Parades for All Occasions

37 S. Main St.,Perry NY 14530

25 June, 2022

Description

Parades for All Occasions is here for all of your pop-up processional needs! Come visit our Library of Everyday and Extraordinary things. With the help of friends and strangers you can design the mini-parade of your dreams!! Using our selection of paper mache objects, and a little imagination, you’re sure to find* symbols for anything you wish to celebrate—be that fruit, friendship, or frivolity. *If not, you can always make a suggestion for the library’s ever-expanding archive of the quotidien. See below for scheduled appearances and keep your eyes peeled for surprise interventions throughout the first weekend of the festival. Workshop: 11:30- 1:30 at Theatre@37 Participants will each decide on an everyday object that they want to celebrate, or that symbolizes or represents something they value. We’ll illustrate those items on cardboard, cut them out, and give them color using oil pastels. Participants will also have the option of turning their cardboard object into a wearable mask. Participants will be encouraged to return for the parades at the Brewery to wear their masks or see their objects come to life in the 3:30 pm Parade. Workshop admission is $25 or Pay What You Can. Parade: 3:30 PM at Silver Lake Brewing Project Participants will choose colorful paper-mache objects from the Library of Everyday and Extraordinary Things and carry them high in the air as we process from the Silver Lake Brewing Project, down Main Street, and back! Gather at 3:30 pm to choose an object, discuss what we’re celebrating, and design our procession. Parades for All Occasions is a part of the 2022 New York State Puppet Festival in Perry, NY. For more information visit us at newyorkstatepuppetfestival.org ! About the Artists: Liz Oakley is a puppeteer, designer, performance-maker, and teaching artist. Her original performance work has appeared at the Performance Mix Festival, Dixon Place Puppet BloK, the Wassaic Project, the Object Movement Festival, The Tank, Coney Island USA, The Painted Cloud, AS220, Judson Memorial Church, and various living rooms and street corners. Her project The Anywhere Festival of Everywhere Stages, a collection of miniature site-specific street corner puppet shows, appeared at the Art in Odd Places Festival and was the recipient of the May 2021 NYC Awesome Grant. Most recently, her puppet designs have appeared at 59E59. She is a teaching artist with Spiral Q and Puppetry In Practice. She is 1/3 of the Out Of Work Puppeteers and co-creator with Ali Goss of Parades for All Occasions. Liz lives in Philadelphia. lizlizliz.com Ali Goss is a multimedia artist and puppeteer. Since 2017, they have toured and performed with Australia-based giant puppet troupe Snuff Puppets and German director Steffi Oberhoff, most recently at the Basel International Figure Theatre Festival. Since 2018, they've worked for Basil Twist, most recently performing in Book of Mountains and Seas at St. Ann's Warehouse. Their own work spanning performance, puppetry and live-feed projection has been seen at The Tank, La Mama, Dixon Place, the Object Movement Festival, Coney Island Sideshows, Puppet Showplace Theatre, The Wassaic Project and in internet chatrooms. They are 1/3 of the Out of Work Puppeteers and co-creator with Liz Oakley of Parades for All Occasions. alexandragoss.com