PuppetLOVE! 2002

April 25-28, 2002

Cellspace ° 2050 Bryant Street ° San Francisco

Info/Reservations: (415) 905-5958

Schedule of Events

PERFORMANCE

All shows $10-15 sliding scale

Thursday April 25

8pm FEATURED ARTISTS:Puppets &Politics (and Bugs!)

Spyglass Theater, "The Secret Life of Bugs" ~ amazing blacklight theater (Seattle)

Ringtale Shadow Theatre, "Progress" ~ shadow puppetry (Oakland)

Preaching Puppet Choral Ensemble, "Eat Kitsch or How the Left was Won" ~ past and present members of Art and Revolution and the Direct Action Network (SF, Oakland)

K.Ruby's History of Radical Puppetry

Friday April 26th

8pm FEATURED ARTISTS: Puppets & Music, Music & Puppets

Gitty Duncan's Puppets and Pie, "The Harps of Heaven" ~ with members of Rosin Coven (Oakland, SF)

Il Teatro Calimari "Puppets, Masks and Other Oddities"~ hilariously funny object theatre (Portland)

Max, "The Sand Child"~ Objects, rod puppets and shadows (SF)

Ready featuring hip-hop flautist Tim Barsky and Fred Fong on hammered dulcimer (Oakland)

11pm Rude, Lewd &Crude~Adults only XXX

Features material in poor taste. Don't attend unless you want to be offended and don't say we didn't warn you!

Folly's Fables "Nice Flag, Asshole"(Valley Ford)

Pete Humphrey (SF)

Puppets and Pie, "Edgar" ~ excerpt from the Asshole Monologues (Oakland)

Videos by Todd Kollin and Corey Rosen

and more.....

Saturday April 27th

12 noon Radical Puppetry for Kids of all Ages

Malia Burkhart "Coyote and Raven Dream a New World"(MN)

Beth Peterson's One Grain of Sand Puppet and Mask Theater, "The Kinkari Devi Story" (MN,LA)

Dudley Brooks' Run for Your Life, "Valse in C# Minor from Les Sillyphides" ~ Dancing Humanette (SF)

8pm PuppetLOVE! Cabaret A smattering of short pieces featuring many themes & puppet styles

Wise Fool with Mark Growden, "Inside Every Bird" ~ stilts, shadow, mixed media (Oakland, SF)

Ricki Vincent, "No Regrets" (LA)

Jane Chen & Carl Thelin "La Mamma Morta" ~ Shadow Puppets and Opera (Oakland, SF)

Malia Burkhart (MN)

Dudley Brooks' Run for Your Life, "Valse in C# Minor from Les Sillyphides" ~ Dancing Humanette (SF)

The Hemp Show with Jonathan Youtt, Christine Marie and David Morley (SF)

ans yes, more.....

Sunday April 28th

Community Night $3-10 sliding scale, anytime you arrive....

5:30-7 Vegetarian Dinner

7-9pm PuppetSlam! Bring your puppets and slam. Sign -ups start at 6:45

9-11pm Puppet Movies: George Higham's "Annabel Lee," Jeff Danger, Samara Halperin's "Tumbleweed Town," Wind-up Sahdow Productions' "Martha Matilda O'Toole," Ricki Vincent's "Dante's Place", Susan Peterson and more....

GALLERY

Opening 6-8pm Thursday April 25th. Show will run through the weekend.

Featuring artwork by: Lisa Abattamarco (NY), Todd Kollin, Peter St Lawrence, Gitty Duncan, Ricki Vincent (LA), Nic Griffen, Susan Peterson, Toshiko Kamiyama, K.Ruby and more

WORKSHOPS
All workshops are first-come, first-serve, walk-in except for the stilt building workshop which requires pre-registration (so we can purchase materials). Please arrive 5 minutes before the start-time of any workshop. Thanks.

Friday April 26th

1-4 pm Stiltbuilding with Tom Sepe $50 includes materials

Build your own stilts to take home with you. Limited to 10 people. Pre-registration required(415) 905-5958.

4-6pm Learn to stiltwalk with K.Ruby $15 ($5 off if you've built your own stilts with Tom)

Saturday April 27th

10-12noon Puppetry for kids with Ricky Vincent or Kate Duffley Kids $5 Adults $10

Come make your own sock puppet and/or rod puppet and learn how to animate them!

2-4 PM Found Object Theatre with Il Teatro Calimari's Tim Guigni $15-30

Participants transform everyday objects into complete characters through manipulation and focus. This is an amazing opportunity to work with one of the West Coast masters of Physical & Object theatre.

4-6pm Cardboard Maquettes with Malia Burkhart $15-30

Learn cardboard construction techniques on a small scale by creating a lightweight miniature mask or puppet head from start to finish. You will learn cuts and bends and strategic stapling to turn flat cardboard into a 3D image and quick mache techniques for smoothing and coloring your creations.

2-6pm Live News Toy Theatre Workshop with Beth Peterson (Associate Director of Heart of the Beast)$25-50

Participants will learn to make instant simple stages, assemble quick and imaginative images, work with puppetry movement in the 3D miniworlds and add sound and music to bring it to life. In small groups you will create your own show to express your view of the News of the Day. Bring your own objects or choose from those on hand.

2-6 pm Marionette Intensive with David Morley $25-50

Learn the basics of counter-balance Marionette construction and manipulation from one of the Bay Area's best.