Goals
- Perform vignettes for 50-75 hospital patients per week
- Perform vignettes for 1 senior residence per week
- Provide a proffessional work atmposphere to 10 emerging youth artists
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Overview
The “Shakespeare’s Briefs” Project will give patients and patrons a new form of art therapy in hospitals and senior residences. By establishing a performer/audience relationship, we will create a theatre atmosphere and alleviate the stress of patients and patrons. We will further provide cultural stimulation by sharing our understanding of the text with the audience. This will give patients and patrons “a night out” from their everyday struggles. In doing this, we aim to reduce stress and allow for ease in healing processes in hospitals, and relief from a sense of confinement in retirement homes. Employing 10 emerging youth artists for this project will provide learning opportunities for the project team as well. These youth will get input from 8 active professionals in the theatre community. This will help shape their craft through the exploration of what it is to be a professional artist in Toronto, while benefiting the overall community.
Community Benefit
How will the $10K be used? |
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| Budget Notes: -$46.00- additional travel (to provide a total of 1000km at an approximation of $1/L) -$75.00- 500 pamphlets explaining the project -8 professional artists will be coming in to speak with the cast and facilitate a professional work atmosphere | |
| $ 1,536 | Space Rental (Bad Dog Theatre: $12/h x4hs/day x 2days/wk x8wks x2grps) |
| $ 1,000 | insurance for actors (100.00 x10 actors) |
| $ 5,000 | honorarium for actors (500.00 x10 actors) |
| $ 1,500 | honorarium for administrators |
| $ 226 | t-shirt uniforms for actors and administrators |
| $ 184 | 2000 posters put up around hospitals and seniors residences |
| $ 554 | travel expense (60 cents on the Litre of gas used) |
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