B. Someday News
B. Someday's Family Theatre Series
The first Saturday of every month 2-4 Actors will make a popular children's story come alive, all the while getting the kids involved!
At the brand new Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue!
For Children and their Caregivers. Come experience an alternative to literacy.
"Of Mythic Proportions"
A Storytelling Performance by students from Kensington CAPA High School based on stories of their own lives. Directed by Michelle Pauls of B. Someday Productions.
Also with professional storyteller Irma Hammond of Keepers of the Culture. She will share some of her stories about growing up and how she became who she is. Then she will lead a short how-to for those interested in learning more about storytelling and how it can be a subtle yet forceful tool for change.
Ending with a reception and refreshments.
All FREE for all interested. Everyone is welcome!
For more information call Michelle Pauls at 215-427-2822 or email at info@bsomeday.org
This program is supported by the Humanities-and-the-Arts initiative, administered by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and funded principally by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Also with funding by the United Way of Southeastern PA/Neighborhood Transformation Initiative/American Street Empowerment Zone.
The Board of Directors
of
B. Someday Productions
and
The Walking Fish Theatre
warmly invites you to
"A TASTE OF THEATRE"
An Intimate Benefit Salon
Saturday, May 5, 2007
7:00 PM
B. Someday Productions melds theatre, literature and myth, creating works of art that connect theatre artist and audience. To celebrate this connection, come savor a delicious palette of music, theatre, food and drink.
Silent Auction and raffle of Earthly Delights
All supporting the premier season of The Walking Fish Theatre
Join us at the home of:
Ms. Carol Denker
1545 E. Montgomery Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19125
Salon Tickets: $35
Premier Season Sponsorship & Salon: $50
Premier Season Sponsorship, Subscription & Salon: $75
All Sponsors will be recognized in Playbills and Season Brochure.
Kindly R.S.V.P to Michelle Pauls at 215.427.2822 by April 23, 2007. Payment may be sent to B. Someday Productions at 2523 Cedar St., Phila, PA 19125.
It is our fond hope you will join us and partake of this evening of sensory delight!
With best regards,
The staff and Board of B. Someday and the Walking Fish Theatre
Michelle Pauls, Managing Artistic Director
Stan Heleva, Producing Artistic Director
Carol Denker, Board President
Gerald Van Wilgen
Jennifer Nadler
Robert Murphy
B.Someday Finds a Home
by Carol Denker of Spirit Newspapers
It is very exciting news.
B.Someday Theater Company has kept their vision-to meld literature and myths into theater-and given it, and them, a permanent home. The Walking Fish Theater, at 2509 Frankford Avenue, will soon be the place where Michelle Pauls and Stan Heleva (and their daughter Astrid) both live and work.
Putting down roots gives B. Someday's vision a wonderful opportunity, to grow and expand-to flourish itself and to help all things artistic to flourish around it.
The Walking Fish Theater is currently being worked on; completion is expected in April, 2007. It is certainly part of a neighborhood renaissance: Frankford Avenue in Fishtown and Kensington is slowly but surely becoming the Frankford Arts Corridor it was designated just a few years ago.
The theater's name pays recognition to the Fishtown neighborhood, but more emphatically, it alludes to the creative process. Fish do not walk, but Michelle and Stan did not mean it as contradiction. Rather, it connotes evolution. Just like a thought becomes inspiration and that inspiration becomes a work of art—this evolutionary process is how Michelle and Stan view the artistic process. Who knows what can result when artists work together?
And working together is what Stan and Michelle have in mind. They see The Walking Fish as a space where all kinds of artists-actors, writers, dancers, poets, comedians-will use the space at Walking Fish to try out their ideas, to workshop them and to perform. Visual arts will be displayed. Connections with the community will be enhanced.
Kensington High School's Creative and Performing Arts is close to the Walking Fish and already, they have formed a partnership. Michelle is about to launch storytelling project, "Mythic Proportions", at the school any day.
"I see us as trailblazers, pioneers on the edge of a new frontier," says Michelle.
"Of Mythic Proportions" The Storytelling Project
at Kensington CAPA High School.
by Michelle Pauls
"Of Mythic Proportions" is the Storytelling Project that Michelle Pauls will help the students of Kensington CAPA High School create and perform this winter-spring '07. It is the pilot project of B. Someday's Partnership Program linking area students with artists and the community.
Starting in January, Michelle will visit one drama class at Kensington where she will help the students create a 40-minute performance piece based on their own stories and how violence may have touched their lives. Following B. Someday's mission, the piece will be personal and mythic as well as sassy and fun. After the piece is created, they will tour it to several community groups and schools in the Kensington area culminating in at least one public performance at the Walking Fish Theatre. Keep tuning in for more details.