Date: Monday, February 26, 2018; 3:45-5:45pm
Location: Brighouse Branch, Richmond Public Library (Community place room, Second floor)
Presenter: Kathryn Ricketts
To register, email: teacherinfo@yourlibrary.ca or call 604-231-6412 Registration Deadline: February 16, 2018
Learn ways to make stories come alive and encourage student engagement through movement and dance. This workshop will explore concepts and principles of animating texts as well as outline ways to do this which are respectful to the culture and traditions in which they were created. The session will focus on the indigenous children’s book Orca Chief by Roy Henry Vickers.
About the presenter:
Kathryn Ricketts has spent the last 20 years working with Literacy and Dance, finding ways to animate books through movement for deeper understanding of the content. In consultation with elders and knowledge keepers, Ricketts has combined her methods and philosophies with Indigenous sensibilities to explore ways to animate this text through poetry and movement.
Kathryn has been working for the past 35 years in the field of movement, theatre and visual arts, presenting throughout Europe, South America, Africa and Canada. Her work in schools, galleries and community centers focuses on social /political issues with movement, theatre, creative writing and visual art as the languages. Her Doctoral research furthered this into areas of literacy, embodiment and cultural studies with a method she has coined Embodied Poetic Narrative. She is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education in the University of Regina as the chair of the Dance area. She runs The Listening Lab, a visual and performing arts ‘incubator’ and presents exhibitions and performances in her loft in the John Deere Tractor Building.
Presenter: Kathryn Ricketts
To register, email: teacherinfo@yourlibrary.ca or call 604-231-6412 Registration Deadline: February 16, 2018
Learn ways to make stories come alive and encourage student engagement through movement and dance. This workshop will explore concepts and principles of animating texts as well as outline ways to do this which are respectful to the culture and traditions in which they were created. The session will focus on the indigenous children’s book Orca Chief by Roy Henry Vickers.
About the presenter:
Kathryn Ricketts has spent the last 20 years working with Literacy and Dance, finding ways to animate books through movement for deeper understanding of the content. In consultation with elders and knowledge keepers, Ricketts has combined her methods and philosophies with Indigenous sensibilities to explore ways to animate this text through poetry and movement.
Kathryn has been working for the past 35 years in the field of movement, theatre and visual arts, presenting throughout Europe, South America, Africa and Canada. Her work in schools, galleries and community centers focuses on social /political issues with movement, theatre, creative writing and visual art as the languages. Her Doctoral research furthered this into areas of literacy, embodiment and cultural studies with a method she has coined Embodied Poetic Narrative. She is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education in the University of Regina as the chair of the Dance area. She runs The Listening Lab, a visual and performing arts ‘incubator’ and presents exhibitions and performances in her loft in the John Deere Tractor Building.
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