Vermont Spring Schedule

COME JOIN US APRIL 8TH FOR THE FULL SOLAR ECLIPSE FROM 2PM-5PM.

B&P will present a participatory ritual performance and exhibit in honor of the full solar eclipse.
The event will begin at 2pm in the pageant field across the road from the B&P farm.
Parking is in the circus field, mud season permitting.
Bring your own eclipse glasses.
The ritual will take place outside, regardless of weather, so dress accordingly.

For those who would like to participate more fully: meet at B&P Sunday, April, 7th from 1-6pm for magic, song and ritual workshop with Maria Schumann. https://catehillorchard.com/product/eclipse/ for more info.
COME MONDAY AT 1PM if you’d like to learn the songs that we will sing in the ritual.

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE

The event will feature:
Exorcism: Harnessing the power of the darkening sun, using our hands and feet, ears and tongues, we will banish everything evil.
Hymns to the sun: Following the ancient tradition, we will dance in circles, imitating the movements of celestial bodies and sing songs venerating the sun. During the full eclipse (3:27-3:30pm) we will be silent.
Exhibit and fiddle lecture with bread and aioli: In the Wood Shed Gallery next to the museum.

About the Wood Shed Gallery exhibit:

In 1502, German painter Matthias Grünewald witnessed a full solar eclipse, at a time when the eclipse was seen as a forewarning of the apocalypse. He went on to paint the Isenheim altarpiece, a work which depicts the crucifixion in vivid and painful detail, and uses colors never before seen at the time. In 1961, 27 year old Peter Schumann, responding to his memories of viewing the altarpiece as a teenager, created a series of stark, minimalist masonite woodcuts.In January 2024, Peter’s daughter Tamar Schumann unearthed these woodcuts in the depths of a storage room, where they had lain unused and unseen for decades. She and the team at the Bread and Puppet printshop cleaned and printed them. The exhibit will feature Schumann’s 1961 prints and new works.