Photos from Aug 2016 Open Rehearsal

Thank you for joining us everyone! See you soon! Here are some photos, and there are more here!

Stories for Change: Playback Theatre Core Training 2016

To register, please email us at tapestry.register@gmail.com.

Where Are We Going? A playback theatre event

A Playback Theatre performance. An interactive event. 

An improvisational form. A community theatre engagement.

A dialogue about issues that concern us.

Where are we going? What is our destination? What kind of society do we want to be a part of?What will our country be like in the future? What is the world coming to? What can we do now, to build the world we want to live in?

In Playback Theatre, the audience is invited to share moments and stories triggered by the theme. Performers will then spontaneously enact them in short dramatic vignettes, using elements of cloth, music, movement, and spoken word.

Come and join us. Share a story. Watch another’s story. Build community with us.

Friends from the Deaf Community are welcome to join us! Please leave us a message to tell us or email us at tapestry.ticketing@gmail.com. Sign Language interpretation will be available ONLY for the show on Sept 17th. =)

EARLY BIRD TICKETS UNTIL 17TH AUG ONLY! =)
TICKETS AT WHEREAREWEGOING.PEATIX.COM.

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"Where Are We Going" is a Global initiative of the Centre for Playback Theatre. Playback groups in different parts of the world are exchanging practice methodology, information, and best practices, and will perform to the same theme in the months of Sept and Oct 2016.

These groups include:

• Tapestry Playback Theatre (Singapore) - 17th & 18th Sept
• New Jazz Playback Theatre (Moscow, Russia) - 3rd Oct
• London Playback Theatre (London, UK) - 6th Oct
• POIESIS Playback Theatre (Seoul, South Korea) - 8th Oct
• The Heartsparkle Players (Washington, US) - 14th Oct
• Drama for Life (Johannesburg, South Africa)
• Pepita Playback Tarsulat (Budapest, Hungary)

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Tapestry Playback Theatre Ltd is a non-profit community theatre company that bases its transformative work on the playback theatre form.

Our vision is to create a safe and non-judgmental space where stories surface and dialogues happen. Our mission is to establish playback as a transformative tool in community by training and supporting competent playbackers.

Tapestry is a Company Partner of the Centre for Playback Theatre (CPT) and a member of the International Playback Theatre Network (IPTN).

The Centre for Playback Theatre - created by Jonathan Fox, the co-founder of Playback Theatre with Jo Salas - supports the ethical and artistic development of Playback Theatre worldwide, thereby promoting healthier, more civically engaged and inclusive communities.

It's mission is to uphold excellence and ethical practice in Playback Theatre around the world, as it offers international training, serves as an educational resource, and supports practitioners through its network of Accredited Trainers and Affiliate Schools.

A nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation, the CPT is committed to combating injustice based on race, gender, sexual orientation, economic status, disability, and religion.

Photos from our July Open Rehearsal (July 29, 2016)

Thank you for coming to our Open Rehearsal last Saturday! We began our session with getting to know each other (through our footwear!) and followed that by by exploring the traditional pairs form. Then we came together to share and playback stories for each other. Thank you for your stories. And thank you for sharing this "theatre of neighbours" that we love so much. See you next month!

"You Never Knew I Was" @ Celebrate Drama 2016 (July 16, 2016)

Tapestry worked with young playbackers in a performance at Celebrate Drama, a Youth and Community Festival at the Arts House.

A wonderful night of stories from parents, grandparents and the children among the audience. We are glad to see everyone leaving theatre touched and with big smiles!

Thank you Tiara Mia and SDEA for the invite!

Thank you Sofia Khanafie and Te Hao Boon for performing with us!

Talented and passionate young playbackers!

getting used to the space.

Tech rehearsal

Tech rehearsal

Waiting for the audience in the space.

Warming up the audience!

The performing team!

Practice!

Practice!

Performance notice at the Play Den of the Arts House

We're BACK~! 30 July 2016 Open Rehearsal

Hello people~!!

Our Open Rehearsal is back~!! Come join us to have a great time learning and playing.

We will continue learning other short forms in Playback Theatre. We will do a little bit of teaching in the first half of the session followed by sharing our stories and improvising together.

Come and explore Playback Theatre, and have a chance to practise the different roles like the musician, the actor or the storyteller!

Join us at the Toa Payoh Central Community Club Dance Studio (Opposite the library @ 93 Toa Payoh Central Singapore 319194).

If you are at curious about what this community theatre is all about, join us and bring a friend too!

We hope to accommodate as many of you as we can, but have limited space, so get your ticket now - http://jul2016or.peatix.com

This event is free but please support our practice with a small donation. Limited space~!

Email us at tapestry[dot]sg[at]gmail[dot]com if you have any questions!

Thank you and see you soon!

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Playback Theatre. The power of stories. Any story. All stories. Someone shares a moment, and the performers will playback it back, with movement, sound, music, cloth and embodiment. Any life moment is played - happy or sad, hilarious or humdrum. It can produce change, new insights and feelings, and even transformation, through the atmosphere of affirmation, creativity and reflection.

This event is supported by Toa Payoh Central Community Club and PassionArts.

Catch our next performance at Celebrate Drama 2016!

From SDEA Singapore.

So we asked Michael Cheng, the artistic director of Tapestry Playback Theatre and SDEA member:

What is Playback Theatre and what can we expect from 'You Never Knew I Was' at Celebrate Drama! 2016?

"In Playback Theatre, there is no script. We invite the audience to share moments and stories from their lives, and these are enacted spontaneously on stage, using elements of movement, word, cloth and music. Every single story is honoured, and at the same event, a spirit of community emerges as we respect different perspectives that emerge in response.

For this performance, we are working with young Singaporeans as performers, to play back the stories to the theme of “You never knew I was…”. What stories do you have that your close family members have not heard before? What story of yours would surprise them? What stories would you tell?"

"You Never Knew I Was..."
Date: 16 July 2016
Time: 11am to 1pm
Venue: The Arts House (Play Den)
Tickets: $20, $25 (Early Bird: $18, $23)

Get your early bird tickets at www.bytes.sg!

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