March 14–April 2, 2023
2023 Festival of Animated Objects
The GRAND, 608 1 St. S.W., cSPACE Studio Theatre, 1721 29 Ave. S.W., Royal Canadian Legion Branch #1, 116 7 Avenue S.E. YMCA Rocky Ridge, 11300 Rocky Ridge Rd. N.W., YMCA Seton, 4995 Market Street S.E., cSPACE Eau Claire Neighborhood Hub, 381 2 Ave. S.W., West Village Theatre, 2007 10 Ave. S.W., and Nanton Grain Elevator, 1402 2119 19th Ave., Nanton, Alberta
Shows
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GRAND March 17, 7:00 p.m.
Tickets: Adult $25, Child $13
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cSPACE Studio Theatre
March 14-16, 9:00 p.m.
Tickets: $25
SCPA Student Showcase
cSPACE Studio Theatre
March 14, 7:00 p.m.
Tickets: $25
The Stories We Write Right
cSPACE Studio Theatre
March 15, 7:00 p.m.
Tickets: $25
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
cSPACE Studio Theatre
March 16, 7:00 p.m.
Tickets: $25
The Dolly Wiggler Cabaret
Royal Canadian Legion #1
March 17, 9:00 p.m.
Tickets: $35, VIP: $40
March 18, 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $35, VIP $45
The Kitty Cabaret feat. Peter & the Wolf and Mask Tales
YMCA Rocky Ridge
March 18 + 19, 1:00 p.m.
YMCA Seton
March 25 + 26, 1:00 p.m.
Ticket Member: $18
Ticket Non-member: $20
Jupiter Theatre Presents: Frankenstein
West Village Theatre
March 23-April 2, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $35 or Pay-What-You-Can matinees March 26, April 1-2, 2:00 p.m.
Exhibits + Workshops
Retrospect
cSPACE Eau Claire Neighborhood Hub
March 14-17, 3-6:30 p.m.
FREE
Active Mythologies
Masks and Personal Narratives
cSPACE Exhibition Hall
March 14-19, 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
Opening Reception March 14, 5:00 p.m.
FREE
Paper Mask Making
March 17 before and after ici ou pas la
The GRAND
March 17 + 18
preshow and intermission at The Dolly Wiggler Cabaret
Royal Canadian Legion #1
FREE
Affirmation Puppet Workshop
cSPACE Eau Claire Neighborhood Hub
March 18 + 19, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Tickets: $35
Screenings
Animovies + Windchasers
cSPACE Eau Claire Neighborhood Hub
March 19, 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Tickets: $15
Drive-In Movie
Nanton Grain Elevator
March 25, 8:00 p.m.
By Donation
Blackfoot Language Animation Project: Phase 2
Various Venues
March 14-25
FREE
Mysteries
Wunderbriefs
March 14-26
Wunderbriefs: Discover these “wunderful” mask and puppet artists, curated by Elaine Weryshko, weaving tales before and after select performances.
Iniskim
A festival favourite. Keep your eyes peeled for this larger-than-life parade of buffalo welcoming the return of spring. All will be revealed in time!
The Festival of Animated Objects strives to engage the audience and animate our city by breathing life into stories and arousing collective imaginations through the innovative and sophisticated art of storytelling through mask, puppetry and animated objects. The Festival of Animated Objects awakens the inanimate and giving expression to the inert. From puppet shows to film screenings, gallery exhibitions to workshops, from March 14–April 2, Calgary will come alive with original creations, mythical creatures, and curious beasts, objects and gadgets, and thingamajigs beguiled by puppet-masters and artists alike to stir your imagination.
Animated Objects… also, more widely know as Puppets, are the great equalizer. They arouse our curiosity and suspend our judgement. They open our minds and allow us to see things from a different perspectives. Breathing life into the inanimate and giving expression to the inert the Festival of Animated Objects brings world-class artists to engage and entertain audiences of all ages.
Vital to the development of puppetry as an art form, the festival not only provides a stage for Alberta creators to showcase their work but is also a forum for an international exchange of ideas providing learning opportunities for professional and emerging artists and the public at large to find expression through animated objects.
