From: Alberta Lewis <sebastopol@sebastopolplantation.com>
Date: February 7, 2007 2:54:18 AM CST
To: Amy Ybarzabal-SbChbr <stbernardchamber@yahoo.com>
Cc: Community Center <ccstbp@yahoo.com>
Subject: Bread & Puppet Circus performance
Dear Amy,
Our Community Center, in collaboration with art classes in the St Bernard Public Schools, is sponsoring the event described in the following press release.
About 25 high school students are working with much excitement throughout this entire week to help create larger-than-life puppets and props under the direction of the Bread & Puppet artists. On Sunday, our Community Center, including some of the students will participate in the Nemesis Parade with these creations.
These events to promise to provide delightful family entertainment with a typical Carnival-style satirical touch, Note the performance is free and open to the public. Although this information was released through our St Bernard Government Public Information person, St. Bernard News missed publishing anything on it. So any exposure the Chamber can assist with is welcomed.
We are hopeful that with the art skills being learned here, we will be seeing giant Crawfish puppets parading about at the recently announced Crawfish Festival in March, and giant Sunflower people at the Art in April Festival in April !!!...and who knows what other creative apparitions we might see out and about at our St. Bernard parades and festivals once these youngsters are infused with the fun of this old-world art form and creative self-expression!!!
Thanks for passing this on.
Alberta Lewis
Sebastopol Plantation
and
Board Member-Community Center of St. Bernard
504-494.9350
BREAD & PUPPET PRESS RELEASE
The Old-World use of papier mache and cardboard street theatre art in parade and pagentry so common in early New Orleans festive life, and in local Carnival celebrations, will be featured in a special performance by St Bernard residents and the Bread & Puppet Theatre troupe on Friday evening, February 9, 2007 at Nunez Auditorium in St bernard Parish.
Nurtured and encouraged through a special program of the newly opened Community Center of St Bernard in collaboration with the St Bernard Parish Public School system, the St Bernard Art Guild, the Bread & Puppet Theatre troupe from Glover, Vermont, and local artist Luis Colmenares, this one-night only, fantastic performance will be fun and inspiring to enjoy...one not to be missed!
Post Katrina, the experiences of parish residents became like a script running before their eyes.... with experiences much unlike that of the life they once knew. Suddenly, everyday realities of dealing with Katrina's aftermath were showcasing inspirational lessons of hope, survival and the true art of living - certainly fitting for satirical expression through this Carnival-like theatre art. In a week long series of Bread & Puppet's creative community-type workshops (using locally gathered scavenged material such as cardboard, sticks, plastic, etc) this unusual theater troupe will have assisted and instructed our residents in theme and script development, and in creating the props, costumes and backdrops for a satirical, fun-filled evening of expressive and exciting family entertainment.
This fantastic performance celebrating the creative efforts of our local residents and the genius of this world-renowned troupe, is just for one night only! So be sure to mark your calendar and be with us on Friday, February 9, 2007 at 7:45 P.M. The event will be held in the Nunez Community College Auditorium located on the Nunez campus at 3710 Paris Road in Chalmette, La.
All are invited to this performance which is free to residents of St. Bernard Parish, although donations will be gratefully welcomed and accepted at the door. This event was made possible by the following sponsors: Arts Council of Greater New Orleans; Louisiana Division of the Arts; St. Bernard Parish Government; St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Department; and the United Way of Greater New Orleans.
For more information please contact Executive Director R. M. “Iray” Nabatoff
at 504-617-2580, or via email at ccstbp@yahoo.com.
Date: February 7, 2007 2:54:18 AM CST
To: Amy Ybarzabal-SbChbr <stbernardchamber@yahoo.com>
Cc: Community Center <ccstbp@yahoo.com>
Subject: Bread & Puppet Circus performance
Dear Amy,
Our Community Center, in collaboration with art classes in the St Bernard Public Schools, is sponsoring the event described in the following press release.
About 25 high school students are working with much excitement throughout this entire week to help create larger-than-life puppets and props under the direction of the Bread & Puppet artists. On Sunday, our Community Center, including some of the students will participate in the Nemesis Parade with these creations.
These events to promise to provide delightful family entertainment with a typical Carnival-style satirical touch, Note the performance is free and open to the public. Although this information was released through our St Bernard Government Public Information person, St. Bernard News missed publishing anything on it. So any exposure the Chamber can assist with is welcomed.
We are hopeful that with the art skills being learned here, we will be seeing giant Crawfish puppets parading about at the recently announced Crawfish Festival in March, and giant Sunflower people at the Art in April Festival in April !!!...and who knows what other creative apparitions we might see out and about at our St. Bernard parades and festivals once these youngsters are infused with the fun of this old-world art form and creative self-expression!!!
Thanks for passing this on.
Alberta Lewis
Sebastopol Plantation
and
Board Member-Community Center of St. Bernard
504-494.9350
BREAD & PUPPET PRESS RELEASE
The Old-World use of papier mache and cardboard street theatre art in parade and pagentry so common in early New Orleans festive life, and in local Carnival celebrations, will be featured in a special performance by St Bernard residents and the Bread & Puppet Theatre troupe on Friday evening, February 9, 2007 at Nunez Auditorium in St bernard Parish.
Nurtured and encouraged through a special program of the newly opened Community Center of St Bernard in collaboration with the St Bernard Parish Public School system, the St Bernard Art Guild, the Bread & Puppet Theatre troupe from Glover, Vermont, and local artist Luis Colmenares, this one-night only, fantastic performance will be fun and inspiring to enjoy...one not to be missed!
Post Katrina, the experiences of parish residents became like a script running before their eyes.... with experiences much unlike that of the life they once knew. Suddenly, everyday realities of dealing with Katrina's aftermath were showcasing inspirational lessons of hope, survival and the true art of living - certainly fitting for satirical expression through this Carnival-like theatre art. In a week long series of Bread & Puppet's creative community-type workshops (using locally gathered scavenged material such as cardboard, sticks, plastic, etc) this unusual theater troupe will have assisted and instructed our residents in theme and script development, and in creating the props, costumes and backdrops for a satirical, fun-filled evening of expressive and exciting family entertainment.
This fantastic performance celebrating the creative efforts of our local residents and the genius of this world-renowned troupe, is just for one night only! So be sure to mark your calendar and be with us on Friday, February 9, 2007 at 7:45 P.M. The event will be held in the Nunez Community College Auditorium located on the Nunez campus at 3710 Paris Road in Chalmette, La.
All are invited to this performance which is free to residents of St. Bernard Parish, although donations will be gratefully welcomed and accepted at the door. This event was made possible by the following sponsors: Arts Council of Greater New Orleans; Louisiana Division of the Arts; St. Bernard Parish Government; St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Department; and the United Way of Greater New Orleans.
For more information please contact Executive Director R. M. “Iray” Nabatoff
at 504-617-2580, or via email at ccstbp@yahoo.com.
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