Participants spent this week digging into some super cool
set designing for a play called Diss, written by playwright Rex Deverell from
Toronto.
Workshops this week were led by guest artist Kim Griffin, who
specializes in theatre set design, and is a part of Manitoban theatre company
Cercle Moliere.
Guest Artist, Kim Griffin
Griffin with volunteer and participants
The week kicked off with participants drawing pictures of
what they envisioned the set to look like, and from there Griffin and
participants began painting backdrops and bringing the ideas to life.
Check out
some of the really cool end results!
The play is about a family who moves from the Caribbean to
Toronto, where their father is killed in a gang-related incident. The
children’s mother relocates her family to Winnipeg, where her son gets involved
with a group of gang-wannabes. The play is set to tour schools around Winnipeg
starting this fall.
One excited seven-year-old participant who attends
Wolseley’s Mulvey school and helped with the set this week said, “Of COURSE I
will see it! I’m almost an artist you know. My mom’s gonna’ sign me up for more
art!”
