Natasha Greenblatt, Co-Founder of Two Birds Theatre, leads a ‘parade of the future’, during a performance of Apocalype Play.
[It was] great to have my child busy while I was watching the show. I was relieved and could focus on the play knowing my child was hanging out with artists and likely having fun.
Common Boots Theatre & Two Birds Theatre
Common Boots Theatre & Two Birds Theatre
On-site Childminding and Integrated Arts Workshop
Level UP! Strategy Area: Care Solutions
Pilot Project: Childminding and programming alongside performances of Apocalypse Play by Two Birds Theatre
Project Duration: August – September 2022
Continuing to Implement: On a project basis
Resources Shared: Project Field Notes, Childminding Intake Form, First Aid Waiver
About Common Boots & Two Birds
Common Boots Theatre
Location: Ontario
Artistic Discipline: Theatre
Operating Budget: $100,000 to $1,000,000
Common Boots Theatre is a 40 year-old independent theatre company that runs on operating funding. We create original and collaborative theatre for traditional and non-traditional theatrical spaces. Our goal is to make theatre accessible for artists and audiences starting with the rehearsal and creation process through to closing night.
Two Birds Theatre
Location: Ontario
Artistic Discipline: Theatre
Operating Budget: Project-based
Two Birds Theatre is a project-based company dedicated to collaboration across differences: generational, cultural, disciplinary, and/or other kinds of generative difference. Founded in 2016 by Natasha Greenblatt and Rimah Jabr, Two Birds is now run by Natasha Greenblatt and has produced plays, videos, and an audio walk.
Common Boots & Two Birds’ Level UP! Project
Common Boots Theatre (Derek Kwan, Artistic Director and Kesta Graham, Managing Producer) teamed up with Two Birds Theatre to dream up and deliver their Level UP! Pilot. Their project focused on piloting childminding for audiences attending the outdoor production of Apocalypse Play with their children, and a concurrent hour-long activated arts workshop for school-age kids based on the themes of the play, which was an intergenerational auto-fictional collaboration about climate anxiety, grief and the legacy of arts activism and motherhood, created and performed by mother/daughter feminist theatre artists Natasha Greenblatt and Kate Lushington.
Project Highlights:
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- Experimenting with integrating the children into end of the performance, enhancing the thematic content of the play
- Developing the workshop and childminding successfully within less than two months
Resources
Common Boots Theatre & Two Birds Theatre | Project Field Notes
About This Resource These Project Field Notes were developed in 2023 by Natasha Greenblatt, with contributions from Common Boots Theatre and Two Birds Theatre, as part of their Balancing Act Level UP! Pilot Project.
Common Boots Theatre & Two Birds Theatre | Childminding Intake Form
About This Resource This Childminding Intake Form was developed in 2022 by Common Boots Theatre and Two Birds Theatre as part of their Balancing Act Level UP! Pilot Project. The form was created as a Google Form to invite families to sign up for free...
Common Boots Theatre & Two Birds Theatre | First Aid Waiver
About This Resource This First Aid Waiver was developed in 2022 by Common Boots Theatre and Two Birds Theatre as part of their Balancing Act Level UP! Pilot Project. Parents/guardians who signed children up for childminding and an arts workshop during Apocalypse Play...
More Information
For more information about Common Boots Theatre visit www.commonbootstheatre.ca.
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