Sunday July 7th kicks of the summer season at B & P with the brand new Total This & That Circus and Pageant. Outdoor performance for all ages, in the Circus Field. Guided tours of the museum Sundays at 1 pm. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

For a scholarly symposium celebrating and analyzing the 50th anniversary of Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theater, sponsored by the Theatre Department of Boston College on September 14, 2013, Boston College is soliciting papers, presentations, addresses, and other works analyzing the work of this influential U.S. theater company, and its relation to developments in theater, performance, politics, ritual, and community culture around the world.

We are interested in including work in the following areas:

– Bread and Puppet and United States political performance from the 60s to the present, from the Living Theater to the Occupy Movement.

– Arts and Activism, especially in the contexts of the following issues: the Vietnam War, the Anti-Nuclear Movement, Central American activism (including conflicts in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala).

– Bread and Puppet as devised theater: working dynamics of U.S. theater companies from the 1960s to the 2010s.

– Practice and theory of the avant-garde theater director in late-20th-century U.S. culture.

– Religion and Contemporary Performance, regarding Bread and Puppet’s use of religious rituals, music, stories, contexts, and activism in its work.

– The work of U.S. theater companies abroad including Bread and Puppet’s work and influence in Europe, South and North America, and Asia.

– The development of puppetry as “avant-garde” or “experimental” theater since the 1960s.

– Bread and Puppet and Sixties Theater in New York City, especially in terms of Judson Church, the Happenings movement, and East Village storefront arts culture.

– Peter Schumann as visual artist.

– The functions of text in puppet performance.

– Contemporary performance and community engagement, including Bread and Puppet’s 38 years of making outdoor pageants, parades, and circuses in northern Vermont, and the development of volunteer-performed pageants, circuses, and parades as a new theater strategy and a continuation of the American Pageant Movement.

– Bread and Puppet Theater as dance: choreography with masks and puppets.

– Bread and Puppet Theater and the “New Circus” movement of the late 20th century, from Grand Magic Circus to Cirque du Soleil.

– Performance, bread baking, and rituals of eating.

– “Cheap Art” philosophy and practical logistics in the cultural economy of the United States.

– Bread and Puppet music: junk orchestras, Sacred Harp music, brass bands, cantatas, operas, and “Insurrection Masses”.

– Bread and Puppet scenography: street shows, parades, pageants, indoor spectacles, and the rediscovery of the proscenium arch.

– Bread and Puppet techniques: traditional puppetry and cheap innovations: Kasperl, Punch and Judy, Sicilian marionette theater, giant puppets, cardboard cutouts, shadow theater.

– Bread and Puppet pedagogy: workshops, internships, the survival of the apprentice system, and the articulation of puppet technique.

– Theater archives: what do we do with all this stuff?

The deadline for proposals is June 15; please send to: [email protected].

Saturday, May 18, 2 pm

PETERBOROUGH, NH

Children and the Arts Festival

The Circus of the Possibilitarians

Depot Park

 

Bread & Puppet will be joined by students from the local high school.

 

There’s a lot more going on at the festival this day. Checkout

http://www.childrenandthearts.org  for more information.

Saturday, March 30

BRATTLEBORO, VT

Leaks, Lies and Lawyers

Parade and Rally to Protest Vermont Yankee

Parade start: Harris Place, 3:30 pm

Rally: Latchis Theater, 4:30 pm

On 3.30.13 at 3:30 the streets of Brattleboro will be filled with the sounds and sights of protest. No more leaks, lies, or lawyers! No more waste!

We’re looking for at least 30 volunteers to join us in the parade, marching with the garbage men and corporate characters.  We also welcome musicians to join our band. Please meet us at Harris Place at 2:30 for rehearsal.

 

Contact Bob Bady [email protected]

For directions and more information about the event, please visit

http://www.safeandgreencampaign.org

 

 

 

Thursday – Sunday, April 4 – 7

HUDSON, NY

50 Years of Bread & Puppet, 8 pm Thursday, April 4 – Saturday, April 6

Circus of the Possibilitarians, 3 pm Saturday, April 6, and Sunday, APril 7

Time Space Limited

424 Columbia Street

 

http://timeandspace.org; phone: 518-822-8448

 

Friday, March 15, 7 pm
HAVERHILL, NH
The Circus of the Possibilitarians
Alumni Hall
75 Court Street
Tickets: $10 adults, $5 kids (12 and under), 2 & under free!
To order tickets online please visit: www.alumnihall.org/events.html

Sunday, March 17, 3 pm
SOUTH BOSTON, MA
Saint Patrick’s Day Peace Parade
Starts at 383 D Street
Ends at Dorchester Avenue

We’re bringing parading gear for many more people than are in our touring company. If you’d like to join us in the parade, please look for our bus (you can’t miss it!) in the big parking at 383 D Street and meet us there @ 2pm.
Musicians are also welcome to join our brass band!

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Graphic images- chiseled into masonite, printed and painted on cloth, and paper- have been an integral part of Bread & Puppet Theater’s shows since the very beginning in the early sixties. Peter Schumann, Bread & Puppet’s founder, director and artist, created and continues to create, the contents- both pictures and texts- of nearly all our publications and posters.

After moving to a farm in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, in 1974, we sold posters, banners and chap books, in our Museum Barn and at Bread & Puppet events. By the late eighties, Bread & Puppet Press was established, with an annual calendar and mail-order catalog, and in 2000, its own print shop building. (Until then, we had printed and painted, helter-skelter, in the Museum, chicken coops, and rehearsal and meeting spaces.) There, under Lila Winstead’s able management, she and local volunteers, make all the hand-printed and -painted items for sale, including letterpress broadsides and handmade books. The Print Shop also produces the banners, flags, curtains and costumes, as needed, for specific shows and events. At the Bread & Puppet Press, Elka Schumann and Lila select material from PSchu’s huge oevre and design the books, posters and cards, and work with local offset printers to produce the sales items, usually in editions of 1,000 or fewer.

Our emphasis is on utilitarian uses of art, for such vital activities as celebration, decoration, information, argumentation, rumination- and puppetry!