Bread and Puppet: Cheap Art and Political Theater in Vermont

Lubberland National Dance Company

editor — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:54:01 +0000

Claudio Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses

in a one-hour version

RUN EXTENDED THROUGH THIRD WEEK OF AUGUST

in the Dirt Floor Theater aka Paper Mache Cathedral

at the Bread & Puppet Farm

Show starts at 8 pm

Donations welcome

Not to be missed!

For more info, check out the “Lubberland National Dance Commpany” page or call 802-525-3031.

The full opera was produced and performed this June with Concordia University students and The Montreal Baroque Ensemble, as part of the Spheres Festival in Montreal. Guest performances to follow performance (see schedule listed below for details).

The Decapitalization Circus & Nothing is Not Ready Pageant

Linda — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:52:18 +0000

every Sunday 11 July - 29 August

at the Bread & Puppet Farm

Show starts at 2:30 pm

rain or shine

The Decapitalization Circus demonstrates in 18 or 19 deathdefying stunts they phantastic effects of the capitalization of life in the U.S. and citizens’ courageous efforts of decapitalization. The performers represent the whole scale of the social spectrum from benign billionarism to despicable homeless anti-soacial-elementarianism. All the acts are FDA and FBI certified displays of patriotic correctness and defy all imaginable forms of terrorism. The Possibilitarians, a multi-instrumental variety ensemble provide the appropriate-innappropriate sounds for the circus.

The Nothing-is-Not-Ready Pageant which directly follows the circus is a greek-tragedy based typical American soap opera featuring several major current events and catastrophies and highlighting the chief actors and motivators of these events, exclusive their virtuous principles, moral assesments and speeches.

Museum Tour at 1 pm.

Special Guest Performers

editor — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:40:05 +0000

Here’s the current schedule for SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMERS here at the farm. Check back to check for any changes.

All performances on Friday’s are before or after the Lubberland National Dance Show. All performances on Sunday’s are after the circus & pageant.

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Friday, July 16 - “Palestine for Beginners,” talk by Ed Mast of the Palestine Information Project. Mr. Mast will talk about the roots of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and obstacles to peace and equal rights. The Palestine Information Project is a Seattle based organization which creates educational materials and presentations about human rights issues in Israel and Palestine and the US role in the conflict. Mr. Mast and his wife have done human rights work in Northern Ireland, Central America and the former Soviet Union. In 2002 they were jointly awarded the human rights award of the United Nations Association of Seattle.

Sunday, July 18 - Premier of Bread & Puppet show dealing with recent events in Haiti

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Friday, July 23 - 7:30 pm Village Harmony teen ensemble will perform South African, Bulgarian, shape-note, Appalachian and renaissance music as a pre-show

Sunday, July 25th- All the way from Tennessee, Noa presents “Hurdie Gurdie Village Music”

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Friday, July 30 - Poems of Grace Paley read by Bob Nichols

Sunday, August 1 - The Beehive Collective

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Friday, August 6 - Sun Son Theater from Taiwan

Saturday, August 7 - 7 pm “The Development of Nuclear Weapons”

Sunday, August 8 - Sun Son Theater from Taiwan

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Friday, August 13 - Poetry reading by Burt Porter & Lindsay Knowlton

Saturday, August 21 - 7:30 pm, Film screening “Fogueo” (”Out of the Fog”)

Sunday, August 22 - Toy Theater Double Feature!

Clare Dolan presents Lingua Franca, Created in response to the Obama administration’s release of memos detailing the torture of detainees in US custody, the show unfolds in a series of multi-layered black and white collages, and explores how the irrepressible momentum of everyday life is connected to the larger forces at play in our uncertain world. Created by Clare Dolan, with music composed and performed by Ralph Denzer.

And the Shoddy Puppet Company from Philadelphia

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Friday, August 27 - The Dolly Waggers puppet show

Sunday, August 29 - The Goodhues Band

Volunteer with us this Summer!

editor — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:33:08 +0000

There are many ways that you can get involved:

-Lubberland National Dance Company

-Parades

- Decapitalization Circus

-Nothing is Not Ready Pageant

-The Possibilitarian Circus Band

-Gardening

-Cooking

-Printing

-Parking

Check out the “Volunteer” page for details.

Bread and Puppet Museum Hours

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:36:20 +0000

Bread and Puppet Museum, one of the largest collections of some of the biggest puppets in the world, continues to be open daily from 10 am - 6 pm until November 1st, and after that, by appointment. Free admission. Donations welcome.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MAJD

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:46:11 +0000

The Story of a Palestinian Youth

The University of Majd is an exhibit of 7 large latex paintings on lightweight fabric and 80 small flower paintings that are meant to surround or separate the panels.

I learned about Majd’s fate from his family whom I met on a recent visit (September 2007) to Ramallah. The text on the panels is from emails which Ed Mast of Seattle, an old friend of Majd’s family, sent home as the case unfolded. I used shroud fabric for the large paintings and discarded window shades and other scrap materials for the flowers to pay my respects to the gigantic garbage problem of Palestine.

Five panels measure approximately 12’ x 7’; one 7’ x 4’; the title panel 10’ x 5.5’.

The exhibit is available on loan for the price of shipping. If you are interested please email Linda Elbow at breadpup@together.net

Peter Schumann

Bread and Puppet Theater