Reminder: SFBAPG Guild meeting is this Sunday, March 25 at the Sonoma
Community Center. Puppet performance starts at 3:00 PM. Meeting
begins around 4:00 PM. (Bring snacks!)
Everyone is welcome to go out to dinner at 6:00 PM. We are making
reservations at Rin's Thai Restaurant (one block away), so please
RSVP to Lee Armstrong if you plan to join the group for dinner.
Lee's email is images 
vom dot com.
See you there!
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March Guild Meeting -- Three special treats in one day!
Coming from Kansas City, Missouri!
Paul Mesner Puppets perform True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by A. Wolf
(used with permission by Jon Scieszka)
Think you know the real story behind the huffing and puffing? Think
again! There's only one individual who knows the true story about
one wolf, three houses and three little pigs: Alexander T. Wolf. In
this revealing no-squealing adaptation of Jon Scieszka's popular
book, A. Wolf has a chance to tell his side of the story. He only
wanted a cup of sugar and he did have a cold. For years we have only
known this story from the pigs pigs' point of view. Mr. A. Wolf
tells all about what really happened to those three little houses
made of straw, sticks and bricks and the three pigs who lived in them.
and....
World Literature through the Wonder of Puppets
An Exhibition of Selected Works from the Alan G. Cook Collection at
the Conservatory of Puppetry Arts
Enchanting puppets made by the Tatterman Marionettes, Turnabout
Theater, Tony Sarg, Coad Canada, Bernard Paul, Ralph Chesse, Dolores
Hadley and many more incredible puppeteers.
and....
A talk by Paul Mesner about how he runs his very successful puppet company!
Sunday, March 25 from 3:00 to 6:00 PM
Performance begins right at 3:00 PM
Tickets to the show: $12.00 for general public; $10.00 for Community
Center members and SFBAPG members.
Exhibit is free.
Sonoma Community Center
276 East Napa Street in Sonoma
Directions from Golden Gate Bridge, going north on 101:
Take US-101 past the Golden Gate Bridge and go 20.9 miles. Merge onto
CA-37 East toward Napa/Vallejo and go 7.6 miles. Take CA-121 North /
Arnold Dr / Carneros Hwy toward Sonoma / Napa and go one block. Stay
straight to go onto CA-121 North / Arnold Dr / Carneros Hwy.
Continue to follow Arnold Drive for 8.7 miles. Turn RIGHT onto West
Watmaugh Road and go 1.2 miles. Turn LEFT ontl Broadway / CA-12 and
go 1.8 miles. When you come to the plaza (basically a T in the
road), turn RIGHT onto East Napa Street. (Do not turn onto Napa
Street which comes several blocks earlier.) The Community Center is
down a couple blocks on the left side of the street.
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During the last 15 years, Paul Mesner has become a fixture in the
Kansas City theater and arts scene and in the national community of
puppeteers. Every year he produces a full season in Kansas City, and
logs 30,000 miles in travel presenting shows in schools, community
centers, festivals and theaters to more than 100,000 children and
adults. Paul collaborates frequently with the Kansas City Symphony,
the Kansas City Ballet and many other arts organizations.
Paul Mesner has received numerous awards for his work, including the
Citation of Excellence from the American Center of l'Union
Internationale de la Marionnette. The Company has received many
prestigious grants, including grants from the National Endowment for
the Arts and The Jim Henson Foundation.
Paul Mesner's audiences are life-long fans of his hilarious
enterprise. An avid reader, Mesner has made a name for himself
reinterpreting classic and contemporary juvenile fiction or, as he
says, "presenting fiction like a juvenile." He prefers the classic
repertoire of tales and myths because they offer life lessons
intertwined with engrossing stories. He incorporates slapstick humor
and a break-neck performance pace to make stories simultaneously
entertaining to children and amusing to adults. "Averting imminent
disaster is what theatrical production is all about," says Mesner.
"Kids know this, and I like to keep them thinking things are about to
fall completely apart at any moment. This way, I slyly trick them
into paying more attention."
