please distribute
Spiral Q Puppet Theater will open the region's only puppet museum!!
Friday September 28th 4- 7 PM
Thanks to a generous Community Internship Grant from the Samuel S. Fels Fund, Spiral Q has spent the summer preparing a new public component to our programming: the Puppet Museum.
The opening will be on Friday, September 28th from 4 to 7 PM at Spiral Q's new home.
The new Puppet Museum is an inspiring gateway to the many programs taking place at Spiral Q. The space is full of the many giant puppets, masks, and banners that have been made at Spiral Q since it was founded, and the museum will serve as an excellent resource for the community. Students will learn about the different ways puppets can be used for personal expression and researchers can study the impact of puppet pageantry in neighborhoods and communities. Images of the collection and other resources will also be available online when Spiral Q's redesigned website is launched in October.
Please join Spiral Q�s staff, board, volunteers and partners in celebrating the grand opening of our museum. See the puppets, banners, flags and toy theaters in a way they have never before been displayed! Witness and celebrate both the history of Spiral Q and of community puppet building in the Philadelphia area.
Please RSVP to Spiral Q at 215-222-6979 by September 26th.
Parade On!!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 29, 2001 CONTACT: Mattyboy Hart at 215-222-6979
PEOPLEHOOD:
An All City Parade and Pageant
On Saturday, October 27th, Spiral Q Puppet Theater will hold its 6th Annual year end event.
As the culmination of Spiral Q�s neighborhood residencies this event is the ecstatic forum for all people to celebrate our difference in a boisterous cacophony involving homemade masquerade, giant puppets, stilt-dancers, fire breathers and more in the streets of West Philly.
WHO: Spiral Q Puppet Theater in collaboration with the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance,, Morton Mc Micheal Middle School, The Bike Church, YO!- American Street, Village of Arts and Humanities, CCIS , Binghi B. Productions Pentridge Children�s Garden, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Northern Homes Services For Children, Mission Charter Family School, New Jerusalem Recovery House, The wise Women Center, K.I.N.D.R.A. , The Philadelphia More Beautiful Committee, The Belmont Improvement Association, and, A New Life Center more every day!
WHAT: A participatory giant-puppet parade starting from The Paul Robeson House Museum and Library (PRH) @ 4951 Walnut Street will loop through West Philadelphia to Clark Park, where the Pageant of Neighborhoods and other festivities will take place.
WHEN: Saturday, October 27,2001 at 1:00 PM (Raindate Sunday, October 28)
WHERE PARADE: 4951 Walnut Street, 1pm
PAGEANT: Clark Park, on Chester Avenue between 43rd and 45th Streets 2:30.
STUDIOS: Studios open to the public to build giant puppets will be held weekends for the month of October at The Spiral Q Puppet Theater, 3114 Spring Garden Street. Call for more information and alternate studio locations.
Background:
Central to Spiral Q�s work is a vision of people from all around the city parading in their own neighborhoods with art and puppets made by them about their lives today. Spiral Q works in collaboration with dozens of community groups and agencies to bring giant puppet parades and park pageants to neighborhoods all over the city. At the end of a season of smaller neighborhood parades, these groups all come together as �delegates� from their own neighborhoods to participate in an emerging Urban Arts Democracy celebrating life in Philadelphia - PEOPLEHOOD.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
THE SPIRAL Q PUPPET THEATER
3114 SPRING GARDEN STREET
2ND FLOOR
PHILADELPHIA, PA
19104
PHONE) 215-222-6979
FAX) 215-222-7002
E) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<WWW.SPIRALQ.ORG>
