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First Annual Plex Arts Festival 05/20/2023

From the Organizer:

Plex Arts Festival is a new, grassroots, immersive arts event in Burlington's Old North End that took place on the evening of May 20th. The festival focuses on experimental and contemporary work. All art forms welcome - dance, music, sculpture, tattoo art, food, comedy, pottery, theater, poetry, painting, crafts, video art, and other cross-disciplinary creative projects.

On the Waterfront: Making Local Pop Culture: An Interview with Trish Denton from In Tandem Arts 03/22/2023

Host Mariah Riggs interviews Trish Denton, the Founder and Artistic Director of In Tandem Arts, a local arts organization incubating participatory, interdisciplinary, and community-based performances. Trish discusses her influences as an artist and changemaker, and an overview of the programs at In Tandem Arts. 

For more information visit: www.intandemarts.com

Bread and Puppet Theatre: Political Leaf Peeping / Premiere Apocalypse Trauma Show 09/25/2022

* A Shape Note Sing Opens the 2022 Political Leaf Keeping Celebration and Performance at the B&P Farm on September 25 , as Alan Hark hoists Peter's newest Bedsheet paintings up the Museum Wall.

* Political Leaf Keeping Official Leaf Tossing Dance

* Entering the Woodshed Gallery to wander and hear the song of a wondering man.
Gallery Installation by Adam Cook "cookie", Saturn Lady Heart, Jonas Friske "JOBO"
"Oh What an Exciting Time to Be Alive." Zane, Jozzy, Tree Garland, Roe Stevens, Dee M., Clare...
Kalimba by

* A first cut of The Apocalypse Trauma Show, premiere in the Paper Mache Cathedral, featuring New York concert pianist Idith Korman. Final cut is found on 2021-2022 Playlist labelled Final #2!

Cantastoria paintings, script, direction: Peter Schumann

film/edit: JL 

For more information: Jerome Lipani, Independent Artist <jeromelipani@gmail.com>. 

Bread and Puppet Theatre: We, Trees 08/28/2022

Pavi, Polash and Ira Karp perform We, Trees, an adaptation from a chap book by Peter Schumann of the same title. This piece was offerred as a postlude to the Apocalypse Defiance Circus and Pageant on August 28, 2022.

For more information: Jerome Lipani, Independent Artist <jeromelipani@gmail.com>. 

Bread and Puppet Theatre: Parking Lot Dance Co: 6 DISASTER CONFRONTATION & MITIGATION DANCES 04/01/2022

Parking Lot Dance Co. Premiere: Six Disaster Confrontation & Mitigation Dances Artwalk April 1, 2022 at Rabble-Rouser Chocolate & Craft Co., Montpelier VT
   performed by
Christiana and Bella Potter, Max Fransen, Brooke Stapleton, Alexis Smith.
   written & directed by
Peter Schumann
    film/edit
JLipani/BZBurmeister 

For more information: Jerome Lipani, Independent Artist <jeromelipani@gmail.com>. 

Bread and Puppet Theatre: Finished Waiting 03/19/2022

This video documents the March 19, 2022 performance of Finished Waiting at the Old Labor Hall in Barre, Vermont, one of its current 12-performance tour on the Eastern Seaboard, with additional credits below.

Cast:Tanja Hohne, Joshua Krugman, Erika Martinez Landaverde, Chaekyung Lee, Siena Mayers, Uriel Najera, Caitlin Ross, Elsa Saade, Denise Rogers Valenzuela

Music: Excerpts from J.S. Bach Suites for Violoncello Solo, Suite No. 2 in D-Minor BWV 1008
Lamentation by Elsa Saade
Letterpress posters printed by HiIlary Savage
Clock: Peter Hamburger
All Bedsheet Cantastoria paintings and Pillowcases by Peter Schumann

Peter Schumann's text, a featured script of this piece:

I WAIT FOR
A LONG
TIME &
WHEN I
AM FINISHED
WAITING
I GO

AND
I GO

AND
I GO

AND
GO

THEN
I STOP

& I
SEE

For more information: breadandpuppet.org
For additional coverages of Bread and Puppet performances: jeromelipani - youtube

The Old Labor Hall show was supported by:
The Harris and Frances Block Foundation
Capital Candy
Dessureau Machines
Miles Supply Co
r.k. Miles
Spruce Mountain Granite Co
Oreste Valsangiacomo Jr                                                                                

Bread and Puppet Theatre: Marionettes En Vitrine! 02/07/2022

Vital Action - Radically Illuminative Public Art *
This film documents the February 7 & 8 Unveiling Walkabout Tour of Montreal's Outremont upscale & utilitarian shops' windows in a very large-scale Bread and Puppet win: Marionettes en Vitrines! This is Bread and Puppet in collaboration with Casteliers.ca. Peter's performance of the Furious Art / L'Art Enragé Fiddle Rant underscores the Photojourney/ Parcours on foot in winter streets of Montreal tour of some 30 vitrines filled with archival photos, ironically-placed puppets, bedsheets, prints with informed performance/exhibition provenance by co-curators Alexis Smith and Pavla Mano employing photography by some 17 longtime B&P and Castiliers.ca artists and some 570 pieces spanning more than a half-century of Peter Schumann's & collaborators' creation.

The 17th Casteliers Festival of radical puppetry will be held March 2 through March 6, 2022 in Montreal. Festival performance schedule can be accessed at festival.casteliers.ca

The Castelier production team offered Schumann the extraordinary opportunity to merge activist art with daily, ordinary life in a cosmopolitan & internationalist multi-cultural city. His "EXCEPTIONALLY WONDROUSLY ORDINARY" written in blue letters on a Bedsheet surmounted by a headless Suit with dangling necktie is a deeply chilling moment of perhaps the major vitrine staged in the city. Huge windows of expressionist/archetypal figures meet the Circus zebra & comic chimera puppet as they face into a major thoroughfare with heavy car and 18-wheeler traffic.

* For more information: breadandpuppet.org and festival.casteliers.ca
   -- JL

Bread and Puppet Theatre: Banjo Bob's - new migration sideshow: "american success story" 09/25/2021

True stories of undocumented migrant crossings through the desert on the Arizona/Mexico border-- as performed at Camp Meade in Middlesex, Vermont on September 25, 2021.

For more information: Jerome Lipani, Independent Artist <jeromelipani@gmail.com>. 

Bread and Puppet Theatre: Bad Bedsheet Philosophy 08/15/2021

Alexis Smith with Lily Pink, Bobby and Jonah Ward perform Peter Schumann's cantastoria as a Sideshow to The Domestic Reservation Circus and Pageant August 15, 2021.

For more information: Jerome Lipani, Independent Artist <jeromelipani@gmail.com>. 

Bread and Puppet Theatre: 1,111 Copper Nails 36 Year Calendar Retrospective Virtual Tour 04/19/2021

The Schumanns tour the Dual-location 36 Year Calendar Retrospective Show in Hardwick VT with Bread & Puppet Curatrix Alexis Smith in mid-April 2021.

As Tamar Schumann said : "There are so many messages!" Here is a representative sample of the incomparable political and spiritual acuity of Peter & Elka Schumann's thought and creative action through the decades!

Complete Calendar Prints are exhibited in 2 locations in Hardwick through September 2021:
  Front Seat Coffee on Main Street, where B&P Prints & 2021/2022 Calendars are for sale:
                                                                     Mon - Fri 7Am - 3PM
                                                                    Sat & Sun 8AM - 2PM
          And all three (accessible) floors @ historic Hardwick Inn at Main Street Crossroad:
Mon - Sat 8AM - 6PM
or by Appointent: breadandpuppetcuratrix@gmail.
More Information & B&P Summer 2021 Domestic Resurrection Circus Performance Dates:
BreadandPuppet.org  

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