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Alphabet Arts to Present PUPPETS & POETS at Bushwick Starr, 12/6-12/8

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The Bushwick Starr and Alphabet Arts Present: 3rd Annual Puppets & Poets Festival on December 6-8, 2013, Friday-Sunday. Evening cabaret for mature audiences, Fri-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 7pm. Free matinee for all ages, Sat-Sun at 3pm. Family-friendly performance and interactive fun!

Puppets & Poets is a festival that explores and celebrates poetry and puppetry, two of the world's oldest and most diversely practiced art forms. The third annual festival features poets, puppeteers, musicians, actors, dancers, and other artists from NYC, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Austin in an evening cabaret program for mature audiences and a family-friendly matinee program. Matinees are free, interactive, appropriate for all ages, and followed by poetry-writing and puppet-making workshops. Highlights of this year's festival include The Folk Art Opera by San Francisco poet/musician Annie Bacon and her band with puppetry by Alphabet Arts; a David Bowie-inspired rock adventure called Spacetansmananagasm by Austin actor/puppeteer Zeb West; and Blown Away by Poetry, an interactive puppet musical by NYC's Urban stages. Both the evening and matinee programs include exciting and eclectic performances blending puppetry, poetry, and other arts.

Featured performers:

Annie Bacon, Danya Bergy, Daniel Broadhurst, Ren Carrillo, Jonah Eller-Isaacs, Rima Fand, Elizabeth Greenblatt, TS Hawkins, Modesto "Flako" Jimenez, Kristen Kammermeyer, Lindsay MacNaughton, Takahiro Morooka, Jeremy Muler, Liz Parker, raiyuki, Fernando Ruiz, Grace Rectra, Gwen Rooker, Rachel Sullivan, Charles Tyson, Jr., Neelam Vaswani, Amber West, Sam T. West, Zeb West, and Kathryn Wilkening.

P&P Production Team:

Artistic Director: Dr. Amber West; Production Manager: Neelma Vaswani; Lead Puppeteers: Kristan Kammermeyer, Ren Carrillo; Techinal Consultant: Mark Sitko; Production Assitant: Carmen Torres; Teaching Artsists: Chris Borchardt, and Modesto "Flako" Jimenez.

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