File puptcrit/puptcrit.0609, message 32


From: "Ken Berman" <dramatontheater-AT-hotmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:23:14 +0000
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Fundraising parties


Tim: I spoke to you sometime ago and found you to be a devoted and driven 
person.  I do not know what else goes on at your parties other than people 
enjoying a freedom to express themselves within a private sanctuary.  What 
you do to raise money as long as it is safe is fine by me, and I would be 
happy to bet that you are not creating any unsafe environment for minors or 
those without the mental facility to know what hey are doing.  I am also not 
worried about how one puppeteer may reflect on the puppet community, I am 
responsible for myself, as you are.  Believe it or not, "puppeteer" is not 
defined as a "type of person", it is an art form that some people practice, 
this makes them no more similar or repsonsbile for each other than painters, 
sculptors, etc.  Otherwise, by the same thinking, Robert Mapplethorpe and 
Andre Serrano would have destroyed the notion of offering photogrpahy 
classes in high schools.  Raise money as you deem fit, and do not allow 
anyone to tell you you need to figure something else out because it effects 
them, when they do not even know you or your actions.



Ken Berman
Dramaton Theater



----Original Message Follows----
From: "Robert Rogers" <robertrogers-AT-frontiernet.net>
Reply-To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Subject: [Puptcrit] Fundraising parties
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 00:06:17 -0400

Tim,

I don't know how to write this without being insulting, but I don't think
it's appropriate for people who work in elementary schools to publicize the
fact that they stage parties on a regular basis, attended by people dressed
in their underpants.  I'm not commenting on the quality of your work or the
sincerity of your intentions, but considering how nervous school systems are
these days about the people they let into their buildings, I'd say you are
making a big mistake.

I'm not saying you're doing anything wrong, but when people go to a party
and take their clothes off, I think they're probably looking for a little
more than an evening of casual socializing.  And reporting it in a flashy
(and maybe trashy) magazine may be bad for puppetry.

Here on the east coast of the U.S.A., I already have to contend with lousy
puppeteers who leave a lousy impression of puppetry in people's minds;
school buildings that are locked like fortresses, fingerprinting, notarized
disclosure forms; and now I have to deal with someone who throws underwear
parties?

Please find another way to raise money.

Robert Rogers

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