PERFORMANCE
Thursday,  April 1 - 8pm
FOOLS' DAY CABARET
of shadow dreams, balinese dancing, media shenanigans, live music, ukelele & childlike wonder

Hummingbird Works ~ Little Man Takes Flight   shadow puppetry
Cherie Panek ~ Untitled #1    table top puppetry
Merrill Garbus ~ Fat Kid Opera   hand and foot puppets
Big Tadoo Puppet Crew ~ We Interrupt This Newscast  humanettes and live action
Run For Your Life! Its a Dance Company! ~ Baris  humanettes

Friday, April 2 - 8pm
DAY AFTER CABARET
of the evil Mr. Bush, foam puppet cannibalism, family dynamics, feral beings & shoe dances

IlTeatro Calamari ~ Good Night Bush
Leslie Seiters & Dancers ~ the way to dissapear (excerpt) object theatre/dance
GillJACK Productions ~ The Life Raft  foam puppets
Idle Hands ~ The Hungry Girl  shadow puppetry and masked actors
Signal Light Theatre ~ The Wild Child   table top puppetry

VIDEO SHOWING
Thursday & Friday, April 1 & 2, 7-8pm
Eric Kurland, Xander, Melissa Ehrenreich, Ian Petrella, Hummingbird Works,
Trunk Full of Faces and more...
Free with admission to performances

GALLERY
Wednesday - Saturday, March 31- April 3
Open to the public: 12 noon-8pm
Artwork By:  Sylvia Dawkins, Raven Kaliana, Max, K.Ruby, Wise Fool,
Sara Woolley, Gitty Duncan, David Haaz-Baroque, Emily Butterfly, Sharline Chiang, and more....

WORKSHOPS
Friday, April 2nd

12noon-2pm

Trash Theatre/Object Theatre w/Tim Giugni, IlTeatro Calamari
Workshop participants are asked to bring a minimum of six objects each - toys, appliances, packaging materials, tools, and other ordinary or extraordinary rubbish - to the workshop. Each person (and if there is time, teams) will be invited to operate the assembled junk as puppets and environments in ad libbed performance events. Between  these happenings, the group discusses what it has seen, not judging but exploring what took place, why, and to what effect.

2pm-4pm
Bunraku Style Table Top Theatre w/ Cherie Panek
The workshop will focus on bringing life to a puppet. Using traditional table top puppets we will focus on diving deeper within the basic techniques of Breath, Focus, Movement and Creating Character with an Ensemble. Working hands on with table top puppets, the workshop will be a combination of group dialogue and exercises (Table Top Puppets will be provided. If you have a Table Top Puppet that you would like to work with feel free to bring it with you)

Saturday, April 3rd, 12noon-4pm
Sunday, April 4th, 12-5pm
FREE Giant Puppet Intensive w/ WISE FOOL

Wise Fool founder & director, K.Ruby, will lead you through the process of building a giant puppet from start to finish.  Class includes many skills from paper mache to painting,  from cardboard construction to cloth. Class limited to 25 people.  Pre-registration highly reccommended. You may attend Saturday only, but not Sunday only.  You must be able to transport your creation home on Saturday to dry in your oven and bring it back the next day. Materials provided. Donations accepted.

Saturday, April 3rd 4-5pm
Radical Puppet History Slide Show & Lecture w/ K.Ruby and Others

WHERE
All events except Kids Rad Puppet Mini-Fest take place at
SOMARTS THEATRE & GALLERY
934 Brannan Street near 8th Street
San Francisco - www.somarts.org
Mapquest directions
INFORMATION & RESERVATIONS:
(415) 905 5958

ADMISSIONS
Performances: $12-20 ($15 suggested)
Workshops:$15 -20
Lecture/Slide Show: $5

Notes to enhance your enjoyment:  
Courtesy phone reservations will be taken until 6pm the day of the show you wish or the day before the workshop you wish.
Please show up 10 minutes early to claim your reservations after which time we revert to a first come first serve basis.
Somarts is a big warehouse space and tends to be cold, so do dress warmly for the workshops and evening performances.
Some of the performances feature smaller puppets, thus we encourage the bringing of opera glasses or binoculars to share.

You are welcome to join us Friday evening after the show for an AFTER PARTY with the artists.

KIDS Rad Puppet MINI-FEST
Sunday April 4th, 3-5pm
Berkeley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall
1924 Cedar @Bonita - Berkeley
INFO: (510) 763 0022
www.princessmoxie.org
Mapquest directions

Performances
Dragons Never Laugh ~ Jennifer Levine
Granny Cure All Quilt Show ~ Big Tadoo Puppet Crew

Workshop
Puppetmaking with Gitty Duncan