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February 13 & 14
Sock Puppet Serenade
Flowers and cards and chocolates are all lovely on Valentine's Day, but when was the last time you gave a puppet show for Valentine's Day?
Kurt Hunter creates a touching, quirky, and entertaining world of marionettes in this series of shorts, including one of the sweetest love stories you'll find this weekend!
Fringe Festival audiences called the show ingenious, charming, captivating, witty, warm, and poignant. Catch dinner before or after on Lake Street.
Sock Puppet Serenade
- February 13, 7 pm
- February 14, 4 pm and 7 pm
- Tickets: $10 for this show only
- or $15 for both on February 13
February 13
For the Love of
Puppets Cabaret
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways... When talented artists gather together to share their love - in this case, of puppets - in a cabaret of short performances, you will be thrilled, touched, and thoroughly entertained.
With all this (unconventional) love in the air, the scene will be set to woo your valentine as you never have before.
Food, drink and dancing will continue the good energy into the night.
Emceed by singer/songwriter Pablo, the line-up, as of February 1, is:
- Gustavo & Julie Boada
- Bart Buch
- Karen Haselmann
- Soozin Hirschmugl
- Kurt Hunter
- Wayne Krefting
- Kevin Long
- Steve Mark
- Diane Rains
- Janaki Ranpura
- Gordon Smuder
Tickets
- February 13, 9 pm
- Tickets: $8 for this show only,
- or $15 for the Cabaret and Sock Puppet Serenade on February 13
February 9
MayDay Community Meetings
- Tuesday, Feb 9 · 7-9pm
- Tues, March 16 · 7-9pm
- No reservation necessary
Open MayDay community meetings will be held to brainstorm about the theme for the 2010 Mayday Parade and Festival. The meetings are free and everyone is welcome to attend one or both.
The community meetings are crucial to the creation of the MayDay Parade and Festival, as the ideas generated by community members in these meetings set the theme and inspiration for the parade and festival every year.
No reservation needed, but please come ready to share ideas and discuss recent issues as well as concerns and hopes for the future.
Open community workshops will run throughout April on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The MayDay Parade and Festival will be held on Sunday, May 2.
Saturdays
through March
Saturday Puppet Shows for Kids!
- 10 am & noon in HOBT's Avalon Theater lobby.
- “Make-n-Take” workshop based on that day’s puppet show at 11am each Saturday.
February 13
Dog S.O.S.
Sandy and Blake
A dog is lost! Help rescue the poor pooch from the icIe flow on the Baltic Sea... Based on a true story. In English with some Spanish.
February 20
Serious Nonsense
Theatre of Fools
A vaudeville show for the 21st century specializing in physical comedy, magic and absurd theatrics.