paper theatre type non profit industry entertainment community art founded 1994 founder david anderson artist headquarters toronto ontario canada area served toronto key people 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 . contents 1 origins 2 festivals 3 plays 4 community parades 5 projects 6 productions 7 awards and honors 8 see also 9 external links origins edit 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 . festivals edit 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 . plays edit 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 . community parades edit 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 . projects edit puppets without barriers 2009 project partners centre for learning technologies at ryerson university and picasso pro . funded by the department of canadian heritage . an accessibility initiative to reduce barriers to audiences who are blind or deaf . basic adaptations have been made to scripts and programs as well as additional interpretation including asl audio description tactile tours braille and large print . 1 2 cyclops cycling oriented puppet squad 2009 current project partners toronto cyclists union now cycle toronto bike pirates sweet pete s. funded by the ontario trillium foundation . clay & paper theatre s 3 year bicycle based theatre project . this 4 person mobile performance squad animates and energizes environmental and cycling events across toronto bringing theatre and cycling enthusiasm to the unsuspecting public drawing attention to urban environmental issues and promoting active living . 3 building local stories 1998 current project partners friends of dufferin grove park . productions edit animal nature 2014 2015 4 5 our last best hope 2013 6 day of delight 2013 7 a history of forgetting 2012 8 the pedaler s wager 2010 9 the circus of dark & light 2010 night of dread 2011 10 cycling oriented puppet squad 2011 11 night of dread 2010 day of delight 2010 between sea & sky 2009 bicycle revolution 2009 leap year pudding 2009 puppets on ice 2009 song of the innocents 2008 horse feathers 2008 12 13 night of dread 2008 day of delight 2008 night of dread 2007 we need help 2007 day of delight 2007 puppets on ice 2007 night of dread 2006 cam es the one eyed poet of portugal 2006 night of dread 2005 the space between 2005 lilith 2004 day of delight 2004 puppets on ice 2004 night of dread 2003 day of delight 2003 puppets on ice 2003 the sylliad 2003 gold in dufferin grove park 2002 night of dread 2002 night of dread 2001 night of dread 2000 the lost city of wagadu 2000 lilith unfair 1999 the ballad of garrison creek 1998 democracy 1998 the epic of mael duin 1998 the resurrection of fornax 1997 the return of green man 1995 to present gilgamesh 1994 to 1996 awards and honors edit 2009 davenport community builders award david anderson 2008 short listed for william kilbourn award for the celebration of toronto s cultural life david anderson 2007 chalmers arts fellowship ontario arts council david anderson 14 see also edit community art community theatre puppetry jumblies theatre kensington market external links edit clay & paper theatre website great public spaces website picasso pro website friends of dufferin grove park website centre for learning technologies ryerson university website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title clay % 26 paper theatre & oldid 705668357 categories theatre companies in torontocommunity theatre navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this 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