Great Small Works

"Radicality of the Puppet Theater Talk & Film Series" at Los Kabayitos Puppet Theater at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, in 1998! (Title stolen from Peter Schumann's manifesto "The Radicality of the Puppet Theater.") Curated by Jenny Romaine and John Bell...

We are working on our new show, "The Myceliad", in a week-long residency at the Henson Carrriage House! Yay and thanks to the Carriage House!

Celebrate the coming of the New Year with pasta, puppets, music, and each other this evening, at CALLING ALL GIANTS, a Great Small Works year-end Spaghetti Dinner at Judson Church!
Giant puppets from six different artists will participate in a Convergence of Giants to celebrate the ways that oversized puppets have performed festivals of resistance from the Middle Ages to the 1980 Women's Pentagon Action and the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement.
ALSO!:
- Music by FRANK LONDON and his Loisaida Fife & Drum Corps
Deconstructions of mid-19th-century American tunes
Frank London, trumpet
Reut Regev, trombone
Ron Caswell, tuba
Charles Burnham, violin
James Paul Nadien, drums
- A new dance by JENNIFER MILLER
performed by NOA RUI-PIIN WEISS and ZO WILLIAMS to Bach's "Sonata 1 in G Minor, Presto"
- Two crankies by ERIK RUIN with music accompaniment by ALI DINEEN:
"On Another's Sorrow," a poem by William Blake,
"Letter from Isolation" with text from Ulrike Meinhof's "Letter from a Prisoner in the Isolation Wing, June 16, 1972 to February 9, 1973."
- "Brother Bird", a film by MEREDITH HOLCH
- Cranky by BOXCUTTER COLLECTIVE
"Witches, Women and Witchcraft: The (Mostly) True Cranky of a Cranky Old Hag” a brief history of the medieval witch hunts, as told by… witches!
- Shadow puppets by SPICA WOBBE and MARGARET YUEN
"Prologue, Part II," a performance focusing on first-generation Chinese American immigrants.

Great Small Works is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Additional thanks to: the Puppet Slam Network, the Scherman Foundation, and the Constance and Jarvis Doctorow Family Foundation.

More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1373043490867574. Watch on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1577624343266027. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLE3oDaBKRs.