A Story of a Wintry Day
We are working on a new story that wants to be shared this winter. Email info@runawaymoon.org if you would like to help us share this play.
Image from “A lot on Your Plate” - from the Community Project: “Food For Thought”
Runaway Moon Theatre is a small, but mighty theatre company based in Enderby BC, a tiny city in Secwepmec traditional territory of Splatsin First Nation in the interior of BC, that has produced puppet theatre, community plays and community spectacles for the last 20 years in locations across BC.
Runaway Moon is best known for creating innovative, magical productions that infuse the communities it works in with robust, creative, inclusive activity and offers audiences narratives about contemporary themes through a lens of folklore, awe and curiosity — what could we learn about this if we looked at things a little differently?
Runaway Moon was founded in 2000 after a groundbreaking community play “Not The Way I Heard it”, which brought together a cast of 163 as young as 4 and as old as 83, who presented 21 stories about the community along the banks of the Shuswap River, in a great variety of theatrical styles.
Values and Principles that drive our artistic practice:
Everyone Is WELCOME
We are all creative. We all have something to share.
When everyone is welcome, the actor reflects the audience; storyteller and listener reflect each other.
Everyone is reflected in the other. Old and young, creative artist and appreciator, neighbours and strangers. One world view and another.
We invite you to join us.
Curiosity & Wonder
We encourage continual curiosity about the world around us, for ourselves, participants, and audience members.
While deeply engaged in the world, our projects are not issue-based. Instead we often start with a question, which in turn generates more and more questions. In bringing people together we share the opportunity to look at things from a multiplicity of perspectives.
Curiosity is an approach. Rather than instruction.
Wonder is a result that is awakened… or re-awakened.
Learning About This Place
Our community plays are created about, with, and for the community.
We seek to understand community as being not only the people but all of the beings that inhabit this place.
Community provides the content, the materials, the form, and the process, so the result is an experiential and embodied awareness of the community for everyone involved.
We consider culture to be the ways in which we relate to the place where we live. Through art we express our relationship with the place. We recognize this as the Cultural Space of the Splatsin People.
We are all part of a story that is unfolding here.
Puppets, Peonies and Community Plays: The Art of Engagement by Cathy Stubington
Exhibition at the Salmon Arm Art Centre
March 7 - 28, 2015
Images by Rhonda Neufeld
