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OUR NEWS
January 3, 2013
- Chris von Baeyer leads interactive theatre workshop for the Yerrinbool Bahá'í Centre of Learning in New South Wales, Australia
Oct 26, 2012
- Brian Barker leads Toronto Playback Theatre's keynote performance at the Upper Canada District School Board's Small School Summit in Brockville, Ontario
Sept 28, 2012
- Toronto Playback Theatre delivers a customized performance for the Ontario Collaborative Law Federation
Nov 23, 2011
- Chris von Baeyer leads workshop on Cultural Influences for the International Playback Theatre conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
April 13, 2011
- Toronto Playback Theatre and Creating Realities team up to deliver a full day of programming for Toronto Western Hospital's Goals and Objectives Day.
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June 3, 2010
Chris von Baeyer elected chair of the board for the Centre for Playback Theatre in NY
Christopher von Baeyer, Artistic Director of Toronto Playback Theatre, was recently elected chair of the board for the Centre for Playback Theatre in NY. He is excited by the opportunity to serve in this role and to support the exchange of best practices between our work in Toronto and the international community of playback practitioners. For more info, please visit playbackcentre.org.
June 15, 2009
Chris von Baeyer and Jonathan Fox teach "Acting on Climate Change at the Banff Centre
In the summer of 2009, Artistic Director Chris von Baeyer and Playback Theatre founder Jonathan Fox were invited by the Banff Centre to deliver a five-day workshop on the topic of climate change. Participants from around the world explored approaches to using playback theatre and storytelling to address issues of global warming.
November 7, 2008
Toronto Playback Theatre featured in Good News newspaper
We are very proud to have received coverage in a local Toronto newspaper about our youth troupe's work this summer in the Jane Finch area. Download a PDF of the article here or pick up a copy of Good News newspaper around town during the month of November!
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of this ongoing project.
April 5, 2007
Ontario Arts Council Supports TPT with Artist in the Community/Workplace Grant
We are proud to announce that Ontario Arts Council has approved our application for our collaboration with Ralph Thornton Centre to run the Finding Common Ground Project this year. The primary goal of the initiative is to employ the Playback Theatre methodology as an arts-based approach to contributing to the resolution of conflicts and misunderstandings that arise out of differing values and belief systems in our community.
November 19, 2006
2006 Toronto Arts Council awards grant to TPT and RTC
We are proud to announce that Toronto Arts Council has approved our application for Ralph Thornton Centre to host Toronto Playback Theatre to run the Finding Common Ground Project from November 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007. The primary goal of the initiative is to employ the Playback Theatre methodology as an arts-based approach to contributing to the resolution of conflicts and misunderstandings that arise out of differing values and belief systems in our community.
April 17, 2006
TPT wins the Leonardo Da Vinci Award!
Toronto Playback Theatre, in partnership with Ralph Thornton Centre, is the proud recipient of the Leonardo Da Vinci Award for Creativity and Innovation in the Arts category. At a ceremony held on April 15th at the CN Tower, we received the award for our youth program, A Journey Through Stories: Creating Dialogue with Youth about Violence. Our four-phase project began in the fall of 2005 and has culminated in the formation of a youth Playback company who will engage fellow youth audiences in an exploration of violence prevention. Funded by the National Crime Prevention Centre, the project grew out of a successful pilot project in early 2005 that was funded by the Toronto Arts Council. Click here for more about the Youth project.
April 1, 2006
"Breast Cancer Unscripted": TPT performs at the St. Lawrence Centre!
Breast cancer touches everyone: the women and men diagnosed with the
disease, the loved ones who support them, and the health care practitioners who treat them. Each of these individuals has a unique experience of breast cancer.
Together, these experiences form a compelling narrative that expresses what is common about a disease we each experience so differently… a narrative that deepens our collective
understanding of what it is to live with breast cancer. For more info,
click here.
March 10, 2006
Download feature article about TPT here!
Toronto Playback Theatre is proud to be profiled in the newest issue of POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts & Communication. The interview with the company appears in the current Volume VII, whose focus is “The Arts, Community and Social Change.” Click here to download the article.
Sept 29, 2005
TPT and Ralph Thornton Centre Awarded Major Grant
We are pleased to announce that Toronto Playback Theatre has received funding for a one-year project from the National Crime Prevention Community Mobilization Program, a division of the federal Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. The funding will support a series of Playback Theatre programs and residencies addressing issues of violence prevention for at-risk youth in Toronto. The objective of the work is to deliver theatre-based programming in the context of community-based partnerships with organizations serving youth in order to develop comprehensive and sustainable strategies to prevent crime and victimization.
We are currently reaching out to individuals and organizations who have an interest in partnering with us in this work. If you would like further information about this program or would like to bring Playback to your youth community, please download this description of the project.
Sept 1, 2005
Toronto Playback Theatre returns to Mindcamp
It is our great pleasure to return this year for a keynote presentation at Mindcamp, a four-day micro-university for personal, professional, and organizational creativity. Mindcamp exposes hundreds of creative people to a wide range of perspectives on the research and practice of deliberate creativity. For more information on Toronto Playback’s role, or to register yourself for Mindcamp, please visit Playback at Mindcamp.
August 10, 2005
Toronto Playback Theatre Announces Fall 2005 Season
We are delighted to announce Toronto Playback Theatre’s new Fall 2005 Season of public performances at Ralph Thornton Centre! Please join us monthly for Saturday evening performances of stories from the community on a wide range of issues and themes. Click here for more details.
August 1, 2005
Toronto Playback Theatre Changes Its Name
Toronto Playback Theatre has formally changed our name! In honour of our commitment to the long-term, we have dropped the word “Project” from the end of our name and now officially call ourselves TORONTO PLAYBACK THEATRE.
July 15, 2005
Toronto Playback Theatre Featured in “POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts & Communication”
Toronto Playback Theatre is proud to be profiled in the newest issue of POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts & Communication. The interview with the company appears in the current Volume VII, whose focus is “The Arts, Community and Social Change.” A reprint of this article will be available shortly on this site. For more information about POIESIS, or to order copies, please visit their website at www.egspress.com.
July 1, 2005
Toronto Playback Theatre Completes Youth Training Program
Toronto Playback Theatre recently completed a Playback training program for Riverdale youth entitled Stories of Shadow/Stories of Light. Funded by the Toronto Arts Council, the National Crime Prevention Centre and Ralph Thornton Centre, the project focused on how local youth feel and think about experiences of violence in our community. Participants in the program trained with our professional company for 10 weeks during the spring of 2005. The project concluded with two Playback performances by the youth themselves: a public show for family and friends from the participants’ own communities and a fundraiser at Hugh’s Room for Sketch, an arts program for street-involved youth. Congratulations to everyone who participated in this program and told their stories!
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