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Visiting Artists Throughout the 2007-08 Season, the Center hosted a variety of artists from around North America. The Center kicked off the season with SummerFest, which featured a series of two-week performances by three visiting puppet troupes. Audiences were delighted with wellknown folk and fairy tales and one not-so-well-known-but-totally-hilarious story about the legendary Banana Kid. This season was significant in that a concerted effort was made to reach out to all of the diverse cultural groups who call Atlanta home. Anansi the Spider and Duke Ellington’s Cat illustrated the amazing contributions of African and African-American communities, while La Cucarachita Martina (Martina, the Little Roach) and The Encounter of Juan Bobo and Pedro Animal helped to reach out to Atlanta’s Spanish-speaking communities. Besides just enchanting audiences, these performances also marked an important step toward the Center’s commitment to programming which celebrates cultural diversity within our community. As part of the New Directions Series (NDS), Paul Zaloom entertained the adult crowd with a modern adaptation of a Middle Eastern “Karagoz” shadow play. In addition, Xperimental Puppetry Theatre (XPT) brought together artists and students from across disciplines to explore and experiment with the vast menagerie of styles within the art of puppetry. For over twenty years, XPT has fostered the development and imagination of countless artists in Atlanta and beyond. The Legend of the Banana Kid Photo by Brian Torbeck 20 SummerFest Anansi the Spider By Tears of Joy Theatre Portland, OR July 10-22, 2007 Pinocchio By National Marionette Theatre Newfane, VT July 24 - August 5, 2007 The Legend of the Banana Kid By Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers Bar Harbor, ME August 7-19, 2007 Family Series The Big Bad, Little Red, Pig Show By Lee Bryan, “That Puppet Guy” Atlanta, GA August 24 - September 9, 2007 La Cucarachita Martina (Martina, the Little Roach) By Teatro SEA New York, NY September 14-23, 2007 There’s a Dinosaur in the Closet By Coad Canada Puppets N. Vancouver, BC, Canada February 19 - March 2, 2008 The Lion, the Mouse & Other Aesop’s Fables By Red Herring Puppets Fairview, NC March 4-30, 2008 The Encounter of Juan Bobo & Pedro Animal By Teatro SEA New York, NY April 1-6, 2008 New Directions Series (NDS) The Mother of All Enemies By Paul Zaloom West Hollywood, CA April 11-13, 2008 Ages 18 & up only Xperimental Puppetry Theatre (XPT) By Various Artists May 15-18, 2008 Ages 18 & up only
Press Highlights The Center received great press coverage for all activities! This year we continued to enjoy the help of Manning Selvage & Lee and together garnered approximately 200 media placements, including print coverage in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Latino, Creative Loafing, The New York Times, and others, as well as coverage on TV stations WAGA Fox 5 and CNN. Notable coverage included: • The New York Times broke news of the proposed Henson Wing to the nation with an article on the cover of the Arts section. Locally, news of the Wing broke with an article written by Kirsten Tagami of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The story was on the cover of the Arts section with subsequent stories on all broadcast news channels, while Atlanta Peach Magazine featured a double-page spread, “The Muppets Take Atlanta.” • Keisha Williams’ Focus Atlanta and Atlanta Daily World covered the Shoemaker & the Elves Children’s Shoe Drive. • The Center was featured in several Latino news media. La Cucarachita Martina (Martina, the Little Roach) got cover articles in both Mundo Hispanico and Atlanta Latino. Additionally, La Vision covered The Encounter of Juan Bobo & Pedro Animal with a feature article and a ticket giveaway contest. • PSAs for La Cucarachita Martina and Juan Bobo were recorded in Spanish and played on Viva Atlanta, La Raza and El Patron. • Duke Ellington’s Cat, Anne Frank: Within & Without and Cinderella Della Circus received rarely given “A” ratings from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) critic. Cinderella Della Circus was featured on the cover of The AJC’s Arts & Books section just before the show opened. “The genius of Jon Ludwig, so cannily on display in his new Cinderella-comes-tothe-circus marionette show at the Center for Puppetry Arts, is his ability to make adorable puppets operate with the same unprincipled guile as human beings.” ~ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photo by Donna C. Malak Frankie and Gino, puppets from The Shoemaker & the Elves, sit atop a pile of hundreds of shoes collected during the Center’s Holiday Shoe Drive 21
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