Clay & Paper Theatre
| Non Profit | |
| Industry | Entertainment: Community Art |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Founder | David Anderson (artist) |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Area served
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Toronto |
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Key people
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David Anderson(artist), Founder |
| Website | www.clayandpapertheatre.org |
Clay & Paper Theatre is a community arts theatre company in Toronto, Canada that produces narrative theatre using large-scale puppets, masks, stilts, visual imagery, music, and poetry. A fundamental component of Clay & Paper Theatre’s mandate is social inclusion.
Clay & Paper Theatre was founded in 1994 by its artistic director, David Anderson. David helped to establish the organization in community-centered Dufferin Grove Park, Toronto, where they have a small workshop and storage facility.
Clay & Paper Theatre delivers an annual multidisciplinary summer festival called Day of Delight. Coinciding with summer solstice, Day of Delight is a celebration of love, courtship and desire.
Each summer, Clay & Paper Theatre produces a new Canadian play which runs for up to 5 weeks in Dufferin Grove Park. These plays are built, rehearsed and performed in full public view and admission to all performances is on a pay what you can basis.
Occurring in late October on the Saturday before Halloween, Night of Dread is an annual community event in which giant puppets and images of fears are paraded through the streets and then burned in a bonfire at Dufferin Grove Park with live music, dancing and fire spinning. Attracting thousands of revelers, 2010 marks the eleventh annual Night of Dread celebration.
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