Predella Open Studio – March 7
Monday, February 21, 2011 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM The Button Factory Admission: Free. Everyone is welcome. This week Predella Open Studio experiments with improvisation. While actors and musicians use improvisation to develop their skills and instincts, writers also benefit from improv exercises. This week we pose the question: Are there more specific ways to [...]
Predella Open Studio — Success
Last Monday we launched the Predella Open Studio. We wondered if we would have a room full of playwrights, but people from a wide range of disciplines came to The Button Factory. Along with the expected writers, poets and playwrights, we had: visual artists photographers dancers engineers people from the tech community Regardless of [...]
Predella Open Studio – February 21
Monday, February 21, 2011 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM The Button Factory Admission: Free. Everyone is welcome. Predella Open Studio is not your average writing group. It’s built on new research about how people become high-performers in their fields and how groups can be structured to facilitate excellence. We’ll be kicking-off Predella Open Studio with [...]
Predella Open Studio
In addition to working intensively with a small group of writers, the Predella Project will offer bi-monthly Open Studio sessions starting in February 2011. These will be drop-in sessions run with all the rigour and energy of Predella’s intensive sessions. Not only will we share the tools developed through the Predella Project, these sessions will [...]
The Predella Project
Pat the Dog Playwright Centre is thrilled to introduce the Predella Project, a rigorous exercise in creative development. We are currently accepting applications for a small number of spots in the first year’s program. The Predella Project is an experiment in developing excellent writers. The project is designed to encourage highly effective, individually tailored writing [...]
Predella Project FAQs
What is the Predella Project all about? The Predella Project is an experiment in developing excellent writers. The project is designed to encourage highly effective, individually tailored writing practices. The project is based on the idea that how we work affects what we make. By combining social practice and work practice, Predella seeks to make [...]
Workshop: Nine Rooms and The 10-Minute Play
The Nine Rooms Workshop Friday, November 26, 2010 (Note new date) 9:30 am – 3:30 pm The Button Factory 25 Regina St S Waterloo, ON N2J 1R8 A lot can happen in 10 minutes. Join Dominik Loncar, Artistic Director of the InspiraTO Festival, as he takes you through The Nine Rooms, a workshop designed to [...]
October Poetry Slam
Pat the Dog Playwright Centre and Metaverse are holding a Poetry Slam upstairs at the Button Factory. If you’ve got a poem, now’s your chance to perform in front of an eager audience. Bring your best verse and recite it, read it, or even sing it. Share without care at the open mike or put [...]
24-Hour Playwriting Contest Winner
After 24 non-top hours of typing, pacing, deleting and caffeinating, our participants are tired. But we have a winner. Congratulations to Matthew Heiti of Sudbury for Receiver of Wreck. Second place goes to Evan Tsitsias of Mississauga for Back, while J.E. Anderson of Ottawa placed third for The Gods and Calvin Brewer. Wendy Philpott, one [...]
Culture Days Metaverse Poetry SLAM!
Love poetry? As part of Culture Days, Pat the Dog Playwright Centre and Metaverse are holding a Poetry Slam at the Button Factory. You can participate or just listen. Got a poem or two? Bring your best and recite it, read it, or even sing it. You can share without care at the open mike [...]
15/60: Play in an Hour for Kids
How Pat the Dog Playwright Centre Spent Our Summer Non-Vacation The legacy from Spotlight 2009 lives on. Pat the Dog Playwright Centre’s 15/60 Play-in-an-Hour Workshop for kids was such a success we took it on the road. The year, as part of the International Windsor Fringe Festival, facilitators Kevin White and Molly Reisman had kids [...]
Evan Tsitsias on Aftershock
Pat the Dog Playwright Centre speaks with playwright Evan Tsitsias about his recent production, Aftershock. Evan says: Aftershock was originally written in 2009 as part of Pat the Dog’s 24 hour Playwriting Contest with the IMPACT festival. It placed 3rd. I then worked with Lisa O’Connell on developing the script with the hopes of entering [...]
24-Hour Playwriting Contest 2010
We’re doing it again. Pat the Dog Playwright Centre will be hosting our second annual 24-Hour Playwriting Contest from 4:00 PM Friday, October 1st to 4:00 PM October 2nd, 2010. Fire up the computer, grab your lucky mug and jump into your pjs because this year all contestants write offsite. Hit the keys at home, [...]
Artistic Director Q&A: Douglas Beattie
Best known as director and producer of the Wingfield series of solo comedies written by Dan Needles, performed by Rod Beattie, Douglas Beattie writes here as founding and current Artistic Director of Touchmark Theatre in Guelph. What do you look for in a script? For Touchmark I look for a well-crafted dramatic action and characters [...]
piece/meal follow-up
Pat the Dog Playwright Centre’s piece/meal sessions played to full houses during the recent Magnetic North Theatre Festival. Our audience members aren’t the only ones to take notice. Four piece/meal scripts have made their way to theatre festivals in Toronto, Hamilton and Winnipeg. Aftershock by Evan Tsitsias is playing at Summerworks in Toronto from August [...]
Magnetic North and piece/meal schedule
Under Magnetic North Theatre Festival’s Magnetic Vibrations, Pat the Dog Playwright Centre is serving up brunch, magic and a excerpts from a total of eight new theatre pieces – all of which originated from our centre. It begins with Shawn DeSouza-Coelho as “The Man in the Window,” performing magic and conjuring the playful spirit that [...]
K-W Arts Award – Gowlings Literary Award Winner
There’s lots to celebrate. Last week, not only did Pat the Dog Playwright Center sign on our 100th member, we won the Gowlings Literary Award at the 22nd Annual K-W Arts Awards on June 6th. Being first-time nominees, we were taken by surprise. Thanks to everyone who sent good wishes and had their fingers crossed [...]
June Poetry SLAM!
You asked for it. You got it. Pat the Dog Playwright Centre is hosting another Poetry SLAM. Our April event brought more than 50 people to the top floor of the Button Factory, where they took to the stage, listened to original creations and munched on popcorn. [showtime] Eager to hear more? Got a poem [...]
Table Sessions
The Pat the Dog Playwright Centre’s Table Sessions are over for the summer. Need your performing arts fix? The region is bursting with creativity. Visit the Magnetic North Theatre Festival (and Pat the Dog’s piece/meal brunchtime reading series) is in town. And just down the road in Toronto there’s 10-minute plays at InspiratTO, lots of [...]
Artistic Director Q&A: Daryl Cloran
Daryl Cloran is the founder and Artistic Director of Theatrefront, a Toronto-based independent theatre company. His work as a director at Theatrefront has earned him numerous Dora Award nominations. Recent directing credits also include: And All For Love (National Arts Centre), Generous (Tarragon), Afterplay (Shaw Festival), The Last Five Years (CanStage and MTC), This is [...]
SLAM! ‘Box in A Button Poetry
Show us your stuff at our first-ever SLAM! Poetry Event. In recognition of National Poetry Month, Pat the Dog Playwright Centre is launching a monthly slam poetry event to spotlight local poets and artists, offer a community forum to explore next steps for the K-W poetry community as a whole, and provide an advocacy space [...]
Artistic Director Q&A: Ken Cameron
Ken Cameron is the Artistic Director of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, a national festival showcasing exceptional new Canadian work, co-presented with the National Arts Centre. Also a playwright, Ken is the author of Harvest, My Morocco and My One And Only. All three plays will be published by Newest Press in 2010. What do [...]
Magnetic North Theatre Festival
Pat the Dog Playwright Centre is pleased to announce we’ve been chosen to present the playwright reading series for this year’s Magnetic North Theatre Festival. piece/meal is a brunch-time series providing an intimate, playful introduction to fresh new plays in development from intriguing new theatre artists. All excerpts are from full-length plays currently under development [...]
Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed
Workshop: Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed While actors will benefit immensely, actors are not the only people these techniques empower. This theatre training is for anyone seeking dynamic learning opportunities that will increase self awareness and confidence. This training de-mechanizes the body from repetitive and automatic action, liberates the mind from assumptive patterning, and [...]
