Haircuts By Children
With a Grade 4/5 Class

March 13 & 14, 2010
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Regina, Canada
The Room Salon - 2115 Retallack Street

Mammalian Diving Reflex's, Haircuts by Children has been presented nationally and internationally, conceived by Darren O'Donnell. It is a whimsical relational performance that playfully engages with the enfranchisement of children, with trust in the younger generation, and with the thrills and chills of vanity. Haircuts by Children involves students from public schools, children between the ages of ten and twelve who offer members of the public haircuts in real hair salons. It invites the consideration of children as creative and competent individuals whose aesthetic choices can be trusted.

Haircuts By Children has been presented nationally and internationally including most recently at the Context Gallery in Derry, Ireland. In 2007 Haircuts was a critic's choice award at Performa 2007 in New York.

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Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut

April 1 & 2, 2010
Regina, Canada
Artesian - 2627 13th Avenue

Artistic Director James Long found a collection of 7 photo albums and travel journals in an alley near his East Vancouver home. The collection, complete with detailed captions and letters, documents a family's history between 1950 - 1987, and includes everything from birth notices to a full eulogy to the archivist's Pomeranian Mandy.

A team of collaborators went in search of the origins of these books in the fall of 2007 and ran into, among many things, questions surrounding the legality and morality of working with found materials.

What started as a simple trip to the country immediately started to write itself and carried the creators on narrative jags across property, oceans, and beyond.

"A powerhouse of wit and hard-learned wisdom as performed by an actor in a rabbit suit." Realtime Australia

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