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Monday, February 6, 7-9pmPlanning has begun for the 2012 MayDay Parade & Festival and we need your input! Everyone is invited to one or both of our open brainstorming meetings. Bring your ideas, concerns, hopes and dreams about building a sustainable future. And tell your friends and neighbors!
Saturday, 8pm & Sunday, 2pmHigh art meets low when the words of early 20th Century poets are given voice in this cabaret of wooden puppets, rolling paper scrolls and bass drums.
The performances are based on the writings of Federico Garcia Lorca and Wallace Stevens as well as a traditional New Orleans blues song.
Recommended for ages 14 and up.
Sunday, Feb 12: stay after the performance for a post-show discussion with the artist!
Join puppeteers from across the Twin Cities as we celebrate our love for puppets with a cabaret of short puppet acts, live music, food, drinks and more!
Recommended for ages 17 and up.
February 18–26 See the world's only puppet rock yoga opera for families in search of calm! Sail along with this epic tale of a sea captain discovering the secrets to taming the stormy seas of stress. Doors open an hour before each show for Z Puppets Family Happy Hour, with free face painting and fun with our Island of Calm. Recommended for ages 3 and up.
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Do you love to sing? Children ages 5+ and accompanying adults can be in the sailor chorus. All are welcome, get more details here.
Melting Evangeline and Angela grapple with how the world transforms. They examine questions of stress, sacrifice, relationship to the world at large, and love. The entire show is grounded in the eternal cycle of life and death.
by Matt Larson and Hannah Rivenburgh"A lotta water run over the dam since then, ain't they." So says renowned Round Peak, North Carolina fiddler Tommy Jarrell. With themes of the travel of history and transmission of culture, of hardship, resilience and the humor that results, this crude and careful show integrates live traditional music, dance, and storytelling into puppetry to dig into the depth and dirt of Mr. Jarrell and his storytelling sister Julie--without letting go. Created in collaboration with Director Masanari Kawahara and fellow performer Rina Rossi.
March 9-11A talking plant detoxes and journeys to find roots and a vanishing language, while a farmer loses ground.
meet me in the heart caves An imaginative dreamlike visual poem
spelunking the forbidden cockles of the heart.
Dude, Dudette 'n ' DudeA Mexican dog's hairy disposition sends him North in search of cooler weather.
Nearly every Saturday through March, different artists perform engaging puppet shows at 10am and noon. These performances will delight kids of all ages. Families can also attend hands-on Make-n-Take puppet workshops based on that day's puppet show theme.
Are you a community organizer? Or active Block Leader in your neighborhood? Or do you just LOVE MayDay and this community? We are looking for a volunteer to help us recruit & train teams of people to host blocks during the MayDay Parade. Contact Brie Jonna at bjonna@hobt.org for more information.
MayDay Parade Interns - work with the MayDay Art Staff to help envision, build and assist the community in creating one section of the MayDay Parade
Grant-Writing Intern - draft the narrative portions of grant applications with the guidance of our Development Director
Event-Planning Intern - help organize the special events we offer, from donor gatherings to opening night parties, under the guidance of our Development Director
Grant Researcher Intern - assist the Development Director in identifying foundations and corporations who might welcome a grant application from HOBT
MayDay Marketing & PR Intern - Assist with MayDay marketing, public relations, social media, & the assembly and editing of the MayDay Program
Contact Margery at motto@hobt.org for more details & application requirements.
The grand upheaval happening in the world, is in part, a manifestation of collective dreaming on a global scale. In this year, let us uphold the bold power of people coming together to make these dreams reality! Our theatre also revels in dreams of quiet mystery that can be found beneath the surface. In this darkest month, we perform "Winter Dreams," a lovely, lyrical meditation of the non-human world before the light's return. Dreaming propels our "theatre of wonder" through our residency programs, our Saturday Puppet Show series, the build and enactment of the Mayday Festival, and our community partnerships.
With your support, we continue to nurture the creativity of children and adults alike — from a first encounter with the puppetry arts through offerings of professional development. Together we are shaping our future as a puppet center with deep roots in the neighborhood and limbs spread wide to serve a vision of health for the world. We are not allowing the continued national economic stress to cast a gloomy shadow on our work. Indeed, we believe even more deeply in the power of abundance that rises from the hearts and dreams of people who come together with authentic creativity for the common good. Thank you for being a part of this, our very mission.
In gratitude for your generosity,
Sandy Spieler -
artistic director
Loren Niemi - executive director