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Bread and Puppet at Haven in St. Johnsbury this Friday 8/26 from 3pm-7pm

THIS FRIDAY Bread + Puppet and Bread + Puppet Press will grace St. Johnsbury for Haven’s last Final Friday of summer! In addition to a multifaceted exhibition in the shop, the Bread + Puppet Theater Parking Lot Dance Company will perform “Six Disaster Confrontation + Mitigation Dances” for which we will need COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS! If you would like to be a part of this special show performed ~thrice~ Friday evening, arrive by 3 PM that afternoon to rehearse with us! Huge thanks to Bread + Puppet and to Alexis Smith ([email protected]) for curating this event for Haven. Volunteers can reach out to Alexis with any further questions about performing in the show. *Poster Design by Mitchell Valenzuela.

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The Apocalypse Defiance Circus is Coming!!!

The Apocalypse Defiance Circus runs July 10 – August 28th!

This year’s circus’ central theme is Homosapiens reform.

Insidious Homosapiens, representative of the Accumulated Evil of the Whole, will be arrested, taken to court, & condemned to a rehabilitation facility where he has to take classes in totally new behaviour: how to be an earthling instead of an engineer of the humanity machine, how to cry like a bird & speak like a thunderstorm & then graduate with a Dr. degree to cure the species from its life threatening diseases like war, capitalism, fossil fuel addiction, weapons obsession, etc.

 The Apocalypse Defiance Circus will be performed every Sunday from July 10 – August 28th.

Sideshows at 2pm Throughout the Parking Lot and in front of the Pine Forest

The Apocalypse Defiance Circus at 3pm in the Circus Ring

Pageant at 4:10pm  Starting July 17th in the Pageant Field

Followed by Guest Performances throughout the summer in the Dirt-Floor Cathedral.

Guest Performances by:

Corrugated Spectacles (July 24th), Roochie Toochie (July 31st), Ron Kelly and the Hot Noodles(August 7th), Modern Times Theater (August 24th) and more to come

You can buy tickets online for $10 below or  you can pay by Donation at the entrance

No one turned away due to a lack of funds!

**Online Ticket are non refundable but are transferable to other B&P Events if available.**

*COVID PROTOCOLS*

Masks are required in all indoor spaces (Museum and Dirt-Floor Cathedral).

Masks are also highly recommended when walking around through crowded paths and spaces.

We ask that all audience members be vaccinated or test Negative for Covid within 48 hrs of the performance. For Covid testing resources in Vermont click here.

All Covid Protocols are subject to change based on recommendations by the CDC and the State of Vermont. Thank you for your understanding!

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Multiple Teaching Positions Open in Glover, VT the Home of Bread and Puppet Theater

Hello Bread and Puppet Community,

This is not our typical Bread and Puppet email, but the Glover Community school needs middle school teachers. If you are an exceptional, creative, caring teacher who always wanted to move to the Northeast Kingdom to be closer to Bread and Puppet, this is the time.

Our public school, Glover Community School, in the beautiful Northeast Kingdom of Vermont is seeking middle school teachers.  Our school is a small rural K-8 public school with less than 13 children per grade.  We have openings for all our middle school positions in math, science, language arts, and humanities.

Glover is home to Bread and Puppet Theater and the Museum of Everyday Life.  We have a strong farming community and a thriving farm-school program.  Many of our families make at least part of their living from the land.  Almost 50 percent of our children are low-income.  Our school is focused on equity and inclusion, so that every child can fulfill their potential.

To apply, check out School Spring.

Middle School Science Teacher – https://www.schoolspring.com/job.cfm?jid=3890190

Middle School Math Teacher  https://www.schoolspring.com/job.cfm?jid=3890179

Our humanities/language art position will be posted soon, but feel free to submit your application now via one of the links above.

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Find Out What is Happening (Updated 6/9/22)

Summer Schedule

Our Domestic Resurrection Circus 

Will be performed every Sunday starting July 10th thru August 28th

(Volunteer Rehearsals will be at 10 am Sunday mornings in the circus ring)

Sideshows at 2pm Throughout the Parking Lot and in front of the Pine Forest

Circus at 3pm in the Circus Ring

Pageant at 4:10pm  Starting July 17th in the Pageant Field

Followed by Guest Performances throughout the summer in the Dirt-Floor Cathedral

 

You can buy tickets by clicking here or you can pay by Donation at the entrance

No one turned away for a lack of funds!

*COVID PROTOCOLS*

Masks are required in all indoor spaces (Museum and Dirt-Floor Cathedral).

Masks are also highly recommended when walking around through crowded paths and spaces.

We ask that all audience members be vaccinated or test Negative for Covid within 48 hrs of the performance. For Covid testing resources in Vermont click here.

All Covid Protocols are subject to change based on recommendations by the CDC and the State of Vermont. Thank you for your understanding!

Woodshed Gallery Exhibitions:

Em Hexe June 5th – July 2nd

Maria Bueno July 3rd – July 30th

Jonas Fricke July 31st – August 28th

The Divinity Supply Company at La MaMa in /NYC 

June 30th, July 1st, and July 2nd at 8pm (Sat. At 3pm & 8pm)

A collaboration between The Boxcutter Collective and Bread and Puppet.

Join Us for the world premiere of Divinity Supply Company at La MaMa Experimental Theater  Club, Downstairs Theater 

Parades: (Line up is 1 hour before Parades for Volunteers)

Cabot Parade Monday July 4th at 11am 

Lyndonville Parade Saturday July 16th at 10 am

Weekly Events:

 

Shape Note Sing every Tuesday in/front of the Cathedral @ 7:30pm (Mask Required)

Memorials every Wednesday June 29th @ 7pm in the Pine Forest. (Accessibility parking available) 

Paper Mache Festivities will be every Thursday in the Clay Yard located to the left of the Main Museum Entrances @ 2:10pm starting June 16th

Volunteer Poster Painting Every Tuesday and Friday 3-5pm starting June 14th. For more info email [email protected]

For any questions please contact [email protected]

 

 

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New Exhibition “Ecstatic Decrepitude” at Artyard in Frenchtown, NJ April 30th-July 31st

Peter Schumann founded the Bread and Puppet Theater in 1963 on New York City’s Lower East Side. Fifty-nine years later it remains one of the United State’s oldest non-profit, self-supporting theater companies, leaving an indelible stamp on the world of theater and the American cultural landscape. Schumann’s puppet shows range from tightly composed theater pieces presented by members of the company to extensive outdoor pageants which require the participation of many community volunteers.  Guided by a philosophy of living and working within the means available, Schumann’s aesthetic is inextricable from the paper maché  burlap, twine, and staples, that make up and literally hold the puppets and the shows together. This installation of masks, puppets, books, paper maché relief work, and paintings conveys Schumann’s deep commitment to the creative and political work which unites artists and communities in celebration and protest. Schumann says: “Ecstatic Decrepitude is presented on two floors. Bulky, big, oppressed and oppressive decrepitude obviously belongs upstairs, way above ecstasy, which hides in book pages and requires diligent reading on the 1st floor. The faces, idols, agitators and sufferers of the Naked Humanity Republic get entertained by Father Time who strikes the clock for them relentlessly…”

Ecstatic Decrepitude Photo Gallery

To learn more about Artyard click here.

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Are you interested in hosting a B&P Performance for our 2022 Fall Tour?

Fall 2022 Tour – Basic Information Booking Release

Booking inquiries please contact Paul Bedard [email protected]

Bread and Puppet’s Our Domestic Resurrection 

Fall Cross-country Tour, September-December 2022

The circus is coming! The circus is coming! The 58-year-old, Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater is currently seeking venues across the country to present its iconic puppet circus Fall 2022. Our Domestic Resurrection Circus is a bright, raucous melee of short acts governed by a brass band, addressing the heart of the current moment with diverse puppetry styles and spanning many moods, from slapstick to the sublime. 

The show, director Peter Schumann says, is “in response to our totally unresurrected capitalist situation, not only the hundreds of thousands of unnecessarily sacrificed pandemic victims but our culture’s unwillingness to recognize Mother Earth’s revolt against our civilization. Since we earthlings do not live up to our earthling obligations, we need resurrection circuses to yell against our own stupidity.” 

After each show, Bread and Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread and Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread and Puppet Press – will be for sale. 

Show Length: Approximately 1 hour. 

WEATHER

In general, we will perform through a light rain, pause a performance if heavy rain comes, and end a show prematurely if heavy rain persists. If consistent heavy rain is forecasted for the scheduled time of a performance, we may decide to cancel in advance. 

VIDEO 

See a video, created for last year’s HONK! Festival, with two circus acts and our raucous band at https://vimeo.com/463240597

BOOKING INQUIRIES 

Bread and Puppet is currently seeking out venues to perform in across the country. Please contact Paul Bedard (860-918-0850, [email protected])