This summer I was privileged to be an instructor at Over the Rainbow summer camp, guiding a small and spirited cadre of 7th graders in the arts of digital audio and video production.
With help from the other talented staff members, we were able to transform a fleeting improv theatre workshop sketch into a song, which inspired a collection of songs with an interwoven tapestry of tales, and finally was born as a beautiful, full-fledged 25 minutes and 5 ounce short film featuring puppets portraying the story a unlikeable unicorn who is brutally murdered, and the quest to find resolution to this mystery.
The much-anticipated web release of the rock opera "The Saga of Ms. Sparkles" is now available. You can find the visually rich and varied puppet-driven short film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JeApn43Cx3I
The album of music is currently up on Bandcamp: https://bowlofdust.bandcamp.com/album/the-saga-of-ms-sparkles-dowager-010
The songs are also submitted to streaming but will take some time to be uploaded to various services. There will be a subsequent announcement about that when it is available.
All proceeds will go to further efforts to provide hands-on, project-based training in Audio/Visual related creativity with young folks!