Clay & Paper Theatre has enlisted some of their favourite Torontonians to paint a hand-made Clay & Paper mask.  Mask4Aid's exciting roster includes: Ronnie Burkett, Evalyn Parry, Rick Miller, Kevin Sylvester, David Anderson, Richard Underhill, Fiona Smyth, Barbara Klunder, and Istvan Kantor! In addition to the celebrity masks, the exhibit will include beloved hand-made puppets and imagery from past Clay & Paper productions. The puppets range from hand puppets to lolly puppets to giant puppets from shows such as Lilith, Camões, the One-Eyed Poet of Portugal, Green Man, Punch and Judy, and their annual community festival, Night of Dread.
Opening reception Sunday, April 10, 3 – 5 pm
The exhibition will run from April 10 – April 18, 2011

Out amongst the community bake-ovens and lush gardens of Toronto's Dufferin Grove Park, Clay & Paper Theatre has been changing the world. Completely. Irrevocably. Built on the accumulative experience of David Anderson - theatre activist, producer of new Canadian work, and defender of public space since 1969, Clay & Paper Theatre creates, develops and performs multi-disciplinary, community-driven theatrical works using narrative theatre and large-scale puppetry in public spaces for large and diverse audiences. Clay & Paper Theatre produces plays, pageants and parades with the community, grounded in the idea that performance in public space is an act of cultural transformation. Our practice of building, rehearsing, and performing in full public view is an attempt on our part to "bring back the commons," reunite art with the daily life of the community, and to make art accessible to all.