JUNE PERFORMANCES

Mother Dirt Church Service:

Each Saturday June 10th through July 1st at 4:30pm in The Paper Mache Cathedral. No tickets necessary

Idiots of the World Unite Against the Idiot System:

Each Sunday June 11th- 25 at 3pm in the Paper Mache Cathedral

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JULY PERFORMANCES

Idiots of the World Unite Against the Idiot System:

Each Saturday in July (Except July 8th) at 3pm in the Paper Mache Cathedral Click Here For Tickets

Mother Dirt Church Service:

Each Saturday in July (except July 8th) at 4:30pm in The Paper Mache Cathedral. No tickets necessary

The Great Fugue Circus Every Sunday at 3pm

Followed by a pageant around 4pm and Guest performances Around 5:15pm

At Bread and Puppet in Glover, VT

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.

Community Puppet Building:

Each Wednesday June 7th through July 26th at 9:30am at the Bread and Puppet Museum. Come help make puppets with us that will be used in our summer Pageant this year. Please note that this activity is dependent on the Sun and will be cancelled due to rain. All welcome, to guarantee that the workshop is happening please check-in in advance by emailing [email protected] or call (802) 525-3031.

Community Rehearsals:

Each Wednesday, June through August, 7 – 8:30pm in the Paper Mache Cathedral. These rehearsals will be primarily in service of our Mother Dirt show, though may also be used for workshopping circus acts or other shows as well. If you’d like to rehearse/perform with us as a volunteer, please contact: [email protected]

Starting July 9 Each Sunday at 9:30-12pm in the Circus ring will be a community rehearsal at 9:30 for a 10:30am Run through. If you’d like to rehearse/perform with us as a volunteer, please contact: [email protected]

Bread and Puppet will be performing a weekly evolving “Bed Sheet Interpretations” Puppet Show, every Saturday at 3 PM through the end of April in the Bread and Puppet Ballroom! Free bread, aioli and cheap art will available after the show.

We will also be hosting a weekly rehearsal each Saturday at 1 pm in the Ballroom prior to the performance for volunteers to learn and jump into the show. The uniform will be all white for anyone performing, masks recommended. Send an email to [email protected] to be kept in the loop!

Whether as a fellow puppeteer or an esteemed spectator, we look forward to seeing you there!

Bread & Puppet Theater celebrates its 60th year with a tour to cities and towns across the US Northeast, presenting the company’s latest show: Inflammatory Earthling Rant (with help from Kropotkin).

Earthlings are now aflame and consequently need inflammatory rants, directed against the arsonist: Western Civilization and its incompetent government. The habitual pragmatic communication jargon won’t do, so the ranters have to resort to the original language which was tasked to employ the spells, charms, and incantations needed to confront the disaster in order to instigate change – with help from Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid ideology.

For more details and to see the schedule, click here.

Apprenticeship Applications are now CLOSED. Check the website in winter for info about next year.

Bread and Puppet in NYC @ Theater for the New City

December 8-18th 2022 with 3 shows!!!

Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue (between 9th & 10th Street)
JOHNSON THEATER

On November 27 at 2pm, Bread and Puppet will festively open its new gallery on Rte 122 just
above the intersection with Rte 16. The event will include sacred harp singing, a ritual to
cleanse the former veal farm, and the University of the Valley of Tears will offer a class in Tears-
of-Joy Production, including a performance of the brand new B&P Heavy Metal Band’s rendition
of Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Bread and aioli will be served and our cheap art store will
offer posters, books, and other items. If interested in volunteering for the event please contact
[email protected] . Bread and Puppet’s new gallery is located at 514 Heights Road,
Glover VT 05839.

Bread & Puppet welcomes everyone to our Annual Political Leaf Peeping! We invite you to celebrate the end of the summer and the beginning of the glorious fall landscape with an afternoon of music, puppet shows and potato pancakes. The event will take place Sunday, September 25th at the Bread & Puppet farm in Glover.

There will be a Shape Note sing in front of the museum at 2pm, and those that would like to participate are invited to join a rehearsal at 1pm. The sing will be followed by side shows performed by friends, comrades, and neighbors. After sideshows, the audience is invited into the Paper Mache Cathedral to see The Apocalypse Trauma Show, featuring New York concert pianist Idith Korman. To celebrate the brilliant autumn season, there will be a ceremonious ribbon cutting to open the North East Kingdom landscape. Finally, director Peter Schumann will serve his traditional potato pancakes with fresh applesauce from our apple trees.

Before and after the performances, the audience is invited to visit the world famous Bread & Puppet Museum to see one of the largest collections of puppets in the world, and also to peruse the newest printed posters and banners from the Bread and Puppet Press. An exhibit by Jonas Fricke, Saturn Ladyheart abd Adam Cook, OH WHAT AN EXCITING TIME TO BE ALIVE!, will be on view in the Woodshed Gallery. A selection of Peter Schumann’s newest art, painted on discarded bedsheets, will be on display across the Bread and Puppet property.

Masks are required for the indoor performance in the Paper Mache Cathedral, as well as inside the museum. Social distancing and mask-wearing are strongly recommended when occupying outdoor spaces. This event is not preticketed. Donations are welcome, and no one is turned away for lack of funds. All events take place at the Bread & Puppet farm, 753 Heights Rd., Glover VT.

Bread & Puppet Theater will be performing at the Istanbul Biennial this month. The show, “The Demons of Society” is being created with 70 local volunteers from Istanbul and will be performed in three different locations. Each show begins with a parade, followed by a 40 minute pageant, followed by a traditional Karagoz shadow puppet show by puppet master Cengiz Ozek. Bread & Puppet’s sourdough rye bread & garlic aoli will be distributed after the show.

Performances will be:

September 9th, 6:30pm at Santralistanbul

September 15th, 6:30pm at Küçükçekmece Gölbasi

September 16th & 17th at Müze Gashouse