At its May 2002 Conference in Toronto, Ontario, the Association for
Canadian Theatre Research/Association de la recherche théâtrale
au Canada awarded its fifteenth annual Heather McCallum Scholarship to
Krista Charbonneau, who received her MA in Theatre Studies from
the University of British Columbia earlier this year. Ms. Charbonneau is
working on a research project involving Canadian puppet artist Ronnie Burkett
and his unique form of puppet theatre: the focus of her project is “to
develop new sources of primary research materials to study the development
and function of Burkett’’s text-based puppetry.” The $1100 award to Ms.
Charbonneau provided her with funding so that she could attend the 2002
West Coast Puppet Festival in Pacific Grove, California this past August
in order to write a report on an illustrated lecture given at the Festival
by Burkett and to interview Burkett about his work.
The Heather McCallum award monies are drawn from the interest earned
annually from an Endowment Fund created in 1987 to honour Heather McCallum,
who established and, for 25 years, headed the Theatre Section of the Metropolitan
Toronto Reference Library. She is the author of the Directory of Canadian
Theatre Archives. Tax-deductible donations to the Heather McCallum Endowment
Fund are welcomed and may be sent to Brian Parkinson, Treasurer of ACTR/ARTC,
at the University of Lethbridge (Division of Theatre & Dramatic Arts),
Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4.
For any further information regarding the Heather McCallum Scholarship,
including the criteria for application, please contact:
Heather Jones, Secretary
Heather McCallum Scholarship Fund
Box 370
College of the North Atlantic
Burin Bay Arm, NFLD A0E 1G0
Email: heather.jones@northatlantic.nf.ca