THE WONDER MASKS PILGRIMAGE with Agitator Members
YOU’RE INVITED! Join a group of artist/performers who will don masks to stage a pilgrimage through Chicago.
Meetup: Logan Square Blue Line Station on Sat. March 1 @ noon
For the Pilgrimage: Wear monochromatic colors and a mask.*
* Construct your own mask the previous Studio Sunday which includes a Mask-Making Demo with Agitator member, Alonso Galue.
We will travel as masked characters as a group by train to the loop and walk to the Cultural Center to view the exhibition:
POTENTIAL ENERGY: CHICAGO PUPPETS UP CLOSE
Chicago Cultural Center / Michigan Avenue Galleries, 1st floor East
Chicago is home to a rich and growing ecology of puppetry, bridging mediums and communities of makers. This sampling of puppets by local artists challenges expectations about puppetry and inspires the public to tell their own stories. Puppets are made to tell stories. By taking puppets off stage, we can focus on how artists design specific stories into each object. How do artists invent new ways to mechanize materials in motion, build cohesive worlds, and create characters that expand our ability to understand and empathize with ourselves and others?
This is an exhibition of potentialities. How can the possibility for a particular story be built into a puppet? What are new and unexpected ways to use familiar materials? What stories could you imagine telling with these puppets? What stories do you want to tell?
PATRTICIPATING ARTISTS:
KT Shivak
Jaerin Son
Alonso Galue
Wendy Madrigal
Jacqueline Wade
Myra Su
Christopher Knowlton
Jacky Kesley
Sion Silva
Emilie Wingate
Chio Cabrera-Coz
Tom Lee
Tracey Christmas
Kendall Buckingham
The Reverend Van Ferdinand and Eric Mercure
August Boyne
Caitlin McLeod
Jerrell Henderson
Chicago Children’s Theater
Chicago Puppet Studio
Red Line Service Institute (Ravi Arupa, Tracey Christmas, Steffen Garcia, Shay Jones, Marcela Okeke, Efren Paderes, Reverend Van Ferdinand)
Manual Cinema
Jabberwocky Marionettes
Wonder Wagon
Rough House Theater Co.
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You are welcome to construct your own mask the previous week on Studio Sunday which will include a Mask-Making Demo with Agitator member, Alonso Galue.
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