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Sat, Oct 31: Hazelwood Halloween
12-3pm Family ProgramSat, Nov 7: West End
12-3pm Family ProgramSat, Nov 14: Beechview
12-3pm Family ProgramSat, Nov 21: Lawrenceville
12-3pm Family ProgramSat, Nov 28: Carrick
12-3pm Family ProgramFri, Dec 4th: Friendship
6PM-9PM OPEN PUPPET STUDIO
part of UnBlurred
5530 Penn Ave, Loft 3Sat, Dec 5th: Knoxville
12-3pm Family ProgramSat, Dec 5th: East Liberty
9pm-2am Adults-only After-Party: Shadow LoungeSun, Dec 6th: Highland Park
12-3pm Family Finale Event: the Union ProjectWhat we’re writing.
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This Weekend’s Master Schedule
ALL AGES EVENTS
——-SUNDAY, December 6th: FAMILY PUPPET DAY 12pm-3pm, The Union Project, 801 North Negley Ave.
Puppet Performances
12:15pm Ange Tu’ulaupua Ulu: a traidtional Samoan folktale come to life.
1:00pm Things That Stick Bunny Jump: Giant, jumping bunny puppets.
1:30pm Flora Shepherd Together: join a participatory library puppet pageant
Art-making
- Make your own rod, string, hand and shadow puppet and perform in a real puppet stage.
- Help build giant pageant puppets.
- Write letters to the Library Board of Trustees and your elected officials.
——SATURDAY, December 5th: Knoxville Library
- Final Puppets for Pages small community puppet event at a library scheduled to be closed.
——FRIDAY, December 4th: OPEN PUPPET STUDIO as part of UnBlurred, the Dance Alloy Building: 5530 Penn Ave, #3
-Puppeteer Flora Shepherd invites you into her live/work space to see her current projects. In addition to my own work, I will be exhibiting the work created by children in the Puppets for Pages campaign.
ADULTS-ONLY EVENTS:
——SATURDAY, December 5th: GROWN-UP DANCE PARTY
Saturday, Dec 5th, 9pm- 2am, 21+, The Waffle Shop & Shadow Lounge, 124 S. Highland Ave
Dress as your favorite literary character encouraged! Your guest bartenders will be Max and a Wild Thing.
Featuring
- Dance floor with giant shadow puppet screen.
- Video slideshow of endangered libraries.
- Adult puppet-making table.
- Children’s Art Exhibit.
- Letter-writing station.
——FRIDAY, December 4th: Shadow Puppet Show at the Schmutz Lodge’s Burned Party, 5405 Broad St, 9pm- late, as part of UnBlurred, Puppet Show goes off around 10:30pm
- El Paso: my shadow puppet cowgirl love story set to live music by Missy Raterman
- View art by the Schmutz Company,
- Listen to the music of The 4 Roses
- Poems by poet, writer, vixen, and generally amazing person Sandra Beasley.