workshops
All Peek Fest 2020 workshops will be held on Google Meet. You will need a stable internet connection and a device such as an iPad or computer with a camera. Any additional technology requirements are specified in the workshop details.
ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: Each workshop will be captioned. Using Digital Tools to Tell Stories and Movement for Camera will have ASL Interpretation.
ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: Each workshop will be captioned. Using Digital Tools to Tell Stories and Movement for Camera will have ASL Interpretation.
PEEK FEST ACCESS PROGRAM
Impulse Theatre is pleased to offer up to 4 spots in each workshop free of charge to arts workers who identify as queer, trans, non-binary, Indigenous, Black, a person of colour, neurodiverse and/or disabled.
ACCESS PROGRAM APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED
ACCESS PROGRAM APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED
SOUND DESIGN 101 WITH CAROLYN MOONTUESDAY November 3rd, 6:00-8:00PM
Google Meet $20 This workshop will cover the basics of sound design and give beginner sound designers tools for approaching their early sound design careers. We will explore the role of sound design, and talk about some tools to use sound design effectively. This course pairs well with “QLab for Artists.” We will be covering QLab only briefly in this session. QLAB FOR ARTISTS (AKA HOW TO MAKE A PRETTY QLAB) WITH CAROLYN MOONTUESDAY November 10th, 6:00-8:00PM
Google Meet $20 We will be overviewing QLab for artists so artists can create a QLab that will make their sound technical elements run smoothly and efficiently while working under time constraints. This workshop will teach the basics of QLab, and give artists some tips and tricks to make their QLab beautiful. About QLab QLab is an industry standard audio and video playback software, created by Figure 53, a small company based in Baltimore, Maryland. Much to the chagrin of poor artists everywhere, QLab is only available for Mac. A free version of QLab is available on the QLab website. PLEASE NOTE: Participants must download the free version of QLab at qlab.app before this workshop. Users must have a Mac computer, laptop or ipad to participate. |
About the Instructor:
Carolyn Moon (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, specializing in stage management, technical theatre, and technical design, working on Coast Salish territory. She has been a festival technician for Intrepid Theatre (Uno, Outstages, Fringe) and the Belfry Theatre (Spark Fest). She has also completed sound designs for Impulse Theatre, SNAFU Dance Theatre/William Head on Stage, and Theatre SKAM. |
SPECIAL NOTES:
Participants can choose to attend one or both of Carolyn’s workshops as they are designed as companions. Carolyn likely won't be covering much QLab in Sound Design 101 so it's recommended that participants do both.
Participants can choose to attend one or both of Carolyn’s workshops as they are designed as companions. Carolyn likely won't be covering much QLab in Sound Design 101 so it's recommended that participants do both.
MOVEMENT FOR CAMERA WITH SOPHIA WOLFESATURDAY November 14th + SUNDAY November 15th - 1:00-3:00PM
Google Meet $40 Experiment and play with ways to capture and record movement through the camera. A group warm up will guide us into our bodies, and then into our filmmaking senses. This will lead into tasks that generate choreography and then guide us to capturing that choreography on film. The group will collaborate on a short edit combining all of our material and looking at editing as another tool for choreography. SPECIAL NOTES:
Since we cannot be together physically, the group will strategize ways to film our own bodies. |
About the Instructor:
Sophia Wolfe is a contemporary dance artist who also works in visual media including photography, film, and video art. She is currently based out of Vancouver, Canada on unceded Coast Salish territories, of the Museum, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Sophia completed her post secondary dance training through Modus Operandi in 2014, and has since been dancing and touring with companies and independent choreographers such as Company 605, Co-Erasga, Chick Snipper, Cindy Mochizuki, Kelly McInnes, Antonio Somera, Zahra Shahab, The Only Animal and New World Theatre. Outside of dance performance, Sophia has a regular practice in documentation of live performance through video, video editing and photography. Sophia’s deep interest in integrating movement and film has lead her to organize and curate F-O-R-M (Festival Of Recorded Movement) (www.f-o-r-m.ca). She has also curated screenings for New Blue Dance Festival (Toronto), Vancouver Art Gallery, Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver) and Body+Camera (Chicago).
Sophia Wolfe is a contemporary dance artist who also works in visual media including photography, film, and video art. She is currently based out of Vancouver, Canada on unceded Coast Salish territories, of the Museum, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Sophia completed her post secondary dance training through Modus Operandi in 2014, and has since been dancing and touring with companies and independent choreographers such as Company 605, Co-Erasga, Chick Snipper, Cindy Mochizuki, Kelly McInnes, Antonio Somera, Zahra Shahab, The Only Animal and New World Theatre. Outside of dance performance, Sophia has a regular practice in documentation of live performance through video, video editing and photography. Sophia’s deep interest in integrating movement and film has lead her to organize and curate F-O-R-M (Festival Of Recorded Movement) (www.f-o-r-m.ca). She has also curated screenings for New Blue Dance Festival (Toronto), Vancouver Art Gallery, Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver) and Body+Camera (Chicago).
Using Digital Tools To TELL STORIES with ADRIENNE WONGTHURSDAY November 5th + 12th - 6:00-8:00PM
Google Meet $40 During the workshop, Adrienne will introduce frameworks for thinking and creation, including human centred design, inclusive design, prototyping, audience care, and engagement and participation through digital platforms. Participants will each create a 5-min prototype of a live performance delivered on the online platform of their choosing, and receive feedback through a show and tell with peers. |
About the Instructor:
Adrienne Wong's work straddles theatrical and digital space. She has performed in former morgues, current science centres, midnight art galleries, and at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Web projects include The Apology Generator, which earned her the inaugural Artist in Residence position on CBC Radio's Q, and SadSongs.ca, commissioned by Nightswimming Theatre in Toronto. Other radio work includes writing, performing in and directing radio plays, and contributing to North by Northwest and The Afternoon Show, all out of CBC Radio Vancouver. Landline (created with Dustin Harvey) is a performance for audio recording and SMS that toured nationally and internationally for five years. Me On The Map ( created with JD Derbyshire) is a kids show about urban planning and collective decision-making, received a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nomination in Vancouver and was selected for the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity 2017 Playwrights Colony. Adrienne's writing has been published in Canadian Theatre Review, CdnTimes, and the anthology Asian Canadian Theatre. Adrienne was Artistic Producer at Neworld Theatre in Vancouver until 2013, where she commissioned and produced 11 "podplays" in partnership with Playwrights Theatre Centre and Martin Kinch. Currently, she is Artistic Director of SWS Performance, and co-Curator of the Festival of Live Digital Art (FOLDA). Now living in Banff, Alberta, Adrienne holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts.
Adrienne Wong's work straddles theatrical and digital space. She has performed in former morgues, current science centres, midnight art galleries, and at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Web projects include The Apology Generator, which earned her the inaugural Artist in Residence position on CBC Radio's Q, and SadSongs.ca, commissioned by Nightswimming Theatre in Toronto. Other radio work includes writing, performing in and directing radio plays, and contributing to North by Northwest and The Afternoon Show, all out of CBC Radio Vancouver. Landline (created with Dustin Harvey) is a performance for audio recording and SMS that toured nationally and internationally for five years. Me On The Map ( created with JD Derbyshire) is a kids show about urban planning and collective decision-making, received a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nomination in Vancouver and was selected for the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity 2017 Playwrights Colony. Adrienne's writing has been published in Canadian Theatre Review, CdnTimes, and the anthology Asian Canadian Theatre. Adrienne was Artistic Producer at Neworld Theatre in Vancouver until 2013, where she commissioned and produced 11 "podplays" in partnership with Playwrights Theatre Centre and Martin Kinch. Currently, she is Artistic Director of SWS Performance, and co-Curator of the Festival of Live Digital Art (FOLDA). Now living in Banff, Alberta, Adrienne holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts.