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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Workshop: Ken Cameron Playwriting
Pat the Dog was proud to host a skills workshop with Ken Cameron, the Artistic Director of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival and an award-winning playwright. Cameron, whose most recent work, Harvest, played at Blyth Festival last summer, conducted the workshop in support of Pat the Dog.
For an afternoon, Cameron and 24 playwrights from across Ontario took over the Council Chambers in Kitchener City Hall. They
