Dear friends,
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we have cancelled our Spring Diagonal Everything Tour.
We’d like to give a big thank you to everyone who hosted us, brought us food, came to see our shows and helped us on our way.
We’re hoping to do a “Let’s try it again tour” in the spring of 2021. If you’d like to inquire about the possibility of Bread & Puppet coming to your town, please email Josh at jrkrugman(at)gmail(dot)com
Stay well and safe!
OCTOBER-NOVEMBER NORTHEAST TOUR: DIAGONAL LIFE: THEORY AND PRAXIS and THE ESSENTIAL FURTHERMORE
Saturday, November 2nd, 7 p.m.
Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis
George Washington Elementary School
67 Wall St, Kingston, NY
Free and open to the public. Donations Welcome.
Sunday, November 3rd, 3 p.m.
Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis
Bennington Museum
75 Main St, Bennington, VT
Tickets: Cost of show is included in Admission to Bennington Museum, which’s cost is as follows: Admission is always FREE for Bennington Museum members, people age 17 and younger, visitors presenting a membership card with a NARM sticker, members of one of the eleven reciprocal museums in the Consortium of New England Art Museums, students attending local colleges with current ID, Mount Anthony Union High School and Career Development Center student. For other adults – $10; Seniors (62+) and Students 18 and over – $9
Venue website: https://benningtonmuseum.org
Wednesday, November 6th, 4:30 p.m.
The Essential Furthermore
University of Massachusetts Amherst
151 Presidents Dr, Amherst, MA
Free and Open to the Public
Thursday, November 7th, 7:30 p.m. (doors @ 7)
Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis
First Church Cambridge
11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA
Admission by donation, $10 – $25 suggested. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Venue Website: https://www.firstchurchcambridge.org
Sunday, November 10th, 4 p.m.
The Essential Furthermore
University of Maine Farmington
Academy Street, UMF Campus, Farmington, ME
Free for students. General public: $10-$25, No one turned away for lack of funds.
Advance tickets available at Up Front and Pleasant Gourmet, 157 Front St., Farmington
Tuesday, November 12th, 8:30 p.m. (doors @ 8)
Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis
La Sala Rossa
4848 St. Laurent, Montreal, QC
Tickets: $10-20 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Venue website: https://casadelpopolo.com/about/
Wednesday, November 13th, 8 p.m.
Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY
Campus map: https://www.stlawu.edu/campusmap/index.html
Free and open to the public. Donations welcome.
Existibility
Plainfield Co-op Community Center Gallery
153 Main Street, Plainfield, VT 05667
Open 9 am to 8 pm daily
October thru December 2019
This new exhibit by Peter Schumann, founder and director of Bread and Puppet Theater, consists of 8 black masonite cuts decorated with appropriate and inappropriate polychrome figurations on the theme of existence versus life, surrounded by slogans that illustrate the theme. An existentialist contribution to this existentialism moment in history.
Bread and Puppet will parade in Nancy, France, quartier de Champs-le-Boeuf at 2:30 pm on October 6th. We will perform the Cardboard Celebration Circus on October 19th at 3:15 pm as part of the Michtô Festival.
For more information visit:
In addition to the weekly circuses we will be performing at home in Glover, VT this summer, we have three other performances of our Diagonal Life scheduled for the summer. The dates & locations are as follows:
Check our calendar for more details!
We will have an opening reception for Jesse Azarian’s exhibit in our Woodshed Gallery on Sunday, July 7th after our Circus & Pageant.
Our huge outdoor Circus & Pageant festivals will begin on July 7th and run through August 25th in this 2019 summer.
SPRING NORTHEAST TOUR
Friday, May 10th, 7 p.m.
Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis
Beneficent Congregational Church
300 Weybosset St, Providence, RI
Admission by donation, $10−$25 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Venue website: www.beneficentchurch.org/
Saturday, May 11th, 7 p.m.
Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis
The Newmarket Millspace hosted by Wrong Brain
55 Main St. Newmarket, NH
Admission by donation, $10−$25 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Venue website: https://millspace.org/
Sunday, May 12th, TWO SHOWS. 3 p.m. & 6 p.m.
Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis
Mayo St. Arts
10 Mayo St. Portland, ME
Tickets: $15 General Admission/$20 front rows
Venue website: mayostreetarts.org/
Giant Woodcut Banner Exhibit at GreenTARA Gallery
A variety of Peter Schumann’s most recent giant woodcut banners and paintings will be available for viewing at GreenTARA Gallery closes Sunday, June 9th, with a day of celebratory events.
Events begin at 12:30 with the Film Screenings and Introduction by Robin Lloyd. To quote Robin: “both are extraordinary, portraying a kind of rural primitive drama seen no where else in the world.” www.greenvalleymedia.org/breadandpuppet.
Two Pageants: Gates of Hell (40min) & Men With Teeth (20min) Gates of Hell is a magnificent virtuoso performance by the Bread and Puppet Theater troupe on the grassy amphitheater and hills of their farm in Glover, Vermont. Involving several hundred performers, this last Pageant (1998) portrays the corrupting force of capitalism on humanity, told through fragments of a poem by Bertolt Brecht, which are assembled and crucified on a burning pyre.
“This pageant is about the citizenry who get attacked and sacrificed and resurrected. Out of this population comes the butcher who is professional and obedient, himself a sheep or calf, and also the slaughterer of the calf – the real Nazi and also the proper citizen doing what he is told.” Peter Schumann, Director of Bread and Puppet.
These films were produced by Robin Lloyd. Robin has been a filmmaker, director of the video production company Green Valley Media, and active in the peace and justice movement in Burlington, VT. Her videos of the Bread and Puppet pageants, with Peter Schumann commentary, are unique documentaries of this creative and extraordinary theater. Audience Level: Elementary through Adult.
Film Viewings will be followed by Bluebird Fairycard Readings ($5) by Emily Anderson; sales of Bread + Puppet Art, Woodcut Banners, and Cheap Art; Bread & Aioli; Garbage Man; as well as a short performance by Emily Anderson www.bluebirdfairies.com. Brian Merrill will be playing his carved flutes and Gallery will have various Coffee/Tea drinks. All activities will be ongoing or repeating until gallery closing time at 4pm. For more info: Diane Gayer, [email protected] or www.greentaraspace.org.
Directions to GreenTARA Gallery:
3275 US Rt. 2, North Hero, VT 05474
Contact: 802-355-2150, [email protected]
Venue website: www.greentaraspace.org
Gallery Hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10 – 4 PM
About the Exhibit: Post Apocalyptic Dawn of Possibilitarians
The giant woodcut banner exhibition includes the series Diagonal Life: Theory and Practice; Life Little Life, new work inspired by the incarceration of children at the US /Mexico border; and Post-Apocalypse for a 3/4 Empire, inspired by Young Durer’s 1495 furious apocalypse woodcuts.
“The Dawn is the new republic that brings new light into a crumbling republic of waste and warfare. It is the celebration of the possible light that must confront the current day darkness. The Possibilitarians are the dwarfs of the giantism system, the misfits in the billionaire universe, the-underneath-the-above kids who stand up against the end-of-the-world politics. Possibilitarians of the world unite!”
Sunday, June 2nd , 2-5 p.m. Bread and Puppet Museum Celebrates Opening of 44th Season
The Bread & Puppet Museum celebrates the beginning of its forty-fourth season with a Museum Open House. Visitors will be treated to live music, large and small puppetshows and sourdough rye bread with aioli. After guest performers Bread and Puppet will present Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis, a show that investigates “the leaning power of hurt verticals”.
Bread and Puppet’s Diagonal Life presents the diagonal as a potent and promising opposition to the dominating verticality of our culture. Puppeteers long ago realized that the most aesthetically radical movements for puppets are diagonals, because these movements cannot be sustained by human actors or dancers for more than a moment. Diagonal Life brings all the bewildering, beguiling, and downright funny possibilities and implications of diagonality to life with song, dance, magic, mechanism, and stunning cardboard and paper maché puppets painted in Peter Schumann’s exuberant, slapdash expressionist style.
The Bread and Puppet Museum is located at the Bread and Puppet Farm on 753 Heights Rd./Rt. 122 in Glover, Vermont.
