Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:44:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Tim Giugni <octorilla-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: PUPT: Puppet Festival in San Francisco, April 1-4


Love to see some of you there.
Tim Giugni
Il Teatro Calamari

PuppetLOVE!
experimental political & emerging puppetry
April 1-4, 2004
http://www.zeitgeist.net/wfca/PL2004.htm

PuppetLOVE! is back! Now in our seventh year, we
present two packed evenings of diverse puppetry, three
days of puppet skills workshops, a gallery exhibition,
video showing and children’s event. Puppet LOVE!
offers the opportunity to join the fascination with
puppets and to experience a wide variety of puppet
styles, sizes and aesthetics. Let us lead you into 
fantastical worlds filled with lush visual poetry,
complex themes, sharp wit and dark humor!
 
This years festival features shadow puppets,
humanettes, table top puppetry, mask, object theatre,
dance and music. Themes range from overtly political,
such as Big Tadoo’s poke at corporate media in their
piece We Interrupt This Newscast!  to quietly
thoughtful, such as Idles Hand’s look at family
dynamics in a story of a father and daughter.  Run For
Your Life! presents a new work that blends humanette
puppets with traditional Balinese dance; Il Teatro
Calamari puts George Bush to rest, and Signal Light
Theatre delves into research about feral children.

As  special features this years festival offers a free
two day Giant Puppet Building Intensive, as well as
other workshops and a Saturday afternoon lecture on
the History of Radical Puppetry and the emergence of
Puppetry as a force in the anti-globalization
movement. 

PERFORMANCE
Thursday April 1,  8pm ~ FOOLS DAY CABARET
of shadow dreams, balinese dancing, media shenanigans,
live music, ukulele & childlike wonder
Hummingbird WORKS (SFO), Cherie Panek (PDX), Merrill
Garbus (VT), 
Big Tadoo Puppet Crew (SFO), Run For Your Life….It’s A
Dance Company (SFO)
Friday April 2, 8pm ~ DAY AFTER CABARET
of the the evil Mr. Bush, foam puppet cannibalism,
family dynamics, feral children & chaussures
Il Teatro Calamri (Napa), Leslie Seiters and Dancers
(SFO)   
GillJACK Productions (SFO), Idle Hands (OAK), Signal
Light Theatre(PDX), 
The work presented is geared for adults but children
are welcome. Some of the work may be too dark for very
small children.

GALLERY OPENING &  VIDEO SCREENING
Thursday & Friday April 1 & 2,  7-8pm
Artwork By:  Sylvia Dawkins, Raven Kaliana, Max,
K.Ruby, Wise Fool, Shadow Circus Creature Theatre, 
Gitty Duncan, Emily Butterfly, Sharline Chiang and
more....
Video by:  Eric Kurland, Xander, Melissa Ehrenreich,
Ian Petrella, HummingbirdWORKS, Trunk Full of Faces
and more....

WORKSHOPS
Friday, April 2  12 noon ~ Theatre of Trash – More
Object Theatre with Tim Giugni
Friday April 2  2pm ~  Bunraku/ & Table Top Puppetry
with Cherie Panek  
Sat. & Sun.,  April 3 & 4  12 noon-4pm ~ FREE Giant
Puppet Making Workshops with Wise Fool
Saturday, April 3 4pm ~ Radical Puppet History Lecture
& Slide Show $5

KIDS Radical Puppet MINI-FESTIVAL
Sunday, April 4  3-5pm 
 Performances and Workshops with Princess Moxie, Big
Tadoo Puppet Crew, Gitty Duncan and more….

WHERE: Somarts ~ 934 Brannan St. ~ San Francisco
TICKETS: Performances $12-20, Workshops $15-20
KIDS MINI FEST: 1924 Cedar Street at Bonita in
Berkeley ~ Adults $6-10, Kids $4-6
INFORMATION & RESERVATIONS:  (415) 905-5958

ARTIST BIOS & ALL KINDS OF OTHER DETAILS:
http://www.zeitgeist.net/wfca/PL2004.htm
http://www.zeitgeist.net/wfca/PL2003pix.html



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