La floraison des souvenirs
In collaboration with Théâtre de la Flamme, Festival Accès Asie presents La Floraison des Souvenirs, a puppet show that explores children’s memories.
Online booking starts on May 10 at 1:00 PM (maximum of 4 tickets per person). French only activity.
Description
Sophie receives an unexpected letter: her father, whom she has never known, wants to meet her. Revisiting her past, she rediscovers the shy child she once was, passionate about astronomy. The Sophie of the past and the Sophie of the present join forces to break the silence and approach the truth. In an ingenious set design, geometric shapes, puppets, and actresses open windows onto family and friendship memories. Both intimate and poetic, the show explores the quest for identity, family resemblances, and universal emotions such as loneliness, fear, and the desire to reconnect with oneself.
- Duration: 60 min
- Target audience: Children ages 6 to 10
Credits
Artistic direction: Cleo da Fonseca and Carolina Chmielewski Tanaka
Dramaturgy: Patricia Rivas and Carolina Chmielewski Tanaka
Direction: Karine St-Arnaud
Performers and puppeteers: Carolina Chmielewski Tanaka, Cleo da Fonseca, and Simone Latour-Bellavance
Puppet design: Jesse Grindler and Cleo da Fonseca
Puppet construction: Jesse Grindler, Cleo da Fonseca, and Elisabeth Bosquet
Puppet costume construction: Sandra Tedesco
Set design: Elisabeth Bosquet
Set construction: Le garage des possibles – Irène Chaudouet
Lighting design: Sara Sabourin
Sound design and original song: Marthe Halvorsen
Tour sound design: Nicolas Jalbert
Technical direction and set design consultant: Wanderson Santos
Dramaturgy consultant: Marie-Christine Lê-Huu
Tour technical direction: Nicolas Jalbert
Production management and stage manager: Catherine Alepin
Promotional video: Alexandre Fortes
Photos: Patrice Tremblay
Carolina Chmielewski Tanaka
Carolina Chmielewski co-founded Théâtre de la Flamme with Cleo da Fonseca in 2020 and has been dedicated to theater for young audiences since 2012. An actress, puppeteer, and mediator, Carolina has a keen interest in interculturality and diversity in theater.
As a puppeteer, she performs in Théâtre de l’Œil’s production of Furioso (directed by Simon Boudreault and written by Olivier Kemeid) and presented the solo show Tales from the Wind, written and directed by Amauri Falseti, at Centaur Theatre (TD Saturday Morning Children’s Series). Carolina was assistant director for the site-specific show Fragments d’Ana, directed by Ligia Borges, a co-production of Théâtre de l’Intime and M.A.I. (Montréal, arts interculturels).
Carolina was also a theater mediator at Maison Théâtre and a cultural mediator at the community organization Exeko. As a manager, she has held the position of Co-Executive Director and Administrative Director at Théâtre Incliné since September 2023. In Brazil, she worked for five years at the youth theater company Cia. Paideia as an actress, teacher, and theater mediator.
Cleo da Fonseca
Cleo da Fonseca co-founded Théâtre de la Flamme with Carolina Chmielewski in 2020 and has been working in theater as an actress, puppeteer, and storyteller since 2017. She is interested in folklore, the intersection between theater and nature, and intergenerational stories. Most recently, Cleo directed the show Questions à la mère terre by Saulo Giri and Mireya Bayancela (Maison de la culture NDG-Botrel, Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges). Her past productions include Learning How to Steal (Festival Phénomena 2018), The Carrot (Fringe 2019, finalist for best English-language production), and A voz do morro (Chœur Scénique Brésilien 2019). Cleo is also a theater mediator at Maison Théâtre and an educator at Programmes Coyote, a company whose mission is to promote connection with nature.
Théâtre de la Flamme
The Théâtre de la Flamme was founded in 2020 when Cleo da Fonseca and Carolina Chmielewski Tanaka, two Brazilian actresses and puppeteers with different backgrounds but similar interests, met. The Théâtre de la Flamme’s mission is based on one question: how can we give voice to the issues faced by today’s children? The Théâtre de la Flamme seeks to engage with children through a theatrical language that is both caring and complex, placing the child at the center and heart of the story. The dialogue with the adult audience is conducted primarily through the eyes of the child, a perspective that invites them to rethink their actions based on the stories they see on stage.
With
Carolina Chmielewski Tanaka
Cleo da Fonseca
