Found in a Blizzard

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"Found in a Blizzard"

Courtesy of Nicole Bauberger.

Small audiences will delight in Found in a Blizzard, a short, family-friendly Xmas puppet show performed to an outdoor audience from a window inside Yukon Artists at Work Gallery.  They will have to dress warmly!

Linda Leon and Nicole Bauberger created “Found in a Blizzard”, with cello accompaniment by Cai Krikorian. 

Leon and Bauberger, both members of the Yukon Artists At Work Society, envisioned the show inspired by the collective’s use of the gallery’s front windows to host mini artist-residencies, the “Artist in the Window”. This strategy emerged as the group’s response to initial Covid measures, and has been embraced by the group of mutually supporting artists as part of their ongoing practices.

Bauberger and Leon both have practices that include theatre as well as visual art. Leon has designed many productions, including for children’s theatre. Bauberger’s theatre background leans towards storytelling and performance, though she has also taken design roles. 

The two of them looked at the window and saw a stage. They plan to build an audience area outside the window that will seat 5 people at a time, as much like a snow fort as possible (depending on how much snow we get!). The production’s sound will cross the glass by means of Bluetooth speakers. 

This past summer at one of Yukon Women in Music’s Cookshack Sessions, Krikorian played their cello pieces for Bauberger, suggesting that perhaps they could work together on a storytelling project. Bauberger was delighted when Krikorian agreed to lend the sound of their cello to their production.

“Found in a Blizzard” tells the story of Pip losing their aunt’s cat Emerson in a cookie baking mishap, and seeking her out in a snowstorm. Along the way she meets a variety of characters created in cardboard and other found materials. 

The show will run no more than 15 minutes, and audience members will be invited into the gallery to warm up with cookies and hot cider afterwards, and perhaps get lured into some last-minute holiday shopping.