Author: Bread & Puppet Theater

Posted on by

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.

Posted on by

Last chance to see the University of Majd and the Apocalypse Defiance Circus

Friday August 26th at 6:30pm

University of Majd outside the Bread & Puppet Dirt Floor Cathedral.

University of Majd tells the tale of Majd Ziadeh, a young Palestinian man, was detained at age 19 with all the other men in his building, tortured, sentenced to 30 years in an Israeli military prison in 2002. Thanks to the work of lawyers and activists, his sentence was commuted and he was released earlier this year. University highlights the conditions that allowed for Majd’s unjust imprisonment, and celebrates his release.

 The play draws its title from the fact that many Palestinians refer to time spent in Israeli prisons, with dark irony, as “University,” a grim rite of passage for a significant percentage of young Palestinians.

 University of Majd will play Friday evenings this August at 6:30 p.m. outside The Paper Maché Cathedral at Bread & Puppet Theater. 

 

You can purchase tickets in our Ticketing tab or put money in the hat! $10-$25 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Sunday August 28th at 3pm

Saturday September 3rd at 3pm

The Apocalypse Defiance Circus in the Bread & Puppet Circus Field.

Bread & Puppet presents Our Domestic Resurrection Circus and Pageant, a brand new show in the tradition of the iconic Bread & Puppet Circuses that began at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont in 1970.  As usual, the show will draw on traditional circus tropes and familiar Bread and Puppet iconography to draw attention to the urgent issues of the day. Stilt dancers, paper maché beasts of all sizes and a riotous brass band make a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration.

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  in the Pageant Field. **This year’s Pageant is a collaboration with Steve Paxton**

 

Guest Performances on 8/28 at 5:30pm  by former Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine Toussaint St. Negritude

You can purchase tickets in our Ticketing tab or put money in the hat! $10-$25 suggested donation, no one turned away for 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!

 

Posted on by

What’s Happening at Bread and Puppet (updated 7/28/22)

Summer Schedule

The Anti Apocalypse Propaganda Circus

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

(Volunteer Rehearsals will be at Saturday Volunteer Rehearsal @ 2:30pm and Sunday Kids/Volunteers rehearsal and 10am  Run in the circus ring)

Sideshows at 2pm Throughout the Parking Lot.

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!

The University of Majd Every Friday at 6:30pm through the rest of the summer!

Bread & Puppet to premier new show, University of Majd, this August. Majd Ziadeh, a young Palestinian man, was detained at age 19 with all the other men in his building, tortured, sentenced to 30 years in an Israeli military prison in 2002. Thanks to the work of lawyers and activists, his sentence was commuted and he was released earlier this year. University highlights the conditions that allowed for Majd’s unjust imprisonment, and celebrates his release.

The play draws its title from the fact that many Palestinians refer to time spent in Israeli prisons, with dark irony, as “University,” a grim rite of passage for a significant percentage of young Palestinians. 

University of Majd will play Friday evenings this August at 6:30 p.m. outside The Paper Maché Cathedral at Bread & Puppet Theater. 

Admission to “The University of Majd” will be by suggested donation of $10-$25 at the door. Tickets will not be sold online for this show. 

No one will be turned away due to a lack of funds!

In case of rain the show will be performed inside the Cathedral with limited seating capacity (110 seats) and a strict masking required policy.

Memorials:

Memorial sing for Elka Schumann and Larry Gordon Tuesday August 2nd at 7pm 

Remi Pillard and Genevieve Memorial Wednesday August 3rd at 4:30pm

Woodshed Gallery Exhibitions:

Maria Bueno July 3rd – July 30th

Jonas Fricke July 31st – August 28th

Weekly Events:

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

Volunteer Poster Painting Every Friday 3-5pm for more info email [email protected]

Band Rehearsal Every Saturday at 730pm in front of the Paper Mache Cathedral vaccination required for more info email [email protected]

For any questions please contact [email protected]

Posted on by

The Theory Of Our Needs will be at 6:30pm every Friday through the rest of the summer!

The Theory Of Our Needs will be at 6:30pm every Friday through the rest of the summer!

The Theory of Our Needs is about the fake and real needs as we inherit them and as we are educated to them. Our childish capacity to see no distinction between need and want has been sold into slavery by our merchant culture. Singing the hymn of need and dancing pragmatic utilitarianism into the moment-at-hand is reserved for toddlers only. The mature homo sapiens has lost that intelligence. We need dirt on our feet and whistles to drive our brain from its prison into the void.

Admission to “The Theory of Our Needs” will be by suggested donation of $10-$25 at the door. 

No one will be turned away due to a lack of funds!

In case of rain the show will be performed inside the Cathedral with limited seating capacity (110 seats) and a strict masking required policy.

Posted on by

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!

Posted on by

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.