Small Wooden Shoe is in the midst of the incredibly ambitious Dedicated to the Revolutions series – we’re making a show for each of 7 scientific revolutions and then one big one at the end.
They’ve been going well and next up is a performance at the MaRS Discovery District as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival.
Being incredibly ambitious for a small company like us requires all sorts of help from all sorts of people – help to produce the shows, pay the collaborators, get the white board markers, rent the microphones etc...
So…
Small Wooden Shoe is NOT having a fundraising party!
This is not an post asking you to perform!
This is not an post asking you to take a Saturday night off work to come to an event of variable funness!
This is not to say that we don’t need to raise money.
We’re asking, if you’re so moved, to donate $20 to help make Dedicated to the Revolutions happen.
So, we've set up a Paypal account, and if you are so moved,If you want to give more or less, that’s okay too (we are not a charitable unfortunately)
Thanks very much for your support, and I hope to see you at a show (or somewhere else too) soon,
Jacob Zimmer
More about Dedicated to the Revolutions:
Small Wooden Shoe demonstrates the difficulty of demonstrating the effects of progress on our lives.
Dedicated to the Revolutions is a show about seven great scientific revolutions that are said to have altered the course of humanity. In grade school I remember a teacher listing off “The” seven scientific revolutions in history: Gutenberg, Copernican, Newtonian, Darwinian, Industrial, Nuclear, Information.
Many years later we aim to present you with demonstrations, stories, debates and songs pertaining to revolutions and their effects on our lives.
Bringing together lecture-demo, talent show and contemporary performance, this is theatre that engages the audience in an honest, informal way while maintaining the need to step up and entertain.
Collaborators so far:
Ame Henderson, Brendan Gall, Brendan Healy, Chad Dembski, Daniel Arcé, Dustin Harvey, Erika Hennebury, Erin Shields, Evalyn Parry, Evan Webber, Frank Cox-O’Connell, Laura Nanni, Misha Glouberman, Tim Maly, Trevor Schwellnus
Shows so far:
Do You Have Any Idea How Fast You Were Going? (The Industiral Revolution)
Pertaining to the effects of the steam engine on our lives.
– Rhubarb! Festival. February 2006, Buddies in Bad Times
Connect the Dots (The Information Revolution)
Trying to keep it altogether in these days of digital and internet.
– Audience Relocation. January 2007, Buddies in Bad Times
Reasonable People, Reasonably Disagreeing (The Gutenberg Revolution)
Debating the printing press and everything since.
– HATCH. March 2007, Harbourfront Centre
Shows to come:
I Keep Dropping Sh*t (The Newtonian Revolution)
Weighing the gravity of the situation.
– Toronto Fringe Festival. July 2007, MaRS
A Question of Scale (The Nuclear Revolution)
Small things can have big consiquences
– Summer 2007
It’ll Take Awhile (The Darwinian Revolution)
A slow cooked dinner party about deep time.
– late summer 2007
It All Revolves Around Me (The Copernican Revolution)
How an individual cannot, in fact, be the centre of the universe.
– early Fall 2007
and finally:
Dedicated to the Revolutions
We pull back to look at it all.
2008