Author: Clare

The Living Theatre will perform No Place To Hide in our Paper Mache’ Cathedral at 7:30.

At a time when surveillance is a household topic, The Living Theatre’s new production could not be more current. No Place to Hide asks about the how, why, and what of hiding, and takes the audience on a journey through the untold history of New York. Challenging political, philosophical, and moral spheres of concealment, the play questions the boundaries between the private and the public while blurring our sense of intimacy.

Bread & Puppet is extending its summer program into the fall, with a series of shows every Sunday afternoon at 3pm. Bread & Aioli will be served and the guided Museum Tour will be offered at 2pm, prior to the show. The final Sunday, September 28th will be our special “Political Leaf Peeping” event which includes a program of special guest performers in addition to the B & P show.

Saturday September 20^th  , 4 pm

El Jardin del Paraiso Community Garden

Anti-Tar Sands Manifesto Pageant

 E 5th St Between Avenues C & D, Manhattan, NY

We will be having a rehearsal for volunteers to learn the show on Saturday September 20^th at 12pm.  Please bring whites and be ready to jump on in! The show will be an outdoor pageant with caribou, the tar sands monster and Christopher Columbus.

Sunday September 21^st ,

The People’s Climate March

Bread and Puppet is bringing our Anti Tar Sands Parade. Come be a caribou, a tar sands monster, or jump into the kid’s anti tar sands butterfly brigade. Musicians please join the Bread & Puppet Tar Sands Band.  Please arrive between 8:15 and 9 am wearing white clothing to our meeting point, which is between 80^thand 81^st  Street On Central Park West (8th Avenue).       

Please RSVP to [email protected] if you’re interested in participating in any of these opportunities or have further questions. The more the merrier so bring your friends!

For updates about Bread and Puppet’s events at the march please visit:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bread-and-Puppet-Theater/310000062502545?sk=events&ref=page_internal

Join us on Sunday July 6th at 3pm for our Circus and Pageant, which will take place in the Circus Field at Bread & Puppet in Glover VT. The Circus and Pageant will be performed EVERY SUNDAY THROUGH AUGUST 24TH!! A Museum tour will be offered at 1pm and small shows in the field start at 2pm.

Join the resident company to rehearse the new show for the sunday afternoon performance in the Circus Field. Email [email protected] for more info or with questions.

Our Birdcatcher in Hell performance scheduled for this thursday in Rutland has been cancelled. There are three other opportunities to see the show in Vermont! Click HERE for complete tour schedule and show description.

BIRDCATCHER IN HELL

As part of the celebration of B & P’s 50^th Anniversary year, the theater presents a revival performance of this historic 1971 Bread and Puppet show with members of the original cast from that time. Now, 42 years after the first performance, many of the original performers – Sue Bettman, Mark Dannenhauer, Marc Estrin,  and Avram Patt – take part in the effort. B & P Press Printshop Manager, Lila Winstead, with  community help, re-printed the many costumes and banners from the original masonite cuts. Click on the link below for further info about the show, photos, video and ticketing information!

Birdcatcher in Hell performance at Flynn Center

Four weeks of intensive work at Bread and Puppet doing everything from making puppets to rehearsing circus acts to performing in an outdoor ampitheater can also earn you up to 6 credit hours from Sterling College, a small ecologically-minded liberal arts college in nearby Craftsbury, VT. Learn the nuts and bolts of community engaged art and activism while collaborating with Bread & Puppet company members and apprentices from around the world, and completing related readings and discussions with Sterling College professors. Click on the link below for more information.

Sterling College Summer Program

Starting January 15th we will be accepting letters of interest.
See below for a complete job description and more information.

Bread and Puppet Farm Manager Position

Bread and Puppet Theater is a Political Puppet Theater company nestled in the North East Kingdom of Vermont.  The theater sits on over 100 acres, which include: indoor and outdoor performing spaces, a house for daily operations, two large vegetable gardens and farm animals.   The gardens and animals produce much of the food that feeds the 60 plus community that gathers to create political theater in the summer.

Job description:

As the Bread and Puppet Farm Manager you will be responsible for creating an overall garden plan that best suites the land and the needs of the kitchen throughout the summer.

This will include:

– Coming up with a plan for all plantings, rotations, and cover cropping

– Creating and placing seed orders

– Facilitating and overseeing seeding, planting, transplanting, maintenance, weeding,

fertilizing, pest-control, harvesting and storage of all crops grown on property

– Constructing and deconstructing greenhouses and cold frames and monitoring frost protection/season extension.

– Working in collaboration with B & P staff in animal husbandry projects such as raising pigs, meat chickens, and laying hens for summer food production

– Maintaining relationships with nearby farms.

– Coordinating all activities with kitchen and performing company, this includes having

produce ready everyday during the summer to feed folks, including salad twice a day for 60-80 during the week, and up to 150 on weekends.

– Maintaining all farming tools and one farm truck.

– Managing and coordinating all help, including daily harvest and weekly chore crews with theater apprentices.

– Being in constant communication with the maintenance person about grounds and overlapping projects

– Maintaining financial records as well as preparing an annual report of the yearly agricultural activates of the farm.

Length of Position:

This job will start mid-April (exact start date to be discussed) and will end in late September when the garden is fully put to bed.

Compensation:

In exchange for this work you will receive a stipend of  $3,000 as well as room and board for the 6-month period.

To Apply:

Send a letter of interest (no e-mails) that includes your background, current phone number, email address, and mailing address. Please explain your familiarity with Bread and Puppet Theater, your past farm and garden experience (in detail) and why you would like to be the farm manager at Bread and Puppet Theater.  Include any other information that you feel is pertinent.

Send letter addressed to:

Bread and Puppet Theater,

Farm Manager Position
753 Heights Rd.
Glover, VT
05839

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