Adrian Pecknold (1920-2000), was a Canadian mime, director, and author of the book Mime: The Step Beyond Words. He is popularly known for his creation and depiction of Poco the Clown in the popular Canadian children's television program Mr. Dressup. Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet Standard that extends the format of e-mail to support text in character sets other than US-ASCII, non-text attachments, multi-part message bodies, and header information in non-ASCII character sets. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Ernie Coombs as Mr. ...

Pecknold studied mime at L'École Jacques Lecoq in Paris from October 1962 to April 1963. Following this, he joined Toronto Workshop Productions as an actor and instructor of mime. LÉcole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq is an international school of theatre situated in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ...

In 1968, he founded Canada's first professional mime company, the Canadian Mime Theatre, in Niagara-on-the-Lake. In 1974 he began the Canadian Mime School, the first Canadian professional mime school. From 1982 to 1988 he taught at the University of Guelph, and from 1982 to 2000 he taught at the Ryerson Theatre School, Ryerson University, in Toronto, Canada. Categories: Canada geography stubs | Ontario communities | Coastal towns of Canada ... The University of Guelph is a medium-sized university located in Guelph, Ontario, established in 1964. ... Ryerson University is a publicly funded post-secondary education institution located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

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Awards and honors

Pecknold was awarded the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977 in recognition of his contribution to theatre and theatre education in Canada.

References

• Pecknold, Adrian. (1982). Mime: The Step Beyond Words. Beaverbooks.
• (1998). Carte Blanche. The Candian Mime Theatre: A Thirty-Year Retrospective. Canadian Theatre Review, Issue 96.