Creative Voice

Voice and Mask - Creative Development Workshops

Offered as an extension of the CP Salontheatre performanceTour and Voice Workshop, this eight-week workshop was for participants with disabilities and without disabilities, and any one who already views or is interested in incorporating creativity through voice and expression as a profound part of their artistic and community practices.   These workshops were presented by Traci Foster, and in collaboration with the Saskatchewan Indepedent Living Centre.

The workshops were geared to:
- Performing artists with disabilityemerging and experienced
- Non-disabled performers -with an interest in voice, creative collaboration, disability arts and disability culture.
- Non-performers with or without disabilities who will benefit from the work in relation to their vocational, professional or personal needs.

The sessions  focused on:
- Voice as a lead impulse and instrument of creative development and expression
- Mask work, to cultivate a personal mythology, which will lead to character development, story development and performance
- Story telling, singing, and sounding
- Improvisation that allows for different levels of experience to co-exist and be shared
- Development of stories and narratives through song, sound, and vocal expression.

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