Heather McCallum Scholarship

[Paula Sperdakos]

HEATHER MCCALLUM SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED

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
Canada A0E 1G0
Email: heather.jones at northatlantic.nf.ca