Remember that Backpack Puppet?

Remember earlier this year, when we were a little bit (maybe a lot bit) excited by the idea of building a parade-style backpack puppet. Well! Its come a little bit more to life. Check it out!

Talking Sound with HeatherEllen

Introducing… HeatherEllen Strain! HeatherEllen is Stage Manager and Sound Designer, and will be joining the feather tales team to help bring the sounds of our story to life. When Daniel and I first started working together, he would bring his guitar to share short themes he had been working on. (You can hear these in

We’re live!

Well, not performing live (yet!), but our #ArtApart video is! See what the beginnings of feather tales looks like over at The National Theatre School of Canada: https://ent-nts.ca/en/art-apart-feather-tales?fbclid=IwAR2vWxVryBGWEz2leCg4c_8rsVYGP4XnQmPRm8yoYRQlP4N3JZiZoB1kBIE There’s been a lot of online discussion surrounding productivity while we’re all confined to our homes. More specifically, the theatre community has been talking about how we

From Capo to Backpack Puppet

written by Daniel Get ready for a side story. At the beginning of working on our show for young audiences, feather tales, Caite and I were talking a lot about the ways we could bring our bird characters to life. At the same time, I was noodling on my guitar a bunch and, so, my

Introducing: feather tales

Hiya, Caite here! I met Daniel Hickie some time in 2019 (or was it earlier? let me text Daniel!) at the Unitarian Church of Montreal. Daniel and I work there as Religious Explorations teachers, where both our theatre training and love for working with young people became immediately evident. That summer, Daniel and I forged