SFBAPG Holiday Party – Valentine’s Day Edition!
Date: February 18th, 2012
Time: 6:30 to 9:30ish
Place: Zocalo Coffee House, 645 Bancroft Ave, San Leandro
Zocalo Coffee House is one of the most amazing gathering places in the bay area. It is an independent, locally-owned coffeehouse and roaster. The name, a Mexican-Spanish word meaning “town square” or “town center”, was chosen to reflect the goal of community building, focusing not only on the product, but on the place itself. It’s not just about coffee or tea, it’s about the community. Easily accessible from both the 880 AND the 580! You will fall in love with this unique shop.
Programming!
“Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock”
A traditional folk-tale from Africa, the troupe has changed the story – just a little – to give it a moral with a 4-H twist. It is about the spider Anansi and how he uses the magic of the Moss Covered Rock to cheat his friends out of their food so he can remain lazy.
Sharon Clay’s 4-H Puppeteers Team is a group of five performers, aged 9-18 years old. Their puppetry experience varies from 1st year to 8 years.
“Co-Creation: Fifty Years in the Making” – Selected Readings
What better way to celebrate the holiday honoring romantic love than to listen to readings Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller’s new book? A chronicle of parenting, uprootings, successes and failures, polyamory, spiritual searching, dancing naked around bonfires, strict accounting practices, and perpetual improvisation.
Conrad and Elizabeth’s careers have been in many forms of theatrical storytelling, including but not exclusively puppetry. Their puppet productions for adults have included The Tempest, Frankenstein,Macbeth, Descent of the Goddess Inanna, and collections of short pieces including Rash Acts, Hands Up, and a political satire The People vs. the People.
They will also set up a small display of their wonderful puppets for your enjoyment!
“Mr. Blues Lavender Dream” – An introduction to the Puppet Slam!
As a special treat for the wee hours of our meeting, a guest from New York, Mr. Artie Poore will give a short presentation of an interesting entertainment form which is popular with many Avante’Garde puppeteers around the world… the “Puppet Slam”!
This will include a demonstration of emcee styles with a brief open Q and A, then a Slam Act which was performed at The National Puppetry Festival.
Show and Tell!
Please bring something to share with your fellow members. Do you have a puppet you are working on? A sketch of one? A new puppetry purchase you’d like to show off? Perhaps you have a new idea or script you’d like to share? Bring it! We wanna see it!
POTLUCK!
Please bring a dish to share.
Refreshments!
Free coffee! (Espresso Bar drinks at cost) and various other sundries to be provided by the guild.
Gift Exchange!
If you’d like to be part of the Holiday Gift Exchange, bring a gift – not to exceed $10 in value. Bring one, get one.
See you there!