DreamRider Theatre on the road!

Never-before seen, behind-the-scenes footage of our intrepid actors as they tour "Keep Cool! a play about climate change".

I must be famous now!

A couple weeks ago I attended the Vancouver Arts Summit, and was interviewed by my new friend, the social media king Kris Krug. I met Kris at the fantastic unconference Media That Matters at Hollyhock. Now I find this video posted all over the place, so obviously I need to also post it here.

Hmm, wish I could control which image is the static one. :-)

Watch more of Kris' interviews here. 

At Media That Matters, Kris did a mind-blowing social media workshop with social activist/blogger Leif Utne, which literally got me all a-Twitter. I feel fully part of the new Web 2.0 wave, and am excited about the possibilities for online interactivity for kids and how DreamRider can make learning about the environment as fun online as it is with our shows. 

VanCity sponsors Keep Cool! a play about climate change for second year

For the second year in a row VanCity Credit Union has sponsored our climate change play Keep Cool! 

Today Ian and I went to a fabulous lunch/cheque presentation. We had planned on showing a video of Keep Cool, but the presentation was in broad sunlight, so we ended up, impromptu, performing the idling rap for the crowd.  

Here we are with VanCity's Vice President of 

Finance, Rob Malli. 

Both years at these presentations, we 

have been blown away by the diversity of incredible community projects that VanCity is funding. 

This year, food issues were at the forefront, with such projects as Biggest Little Garden in Town and Haney Farmers Market also receiving funding. How great that VanCity profits go back into the community! Kudos to VanCity for having a triple bottom line!

Earth Day Canada calls DreamRider a Hometown Hero!!!

DreamRider Theatre just made the top ten of Earth Day Canada's national Hometown Hero list, for the effectiveness of our environmental work in the community. Yay, team!

Full house for climate change play!

Today we had a full house for our free performance of "Keep Cool! a play about climate change"! Flo, the front of house lady, said she'd never seen an audience of kids so engaged. That was our last day of filming "Keep Cool!" for TV. Can't wait to see what magic Sean, our DOP (that's Director of Photography, aka camera guy and editor) will do. 

 

New videos added of littering, vandalism & graffiti play

Getting used to this whole YouTube thing. Check out the right hand side of the page for our new Video Bar, where you can watch all our YouTube videos. New today are clips from last Friday's very last school show of the year! Sara Holt and Ian Gschwind have performed 200 plays this year (if I'm counting right!). In the backstage sneak peak, you can see how tired they are. But in front of the kids, it's magic as usual.

Blundell School wins climate change pledge contest!

It's official - Blundell Elementary School in Richmond, BC, has won DreamRider's climate change pledge contest. They had the highest percentage of responses to our online contest, where Metro Vancouver kids pledge to take action to remove more then 10,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases. Way to go, kids!

Blundell wins $1,000 towards arts programs. Don Dixon, Principal, says the kids have decided to spend the money on a hip hop program for all grades in the fall. Yeah!