West Coast Collaborative Puppetry Arts Conference 2017 / July 27 - 31, 2017Workshops / Update Workshop: The Art of the Themed Multi-Pocket Puppet Story Apron with Jennifer Aguirre  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.  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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West Coast Collaborative Puppetry Arts Conference 2017 / July 27 - 31, 2017Workshops / Update Workshop: The Silk Marionette ~ Exploring Ethereal Form and Gesture with Janene PingThe 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.  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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An Illustrated Story for Young and Old When the bright colors of spring failed to appear after winter one year, the fairies wanted to find them and bring them back to earth. How did they manage? Walking through the woods, one spring morning, the story of “A Maypole Dream” appeared, as a gift, to the author. It is a tale which brings gratitude for the nature spirits back into our celebrations of the miracles of the seasons. The book contains this story and beautiful illustrations, and can be enjoyed by young and old – all those who love the weaving colored ribbons of the Maypole dance! More ... by Dr. Helmut von Kugelgen - International Waldorf Kindergarten Association  The struggle for the legal security of a freely chosen, humane education in the pre-school age demands spiritual decisions from which parents and teachers can no longer hold back. Independently from the success of these efforts, however, we must not neglect the concrete questions of the creation of a counterbalance against a civilization inimical to children.
Whatever can be done to offer children enlivening soul nourishment must be begun. In the late fall, children are more and thore withdrawn from nature - in so far as they can reach it all - and are brought into the house and indoor occupations. It is also the time for the first thoughts about Christmas and Christmas presents, so the educational experience should lead to understanding with the heart and to action. How incongruous it must have seemed in the year 1917 in the tragic last phases of the first World War and in the beginning of his open political and social activity, that Rudolf Steiner should have been concerned with the establishment of a marionette theater. But he devoted his full attention to this theater.  The puppetry impulse is one of the most important art therapy impulses for the coming century. Why? Because with hand and string puppets something is possible that cannot be achieved in theater or in movies, namely that the spiritual and soul expressions of the players are completely in the service of the images that are created with the help of the puppets.
Fairy tales, plays and everyday scenes that are presented in this innocent fashion come to life in a way that allows the onlooker, especially the child, to take in the content consciously, without the overpowering soul impact of real theater drama. The spiritual image content appears in the foreground and the imaginative capacity receives rich nourishment while at the same time the constitution of the child is guarded from impressions that are too forceful and that would disturb the flow of images. The marionette play is, for adults, a conscious, and for children, an unconscious, education in imaginative vision, and therefore it is an activator of the highest order of the forces of self-healing. The marionette and puppet theater is on top of everything, the only effective alternative to television and the multi-media culture of our day. I want to hereby warmly speak out on behalf of the Goetheanum in support of encouraging a worldwide puppet theatre culture, and beg everyone that reads this to consider how they can financially and otherwise contribute to this goal. ~ Michaela Glöckler, M.D., Director, Medical Section, Anthroposophical Society in Rundbrief Michaeli 1999 no. 37  Cultivating Moral Imagination Through Puppetry ~Hosted by Ripples Puppetry of Olympia, Washington
"The human being produces concrete mental pictures from the sum of his ideas chiefly by means of the imagination. Therefore what the free spirit needs in order to realize his ideas, in order to be effective, is moral imagination. This is the source of the free spirit's action." ~ Rudolf Steiner, The Philosophy of Freedom 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 to let me know if you are interested in attending! Registration will open in February and the cost will be $425 (USD) for the 5 days. Please use the pre-registration form if you are interested in receiving updates and registration information as it becomes available. Presentations
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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!) ~ Marjorie Rehbach www.ripples.us  Event Type: Children
Age Group(s): Children 3-6 years, Children grades 1-3 Date: 1/27/2017 Start Time: 10:30 AM End Time: 11:00 AM Description: Ripples Puppet Theatre presents a puppet show based on the Ukrainian folktale, "The Mitten". This charming story about animals sharing a home in a lost mitten is accompanied by live music and storytelling. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tumwater Timberland Library. Library: Tumwater Timberland Library Map to the Tumwater Library  Monday January 09, 2017 (9 am - 12 noon)
Focus: The Middle Senses - Smell, Taste, Vision, Warmth Artistic Activity: Watercolor Painting Saturday January 14, 2017 (9 am - 12 noon) Wet Felted Pictures (with Patricia Namit) - Cost: $65 More info ...  2nd Saturdays from 9 am - 12 pm
Location: Ripples Studio, 7819 Normandy Street SE, Olympia, Washington Saturday January 14, 2017 Wet Felted Pictures (with Patricia Namit) - Cost: $65 Saturday February 11, 2017 Needle Felted Animals (with Patricia Namit) - Cost: $65 Saturday March 11, 2017 Needle Felted Nature Table Figures (with Patricia Namit) - Cost: $65 Saturday April 8, 2017 Needle Felted Tapestries (with Marjorie Rehbach) - Cost: $35 Saturday May 13, 2017 Finger Puppets - How to make and work with them (with Marjorie Rehbach) - Cost: $35 Registration and contact info A Monthly Workshop Series on Sensory Development and Waldorf Education  John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925): Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose Marjorie Rehbach, long time Waldorf teacher, parent and administrator, is offering a series of monthly workshops to enrich our understanding of how our senses develop and play a vital part in how we feel settled within ourselves and with the world.
Over one hundred years ago, Rudolf Steiner, founder of Waldorf Education, gave lectures on an expanded picture of human senses based not on the usual 5 that we have heard about, but of 12! He called this Anthroposophy, chapter 1. In addition to touch, sight, taste, smell and hearing, scientists today are also carefully adding proprioception (movement) and vestibular (balance) to our evolving list of senses. (Some even add humor!) This is a vast field for study and enrichment as well as support for parents, teachers and any individual interested in the anthroposophical view of human development and Waldorf education. Each session will involve a presentation, conversation and artistic activities to support our understanding of what we are studying. Artistic work will include: clay modeling, movement, singing, speech and puppetry, painting, drawing and writing. Dates and Times: Monday November 21, 2016 (9 am - 12 noon) Monday December 12, 2016 (9 am - 12 noon) Monday January 09, 2017 (9 am - 12 noon) Focus: The Middle Senses - Smell, Taste, Vision, Warmth Artistic Activity: Watercolor Painting Monday February 13, 2017 (9 am - 12 noon) Focus: The Middle Senses - Smell, Taste, Vision, Warmth Artistic Activity: Drawing and Cooking Monday March 13, 2017 (9 am - 12 noon) Focus: The Higher Senses - Hearing, Speech, Though, Ego Artistic Activity: Singing and Music Monday April 10, 2017 (9 am - 12 noon) Focus: The Higher Senses - Hearing, Speech, Though, Ego Artistic Activity: Listening and Games, Puppets Monday May 08, 2017 (9 am - 12 noon) Focus: All 12 and Higher Senses - Hearing, Speech, Though, Ego Artistic Activity: Speech and Storytelling Location: 7819 Normandy St. SE., Olympia Suggested Donation: $35/session or barter Please contact me if interested: Marjorie Rehbach mrehbach@gmail.com 575-779-6483 www.ripples.us |
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