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[Sunflower]/To Be Alive at Shake on the Lake

Dates: 7/1/2022 - 7/2/2022

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Shake on the Lake

New York State Puppet Festival
37 S. Main St. Perry, NY 14530
Perry, NY 14530

Tickets: $0-25


[sunflower] by Sifiso Mabena (directed by Marcella Renee Murray) is a multidisciplinary performance following a Zimbabwean womans quest to make herself at home after decades of being an immigrant. This play is about roots: grass roots, being rooted in, and being uprooted. Using elements of puppetry, family history, Afro-surrealism and movement, [sunflower] explores notions of home, immigration and displacement as they pertain to identity.To Be Alive by Leah Ogawa is a solo puppetry piece inspired by the poem To Live by Shuntaro Tanikawa, exploring the fundamental questions of life. Created by Leah Ogawa and John Tsung.Total Running Time: Approx. 75 minutes. Masks Required for entry. For more information visit www.NewYorkStatePuppetFestival.org .

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Shake on the Lake

37 S. Main St. Perry, NY 14530
Perry, NY 14530

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