B&P SUMMER 2023 NEWSLETTER
Hello Fellow Comrades and Anti- Capitalist!
We are glad to announce our Summer 2023 Season!! Below you can find dates for all of the events happening this Summer at Bread and Puppet and more!
Museum Opening June 4th 2pm @ B&P
B&P will host our traditional Museum Open House Sunday, June 4th Featuring the premier of Mother Dirt, performed with students from Concordia). At The Bread and Puppet Museum. For Tickets Click Here.
2 pm Shape Note Singing
2:30 pm Museum Opening
3-3:45 pm Guest Performance
4 pm Premier of New B&P Show:
Mother Dirt
JUNE PERFORMANCES:
Paper Mache Mass: Each Saturday June 1oth through July 1st at 4pm in The Paper Mache Cathedral. No tickets necessary
Mother Dirt followed by Paper Mache Mass: Each Saturday July 15th through August 26th at 3pm (Paper Mache Mass at 4pm) in the Paper Mache Cathedral. (There will be no performance Saturday, July 8th). If you’d like to perform with us as a volunteer, please contact: [email protected]
PARADES:
Saturday July 1st, Greensboro Parade
Saturday August 12th, Craftsbury Parade
If you’d like to parade with us as a volunteer, please contact:
CIRCUS & PAGEANT: Each Sunday July 9th – August 27th at 3pm
2pm Side Shows
3pm Circus
4 pm Pageant
5:15 pm Guest Performance
* If you’d like to perform with us as a volunteer, please contact: [email protected]
WEEKLY HAPPENING:
Shape Note Sings:
Each Tuesday at 7pm in the Paper Mache Cathedral. All welcome, no advance notice necessary.
Volunteer in the Printshop:
Every Wednesday and Friday 3-5 pm in the Bread and Puppet Printshop
Want to give us a hand in the Printshop? Here is the form to select days you’d like to attend in May. Please note that Volunteer session times have officially changed to 3pm-5pm Wednesdays and Fridays. On Friday’s we paint posters and on Wednesday we do miscellaneous Printshop projects from sewing, ironing and painting banners to printing new prints on fabric and paper.
Community Puppet Building:
Each Wednesday June 7th through July 26th at 9:30am at the Bread and Puppet Museum. Come help make puppets with us that will be used in our summer Pageant this year. All welcome, no advance notice necessary.
Community Rehearsals:
Each Wednesday, June through August, 7 – 8:30pm in the Paper Mache Cathedral. These rehearsals will be primarily in service of our Mother Dirt show, though may also be used for workshopping circus acts or other shows as well. If you’d like to rehearse/perform with us as a volunteer, please contact: [email protected]
FALL:
Wayzgoose:
September 2nd and 3rd. Join us for the second annual Wayzgoose and Print Fair! Printers and print enthusiasts are invited to come for a weekend of skillshares and shop talk which will culminate in a printfair and performance at 3 p.m. on Sunday, September 3rd.
Political Leaf Peeping & Radical Cheese:
Sunday October 1st 3pm at the Paper Mache Cathedral.
“Cheese is classical fermentation from the animal kingdom. Radical cheese is human fermentation and the need for human fermentation…Only by the spread of such corruptions caused by fermentation can uprisings occur…” -Peter Schumann, “Radical Cheese Against the Asphaltization of Small Planets” Manifesto
Honk:
Friday October 6th through Sunday October 8th
Honk a annual 3-day free festival bringing brass bands from all over the United States and the world to Somerville for a celebration of music, community and activism. Organized entirely by volunteers and now in its 18th year, the festival kicks off on Friday night with a lantern parade in Davis Square neighborhoods and a band showcase. On Saturday more than 25 bands take over Davis Square for a giant music and dance party. On Sunday, local community groups, artists, and activists working for a variety of progressive causes — economic justice, protecting the environment, world peace, an end to racism — join the brass bands to make a spectacular parade from Davis Square to Harvard Square along Mass Avenue.
If you’d like to join us for Honk as a volunteer, please contact: [email protected]
