Volunteers - Center for Puppetry Arts
Volunteers - Center for Puppetry Arts
Volunteers - Center for Puppetry Arts
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Press Highlights<br />
The <strong>Center</strong> received great press coverage <strong>for</strong> all activities! This year we<br />
continued to enjoy the help of Manning Selvage & Lee and together garnered<br />
approximately 200 media placements, including print coverage in The Atlanta<br />
Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Latino, Creative Loafing, The New York Times, and others,<br />
as well as coverage on TV stations WAGA Fox 5 and CNN.<br />
Notable coverage included:<br />
• The New York Times broke news of the proposed Henson Wing<br />
to the nation with an article on the cover of the <strong>Arts</strong> section.<br />
Locally, news of the Wing broke with an article written by<br />
Kirsten Tagami of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The story<br />
was on the cover of the <strong>Arts</strong> section with subsequent stories<br />
on all broadcast news channels, while Atlanta Peach Magazine<br />
featured a double-page spread, “The Muppets Take Atlanta.”<br />
• Keisha Williams’ Focus Atlanta and Atlanta Daily World<br />
covered the Shoemaker & the Elves Children’s Shoe Drive.<br />
• The <strong>Center</strong> was featured in several Latino news media.<br />
La Cucarachita Martina (Martina, the Little Roach) got cover<br />
articles in both Mundo Hispanico and Atlanta Latino.<br />
Additionally, La Vision covered The Encounter of Juan Bobo<br />
& Pedro Animal with a feature article and a ticket giveaway<br />
contest.<br />
• PSAs <strong>for</strong> La Cucarachita Martina and Juan Bobo were<br />
recorded in Spanish and played on Viva Atlanta, La<br />
Raza and El Patron.<br />
• Duke Ellington’s Cat, Anne Frank: Within & Without<br />
and Cinderella Della Circus received rarely given<br />
“A” ratings from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<br />
(AJC) critic. Cinderella Della Circus was featured<br />
on the cover of The AJC’s <strong>Arts</strong> & Books<br />
section just be<strong>for</strong>e the show opened.<br />
“The genius of Jon Ludwig, so cannily on<br />
display in his new Cinderella-comes-tothe-circus<br />
marionette show at the <strong>Center</strong><br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>Puppetry</strong> <strong>Arts</strong>, is his ability to make<br />
adorable puppets operate with the same<br />
unprincipled guile as human beings.”<br />
~ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<br />
Photo by Donna C. Malak<br />
Frankie and Gino,<br />
puppets from The<br />
Shoemaker & the<br />
Elves, sit atop a pile<br />
of hundreds of shoes<br />
collected during the<br />
<strong>Center</strong>’s Holiday<br />
Shoe Drive<br />
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