ASIDE SHOWS / RARELY CAPTURED presents:
A Celebration of Bread & Puppet Theater!
Exhibition & Art Sale @ Zeitgeist - Dec. 11 - 22
RECEPTION PROGRAM: Wed. Dec. 11, 6-10 pm:
Images of Bread & Puppet @ Zeitgeist -
With photography by Portia Brockway, Cheap Art by The Bread and
Puppet Theater,
a short puppet show, a performance by UNACCEPTABLE, Zeitgeist’s
resident art-
commandos, a brief excerpt of the film “Ah!”, a presentation by
local “zine”/cheap
art champion Rich Mackin, music by Dave Wildman, and more!
Admission: Free!
FILM SCHEDULE:
“Ah! The Hopeful Pageantry of Bread and Puppet,”
The Bread and Puppet Theater as depicted in Film
by Tamar Schumann and DeeDee Halleck
Wednesday-Sunday, December 13-17
Film screening times:
Friday Dec. 13 (6 pm & 8 pm);
Sat. - Sun. Dec. 14-15 (4 pm, 6 pm & 8 pm);
Mon. - Tues. Dec. 16-17 (6 pm & 8 pm).
suggested donation for film screening:
$6 adults
$3 for children under 10
FREE for children under 2.
ABOUT THE FILM
“Ah! The Hopeful Pageantry of Bread and Puppet,” a film by Tamar Schumann
and DeeDee Halleck, is more like a Bread and Puppet art movie than a
documentary. Fresh from the Woodstock Film Festival,
“Ah!” is drawn from over 200 hours of video material shot by Halleck
from 1990-98. The film includes scenes from performances, Bread and Puppet
graphics, puppeteers working and building puppets and props, weeding the
garden, accompanied throughout by the unique Bread and Puppet musical
combination of marching band, rumba and sacred harp singing. The collective
spirit of the theater company and the magnitude of their vision makes their
work an important model for the future. That spirit is captured by this
film.
PHOTOGRAPHY
“Bread and Puppet Museum” photographs by Portia Brockway were taken during a
rare eight-hour photo session held in the theater’s museum in the Northeast
Kingdom of Vermont.
CHEAP ART MANIFESTO
Bread and Puppet’s “Why Cheap Art? Manifesto” decrees: “PEOPLE have been
THINKING too long that ART is a PRIVILEGE of the MUSEUMS & the RICH. ART IS
NOT BUSINESS! It does not belong to banks & fancy investors. ART IS FOOD.
You can’t EAT it BUT it FEEDS you. ART has to be CHEAP & available to
EVERYBODY. It needs to be EVERYWHERE because it is the INSIDE of the WORLD.
ART SOOTHES PAIN! Art wakes up sleepers! ART FIGHTS AGAINST WAR & STUPIDITY!
ART SINGS HALLELUJA! ART IS FOR KITCHENS! ART IS LIKE GOOD BREAD! Art is
like green trees! Art is like white clouds in blue sky! ART IS CHEAP!
HURRAH!” The Cheap Art that will be available (for cheap!) at the exhibit
will run the gamut of breathtaking banners, posters and calendars to cards,
books and broadsides, mostly generated by the Bread & Puppet Press.
ABOUT BREAD & PUPPET THEATER
(Background) The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 on New York
City’s Lower East Side by Silesian-born sculptor and choreographer, Peter
Schumann. In 1969, a nine-month tour of Europe won recognition and critical
acclaim for Bread and Puppet. In 1970, the Theater moved to Vermont as
theater in residence at Goddard College, four years later moving to a farm
in Glover in the
Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The 100-year-old hay barn was transformed into
a museum for veteran puppets. Bread and Puppet Theater does massive
spectacles in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. They address social,
political and environmental issues or simply the common urgencies of our
lives.
DAVID WILDMAN and his band Wildman will present new political music that
helped rile the crowd at the recent war protest rally on the Boston Common.
Be prepared to
do some foot stomping NO’s to our dear Dubya.
UNACCEPTABLE will collaberate with Bread and Puppet this Wednesday ‘cause
we like what they do, AND it’s a chance to bring them together with writer
and anti-corporate humorist/activist Rich Mackin. We thought there just
MIGHT be a connection between what the puppeteers call “Cheap Art” and what
the folks at beantown zinetown call “DIY publication” - come and be edified!
“RARELY CAPTURED” is part of the AsideShows series, an occasional series
dedicated to staging insightful entertainments primarily, but not
exclusively, theatrical in nature.
The AsideShows series is produced by marycurtinproductions -