THE ROOM SCULPTURE EXPERIENCE
A ONE-OF-A-KIND, THEATRICAL ART-MAKING EXPERIENCE
"So unexpectedly fun!"
“An experience that really opens up the world of theatre.”
Immerse yourself in a world of light, textures, and sound on stage with Ghost River Theatre's The Room Sculpture Experience where creativity and community collide. Created by Artistic Director Eric Rose, this unique, hands-on event invites audiences to collaboratively construct and deconstruct a one-of-a-kind theatrical sculpture. The Room Sculpture Experience is an inspiring journey in which audiences become the artists. This is 60 minutes that will change your world!
A relaxed matinee takes place September 28.
Deaf-led experiences take place on October 4 and 5.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Each experience engages up to 35 participants led by an Experience Guide.
Hands-on activity lasts for 45 minutes and is followed by a 15-minute group conversation. The whole experience is about 70 minutes long.
The setting is a designed theatre environment on stage at West Village Theatre, with lighting, sound, fog and haze.
Recommended for ages 10 and up.
PUBLIC PERFORMANCES
September 27 Friday @ 7:30 PM - OPENING NIGHT
September 28 Saturday @ 3:30 PM - RELAXED PERFORMANCE
September 28 Saturday @ 7:30 PM
October 3 Thursday @ 7:30 PM
October 4 Friday @ 1:00 PM - DEAF-LED PERFORMANCE
October 4 Friday @ 7:30 PM
October 5 Saturday @ 3:30 PM - DEAF-LED PERFORMANCE
October 5 Saturday @ 7:30 PM
October 7 Monday @ 7:30 PM
credits
Eric Rose, Creator and Director
Ebony R. Gooden, Assistant Director & Experience Guide
Tania Alvarado, Experience Guide
Jennie Esdale, Experience Guide
Tiffany Lai, Experience Guide
Tauran, Lighting Designer
Abby Weeks, Technical Director
Kelsi Kalmer, Poster Design
Produced by Ghost River Theatre with support from Calgary Arts Development
CREATIVE TEAM
Eric Rose
Creator and Director
Eric Rose is an award winning multi-disciplinary director and creator of live performance and the Artistic Director of Calgary’s acclaimed Ghost River Theatre. His passion for the creative process has inspired the diversity of his multidisciplinary experience spanning: large scale contemporary and classical theatre, site- specific performance, devising theatre, new play development, physical performance and dance. Eric’s work embraces a hybrid of high tech visual spectacle with low-fi theatrical magic and is developed through a significant investment in imaginative research and development.
Tania Alvarado
Experience Guide
Tania Alvarado is a contemporary dance artist whose career spans diverse performance mediums and somatic practices. She has performed across Canada, interpreting choreography by notable Canadian dance artists. Her choreographic work has been featured at major festivals and contemporary dance venues nationwide, and she has brought her solo performances to international stages in Europe through Bancs d’Essai Internationaux.
In recent theatre engagements, Tania has performed in two productions at Vertigo Theatre, Cipher, and Murder in the Studio, which she also choreographed. Her choreography has also contributed to various productions, including Calgary Opera's La Traviata, Caravan Farm Theatre's Blackhorse, ATP's Teenage Dick, and Cowgirl Up. Most recently, she worked with Ghost River Theatre as Movement Director for Frontier, currently in development.
Tauran
Lighting Design
Tauran is a disabled queer designer born and raised on Treaty 7 territory in Mohkinstis (Calgary). She loves working with technology to make art that is both engaging and thought-provoking. Selected credits include: Sound Design and Original Composition for Imperfect Symmetry (Jupiter Theatre), Lead Programmer for STRUCK (Ghost River Theatre), and Lighting Designer for Someday (CYPT). She's excited to once again craft the lighting for the Room Sculpture Experience. In the (rare) moments when she isn't working on theatre, she fences foil, makes electronic gadgets, and reads and re-reads all the books she can.
Abby Weeks
Technical Director
Abby is a Calgary-born theatre artist, and a graduate of the University of Alberta's BA Drama. Over the last three years she has been developing her technical talents with the likes of Calgary Young People's Theatre, the FLC Seniors Acting Club, West Village Theatre, and more. She recently stage managed Ghost River Theatre’s National Devised Theatre Intensive production “Palace of Magpies”. Striving to be a jack of all trades artist, Abby also loves lighting, acting, writing and directing, and is pursuing stage combat.
Ebony R. Gooden
Assistant Director, Experience Guide
Ebony R. Gooden is the only Black Deaf artist living in Calgary. She is an emerging artist, filmmaker and activist. She believes it is important to create a safe space for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) Deaf artists in Calgary. She works as the Marketing Coordinator for Inside Out Theatre and is a consultant for Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Accessibility under Calgary Arts Development (CADA). Her unique voice has intersectionality layers, which allows her to show hearing people what it is like to be Black and Deaf. To achieve this goal, she has participated in the CSIF and Storyhive program, Community Stories, to create a short documentary, “Miscommunication in her Language”.
She is a co-founder of SURVIVANCE Collective, Black Deaf Residency, and a partner of the Unify Deaf Film Festival.
As a director, she has worked in various theatre productions such as After Faust, The Two Natasha and Survivance Monologue. She also acted in Caustic Effect, Oh! Clare Dance and 100 Years of Darkness. For the film industry, she produced and directed, “His Hands, His Art” and “The Two Natashas”.
Jennie Esdale
Experience Guide
Jennie Esdale is thrilled to return to Ghost River Theatre! She is a performer, playwright, and director. Jennie is Education & Outreach Associate at Theatre Calgary. She ran the Theatre School and wrap around programming at Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton, Ontario.
Jennie has worked with theatres across the country, including the National Arts Centre, Banff Centre for the Arts, Theatre Calgary, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, The Cultch, Ghost River, The Only Animal/ Vancouver Olympics, and numerous children’s, arts, folk and puppet fest. Jennie was co-Artistic Director of Calgary’s Green Fools Theatre from 2004-2017. Her original works and collaborations have toured Canada and internationally, to the U.S., Brazil and Japan. Jennie also co-founded a Brave New Works festival, Spotlight Youth performers festival and numerous other initiatives in Hamilton.
Jennie has been recognized through theatre awards and nominations (Elizabeth Sterling Haynes & Betty Mitchell and Hamilton Arts Award), including: Outstanding Actress in a Drama, Outstanding Achievement TYA, Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Production of a Musical and Outstanding Performance in TYA.
Tiffany Lai
Experience Guide
Tiffany Lai is a registered social worker in Hong Kong and Alberta. She graduated with distinction from the Hong Kong Academy For Performing Arts with a MFA in Drama and Theatre Education. She received the Estella Wong Drama Education Scholarship, the HKSAR Talent Development Scholarship and the Reaching Out Award. She was also sponsored by the Lee Hysan Foundation to undergo two short-term drama trainings in the UK. Tiffany is actively involved in planning, educating and performing roles of the drama aspects in Hong Kong and Canada. In 2021, she co-founded DuO Lab, a drama education company in HK, and received support from the Social Innovation Fund. She was selected for the Canada ICAI Newcomer Art Professional Program in 2024 and was chosen as one of the Top 20 Newcomer Artists in Calgary and Edmonton. She has collaborated with over 30 organizations, implementing drama in education workshops for various social welfare agencies, using drama as a medium to address the needs of different communities.
development HISTORY
October 2023: Development workshop at West Village Theatre