From: "Puppet People" <puppetpeople-AT-nycap.rr.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:27:01 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] ants and grasshoppers


HA!
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From: <puppetpro-AT-aol.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] ants and grasshoppers


>
> At a recent residency, I directed Kindergarteners to perform "The Ants and 
> the Grasshoppers". When I modeled the story for them, I changed it so that 
> the ants were merciful to the grasshoppers and paid them (in food) for 
> their singing and dancing. It was a significant change to the moral of the 
> story, but I thought that for the kindergarteners, we really needed to 
> teach them about sharing ...
> Then, it so happened that all the girls in the class wanted to be 
> grasshoppers and all the boys wanted to be the ants. So, I'm afraid that 
> quite another "message" could have been read into a rather innocent 
> rewriting of the tale. The teachers and I kept our mouths shut about that 
> one.
>
>
>
> Rolande
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Cook <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Sent: Sat, Mar 13, 2010 1:38 pm
> Subject: [Puptcrit] SUPPORT of the arts/Slow wheels of government
>
>
> Thanks, Rolande for enduring the Funding Cuts hearing process. At City 
> Council
> Meetings it is not unusual to see Council Members reading magazines or 
> even
> dozing while "important matters" are supposedly being discussed. They may
> already be overloaded with sensory input or be merely incompetant. It is 
> not any
> different when you work up to Congress or the Senate.
>
> While feedng the homeless, providing healthcare, etc. are important, so is
> feeding curiosity, educating the ignorant, and providing the foundation 
> the Arts
> provide for being complete human beings with purpose and understanding, 
> with
> exhilaration for life and its interconnections.
>
> Aesop's Fable, THE ANT & THE GRASSHOPPER can be inerpreted in TWO ways. 
> The
> traditional view was that the Ant was a noble, hard worker and the 
> Grasshopper
> was a slacker (as if his musical talents had no value). A more truthful
> interpretation: the Grasshopper could add something to our lives besides
> drudgery.
>
>
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