to the upper grades span of history covered in their curriculum studies.  Each grade makes a different style puppet in a block period of time and puts on a performance drawn either directly from that particular grade’s curriculum or is designed to complement it. Elements of performance, speech and drama are brought as well as the enlivening movement and gesturing of the puppet. The puppetry curriculum is designed to broaden and build skill-wise and experience-wise through the grades as the students’ capacities unfold and grow. Written assignments of script, poetry, and research reports are brought to certain upper grades and are integrated with their class teacher’s assignments and that particular grade’s studies. The puppetry projects are designed to deepen an already rich Waldorf grades curriculum and build upon the kindergarten puppetry performances the students received.
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Cultivating Moral Imagination Through Puppetry

3/6/2017

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​​West Coast Collaborative Puppetry Arts Conference 2017 / July 27 - 31, 2017

​Workshops / Update 

Workshop: Bio-dynamic Storytelling with Nancy Mellon

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Cultivating the art and science of storytelling, like home-grown food, is even more essential today. The wi-fi wilds of indigestible images, data, messaging and violent “games” are not as easy to remove as  toxins and weeds. New tools are needed and practice is required. Participants in this workshop will discover enlivening methods and a pharmacopeia of plot-lines and characters for composting and transforming these and other challenging dilemmas at school, and at home. Please bring an unlined notebook and colored pencils. 

Nancy Mellon has been encouraging storytelling as a healing art around the globe for more than thirty years. Her workshops and courses  brim with creativity. She is a psychotherapist and former Waldorf teacher whose books are cherished in many countries. Nancy is the author of Storytelling and the Art of Imagination, Storytelling with Children, The Knottles, and  Body Eloquence, which won the US Books’ Best Books Award in the field of Alternative Medicine. To learn more see her website.

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Cultivating Moral Imagination Through Puppetry

3/5/2017

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​West Coast Collaborative Puppetry Arts Conference 2017 / July 27 - 31, 2017

​Workshops / Update

Workshop: The Art of the Themed Multi-Pocket Puppet Story Apron with Jennifer Aguirre

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The themed multi- pocket puppet story apron is an interactive visual storytelling presentation where children point to a pocket and the puppet inside comes delightfully to life through story, verse, or song, cultivating a sense of awe, wonder, and joy in the natural and fairytale worlds. The apron serves as a wearable stage and the theme to the apron can be anything.

Participants in this class will make a themed pocket story apron and some wool fleece puppets to compliment it. We will explore the wide range of ideas and ways to bring this creative, interactive and portable stage alive to the delight of audiences. 

Please bring a short poem or nursery rhyme (preferably memorized) that compliments your theme ideas along with a sewing kit.

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Jennifer Aguirre lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Sonora, Ca. She has been teaching and developing a grades puppetry curriculum at the Sierra Waldorf School since 1998 and bringing puppet performances to the kindergarten(s) and festival life of the school since 1993. She has been performing her 8 themed puppet pocket story aprons in a variety of community wide venues for over 20 years and enjoys teaching the puppetry arts to adults. She lives in a restored Goldrush era home with her husband and where they raised their two grown children.

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Cultivating Moral Imagination Through Puppetry

3/5/2017

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West Coast Collaborative Puppetry Arts Conference 2017 / July 27 - 31, 2017

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Workshop: The Silk Marionette ~ Exploring Ethereal Form and Gesture with Janene Ping

The 5-string Silk Marionette brings an elegance of soul expression that embraces the grace of etheric form and gesture. Please join us for this workshop where we will study archetype in fairy tale theater and craft a silk marionette using techniques of plant dying, wool sculpture and weight resist to refine the possibilities of movement for the puppet. Will will also work with performance art and set design for deepening the artistry of puppet show production. Participants are asked to identify with a fairytale character that they would like to create and to bring a drawing pad, pencils, and a sewing kit for their conference participation.
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Janene Ping has been a Waldorf early childhood educator since 1992. She is the creator and artistic director of the Magical Puppet Tree Theatre supporting storytelling and puppetry arts for almost as long. ... She is a faculty member at Sophia's Hearth in New Hampshire, teaches kindergarten at the Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School, and has led courses in puppetry arts for educators throughout the Northeast and in Europe. For more information contact .

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