Category: Puppets

An exhibition and series of puppet performances exploring social justice, curated by artist Tania Padilla

Visit our exhibition and performances of work by puppet troupes and independent puppeteers from across the nation who hold the common thread of engaging audiences with stories and characters to generate awareness of environmental and civil rights issues, festively create positive change and put puppets into the hands of a future generation.

Step away from the fast paced world technology!  Suspend disbelief! Envision change and take part in the storytelling! Create a new world, and bring it to life!

Opening Performances, Food Tasting and puppet making workshops hosted by Puppet Medicine:
December 19th at 11: 00 am and 12:30 pm at the entrance to WIC office, Richmond Health Center

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Chaos in the Streets of CardBurg!
Dozens of buildings destroyed during sudden riot!

By Tipsy Russell
CardBurg Daily Bugle Special Correspondent

photo for the Bugle by Joe BoxCutter

Citizens who have been evacuated from the destroyed port city remained in a daze after usually somber DuckSquatch Day celebrations turned unusually rowdy on Friday. For the first time ever, DuckSquatch demanded that the Mayor and Pastor give him a virgin to take back to his lair in Mount Kilimancardboard. The Mayor and the city complied, having a grand Beauty Contest to find the winner who would get to make their fate in the neighboring mountains.

But the citizens of CardBurg didn’t necessarily comply with the planned post-Beauty Contest festivities by the ruling administration. People seemed to become tense when the Mayor’s office refused to give a definitive time for when the “End of Ages” actually began. “Later-thirty,” the out-of-town help was instructed to say. “Something-ish o’clock,” they also stated.

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Me thinks the Puppet Supper meme has set loose!

From Tanya Padilla,

I hope that you can join us this Saturday March 8th 7-10pm at the Puppet Circus Dinner Cabaret event at Million Fishes Arts Collective.  This is the sneak preview of “Carlitos and the Magic Garden”, the puppet show that I have been cooking up these past many moons.  The food is going to be amazing and accompanied by the rambling entertainment of dancing cows, accordions, a samba doctor and a charming grandma. This event is a benefit for the future projects of Youth Food Works, a branch of the non-profit arts organization ArtsChange I work with.  We will be traveling through the East Bay performing puppet shows for preschools, elementary schools, and health centers as well as collaborating with local artists to host puppetry, performance, and music workshops themed around healthy food and community building.
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When late turns later, and the sun is a mere two hours away, Cookie Monster hits the spot. I guess it was Frank Oz, one of the greats, that allowed Cookie Monster to get interviewed by NPR’s Elizabeth Blair. And it was Cookie Monster that didn’t disappoint. Always good for a laugh, and stuck in a one-joke bit that always gets pulled off, Cookie Monster’s comedic timing ranks among the greats. Watching him improv, whether he knew the questions beforehand or not, is a special highlight. Like those moments on Sesame Sreet where the Muppets improv interviews with kids, you can’t miss the sharp skills of Oz, or David Rudman, behind all that blue fur. And, in good timing, the cookie eating bit was a “throwaway,” done in the first third of the interview and not the main focus of the bit. I could go on about Cookie, and write just as much for Oz’s other character Grover, but I’ll just let the monster speak for itself. And eat its way out of every tough question.