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Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers Society In Edmonton

CRIPSiE empowers artists with disabilities in Edmonton through inclusive performance, storytelling, and community engagement, fostering creativity and connection while amplifying diverse voices in the arts.

This workshop will take place in the Program Room at Idylwylde Library. The Storytelling Circle builds a conversation with the audience through a flexible, participant-led creative community where individuals develop personal stories that honour dignity, creativity, humour, lived experience, and accessibility. A toolkit of activities and resources will support new and continuing storytellers as they choose what works best for their learning style, interests, and goals. The circles will build possible approaches to digital storytelling and culminate in an opportunity to give a public reading of stories under five minutes.&nbsp; Julie Andrew (she/her) is an active advocate for Persons with Disabilities, a dancer, actor, and choreographer who hopes to keep growing her artistic abilities and tell meaningful stories that can lead to a changed world.&nbsp; Heath Birkholz (they/him) is a collaborative artist and activist whose storytelling practice is rooted in disability community and social justice, and has worked in theatre, dance, film, and community-based projects as a writer, storyteller, community liaison, and choreographer. Both Julie and Heath have lived experience with disability. CRIPSiE membership is required for this event. You can become a CRIPSiE member for no cost at <a fr-original-style="text-align: start;" href="https://www.cripsie.com/membership-form" id="isPasted" style="text-align: start; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.cripsie.com</a>!

Storytelling Series 1

This workshop will take place in Studio B at Fringe Theatre Adventures. Action Theatre is a beginner-friendly exploration of Ruth Zaporah&#39;s Action Theatre, a physical improvisational dance technique based on performing self-generated content. Explore through listening, responding, and improvising with intuitive movement.&nbsp; Ruth quote: &ldquo;Action Theatre can be a cathartic space to acknowledge that, yes, all our brains are doing this mad whirling dance of anxiety. It acknowledges it cannot contain all of it by its curving and pivoting and sprinkling of content. And it&rsquo;s everything at the same time!&rdquo; Originally from Massachusett and Wampanoag land, colonially known as Eastern Massachusetts, Emilia (she/her) is a first-generation settler on Treaty 6 territory. She is the proud recipient of five (or six, tough to keep track) ear surgeries performed by ENT surgeons all over so-called Northeast Florida. Nowadays, Emilia is a performer, puppeteer, educator, multi-instrumentalist, and founding member of Boston&#39;s Fork &amp; Shoe Theatre Cooperative and the band pUbeRtykiDs. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Theatre Practice at the University of Alberta. CRIPSiE membership is required for this event. You can become a CRIPSiE member for no cost at <a fr-original-style="text-align: start;" href="https://www.cripsie.com/membership-form" id="isPasted" style="text-align: start; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.cripsie.com</a>!

Action Theatre Workshop

Isis Maria will share her experience with relatability and how to capture and hold readers&rsquo; attention. She will highlight the following topics to build your writing: connection, relatability, and attention. You will learn how to recognize, understand, and explore stories and the importance of personal stories in being an author/storyteller, while identifying the point of your writing and other story-building features.&nbsp; At age 7, Isis Maria Henriquez (she/her) rode with her family from Edmonton, Alberta, to San Salvador, El Salvador. The journey marked the beginning of her life as an educator, traveller, and storyteller. Her first novel, Mangos and Snowflakes, tells the silenced stories of victims of the Salvadoran civil war and explores multigenerational connections. She has experience with disability. Please note: This is a virtual event. A Zoom link will be provided to all attendees on the morning of the event, via the email address(es) provided upon registration. If any contact information changes, please feel free to reach out to us at <a data-fr-linked="true" fr-original-style="" href="mailto:info@cripsie.com" id="isPasted" rel="noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">info@cripsie.com</a>.&nbsp; CRIPSiE membership is required for this event. You can become a CRIPSiE member for no cost at <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.cripsie.com/membership-form" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.cripsie.com</a>!

Introduction to Storytelling

This is a free event! Thank you for RSVPing and providing any access needs in advance. Please note, CRIPSiE asks that members cover their own transportation and refreshment costs at this event. CRIPSiE membership is required for this event. You can become a CRIPSiE member for no cost at <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.cripsie.com/membership-form" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.cripsie.com</a>!&nbsp;

CRIPSiE Social Gathering

Participants will learn about the history of zines, and get to look at examples from Amy&rsquo;s personal collection. We will then dig in and using collaged, text-based, and hand-drawn elements, each make a page(s) to create a collaborative zine based on CRIPSiE&rsquo;s 2026-27 season theme: Nothing About Us, Without Us. Each participant will receive a copy of the finished zine, and copies will be available for purchase at CRIPSiE events throughout the season.&nbsp; We will provide all supplies and instruction. No previous experience necessary! Come as you are, ready to have fun and let your creativity shine!&nbsp;Amy Leigh (she/her) is a queer, disabled, settler of Scottish and Irish descent who graciously resides in amiskwaciyw&acirc;skahikan via tkaronto. She is a maker, agitator, and arts administrator whose creative praxis centers on community + capacity building through printmaking, papermaking, and textile-based epistolary research-creation. From 2017 to 2020, Amy curated The Zine Machine Project&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;a roaming gold vending machine that distributes small zines. Amy holds a Diploma in Arts &amp; Cultural Management from MacEwan University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the University of Alberta, and yes, she would like to pet your dog. CRIPSiE membership is required for this event. You can become a CRIPSiE member for no cost at <a fr-original-style="text-align: start;" href="https://www.cripsie.com/membership-form" id="isPasted" style="text-align: start; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.cripsie.com</a>!

Zine Making Workshop

Please note: This is a virtual event. A Zoom link will be provided to all attendees on the morning of the event, via the email address(es) provided upon registration. If any contact information changes, please feel free to reach out to us at <a fr-original-style="" href="mailto:info@cripsie.com" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">info@cripsie.com</a>.&nbsp; The Storytelling Circle builds a conversation with the audience through a flexible, participant-led creative community where individuals develop personal stories that honour dignity, creativity, humour, lived experience, and accessibility. A toolkit of activities and resources will support new and continuing storytellers as they choose what works best for their learning style, interests, and goals. The circles will build possible approaches to digital storytelling and culminate in an opportunity to give a public reading of stories under five minutes.&nbsp; Julie Andrew (she/her) is an active advocate for Persons with Disabilities, a dancer, actor, and choreographer who hopes to keep growing her artistic abilities and tell meaningful stories that can lead to a changed world.&nbsp; Heath Birkholz (they/him) is a collaborative artist and activist whose storytelling practice is rooted in disability community and social justice, and has worked in theatre, dance, film, and community-based projects as a writer, storyteller, community liaison, and choreographer. Both Julie and Heath have lived experience with disability. CRIPSiE membership is required for this event. You can become a CRIPSiE member for no cost at <a fr-original-style="text-align: start;" href="https://www.cripsie.com/membership-form" id="isPasted" style="text-align: start; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.cripsie.com</a>!

Storytelling Series 2

LOCATION TBD.&nbsp; This is a free event! Thank you for RSVPing and providing any access needs in advance. Please note, CRIPSiE asks that members cover their own transportation and refreshment costs at this event. CRIPSiE membership is required for this event. You can become a CRIPSiE member for no cost at <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.cripsie.com/membership-form" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.cripsie.com</a>!&nbsp;

Storytelling Series 3

This workshop will take place in Studio B at Fringe Theatre Adventures. Contact improvisation is a way to dance through touch, developing somatic skills to release the body, and to communicate with gravity and other humans.&nbsp; Contact improvisation is a curious proposition using personal boundaries and confidence as well as trust and impulse. It can be very playful or meditative, and is an excellent way to develop dance skills. Gerry Morita (BA Dance/ MFA Theatre), (she/her), is from the rolling hills of Rex, Saskatchewan, and lived and worked in Vancouver, Montr&eacute;al, and Tokyo as a dancer, choreographer, performance artist and teacher before arriving in Edmonton, Treaty 6, in 2001. Her work involves continuous inquiry into new ways of seeing movement, the body, and the spaces between us. She studies and teaches contact improvisation, Noguchi Taiso and other somatic-based and improving techniques, working with artists from all disciplines in a vast array of both conventional and site-specific venues. Gerry has experience with disability. CRIPSiE membership is required for this event. You can become a CRIPSiE member for no cost at <a fr-original-style="text-align: start;" href="https://www.cripsie.com/membership-form" id="isPasted" style="text-align: start; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.cripsie.com</a>!

All Bodies Contact Improv

Storytelling Series 4

This final iteration of the Storytelling Circle will take place at Magpie Books. The Storytelling Circle builds a conversation with the audience through a flexible, participant-led creative community where individuals develop personal stories that honour dignity, creativity, humour, lived experience, and accessibility. A toolkit of activities and resources will support new and continuing storytellers as they choose what works best for their learning style, interests, and goals. The circles will build possible approaches to digital storytelling and culminate in an opportunity to give a public reading of stories under five minutes.&nbsp; Julie Andrew (she/her) is an active advocate for Persons with Disabilities, a dancer, actor, and choreographer who hopes to keep growing her artistic abilities and tell meaningful stories that can lead to a changed world.&nbsp; Heath Birkholz (they/him) is a collaborative artist and activist whose storytelling practice is rooted in disability community and social justice, and has worked in theatre, dance, film, and community-based projects as a writer, storyteller, community liaison, and choreographer. Both Julie and Heath have lived experience with disability. CRIPSiE membership is required for this event. You can become a CRIPSiE member for no cost at <a fr-original-style="text-align: start;" href="https://www.cripsie.com/membership-form" id="isPasted" style="text-align: start; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.cripsie.com</a>!

Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers Society In Edmonton

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Storytelling Series: Final Reading

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CRIPSiE Social Gathering

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Zine Making Workshop

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Storytelling Series 2

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Storytelling Series 3

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All Bodies Contact Improv

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CRIPSiE Social Gathering

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Storytelling Series 4

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Storytelling Series: Final Reading

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