Co-presented with Neworld Theatre and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival
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Podplays are short, site–specific audio play that takes participants on a walk through the geography of a city and the urban obsessions of its residents. Much like you would listen to an audio guide in a museum, you load podplays onto portable media players and are guided on a walk by narration that combines story, music and directional cues.
Neworld Theatre, in association with the Queer Arts Festival and the Queer Film Festival, is presenting DIY PodPlay Workshops. Try your hand at this unique art form. Put your stamp on it. Tell the story of the place where you live.
Renowned Queer playwright C. E. Gatchalian, himself a writer of podplays, will lead you through the imaginative and technological hoops of podplay creation.
Learn how to write a short play in which street corners, parking meters, fire hydrants and traffic lights play pivotal roles. Then learn all the necessary steps to record, edit and present your podplay.
About the Presenter: Neworld Theatre is an award-winning, Vancouver-based theatre company that creates, produces and tours new plays and performance events. We tell stories that reflect Canada’s diversity in the broadest sense – cultural, linguistic, social and economic. We use popular forms to examine our lives in the context of who counts, who doesn’t, and what our relationship is to the people we may think we aren’t.
Since 1999, Neworld has won more than 20 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards (from over 50 nominations), the Alcan Performing Arts Award, the Vancouver Sun Innovation Award, the Seattle Times Footlight Award, the Canada Council Theatre for Young Audiences Award. Neworld’s productions have been seen in major festivals across North American and in Europe. These include Ali and Ali and the aXes of Evil, Mixie and the Halfbreeds, Adrift, Crime and Punishment and Asylum of the Universe. In 2009, Neworld also co-founded PL 1422 a cultural hub in East Vancouver co-managed with three other indie theatre companies.
In addition to its mainstage productions, Neworld produces a range of events, from cabaret nights to live readings to public lectures and interviews. Neworld also works closely with community groups, pairing professional artists with non-professionals from different communities to help them create performances that address their self-defined aspirations and concerns.
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