Puppet Theater and Workshop

The show is Sunday 5/1 at 1pm. You can now register in advance for the puppet making workshop at 2pm. The workshop is 40 minutes long, during which kids can help make stick puppets and decorate them. We will reserve at least 15 spots for day-of registration. Click on the flyer to your left

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We’re good for your mid-life crisis!

Back in October during the ping pong tournament, New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein came by to compete. He also generously donated his book for a fundraising raffle.

Turns out we were part of his mid-life crisis cure!

Last October, I played my first tournament, on a concrete table at Gulick Park on the

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Puppets in the Park: free theatre & workshop

CityParks Foundation’s PuppetMobile, one of the only traveling puppet theaters in the country, has agreed to bring a Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre production and puppet making workshop to Gulick Park & Playground, free of charge.

They will perform a new work called “Bessie’s Big Shot”—about a cow who joins

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In the NY Times!

Alas, not about our strides toward redesign and renovation, but about our ping-pong table and the tournament we held last year. Discussing how each location produces a different kind of engagement around the tables, the article quotes a Lo-Down piece written by our own Kim Gledhill:

And after a Ping-Pong tournament

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First Community Vision Report

As mentioned in the last post, our collation of input from our events last May and beyond is complete. The design workshop in May, will develop 5 themes that come from these results. (Translations will be made available shortly on report’s the main page.)

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