Sackville-based artists Shary Boyle and Graham Patterson are working to convince Sackville residents to create dummies – modeled after themselves – that will be part of a special audience during the Sappyfest music and art festival this August.
The artists held an ‘idea jam’ workshop last week at Struts Gallery, and CHMA was there to hear from Boyle as well as some potential dummy-makers.
Boyle says the plan is to gather as many Sackville dummies as possible into the Ralph Pickard Bell Library theatre over the festival weekend. It “will be a moment to remember,” says Boyle, “having as many members of the community self-representing their doppelgangers, avatars or dummies, as we’re calling them, in the seats of the theatre.”
