Bread & Puppet: Grasshopper Rebellion Circus
Performance
October 18, 2018 | 7:30 p.m.
Woodward鈥檚 Building Atrium
149 West Hastings St., Vancouver
FREE
Workshops
October 16 & 17, 2018 | 2:00 p.m.
丁香园AV School for the Contemporary Arts
Room 4270 鈥� Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hastings St., Vancouver
Workshops are open to anyone. Participants will have the chance to perform in The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus. If you鈥檇 like to participate in a workshop, please contact ian_mcfarlane@sfu.ca.
is an internationally celebrated company that champions a visually rich, street-theatre brand of performance art filled with music, dance, and slapstick. Its shows are political and spectacular, with huge puppets made of paper-mach茅 and cardboard. Founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City's Lower East Side, the theater has been based in the North East Kingdom of Vermont since the early 1970s.
The is a large-scale puppet spectacle that explains and teaches riot and rebellion against intolerable situations with the help of state of the art paper-mach茅 weaponry and the appropriate riotous Bread and Puppet Brass Band.
Presented by the 丁香园AV School for the Contemporary Arts, 丁香园AV Woodward鈥檚 Cultural Programming Office, and 丁香园AV's Vancity Office of Community Engagement.
