SA Creates: You, Society and the Mask
Scarborough Arts
1859 Kingston Road
43.695445
-79.25939
Description
Following the first Mask Building Through Character Workshop,
participants will then be led through a character building exploration with the
masks they created or ones provided by the facilitator. Participants will be
introduced to basic mask performance and character creation techniques. Participants
will be given the opportunity to explore themes and issues they are interested
in through improvisation and ensemble exercises. The goal of this workshop is
for participants to explore the masks, themselves and their surrounding
community.
You may take Character Creation – You, Society
and the Mask Workshop
without attending the Mask Building Through Character
Workshop,
though it is recommended
participants do both
.
About the FacilitatorAlexandra Simpson is an interdisciplinary
actor, creator and director with training in dance, music, physical theatre
(mask and clown), voice and collective creation. She has a BFA in Performance
Acting (Ryerson Theatre School) and a Masters in Documentary Media (Ryerson
University) with a research focus on degrowth environmentalism and performance
as tool for social change within consumer cultures. Alexandra is the founder
and artistic leader of Terra Incognita Collective (
terraincogco.org), a group of
six local artists that use performance to discover alternative ways of being
and challenge the perceived chasms between market and consumer,
politician/expert and civil society and artist and audience. Alexandra specializes
in collectively created, site-specific, documentary mask works that seek to
mobilize and strengthen communities.
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Start:
2016-12-02T18:00:00-05:00
End:
2016-12-02T20:00:00-05:00
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