As part of Quest Fest 2012, an annual international visual theater festival in Baltimore, we at Black Cherry Puppet Theater did a community arts residencies in collaboration with the Creative Alliance's Open Minds after school arts programs.
I worked with a group of high schoolers at a local library.
We used the Lakota ghost story "The Man Who Was Afraid of Nothing" as inspiration for our puppet show. We read the story and discussed its origin, themes, and relevance to our culture today. The students designed the set and puppets for the show, and we collaborated on expressing the story through wordless-choreography set to music, which helped our show be accessible to the broadest audience possible.
| QuestFest Community Showcasewith Black Cherry Puppet TheaterSaturday Mar 24, 4pm. Eastern Ave Puppet Parade 3:30pm FREE!
Creative Alliance
at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore Maryland 21224
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Creative Alliance wraps our QuestFest community residencies with a showcase of visual theater, featuring our own Open Minds youth with Black Cherry Puppet Theater, and folktales told through movement & gesture by students from Friendship Academy, Gwynn’s Falls Elementary and MD School for the Deaf. Opens with a puppet parade on Eastern Ave bus stops by Communities for All Ages, Baltimore Medical System and FAST at 3:30pm. Reception follows.
Presented by QuestFest.
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We had our last rehearsals yesterday, and our performance will be this Saturday March 24th.
It is also being held at the Creative Alliance and is Free and open to the public
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