Bread and Puppet: The Apocalypse Defiance
The circus is coming! The circus is coming! Bread & Puppet Theater makes a rare cross-country tour this
fall 2022. With performances coast to coast, from New York to Seattle, Los Angeles to New Orleans, the
iconic political puppet theater company brings Our Domestic Resurrection Circus: Apocalypse Defiance to
over 50 cities and towns, including Fayetteville on Saturday, November 19, 2022. Circus-goers and
apocalypse defiers of all ages are welcome at Gulley Park for the show at 3:30pm. $10-$25 donations are
suggested, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Fifty-two years ago Bread & Puppet Theater
performed Our Domestic Resurrection Circus
for the first time at Goddard College in
Plainfield, VT. Since then, this capacious and
provocative title has served as the basis of
annual spectacles that generations of
audiences have come to rely on for satire
and celebration in the face of intolerable
circumstances. This year, B&P will take up
the tradition again, albeit with a timely
subtitle: The Apocalypse Defiance Circus
15th Annual Puppets in the Park
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We are back at Gulley Park this fall and are excited to see you all! We will be there with art activities, hands-on puppet play and puppet and music shows! This year we are focusing on local talents. Come out, play and bring your friends, even if they are puppets! We will tell you more as we know! You can join us in many ways. This event is free and provided as a community service. Your donation help makes it happen. you can choose to sponsor or volunteer to help out or bring a crowd and enjoy. All ages.
If it’s rainy we will be at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 2925 N. Old Missouri Rd. Fayetteville.
Puppets in the Park Performance Schedule
12:30 Shaky Bugs- Children’s Music
1:00 Introduction and Welcome by our EmCee Nathan Jay Mabry
1:15 Felix’s Dilemma- Puppet show by Jo Ann Kaminsky
1:45 Bubbles butterflies and jellyfish- free playing
2:00 Magic by George Reader
2:45 Rumpelstiltskin- a Live-streamed puppet show by Dan Raynor of Stevens Puppets shown on the big TV or on your phone.
3:30 Interactive Music with Papa Rap
4:00 Giant Puppet Parade around the Park
Sound by Honnah Sartin
During the day guests are welcome to play with the hand puppets and simple marionettes and make stories to present to each other in the little stages. You can also make paper fish puppets, get a snack or tee shirt, or play with the beautiful painted boxes given to us by Little Guy’s movers ( who also helped us transport our puppets and stages). Big bubbles by Jordan!
Look at the portal/installation/performance by Savanna Biddle!
This year we are bringing back some favorite big puppets to make a parade around the park. We invite you to join in! The puppets will be available during the day to examine or try on.
We want to give big thanks to all of our sponsors! this year we have received support from Cheap Thrills! Hannah Withers and Ben Gitchell, Arsagas, https://www.arsagas.com/, Arkadia, Bank of Fayetteville, https://www.mebanking.com ,The Arkansas Arts Council, https://www.arkansasheritage.com/arkansas-art-council/aac-home, and Little Guys Movers https://www.littleguys.com/
World Puppetry Day Playdate
Come Celebrate World Puppetry Day with us through Zoom on March 21 at 1:00 PM. Your $20 ticket price will help support our virtual Puppets in the Park festival on October 17, 2021 and bring our puppet shows to you this fall. Performers have been hit hard by Covid-19, so lets support them and bring them online! For now, a Puppet Play date! This will be fun! Bring your puppet if you have one. If you don’t, we have some easy lessons and materials list, so you can make your own or just use a sock or found object! We’ll give you a chance to introduce your puppet, meet other puppets, have a dance party and even a talent show. You can join in or be part of the audience. An Angel Ticket can be purchased as a donation for a child's admission who may not be able to afford it. You buy the ticket and we will make sure everyone is able to participate no matter the cost!
Brought to you by The Art Experience, Inc.
Virtual Puppets in the Park
Puppets in the Park is going online! We will continue our tradition of lively puppet action through shows and hands on activities, it will just be different.
We have planned to give you a day of interactive live-streamed and prerecorded puppetry, clowning, magic acts and music.
Join us for Shaky Bugs, Jason Suel, George Meyer, Tommy Terrrific’s Wacky Magic, Eulenspeigel Puppet Theater, Andrew Revelle, Melvino the Clown, Jo Ann Kaminsky and more!