Fundraiser

We hosted the most amazing fundraiser evening to support the Theatre for Change Tour on Friday, 04 June 2010! Thank you to all the wonderful performers and musicians and an huge thank you to all of you could be there to support us.

Talent auction hosted by Nicholas Ellenbogen

Sylvestre Kabassidi

drumers from team spirit

Ian Henderson

Map to Theatre For Change Fundraiser

Coming from the Southern Suburbs

• Take the N2 Eastern Boulevard towards the Waterfront/City.
• Take the SEARLE STREET off-ramp.
• Circle back and drive underneath the highway.
• Follow road till stop street.
• Turn RIGHT into SEARLE STREET and go down hill.
• At CHAPEL STREET: turn LEFT.
• The Theatre is the last STONE CHURCH BUILDING at the end on the left just before one passes under high flyover.

Coming from City Centre

• Take Strand Street out of town and keep going straight past Cape Town Castle on your right side - this road becomes NEWMARKET STREET.
• At the RUSSELL STREET traffic lights turn right.
• Cross SIR LOWRY ROAD.
• At the traffic circle turn LEFT into CHAPEL STREET.
• The Theatre is the STONE CHURCH BUILDING on your right hand side

Theatre for Change Fundraiser

DON'T FORGET OUR...

THEATRE FOR CHANGE F U N D R A I S E R - this Friday 4 June-6:30 pm

Price : R 120 or R 75

Join us for the full evening of entertainment which starts with a Cape Malay Dinner at 6.30pm (vegetarian also available) - R120. Or join us at 8pm, skip the dinner and catch an extract from our show Paraphernalia, music by African acoustic pop artist Ian Henderson and poetry performance by Mbali Vilakazi. We'll also have a performance by stand-up comedian Sivuyile 'SIV' Ngesi and music later in the evening by Mighty and Mogale.

Nicholas Ellenbogen will host a talent auction, where you can bid for great talents such a Macrobiotic cooking class, a sailing trip, a drumming workshop for 20 people, restaurant vouchers, a surf lesson and much more.

Katy

I’ve just come onboard as the producer and production and stage manager. The office needed some moving around to fit us all in and I’ve been spending my first days calling schools, looking for Cape Towns hidden theaters, and getting up to date with the Theatre for Change Tour. But before I carry on about our exciting process, let me give you an idea about myself; I am Katy (I prefer you call me Kate) from The Netherlands and have been working, studying and living in Cape Town since 2006. I have a passion for theatre making and facilitating, performing, hiking, dancing, travelling and above all, making beautiful things happen.

Daniel

Not only am I a producer and performer for Theatre for Change, but I work for Project 90 by 2030, our main partner organisation. Since last year I took on the role as the Project 90 Cape Town Clubs Coordinator. I've been involved in creating and teaming up with clubs in 10 schools to create a network of core clubs in Cape Town. Our aim is help each school reduce their carbon footprint by 10% each year. We also have club hubs which are not part of the core club network but use the framework to create clubs in schools and organisations nationwide.

The best thing about working for Project 90 and being a theatre creator, is that i've been able to merge my interests and passions together to create work I truly enjoy. The idea for Theatre for Change was born last year when a friend and colleague, Robert Zipplies, embarked on a 'Crazy Ass' journey across the country from Cape Town to Durban on an electric bike to help raise awareness about Climate Change, aptly called the Cycle Challenge 2009. Andrea and I joined Rob on his epic journey and saw the value in taking a climate change themed theatre show on tour around schools in the Eastern and Western Cape. Six months later, a outstanding team comprising of Cosmos Productions, Project 90 by 2030 and a highly skilled intern from France, are taking Paraphernalia and Joyce's Choices on a 20 day tour. Shap!

Jacqueline

Theatre maker; filmmaker; puppeteer; environmental activist, hiker and lover of fruit! I created Cosmos Productions to make a space for my (and other collaborators) dream theatre projects come alive. Also the co-producer and director of Parapahernalia and Joyce's Choices, our two shows heading off on tour in June 2010.

Cosmos Productions

All this blogging and sharing info and putting ourselves out into the public sphere is exciting and pretty daunting at the same time!

So now: we have a website for Cosmos, thanks to Celia, our intern from France, and now Cosmos will keep you updated on our Theatre for Change tour on this blog, and you can join our facebook group.

But that’s what we’re all about, keeping you informed and updated with new ways of thinking.

We create stimulating theatre and video projects that make you think. Think about your actions, think about the future, and think about what world you’d like to live in.

We create visual theatre using puppetry and object manipulation that tells stories about what we’re doing to the planet, how heavy our footprint is, and also possible (creative scenarios!) of the future with all the climatic changes.

Our video projects currently in development also deal with similar issues. The Voices of the Vulnerable series is a series of short films that give a voice to vulnerable communities in Southern Africa who are impacted by climate change. We have already made films about a Rooibos community in the Northern Cape, villagers in Madagascar and a community in in Kwazulu Natal.

So stay tuned to our blog for updates on all projects coming out of our fold.