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I’m in the middle of my second week of a four-week residency with QuestFest 2012. This is my third QuestFest, and my fifth collaboration with Quest. Each one has been a unique challenge (in a good way) and each time I’ve grown creatively. Today was (more...)

All the puppets are packed and in a few hours our first show of the weekend will be up and running! We are thrilled to be performing this very special show in our Hometown! Alonzo’s Lullaby is an original overhead projector shadow puppet performance (aka (more...)

The Quest staff conducted a follow up TheatreBridge visual theatre and literacy training with Maryland School for the Deaf (MSD) teachers and aides. (more...)

Greetings from a Double bed hotel room in Hong Kong. It’s been exactly a week since my arrival here and what a week it’s been. My forward thinking host is the Director of the Arts with the Disabled Association, Hong Kong (ADAHK), Janet Tam. Janet (more...)

Our workshops at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf on Thursday went great. The kids and staff were wonderful. In the evening, several of the staff joined the Wings Company for a “staff meeting” at the Waterfront Restaurant. We created some new material for “Road (more...)

Quest Wings Company members, Mervin Primeaux, Erica Siegel, and Brian Suchite have arrived in Wisconsin for five days of teaching and performing. The group had some time to visit the Milwaukee Museum of Art, a remarkable structure on the shore of Lake Michigan. (more...)

The FiraTarrega festival is in full swing now. I saw tons of shows today. Most of the shows I saw today were street performances and free shows. It was great fun. The crowds here are enormous. There is such great enthusiasm for the art and (more...)

I saw some incredible work today at the festival. I am thinking of including a Catalan theme to QuestFest. I think that giving a cultural focus to some of that art at QuestFest will create community interest.Community involvement is a major theme at Tarrega. The (more...)

After a long rain delayed departure from Baltimore (8 hours) and a long ride from the Barcelona airport (2 hours), I have finally arrived in Tarrega for the FiraTarrega festival. Tarrega is a lovely little town with a festival that attracts artists from all over (more...)

Follow me, Quest Artistic Director, Tim McCarty, over the next week, while I join several other US theatre artists at the Fira Tarrega Theatre Festival in Spain. The festival features a variety of visual theatre artists presenting their work on stage and in the community. (more...)