Experiments for Windy (also we got a grant!!!)

This spring, we are SOOOO happy to announce that we’ve received a grant from the Canada Council to conduct a residency for Windy. Yay!!! Thanks Canada Council!! With those funds, we are going to complete a two week residency in May, followed by a short run of performances in June (to test and share what

Introducing – Windy!

Since finishing our puppet show feather tales in June, we have been thinking a lot about what we would like to do next. And now, we’re ready to share our next step. Introducing – Windy: Suffice it to say, we can’t wait to share more details about this show with you all!

Feather Tales – We Did It!

What a magical experience we had this past June 2022. We were able to put feather tales in front of an audience!!! Whoop whoop. Such a joy. So many thanks. If you missed out on seeing us in person, check out this summary video of the show: Here is also a little summary of the

Puppet Experiments

In early 2022, we have been working away on 2 different puppets in the same parade style puppetry that we have worked with recently. The first puppet was just for the sake of trying new techniques and dreaming big. We tried to create a large backpack style bird. The aim was to get to a

How did our holiday puppets workshop go?

Now that is an excellent question. In short, they were really fun. Over two workshops in December, we had about 20 people join us to make our holiday themed winter animal puppets. In each workshop, we started by creating a simple mouse design all together. And then participants were given the option to go on

How did our Halloween Workshop go? (and general recent activity update)

Hey everyone! WOAH! We’ve had a huge few weeks. Can we tell you a little bit about it? Great! Thanks. 1. Our Halloween Workshop On the day before Halloween, we held our first ever public puppet building workshop (not the first workshop any of us have run, but our first workshop as a theatre collective).

Fundraiser #1 – Halloween Puppets

Our first fundraiser! Woot woot! This halloween, we are teaming up with the wonderful folks at the Montreal Children’s Theatre to run a few Halloween Puppet workshops. The majority of the proceeds from these workshops will go towards the funds for feather tales campaign! Another woot woot! Workshop # 1 = MONSTER HAND PUPPETS! Workshop

Funds for Feather Tales

After our really successful workshop period in May 2021, we’re itching to get feather tales into a theatre, onto a stage, in front of an audience. With that goal in mind, we are launching a fundraising campaign. Our goal is to raise $7000, which would pay a creative team for 1-week of rehearsals. While we

Can’t help but dance

Whenever we’ve been testing a new design, exploring, building, tearing down, creating, glueing…etc, and its time to put everything on and see what it looks like – step #1 = dance!

A Busy Spring

In a grant application we wrote recently, we described Young Hearts Theatre as a fluid collective of artists, coming together as different groups to work on different projects. And that seems so right in this busy spring time period. On the one hand, we have just accepted our Research and Creation grant from the Canada