collaborations

Original projects involving artistic collaboration with various individual artists, companies, and organizations

Photos: Patrice Tremblay

À FLEUR DE POILS

par le Collectouffe- Élisabeth Bosquet, Maggie Winston, Aurelle Lavandier, Mélina Kerhoas

Un.e tricophile, fétichiste des poils et des cheveux, travaille pour donner vie à ses fantasmes dans son atelier de création. Il y cultive du poil qu’il arrange à l’image de ses lubies. Entre amour et exploitation, le tricophile fait corps avec une masse de poils; fulgurante incarnation de son jardin intérieur. Au fil du temps, cette relation engendre d’autres créatures dont des sœurs siamoises. Réalité ou fantasme, elles matérialisent les angoisses du tricophile. Entre absence et présence, entre la vie et la mort, au point de rupture, de dédoublement et de l’ultime séparation, il n’y a qu’un instant. Jusqu’où l’être humain est-il prêt à se rendre pour lutter contre sa propre finitude et celle qui l’entoure ?

Présenté au:

Éclosion marionnettique à L’UQÁM, Montréal, QC- des artistes et finissantes du DESS en théâtre de marionnettes contemporain du 9 au 12 juin 2021

Festival International des arts de la marionnette (FIAMS) à Saguenay, QC, le 27 juillet à 1 août 2021

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A “tricophile”, a hair and hair fetishist, tinkers with test tubes in their studio bringing their fantasies to life. They grow hair, which they arrange according to their whims. Between love and exploitation, the tricophile dominates and cares for their creation, a teratoma-like creature made entirely of hair. The mass of hair eventually spawns other creatures, Siamese twins. The twins appear like a mirage or a reflection, between reality and fantasy. They materialize the Tricophile’s inner world of obsession, anxiety, and the transience of life. Between absence and presence, between life and death, at the point of rupture, of doubling and of the ultimate separation, there is only a moment.

WILDQUEER version 2

Collectif les WILDS

Mise en scène/interprétation : Aurelle Lavandier Musique/interprétation : Gabo Champagne Costumes/interprétation : Maggie Winston

WILDQUEER variation 2 questionne sur scène l’interrelation entre l’humain et non-humain, le renouvelable et le non-renouvelable, l’exploitation de la nature et la domination cis-hétéronormative des corps, des genres et des sexes marginalisés. Peut-on parler d’une écologie queer ?

Worlds Apart- A Tale from Yener Velt

With artists Maggie Winston (Lost & Found Puppet Co.), Kaeridwyn Eftelya (Little Wanderer Theatre Co.), and Jen Quinn (Director).

The story of two very different sisters, Rachel and Leah. A Shabbat ritual gone wrong forces each to dig down into the world of old stories to emerge into a new understanding of their modern Jewish identity. Separated by magical mishap, each finds herself on her own path, journeying into a mish-mash world of Jewish folklore. From an invitation from Lilith, Queen of the Underworld, to chicken-footed devils, trickster goats and an unexpected marriage, Rachel and Leah both strive to find what it means to be a young Jewish woman in today’s modern world. If they fail, will they be trapped forever?

Project supported by the Jewish Arts Mentorship Program at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts (Montreal, QC), JW3 and Theatre Deli artist-in-residence Program (London, UK)

https://www.facebook.com/worldsapartyenervelt/

PAST PROJECTS:

Giant Wild Salmon Puppet for The Wild Salmon Caravan

in collaboration with Still Moon Arts Society

Maggie Winston and Carmen Rosen (Artistic Director of Still Moon Arts Society) created this giant wild salmon puppet for parades in the Wild Salmon Caravan Oct. 7-12, 2017. It performed in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Meritt, Kamloops, and Chase, BC, raising awareness of wild salmon and native food security.

https://wildsalmoncaravan.wordpress.com/

http://stillmoon.org/

Captain Creative Saves the Day!

2014-2016

A collaboration between Instruments of Change and Lost & Found Puppet Co.
Created by Maggie Winston and Laura Barron
Directed by Chris Ross

Captain Creative, is an arts advocacy fairy tale that uses puppetry, music, dance and print making to demonstrate the value of art in our society.
In this interactive performance, puppet theatre artist, Maggie Winston, and musician/writer, Laura Barron invite students to re-animate the theatrical world of Hueville, after it has experienced an Art Apocolypse. Captain Creative tours throughout BC schools, and the 45-minute production is appropriate for ages 8-13.

James & the Giant Peach

Produced by Chemainus Theatre Festival (Summer Kidzplay 2015)

Dramatized by Richard R. George (based on the book by Roald Dahl)

Directed by Tamara McCarthy

Puppet Design/Creation by Maggie Winston

Puppet Builders: Maggie Winston, Randi Edmunson, Georgia Bennett, Saraphina Shoostarian

Ensemble:

Matthew MacDonald Bain

Curtis Tweetie

Randi Edmundson

Laura Jaye

Maggie Winston

photo credit: Cim MacDonald- Chemainus Theatre Festival

Health Choices Think Where for Care Video

Created in partnership with A GP for Me Program, designed as a health literacy campaign about how to visit your family doctor.

Project Coordinator: Beth Beeching (Richmond Division of Family Practice)

Video direction and animation by Brian Lye

Puppets, manipulation, and voice by Maggie Winston

Cantonese and Mandarin translation and voice by Katherine To

Punjabi translation and voice by Jasmine Chehil

The Shiny Kids Family Festival (2012)

May 5, 2012 11:00am-4:30pm
Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre
www.shinykids.ca

The Shiny Kids Family Festival is a one-day event taking place on May 5, 2012 at the Moberly Community Arts Centre. The festival will feature a stage show, puppets, music and dance. There is an interactive Eco-Maze, a costume parade, face painting and storytelling. The Festival is a collaboration of The Shiny Collective (local award winning children’s entertainers; Gogo Bonkers, The Lost & Found Puppet Company, The Ta-Daa Lady ) in partnership with the Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre.

The Shiny Kids Family Festival live stage performances feature participation songs, costumed characters, dancing and puppets that tell a very important story about the ocean, environment, community and helping each other. Children and Parents will be welcomed into this magical world surrounded by fantastical characters to learn about the importance of protecting the ocean, how garbage affects everyone, how rewarding it is to eat healthy and locally and how planting seeds will provide what we need to better our lives.