Members of the SFBAPG are cordially invited to attend the 50th
Anniversary Celebration of the Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry.

Sunday, October 15, 2006
7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

At the MAGIC CASTLE in Hollywood !!!
7001 Franklin Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90028.

It has been 50 years since the Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry held its
first meeting. We are having a special evening to celebrate the
anniversary with a stellar program featuring some of your favorite
performers: Rene and his Artists, Lois Harmeyer, Thom Fountain, Tony
Urbano, Alan Cook, and Bob Baker!!

Admission is $25.00. Light hors d'oeuvres will be served. Admission
includes one non-alcoholic drink.

You may arrive at the Magic Castle as early as 5:30 p.m. and stay
until closing at 1:00 a.m. to enjoy all the Magic Castle has to offer.

RSVP is required to get in the door. Contact David Fuller at
323-353-62O1 or rsvp fullervoice dot com by October 1st, 2006.

Please send a check for $25 by October 1st to: LAGOP, c/o David
Fuller, 1440 N. Alta Vista Blvd #302, Los Angeles, CA 90046

Your September newsletter is on line! Go to http://sfbapg.org/newsletter.htm and download September 2006!

Submissions are needed for the October newsletter. Please send
articles, photos, reviews, performance announcements, tidbits of any
puppet-related stuff to Jeff Pidgeon.

Check out the cool web site for the 2007 Puppeteers of America
National Festival!

http://www.puppetrampage2007.org/

This message comes from Puppeteers of America member, Elise Handelmann:

Ventriloquist Week on Latenight with David Letterman - Sept 18-22!
Jay Johnson, Ronn Lucas, Jeff Dunham & Todd Olivor will each be
featured on the show all week long with their puppets!

http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/

Here's a link to ventriloquist Jay Johnson's "The Two & Only" Broadway show

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/theater/17gree.html?ex=1158552000&en=55e45525ad92

From Nancy Smith, the Artistic Director for the upcoming 2007
national festival:

Hello everyone!

The deadline for performance applications for Puppet Rampage 2007 is October
1. The National P of A Festival will be held in St. Paul July 17-22, 2007.
You can get an application from the website - _www.puppetrampage2007.org_
(http://www.puppetrampage2007.org) .

Some performance slots are already filled with awesome acts, but we still
need more good shows, especially children/family shows and shows that can be
performed outdoors during the day. It really helps if you can send a video.
If you know of a good show, please encourage them to apply.

Get those applications in!

Nancy Smith, Artistic Director
Puppet Rampage 2007

Seeking puppeteers to collaborate, participate
and attend a public community screening of
"THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SESAME STREET."

Contact:
Mo Kinberg
ITVS Regional Outreach Coordinator
510-452-7178

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SESAME STREET
Sept. 12, 2006
6pm
San Francisco Public Library
Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St.
Free and open to the public

ITVS Community Cinema, KQED, and the San Francisco Public Library present:

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SESAME STREET reminds us
that social change can come from the most
unlikely sources, including a team of Muppets. We
follow three producers from the Sesame Street
Workshop to Bangladesh, Kosovo and South Africa
where they localize the world’s most-watched
children’s television program with indigenous
songs, puppets and curricula. The cultural and
production challenges they face reflect the
complex political struggles of each country.
Education is always more than alphabets and
numbers, and the contradictions inherent in
teaching humane values in a world where AIDS,
ethnic genocide and poverty dominate the
landscape make this film a must-see for anyone
interested in intercultural dialogue.

If you are interested please contact me Mo
Kinberg at 510-452-7178 moriahkinberg yahoo dot com.
I am the Regional Outreach Coordinator for iTVS.
ITVS.org. I would like to organize a series of
workshops in addition to the film where San
Francisco youth would make puppets that represent
their neighborhood, ethnic background or
personality.

Thank you.

Moriah Kinberg
ITVS Regional Outreach Coordinator

Hello!

I'm writing to let the guilds know of a new puppet production that will be going on stage in March of 2007. Here are the details:

Man of La Mancha
by Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh, and Joe Darion
Directed by Art Grueneberger, with Musical Direction by Pete Nowlen and Puppet Design/Building by Kristin Phillips.

Dream the impossible dream with Don Quixote, the Man of La Mancha! An all-new production of the celebrated musical, featuring actors with spectacular life-sized puppets.

Location: Main Theater, Department of Theatre and Dance, UC Davis, Davis Ca, 95616.For tickets or more information please call:(530) 754-2787 or 1-866-754-ARTS or go to: http://theatredance.ucdavis.edu/manoflamancha.html

Preview: Thursday, March 1
Performances: Fri-Sun, March 2-4; Thu-Sun, March 8-11
8:00 p.m. except Sundays, March 4 and 11 at 2:00 p.m.
Additional 1:00 p.m. matinee on Friday, March 9
Main Theatre.
$20 advance / $21 door adults; $14 advance / $15 door students & children
(Preview: $15 adults, $10 students & children)
The production is a full staging of the musical "Man of La Mancha" using life-size bunraku-like puppets to represent all the characters in Quixote's fantasy world. We did a bare bones workshop of it in June and it went well giving us plenty to work on for the full production in March.

I would be grateful if you'd pass this information on to your guild members! I have pictures available for use in newsletters if you'd like.

Thanks very much!

Art Grueneberger
Puppet Art Theater Co.
www.PuppetArts.com
916-704-2556

SFBAPG September Meeting

Saturday, September 16, 4:00 pm

Featuring the show "ALADDIN" & two workshops: "Hands On" and
"Critical Response"

Children's Fairyland: 699 Bellevue Avenue, Oakland.
www.fairyland.org

Directions to enter Fairyland: Enter through the back of the puppet
theater entrance, facing the lake. Don't go through the main gate.
As you face the front entrance of Fairyland, walk to the right, around the
chain link fence. Look for the sign "Puppet Guild Meeting." If the
gate isn't open, call loudly. Someone will be available from
3:30-4:45 pm to open the gate. Emergency cell # 707 738-5906.

Parking: There is street parking available. There is a Fairyland
parking lot, which may or may not charge for parking. Check the signs.

Please bring a snack to share. Bring friends who are interested in puppetry!

4:00 pm ALADDIN

From "1001 Arabian Nights", a poor but clever boy encounters a magic
lamp, a powerful genie, and an evil magician in his quest for love
and wealth. Adapted by Lewis Mahlmann. Puppets designed by William
Stewart Jones.

4:45 pm WORKSHOP COMBINATION: "Hands On" and "Critical
Response" led by Lee Armstrong & Tim Giugni

These two workshops are a combination of some ideas from 2
interesting workshops given at the Seattle Festival, by Chris
Griffith and Shari Aronson of Circus Minimus, Minneapolis.

"Hands On"

Great ideas to harness creative thinking, observation and bringing a
puppet to life, including getting people involved in "hands on"
exercises. This will also include some Czech styled puppet
manipulation techniques and some simple exercises to warm up the
hands. Approx 30-45 minutes. This will be co-led by Tim Giugni and Lee Armstrong.

"Critical Response: Getting and Giving Feedback That Works"

Whether you're a beginner or a professional, nothing advances your
artistry more than trying out your work in front of an audience. But
often viewers don't know how to give you honest information that you
can really use, or they will attempt to change the work without
understanding the artist's vision. Choreographer, educator and
MacArthur Genius grant winner, Liz Lerman originally developed the
Critical Response Talkback for use in critiquing her dance company.
Using the "Hands On" workshop, we will apply the structure of Critical
Response. Participants will see how these simple guidelines for
evaluation can be applied to their work. Approx 20-30 minutes.

Workshop Leaders

TIM GIUGNI, IL TEATRO CALAMARI, St Helena

Tim Giugni has been a puppeteer and actor since age 10. Some of his
best previous rolls include, "I'm Too Sick to Go to School Today,"
"Third Duck on the Right," a Fifth Grade Play, and "Spoon River
Anthology" in middle school. Tim has worked for many companies
including the Atlanta Puppetry Center and Tears of Joy Theater. He is
the founder and Artistic Director of Il Teatro Calamari, a company
renowned for its uses of puppetry, mask and physical theatre.

LEE ARMSTRONG, IMAGES IN MOTION, INC., Sonoma

Lee Armstrong is co-owner of Images In Motion, a company that
specializes in puppetry for TV and multimedia. Recently, she
puppeteered and was the Production Coordinator for the puppet
portions of the successful "Little Leaps" educational games from
LeapFrog Toys and is puppeteering on the new PBS series "Mustard
Pancakes," shot in Vancouver. Additional credits include everything
from "Fraggle Rock" to the Round Table pizza commercials. She has a
BA in Theater and studied acting at HB Studios in New York.

Lee Armstrong
Images In Motion Media Inc.
720 Ladera Dr., Sonoma, CA 75476
http://www.imagesmedia.com