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A HEART FLUTTERING PHYSICAL COMEDY FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY!
What happens if we deny our deepest desires for self expression? Teetering on the brink of absolute failure, Bobert discovers his heart’s yearning to be more important than he knew. From award winning creator Candice Roberts comes a clown tour de force of comedy and conundrum. With a vintage silent film styling, shadow puppetry, stop motion animation projections, dance and live music, the world of Ideas Bobert is rich with magic and creativity.
About Ideas Robert
Ideas Bobert is whimsy and fiction, but for its creator Candice Roberts, it resonates with her truth. Common amongst many comedy artists, Candice has struggled with anxiety and depression. She claims that clown school saved her life. For her, the art of clowning encompasses such fundamental life-skills as connection with oneself and community, creative communication and of becoming comfortable in the discomfort that is the unknown.
Clowning for her celebrates the multi-facets of what it means to be human. It is the investigation of what is absurd or confounding about ourselves and society. It is the sharing of vulnerability and honesty and the dissolving of shame through exposure.
Through Ideas Bobert, she hopes to inspire a deep belly laugh, a tender tear and a reminder of how important it is to listen with our hearts and to be in touch with our creative selves.
Colouring Contest:
We're doing a Colouring contest!
Join for a chance to win a family's worth of tickets to Circus Incognitus!
How to join:
You may print out the sheet or come in to the Key City Theatre to get the colouring sheet. The child must colour in the picture.
How to win:
In person rules:
• Attend Ideas Bobert on Saturday, January 28th at 3:00 pm and bring your finished colouring sheet to the show. (Sheets will also be available at the Key city Theatre before the show. Lobby doors open at 2:00 pm)
• Bobert will pick the winner. Lobby Doors open at 2pm.
Online rules:
• Take a picture of the finished colouring sheet and have a parent or guardian upload it to our Facebook page and also tag us on the post!
• Share your post to your friends and family.
• The post with the most likes will win the contest!
• Deadline for the online portion will be Tuesday, Jan 31st and the winner will be announced on our Facebook page.
Click on the link to download your child's colouring sheet or pick one up at the Key City Theatre Box Office!
About the show and its creator:
Candice Roberts is a 5th generation settler and artist based on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
She is the band leader of the critically acclaimed Myrtle Sisters, is a founding member of the Jessie Award-nominated Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret Society, and the artistic director of Candy Bones Theatre.
Her original theatrical works and film shorts interweave physical theatre, music, mask, movement and clown to create stories that investigate the humour, heartbreak and the trials and tribulations of our human conditions.
Cultivating anti-oppressive and intersectional understandings are important in Candice’s artistic research of creativity, decolonization and the connections between self expression, mental health and community.
Candice has received numerous awards at the Vancouver and Edmonton Fringe Festivals, in addition to a 2014 Mayor’s Arts Award for her work in community building through the arts. Candy Bones Theatre is dedicated to creating and sharing innovative and original inter-arts theatre works of artistic excellence for young audiences.
Ideas Bobert (Theatre Show)
What happens if we deny our deepest dreams and desires? Bobert is a silent character a la Charlie Chaplin who has a little red bird for a heart. His story asks us, what happens if we are to deny our deepest dreams and desires? Teetering on the brink of absolute failure, love-sick Bobert discovers his heart to be more important than he knew.
From award-winning creator and actor Candice Roberts, comes a clown tour de force of comedy and conundrum. With vintage silent film styling, shadow puppetry, stop motion animation projections, dance and live music, the world of Ideas Bobert is rich with magic and creativity. Like Ginger Rogers meets Mr. Bean on the Muppet show, Ideas Bobert dances with the hilarious absurd.