Instituto Cervantes Chicago & Chicago Puppet Fest present:
New Show Added: Sunday, January 30 at 11am.
Featuring hand-carved marionettes and original music, TIMBER! is about a forest: its wild inhabitants, its enemies, and the artist who defends it. Chicago-based puppeteer, Mark Blashford (Rootstock Puppet Co.), brings his special brand of delightful to this poetic work starring Paul Bunyan, Bigfoot, and the forest itself. Chicago-based music group, TV Dinners, provides live acoustic accompaniment to this brand new show made possible in part with a Jim Henson Foundation Production Grant.
With support from the Artstour Fund
Puppetry is an ancient story-telling form. Rootstock Puppet Co. and Artistic Director Mark Blashford continue the tradition of building and performing handcrafted puppets using natural materials that imbue each character with a deep-rooted sense of place. Rootstock is about telling great stories with a dose of environmental education because the art of puppetry can support both the health of a community and its natural environment. That’s why Rootstock partners with the National Forest Foundation and The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation. Proceeds from every wood-carved show go towards planting a tree for tomorrow’s puppeteer and protecting our precious natural resources. rootstockpuppet.com
Instituto Cervantes of Chicago is a not-for-profit cultural center which promotes the engagement of Hispanic art and culture and the teaching of the Spanish language in the greater Chicago area. We are located at 31 W. Ohio Street in downtown Chicago. Our facility is easily accessible by public transportation (subway, bus, car) and features a large gallery, a 160 seat auditorium, extensive classroom space and one of the largest Spanish language libraries in Illinois. For 25 years, Instituto Cervantes has celebrated the diversity and common ground among all Hispanics in Chicago. Our cultural program is unique, serving as a bridge between the various Hispanic communities where all Chicago area residents, including Mexicans, Central and South Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Spanish-Americans, and non-Hispanics, all come together to share and experience an exhibit, theatrical or dance performance, music concert, literary panel, symposium, workshop or lecture under one roof. chicago.cervantes.es
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The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival advances the art of puppetry by presenting sophisticated programs vital to the cultural life of Chicago. Engaging and inspiring the largest and most diverse audiences for puppetry possible, the Festival is the biggest event dedicated to puppetry in North America and traditionally offers more than 100 activities annually including performances, workshops, artist instensives, free neighborhood events and symposia to audiences up to 14,000 over 11 days each January. The organization is also home to other key initiatives, including the Chicago Puppet Studio and Chicago Puppet Lab, that nurture the development of puppeteers and deepen the field locally, nationally and internationally with the ultimate goal of promoting peace, equality, mutual understanding, and justice locally and globally.
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