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Come Volunteer in the Printshop!!!

Volunteer in the Printshop:

Every Wednesday and Friday 3-5 pm in the Bread and Puppet Printshop

Want to give us a hand in the Printshop? Here is the form to select days you’d like to attend in May. Please note that Volunteer session times have officially changed to 3pm-5pm Wednesdays and Fridays. On Friday’s we paint posters and on Wednesday we do miscellaneous Printshop projects from sewing, ironing and painting banners to printing new prints on fabric and paper.

No Experience Necessary

Every Wednesday and Friday 3-5 pm in the Bread and Puppet Printshop

Want to give us a hand in the Printshop? Here is the form to select days you’d like to attend in September. On Friday’s we paint posters and on Wednesday we do miscellaneous Printshop projects from sewing, ironing and painting banners to printing new prints on fabric and paper.

For More information email [email protected]

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ALL SHOWS will continue Rain or Shine but will Cancel for Flooding.

Friends, travelers and neighbors.

Bread and Puppet will continue to put on our performances Every Saturday and Sunday at 3 PM rain or shine. But, due to the unprecedented amount of rain that has been hitting Vermont will have to cancel for major Flooding. A major issue we face is that our parking lot, which is mainly a grassy field, keeps getting compromised from all of the consistent rain and flooding. We are currently working on improving our drainage infrastructure and coming up with creative ideas to tackle this issue.

Any tickets purchased for any Cancelled performance will be accepted for all future circuses and performances, no check-in or logistical work required.
If anyone is in need of a refund, please feel free to email [email protected]

We are sincerely sorry for any inconvenience and disappointment this might cause in the future . We hope that the weather will lighten up as the summer goes on and this doesn’t continue to be a problem.

Thank You

Bread and Puppet Theater

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Guest Performance Shadow Puppetry this Friday at B&P @7:30pm

Tholpavakoothu Ramayana Performance

This ancient, ritually rooted performance is based on verses from the Kamba Ramayana, the Tamil version of the Hindu epic the Ramayana. The performance includes 71 different characters, and over 160 different shadow figures. While traditional Tholpavakoothu shadow theater takes in temples as ritual performance, Ramachandra Pulavar and his family have popularized the form by performing a variety of stories of contemporary social relevance, about Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus Christ, and the empowerment of women, as well as performances based on traditional tales from the Mahabharata and the Panchatantra. Tholpavakoothu shadow figures follow four main design categories: sitting, standing, walking, and fighting puppets, as well as puppets depicting nature, battle scenes, and ceremonial processions.

About the Company: Krishnan Kutty Pulavar Memorial Tholpavakoothu & Puppet Centre

Krishnan Kutty Pulavar Memorial Tholpavakoothu & Puppet Centre was founded in memory of the legendary great guru K.L.Krishnan Kutty Pulavar who took the initiative with Shri.G.Venu to promote this temple ritualistic art form from the temple premises to secondary performance spaces. The Pulavar family has continued the age-old tradition of shadow puppetry for the past 12 generations with all the traditional ritualistic performances while simultaneously incorporating contemporary narratives. We perform yearly in around 85 temples in Kerala from January to May as part of our tradition in the permanent shadow puppet theatres erected in temples. The centre focuses on promoting the tholpavakoothu performances and offering traditional training sessions to the upcoming generation in which we focus on teaching all its traditional aspects of puppet making, manipulation, designing, and narration. We have a puppet theatre in which we have exhibited all our different puppets, books and manuscript styles. Now the centre aims to safeguard indigenous knowledge traditions of puppetry in Kerala.

 

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THE CIRCUS AND PAGEANT will continue Rain or Shine but will Cancel for Flooding

Friends, travelers and neighbors.

Bread and Puppet will continue to put on our performances Every Saturday and Sunday at 3 PM rain or shine. But, due to the unprecedented amount of rain that has been hitting Vermont will have to cancel for Flooding. A major issue we face is that our parking lot, which is mainly a grassy field, keeps getting compromised from all of the consistent rain and flooding. We are currently working on improving our drainage infrastructure and coming up with creative ideas to tackle this issue.

Any tickets purchased for any Cancelled performance will be accepted for all future circuses and performances, no check-in or logistical work required.
If anyone is in need of a refund, please feel free to email [email protected]

We are sincerely sorry for any inconvenience and disappointment this might cause in the future . We hope that the weather will lighten up as the summer goes on and this doesn’t continue to be a problem.

Thank You

Bread and Puppet Theater