Join the international Theatre community as we celebrate on Saturday, March 27, 2010
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World Theatre Day
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03.04.10The WTD2010 MemeLast 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 ...
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03.03.10World Theatre Day: Vancouver2010 will mark the seventh year that The Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance has organized local World Theatre Day celebrations. While World Theatre Day was established by the International Theatre Institute on March 27th, 1961, many theatre artists are still unfamiliar with this one day a year when we commemorate Theatre. This year’s WTD celebrations will take place primarily during the final week of March, and include free and discounted theatre performances, open rehearsals, play readings, backstage tours, and talkbacks. Also, expect the unexpected in the form of theatre flashmobs popping up all over. This year also includes the ever-popular Art by ...
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02.13.102010 World Theatre Day Message: Dame Judi DenchDame Judi Dench - Message 2010 World Theatre Day is an opportunity to celebrate Theatre in all its myriad forms. Theatre is a source of entertainment and inspiration and has the ability to unify the many diverse cultures and peoples that exist throughout the world. But theatre is more than that and also provides opportunities to educate and inform. Theatre is performed throughout the world and not always in a traditional theatre setting. Performances can occur in a small village in Africa, next to a mountain in Armenia, on a tiny island in the Pacific. All it needs is a space ...
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02.07.10WTD in OhioI 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 ...
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01.12.10What will you do to celebrate WTD 2010?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 ...
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05.02.09Augusto Boal DiesI was stunned to receive this email today from Carla Estefan, with whom we had quite a lot of contact during our World Theatre Day celebrations. Augusto Boal was the given the honour of writing this year's World Theatre Day International Address. The playwright and theater director, Augusto Boal, died in the early hours of today, at 78 years, of respiratory failure in the Samaritan Hospital in the district of Botafogo, Rio. He suffered from leukemia and was hospitalized since April 28. The location and time of the funeral have not been disclosed. The work of Boal, who was also essayist ...
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03.27.09Celebrations :: Quebec, CanadaIn Quebec City today, young and veteran actors took to the local buses for World Theatre Day in a guerrilla type of theatre and read pieces from different plays engaging surprised bus travelers! At the end of the en route performances, at the Grand Theatre, writer, André Ricard and young actress Édith Patenaude read the traditional World Theatre Day's International message, this year written by Augusto Boal. Theatre is very alive in Quebec City with over 60 companies, hundreds of artists, all stemming from Andre Ricards company, L'Estoc, he created in 1957. Read more ...
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03.26.09Celebrations : New York CityDoug Howe of the Internationalists sends us this WTD happy hour event in NYC - Come join The Internationalists for a Happy-Hour Celebration of World Theatre Day 2009. Augusto Boal's Message will be read at 6:30pm and a video of Robert LePage's message, recorded by friends of the company from around the world, will be broadcast. Drink specials last all evening and include $3 domestic bottles, $4 domestic drafts and $5 well drinks. Friday, March 27, 2009 5:00pm - 8:00pm The Irish Rogue (Upstairs) 356 West 44th Street (bet. 8th and 9th Aves.) New York, NY
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03.25.09Celebrations:: VancouverMon. March 23rd was Theatre Night at FINAL DRAUGHT Reading Series at The Other Space in Vancouver, BC. We packed the house to read 3 Scripts as our Final Final Draught of Season #7 & there were prizes & general "good will & theatre love" Final Draught was happy to DONATE the door to GVPTA's World Theatre Day Events. As our Final Night at THE OTHER SPACE - we wave good bye to a Great Home for Final Draught & GREAT HOSTS - HOARSE RAVEN THEATRE. We are happy to present new Scripts (Theatre, Film, TV) from Oct to Mar every year & ...
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03.24.09What’s Happening:: VancouverFrom Deb Pickman, publicist at the University of British Columbia's Theatre program: We're offering $5 rush seats on World Theatre Day for Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato's wild comedy The Idiots Karamazov - and of course we're reading the WTD message before the show! www.theatre.ubc.ca http://blogs.arts.ubc.ca/wordpressmu/theatre/ Twitter: @TheatreUBC
recent posts
- WTD10: Wrap-up
- WTD Vancouver: Art by Actors (post by Trilby Jeeves)
- Des McAnuff (AD, Stratford Festival) talks about why he loves the theatre
- Happy World Theatre Day!
- World Theatre Day: Paris
- Lynn Nottage’s Video WTD message
- World Theatre Day: Ghana
Twittering- WTD10: New blog post: WTD10: Wrap-up - http://tinyurl.com/yentte9 April 7, 2010
- WTD10: A Footloose Flashmob in celebration of #WTD10 in Vancouver, BC, Canada: http://bit.ly/9KASMt March 29, 2010
- WTD10: RT @susanopera: @ppcalzada Check out the last post on WTD10 from Queretaro, Mexico, it is a "WRAP" folks. Hasta WTD 2011 - http://wtd10. ... March 29, 2010
- Hashtag #WTD10 on Twitter
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