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Four weeks of intensive work at Bread and Puppet doing everything from making puppets to rehearsing circus acts to performing in an outdoor ampitheater can also earn you up to 6 credit hours from Sterling College, a small ecologically-minded liberal arts college in nearby Craftsbury, VT. Learn the nuts and bolts of community engaged art and activism while collaborating with Bread & Puppet company members and apprentices from around the world, and completing related readings and discussions with Sterling College professors. Click on the link below for more information.

Sterling College Summer Program

Starting January 15th we will be accepting letters of interest.
See below for a complete job description and more information.

Bread and Puppet Farm Manager Position

Bread and Puppet Theater is a Political Puppet Theater company nestled in the North East Kingdom of Vermont.  The theater sits on over 100 acres, which include: indoor and outdoor performing spaces, a house for daily operations, two large vegetable gardens and farm animals.   The gardens and animals produce much of the food that feeds the 60 plus community that gathers to create political theater in the summer.

Job description:

As the Bread and Puppet Farm Manager you will be responsible for creating an overall garden plan that best suites the land and the needs of the kitchen throughout the summer.

This will include:

– Coming up with a plan for all plantings, rotations, and cover cropping

– Creating and placing seed orders

– Facilitating and overseeing seeding, planting, transplanting, maintenance, weeding,

fertilizing, pest-control, harvesting and storage of all crops grown on property

– Constructing and deconstructing greenhouses and cold frames and monitoring frost protection/season extension.

– Working in collaboration with B & P staff in animal husbandry projects such as raising pigs, meat chickens, and laying hens for summer food production

– Maintaining relationships with nearby farms.

– Coordinating all activities with kitchen and performing company, this includes having

produce ready everyday during the summer to feed folks, including salad twice a day for 60-80 during the week, and up to 150 on weekends.

– Maintaining all farming tools and one farm truck.

– Managing and coordinating all help, including daily harvest and weekly chore crews with theater apprentices.

– Being in constant communication with the maintenance person about grounds and overlapping projects

– Maintaining financial records as well as preparing an annual report of the yearly agricultural activates of the farm.

Length of Position:

This job will start mid-April (exact start date to be discussed) and will end in late September when the garden is fully put to bed.

Compensation:

In exchange for this work you will receive a stipend of  $3,000 as well as room and board for the 6-month period.

To Apply:

Send a letter of interest (no e-mails) that includes your background, current phone number, email address, and mailing address. Please explain your familiarity with Bread and Puppet Theater, your past farm and garden experience (in detail) and why you would like to be the farm manager at Bread and Puppet Theater.  Include any other information that you feel is pertinent.

Send letter addressed to:

Bread and Puppet Theater,

Farm Manager Position
753 Heights Rd.
Glover, VT
05839

NO EMAIL APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED

Friday February, 28th 8 pm 
Plainfield, VT

The Total This and That Circus

Plainfield Community Center

153 Main St, Plainfield, VT 05667

A free event, donations greatly appreciated

Contact Alexis, 371-7239, for more details.

The Total This and That Circus

A lively puppet circus with brass band, continuously evolving, the Circus may include acts such as “daffodil combat forces battling F-35s…the elimination of the 800,001^st Palestinian olive tree- totally unattended by the National Outrage Orchestra…an Animal Rental Facility which offers disenchanted customers of civilization instant transformation into frog or deer, cricket or rat.” There will also be new characters, like “underprivileged Corporate Dwarves, overshadowed by Ordinary 99% Giants promoting brand-new economy-shrinking ventures, while the Lubberland National Dance Company enhances the program with eternal values gloves-on dances presented to the gloves-off practitioners in Guantanamo and elsewhere”.

FOLLOW LINKS BELOW TO READ REVIEWS OF THE BOSTON PERFORMANCES:

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater-arts/2014/01/31/bread-puppet-walks-the-audience-through-shattered-world/6VCfeBrqGCDtSCmI68neKI/story.html

http://artery.wbur.org/2014/01/31/peter-schumann-shatterer

http://artsfuse.org/99410/fuse-theater-review-bread-puppet-theaters-shatterer-of-worlds-apocalyptic-art/

http://bostoneventsinsider.com/2014/01/shatterer-of-worlds—an-intri.html

January 23 through February 2, 2014. 7:00pm

The Shatterer of Worlds, Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA), 539 Tremont St., South End, Boston, MA 02116.

FOLLOW LINKS BELOW TO READ REVIEWS OF THE BOSTON PERFORMANCES:

http://artery.wbur.org/2014/01/31/peter-schumann-shatterer
http://artsfuse.org/99410/fuse-theater-review-bread-puppet-theaters-shatterer-of-worlds-apocalyptic-art/
http://bostoneventsinsider.com/2014/01/shatterer-of-worlds—an-intri.html

All shows at 7:00 pm. 
Week one: Thurs.-Sun.; week two: Wed.-Sun. $15 general admission, $12 for students, seniors, groups of 6 & more. 
Tickets for the performances available for purchase in the Cyclorama [cash or check only] one hour before each show. For advance tickets, visit http://tinyurl.com/BPBoston2014 or call 866-811-4111 (toll free). For more general info call: 617-286-6694 or visit http://www.bcaonline.org/calendar/calendar-of-events/details/582-bread-a-puppet-theater-the-shatterer-of-worlds.html

INTERESTED IN PERFORMING? To volunteer, contact [email protected]

The Shatterer of Worlds (chapel with naturalization services for applicants requesting citizenship in the shattered world), a walkabout political puppet performance, enveloping audience and performers alike within the Cyclorama. At the moment when the first atomic bomb was dropped, Oppenheimer, the chief architect of that bomb, recalled words from the Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu prayer epic: “Life, the splendor of 1000 suns blazing all at once, resembling the exulted soul, is become Death, the shatterer of worlds.” In view of the latest failed earth summit and faced with the likelihood of multiple planetary shatterings, this sentence is reproduced by the Paper Maché Authorities in the Cathedral of Impermanence for your enlightenment and as a reminder of our possible predicament. The overt extrajudicial capabilities of the society system allow the shatterer of worlds to function legally to cultivate destructions so minute and gigantic, the eye cannot perceive and the mind cannot behold them. No politician, no hazardous substance, but a well-established tradition and demon strengthened by endless practices of devastation, the shatterer continues to plot the assassination of existence-as-it-is, while disguising his activities as benevolent maneuvers meant to cure the two ailing adversaries: the planet and humanity.

Link to representative “The Shatterer of Worlds” footage taken by Mark Dannenhauer: http://vimeo.com/75177278.

Saturday, December 14th, 4:00pm

New York, NY

Bread Baking and Fiddle Sermon

Peter Schumann will bake bread in the hand-built brick oven in front of the museum in the morning, and deliver a fiddle sermon at 4pm in the exhibition gallery. For more information see

http://www.queensmuseum.org/events/fiddle-sermon-by-peter-schumann-2/

PERFORMANCE: The Shatterer of Worlds, West Park Presbyterian Church, 165 West 86th St., NY, NY 10024. November 7th–24th, 2013.

All shows at 8:00 pm. A new show of giant sculpture and dance. Scroll down for further show description.
Week one: Thurs.-Sun.: $18 general admission, $15 for students/seniors/groups of 6 & more (use code BPNYGROUP6). Weeks two & three: Wed.: $15 general admission all tickets; Thurs.-Sun.: $18 general admission, $15 for students/seniors/groups of 6 & more (use code BPNYGROUP6).
Tickets for the performances available for purchase [cash or check only] in the West Park Presbyterian Church one hour before each performance. For advance tickets, visithttp://tinyurl.com/BPNYC2013 or call 866-811-4111 (toll free). Presented in conjunction with The Center at West Park, West Park Presbyterian Church, 165 West 86th St., NY, NY 10024. For more info call: 212-362-4890 or visit www.westparkpresbyterian.org.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO PERFORM IN THE SHOW!! Interested? email puppetsecretary @ yahoo.com

 
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE: Peter Schumann: The Shatterer, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368. November 9th, 2013 – March 2014. Queens Museum hours: Wednesday-Sunday from 12:00-6:00 pm. Opening Reception Monday, November 11th from 6:00-8:00 pm, with fiddle lecture performed by Peter Schumann. For more info call: 718-592-9700.

EXHIBTION OF ARTISTS BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS:  Nothing is Not Ready: Artists’ Books and Pamphlets by Peter Schumann and the Bread and Puppet Press 1963 – 2013, Printed Matter, 195 10th Ave., NY, NY 10011, November 2^nd – 30th, 2013. Opening Reception Saturday, November 2nd, 5 – 7 pm, with fiddle lecture by Peter Schumann Hours: Mondays thru Weds and Saturdays from 11am-7pm. Thursdays and Fridays from11am-8pm. For more info call: 212-925-0325 or visit:www.printedmatter.org

FILM SCREENING: Bread & Puppet Theater at 50 Film Program, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave., NY, NY 10003, Tuesday, November 19th, 2013, 7:30 pm. Admission: $10, 32 Second Ave., NY, NY 10003. For more info call: 212-505-5181 or visit www.anthologyfilmarchives.org. 

Description of Shatter of Worlds Performance:

At the moment when the first atomic bomb was dropped, Oppenheimer, the chief architect of that bomb, recalled words from the Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu prayer book:  “Life, the splendor of 1000 suns blazing all at once, resembling the exulted soul, is become Death, the shatterer of worlds.”  The overt extrajudicial capabilities of the society system allow the shatterer of worlds to function legally to cultivate destructions so minute and gigantic, the eye cannot perceive and the mind cannot behold them. No politician, no hazardous substance, but a well-established tradition and demon strengthened by endless practices of devastation, the shatterer continues to plot the assasination of existence-as-it-is, while disguising his activities as benevolent maneuvers meant to cure the two ailing adversaries: the planet and humanity. By imitating the miraculous blossoming of the evening primrose, the chapel manages to reverse the original statement: Death, the shatterer of worlds, becomes Life, the splender of 1000 suns blazing all at once, resembling the exulted soul.

Bread & Puppet’s Summer 2013 Program has ended and the Fall Touring Season has begun! Click HERE for the full schedule.

The 2014 B & P Calendar is now available! Click HERE for more details…