Clay & Paper Theatre requests the honour of your presence in Dufferin Grove Park on Sunday, June nineteenth for our most romantic Day of Delight to date! Our ninth annual celebration of love, courtship and desire will culminate in a real wedding that will be celebrated by all our fanciful festival revelers. Bring someone you love to beautiful Dufferin Grove Park for an afternoon of theatre, music, dance, installation and participatory works, including: Cardbordia, our beloved cardboard village, aerial dance, Punch and Judy’s puppet kissing booth, stilt dancing, storytelling, anonymous love letters to strangers, a stag n’ doe can-can, country love songs, and a musical bicycle parade – complete with giant puppets – that will deliver you to our very special Day of Delight wedding!
Participating artists include: Lisa Marie DiLiberto, CYCLOPS: Cycling Oriented Bicycle Squad, Sage Tyrtle, The Upside Down Ladies, Circus Alchemy, The Ismailova Theatre of Dance, Clare Samuel, Members of Parahumans Dance Theatre, Shannon Roszell, The Saucy Tarts, Martin Helmut Reis, Blackcurrant Productions, Kristina Esposito, Richard Underhill, Honey and Blair, and more!
Clay & Paper Presents: The ninth annual Day of Delight
A celebration of love, courtship and desire!
Sunday, June 19th, 2011, 2 – 5 pm Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin Street
Pay-What-You-Can / $10 Suggested www.clayandpapertheatre.org
This past week the Cyclops Troupe passed with flying colours the City of Toronto CanBike 2 course. Learning a slew of tips for riding safely in the city, we can’t wait to share our new riding skills with the public during our group rides. But until then, here are some should-be-common-sense tips for city cycling. Good cycling is all about Maneuverability, Predictability, Visibility and Communication.
Maneuverability: While it may feel safest to hug the curb tightly, a safe distance is approximately one metre away from the curb/parked cars. This gives you room to maneuver if a car passes too closely, and allows you to avoid road edge hazards such as debris, potholes, grates etc.
Predictability: When you stop at a red light, keep your feet off of the curb. This way it is clear to drivers that you will rejoin traffic. It’s simple communication, which is important given that most collisions between motorists and cyclists happen at intersections.
Visibility: Straight line cycling is the best way to be predictable and visible. When riding on the road, keep your eyes ahead to anticipate road obstructions, such as parked cars, and then position yourself in the lane accordingly. Weaving in and out of parked cars is dangerous because drivers might not see you, and you may not see them!
Communication: Use your lights, ring your bell, signal and shoulder check! And don’t forget to throw in the occasional “WOOHOO!” so everyone knows cycling is the most fun way to get from A to B!
Clay & Paper Theatre and Cyclops: Cycling Oriented Puppet Squad are pleased to invite members of the public to join us in two afternoons of bicycle decoration. From simply adding a flag or flowers to your basket, to building a bicycle float on your bike trailer, we will innovate ways to make your bike stand out amongst the crowds of boring brand names and beaters.
Some examples of bicycle decoration that inspires us:
Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Ride 2009
Participants are also invited to join our Bicycle Parade during Day of Delight on June 19 – click here for more info!
Some materials will be provided, but please do bring your own!
Clay & Paper Theatre’s CYCLOPS: Cycling Oriented Puppet Squad invites you to join us on these warm summer evenings for casual group excursions to some of Toronto’s most beautiful scenic locations, seen from the most beautiful mode of transportation we know: the bicycle.
Meet at Coronation Park at 6:30pm for a waterfront ride west. Ride starts at 7pm. 9km.
Coronation Park to Humber Bay Park-9km
2. July 8: West Toronto Rail Path
Meet at Dufferin Grove Park Friday Night Supper at 7pm for the Friday Night Supper in the Park! Ride starts at 8pm. Bike to the path’s southern entrance, all the way and then down Lansdowne to Starving Artist for a Friday night drink. 5km.
Railpath Route 6km
3. August 19: Leslie Spit
Meet at Coronation Park at 6:30pm for a waterfront ride east. Ride starts at 7pm.
Coronation Park to Leslie Spit -12km
4. September 16: Don River Valley
Meet at Sherbourne & Queen’s Quay, 6:30pm for a river valley ride on the trails. Ride starts at 7pm.
This year’s Cyclops Squad has just been hired! Plans are being made, schedules formed and puppets designed! This year’s Cyclops troupe will start the year at the Kid’s World of Energy Festival put on by the Toronto Renewable Energy Collective: click here to find out more about that! We’ll also be playing at the Evergreen Brickworks that weekend (May 21 & 22) during the market and ongoing Energy Festival. We’re very excited to begin with such a great event.
Day of Delight Bike Parade 2010
Other activities planned so far this year include:
Clay & Paper Theatre is looking for three cycling-enthusiastic performers and one musician/composer to intern with us as part of Cyclops: Cycling Oriented Puppet Squad.
Wage: $16.50/hour, 35 hours/week
May 2 to October 31, 2011
Highly variable schedule including evenings and weekends, must be available all days and times.
Please do not apply if you have other commitments over the course of the summer and fall i.e., Fringe, Summerworks, another part time job etc.
Summary of Position: Cyclops interns are responsible for developing bicycle-based theatre pieces to perform in public venues and at community, cycling and environmental events, as well as a full-length mobile production based in Dufferin Grove Park. Interns must be cycling enthusiasts, have a strong performance background and an interest in developing skill sets in other creative or administrative areas, such as administration, producing, writing, design, building, costuming, etc. Bicycle and gear will be provided, as well as training in bike maintenance, safety and street performance techniques. Animators, puppeteers, dancers, clowns, buskers, singers and musicians are invited to apply.
Duties for all four include:
Develop theatre pieces to be performed in public space using the bicycle as a key element in transportation, music, design, set, props, etc.
Animate community, cycling and environmental events with theatrical performances; busking at various locations throughout downtown Toronto
Perform at our annual Day of Delight and Night of Dread festivals and as part of our summer production, Human Power: An Epic Tale Of Modernity
Lead community workshops on bike trailer building, bicycle decoration, bicycle puppets, etc.
Organize volunteers and group bicycle ride
Perform other administrative, promotional or production tasks as needed to support the Squad, the project and Clay & Paper Theatre
For Musician: Composition and accompaniment for a wide variety of performances with instrumentation and voice
For Performers: Physical theatre, puppetry, and musical collaboration and performance
Qualifications/Characteristics:
Strong performance background (non-Equity only), with experience in developing original work in a collaborative environment
Physical ability to cycle regularly and for long distances in city traffic
Highly motivated and responsible, must be able to work independently
Outgoing, personable, good sense of humour
Enthusiastic about urban cycling and environmental issues
Must enjoy interacting with the public and not be afraid of asking strangers for money
Clay & Paper encourages applications from people of diverse backgrounds.
Submit your resume, head shot, and a short statement of why you would like to join Cyclops to clayandpaper@sympatico.ca by Monday March 28, 2011 at 5 PM. Please put CYCLOPS APPLICATION in the subject line. Auditions will take place April 4 – 8 from 9am to 3pm. Short listed applicants will be required to take part in a group audition April 11 – 13. We thank you for your application, but only those selected for an audition will be contacted.
Bike Sauce will be holding a Winter Cycling Seminar tonight. The aim of the seminar is to educate those who may be a bit weary, but want to take up winter riding. The format will be a workshop / discussion, so experienced winter cyclists are be more than welcome to come and help out.
We plan to cover:
1. Bike Equipment / Maintenance.
2. What to wear.
3. Riding technique.
If you’re interested in taking the plunge into winter riding, or want to help those that do, join us tonight at 7pm at Bike Sauce, behind The Big Jerk at 717 Queen Street East.
