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Fall festival of puppet shows
comes to Presentation House

By Layne Christense
Communit: Reporter

THEY ar: not the
Muppets, just their cen-
turies-old cousins, and
they are coming to the
North Shore.

The Vancouver
Puppetry (VGOP) is: bringing
the ancient art of puppetry to
Presentation Huuse.

VGOP's Fall) Festival of
Shows starts Oct. 26 with per:
formances running three con-
secutive Sarurdays

Luman Coad of North
Vancouver-based Coad Canada
Puppets says festival goers can
expect to see some quality per-
formances.

“Fifteen years ago Canadian
puppetry was considered
among the best in the world,”
says Coad.

Today, the
Canadian puppeteers’ work
remains extremely high. What's
changed, however, is a shift in
general interest towards the
European style of puppetecring,
which sees actors on stage with
puppets. “Canadian puppeteers
prefer more the pure form,”
notes Coad.

Festival-goers will have

Pan

PANDORA’S Vox is at
it again.

The North Shore-based
women’s vocal ensemble is
gearing up for “Trebles With
A Cause,” a findraising auc-
tion and showcase event

Guild of

quality of

chance to see a variety of styles
of Puppetry.

The line up includes:

Saturday, Oct. 26:
Ehvoodettes: Marionettes. gives
two performances of Katie's
Halloween Adventure, a \ pin.
and 3 p.m. The show is written
and directed by Elizabeth
Ehvood: and uses a variety of
marionettes including English
Pelham Puppets. American
Hazelles and Elwooderte
Marionettes.

Saturday, Nov. 2: Coad
Canada Puppets presents
There's A Dinosaur tn the Closet,
atloand 3 p.m. Luman and
Arlyn Coad) oof North
Vancouver founded this campa-
ny 23 years ago. Both write the
script, Arlvn designs the pro-
ductions and creates the pup-
pets while Luman performs.

Saturday, Nov. 9: Dirk's
Marionettes stages
Rusmpelstiltskin at 1 and 3 p.m.
Dirk Gertel has produced and
directed this production based
on the fairy tale by the Brothers
Grimm.

Tickets are $6 and are avail-
able through the Presentation
House box office at 990-3474.
Presentation House is located at
333 Chesterfield Ave., North
Vancouver.

Thursday, Oct. 24 at the
Squamish Nation Recreation
Centre.

The evening will include
entertainment by the Vox,
culinary delights from Chesa
Restaurant, door prizes, raf-
fles and both live and silent

brate ancient art

Photo submitted

LUMAN Coad goes head to head with Harlequin, a
puppet created by his wife Ariyn. The Coads take their
puppet shows to elementary schools throughout B.C.

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