CLOSING FOR RETROSPECTACULAR!! Thursday, April 26th, 6 pm!!
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CLOSING FOR RETROSPECTACULAR!! Thursday, April 26th, 6 pm!!




Thursday, April 26, 2012,
6:00pm until 9:30pm

Please join us!


7 PM a few shoe-box crankie shows by students from West Philly High.

9 PM songs by Beth Nixon and Morgan FP Andrews from puppet shows of old (sloths, mammoths, mice...)

Beth and her Ramshackle Enterprise have been creating puppet and clown shows and facilitating the creation of parades and pageants in Philly and beyond for over a dozen years. This retrospectacular showcases Beth's participation in over a decade of action in the West Philly/ East coast puppet underground. See, read and fondle relics from her first Philly performance at the 2000 post RNC Puppet Uprising to this winter's collaboration with Sarah Lowry in the creation of "Below and Beyond".

Puppets, masks, suitcase theaters, illustrations and cardboard constructions on display. (Almost) everything for sale! If you bought/claimed anything at the opening, please come to the closing to pick it up!

www.ramshackleenterprises.net (Beth)
www.themissoulaoblongata.com (Sarah and Co.)




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