![]() This will be part of the Greenwood Puppet Festival October 14th “Sleeping Beauty” by Tanglewood Marionettes at 10:00am at the Norfolk Public Library in Norfolk. October 14th “Spooky Silly Sing-A-Long” by Nappy’s Puppets at 10:30am at the North Haven Public Library in North Haven, CT ![]() October 13th “Handmade Puppet Dreams” by Heather Henson at 3:45pm at the Norfolk Public Library in Norfolk. October 13th “Bernice, Too” film screening by Elmwood Productions at 8:00 pm at the Elmwood Community Center in West Hartford. October 5th “Spooky Silly Sing-A-Long” by Nappy’s Puppets at 6:00pm at the Plainville Public Library in Plainville, CT ![]() September 24th “Free Community Puppet-Building Workshops for Celebrate Mansfield!” at 10:00am at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry in Storrs. September 18th “Shadow Puppetry and Digital Animation Forum with Hamid Rahmanian and cast of Song of the North at 7:00pm at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry in Storrs. Registration for the Workshop is required. September 16th “Artist talk and Needlefelting Workshop” with Robin McCahill at the Clark Memorial Library in Bethany. ![]() September 16th “Sleeping Beauty” by Stevens Puppets at 11:00am at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry in Storrs. September 7th “Jeghetto's Variety Show” at 7:00pm at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry in Storrs. The event will also stream on Facebook Live at /BallardInstitute. at the Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry, 1 Royce Circle on the University of Connecticut campus in Storrs. John Bell speaks on “ Puppetry, Ritual, and Performance in Turkey” on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Other upcoming puppet events at the Ballard Institute & Museum include the absurdist “The Baffo Box Show” by Modern Times Theater on Saturday and “My Night in the Planetarium,” a story of social protest set in Jakarta in the 1970s by the Boston-based Little Uprisings. The institute is named after Frank Ballard, who created the first puppetry program at UConn in the 1960s. The institute that Bell runs houses a large collection of puppets, a library of books on puppetry, exhibition spaces and a small performance space. UConn boasts one of the most respected puppetry programs in the U.S. Living up to its name, the company serves homebaked sourdough bread at its performances. The troupe has visited Connecticut dozens of times in its 60 years of existence, including on the opening day of the very first International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven. The performances were done in parks associated with gallery spaces in the city, but not on public streets.”īread and Puppet performed its adaptation of Aeschylus’ Greek tragedy “The Persians” on the UConn campus last year. He said a puppet character that had originally been called “The Dictator” was renamed to something less overt.ĭoing political theater about authoritarianism in present-day Turkey seems fraught, but Bell said the troupe “benefitted from working under the auspices of the biennale. “The choices the volunteers made were very interesting.” “It was more profitable to work with their own experiences than us coming from American and telling them about their country,” Bell said. They devised the whole multi-part performance with the volunteers there. We built what we needed there out of recycled materials.” “All we brought with us was a set of banners. The Turkish presentation of “The Demons of Society” involved 55 local volunteers from Istanbul, three separate locations, a parade, a 40-minute show/pageant and a performance by Turkish shadow puppet master Cengiz Ozek.īell said “The Demons of Society” was based on aspects of the 2022 edition of a pageant Bread and Puppet performs on its farmland in Glover, as well as concepts developed by Schumann, the group’s founder, when he worked on a similar pageant that was performed in Tehran.īell and two other puppeteers who regularly work with Bread and Puppet on special projects made the trip to Turkey. The talk is the first in the latest “Spring Puppet Forum” series at the puppetry museum.īread and Puppet specializes in original political theater pieces, often performed outdoors with giant puppets and grand pageantry. at the Ballard Institute Theater on the UConn campus in Storrs. Bell will talk about his experience in Turkey on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
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