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• 03.25.10
  World Theatre Day: Paris Ideas for celebrating WTD, World Theatre Day | (0)

  The Internationalists, a collective of directors from around the world and one of the founders of the NYC World Theatre Day Coalition, will also be hosting a 'La Journée Mondiale du Théâtre' event in Paris on 27 March from 17:00-19:00 at Le Cavern Club, 21 rue Dauphine, 75006 Paris. [caption id="attachment_347" align="aligncenter" width="240" caption="Graphic by John Wise"][/caption] We invite anyone to join us for drinks and conversation to celebrate the occasion. Dame Judi Dench's message will be read in English, Spanish, Swedish, French, German, Dutch and Danish at 18:00, followed by Lynn Nottage's US message, read by The Internationalists Artistic Director ...
• 03.17.10
  World Theatre Day: Mexico Ideas for celebrating WTD, Planning | (2)

  Today I received this email from Susan Weiss, an ex-pat British Colombian who now lives in Mexico. Everyone give Mexico a big welcome to the World Theatre Day Party! WORLD THEATRE DAY 2010 IN MEXICO – A FIRST EVER STEP! These words are especially appropriate for Mexico: “But theatre…provides opportunities to educate and inform. All it needs is a space and an audience. Theatre has the ability to make us smile, to make us cry, but should also make us think and reflect”. Dame Judi Dench – excerpt from her World Theatre Day message. (I admit it! I am a huge ‘FAN” ...
• 03.13.10
  World Theatre Day: Ottawa Celebrations, Ideas for celebrating WTD | (0)

  Hello, my name is Scott Florence and I am the artistic director of a theatre company in Ottawa called A Company of Fools. Every year (since 2002) we have hosted the OTTAWA THEATRE CHALLENGE on March 27 to celebrate World Theatre Day. We invite theatre companies from across the region - professional, emerging, community, theatre training centres, French and English companies - to participate in a "contest of creation". Each participating company has 48 hours to create and rehearse a new piece of theatre. Participating companies exchange "Inspiration items" to spark the creative effort (and ensure everyone is working on a new ...
• 03.11.10
  Jackson Davies talks about why he loves the Theatre Ideas for celebrating WTD, WTD meme | (0)

  If you live in Canada, you'll probably recognize Jackson Davies. Jackson will be hosting a series of panel discussions on Saturday, March 27, at the Central branch of the Vancouver Public Library. Come to the Alice MacKay room at 1, 2, and/or 3 pm. Admission free.
• 03.10.10
  How about a 360 Story? Ideas for celebrating WTD | (1)

  This article is reprinted in full, with permission from the authour, from 2am Theatre. Odds are the first four words ever spo­ken were “tell me a story.” And the next four? “Once upon a time…” It’s why we have cave paint­ings, sculp­ture, the­atre, film, tele­vi­sion both scripted and “real.” Every­thing in our world is crafted to com­mu­ni­cate some­thing, whether mem­ory or infor­ma­tion, asso­ci­a­tion or emo­tion. Everything–and everyone–has a story. As the­atre artists, no mat­ter our dis­ci­pline or tech­nique, we find, cre­ate and tell sto­ries to our audi­ences. What if we let them have a turn? Would that lead to a stronger bond, ...
• 03.04.10
  The WTD2010 Meme Ideas for celebrating WTD, World Theatre Day | (0)

  Last year, Ian MacKenzie, a writer from Toronto, came up with the idea of a World Theatre Day meme. For those of you that are new to this concept (and I certainly was), Wikipedia defines a meme as a catchphrase or concept that spreads rapidly from person to person via the Internet, largely through Internet-based email, blogs, forums, Internet-based social networking sites and Internet-based instant messaging. The term derives from the original concept of memes, although it has come to refer to a much more narrowly defined category of cultural information. Ian’s idea was to take a picture of us standing on ...
• 02.07.10
  WTD in Ohio Ideas for celebrating WTD, Planning, World Theatre Day | (0)

  I just got this email from Danielle Mari Filas, the Artistic Director of the Rosebriar Shakespeare Company in Groveport, OH. My company, along with Britt Kline of the Columbus Civic Theatre in Columbus OH is presenting Chickspeare! as part of both World Theatre Day and as part of SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day on Saturday, March 27.  As both holidays fall on the same day, we are doing double duty-- we're presenting a series of traditionally male Shakespearean scenes performed by local female actors in order to both celebrate World Theatre Day and to benefit women in the arts in ...
• 01.12.10
  What will you do to celebrate WTD 2010? Ideas for celebrating WTD, World Theatre Day | (1)

  I'm excited. It's January, and last weekend we had our first facilitator's meeting. World Theatre Day is only a little over two months away, and the planning is starting... First a bit of background. If you're new here, welcome. This blog was started in 2009. I work as a theatre publicist in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and for the past three years, I have done publicity for our local WTD celebrations. I have also been blogging for a little over a year. Last year, while we were planning our WTD celebrations, I started thinking "what if we made WTD a truly international ...
• 03.24.09
  World Theatre Day Tumblr Media Feed : Open for Business Ideas for celebrating WTD, Interview, Uncategorized, World Theatre Day | (0)

  Do you make or love theater? Do you live in the world? Then we want to see your stuff. Submissions are now open to the world to add to the World Theatre Day Tumblr media feed. Send us your images, videos, and short bursts of text to http://tinyurl.com/wtdmedia (yes, that'll open up an email to us), and check out the international extravaganza of theater media in our sidebar. Be sure to tell us who you are, and where you're from. You can even include an URL to your website or blog. Detailed instructions for submitting your material (do it today!) are ...
• 03.23.09
  What’s Happening: Brisbane, Australia Ideas for celebrating WTD, World Theatre Day | (0)

  From Amanda Bell, Company Manager, 23rd Productions, based in Brisbane, Australia. Our plan is to take a video camera to the WTD performance of our current production of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman. Pre-show, we will film mini-interviews with our audience, asking them their thoughts about theatre in Brisbane.  Before the performance, we will read Augusto Boal’s address to our audience.  We will then film the performance.  Finally, we will film our audience’s thoughts after the performance is finished.  We would then like to upload this footage to the World Theatre Day Blog.  Essentially, we are taking our audience’s usually momentary pre- ...

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• World Theatre Day: Paris
• Lynn Nottage’s Video WTD message
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