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A small printshop in Glover, Vermont
Creating art for @breadandpuppet and you
✸ Long live cheap art! ✸

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Yesterday we attended a @breadandpuppet performance at The Sanctuary. The nonprofit @cmcincy rehabbed the 2nd oldest Catholic church in Cincinnati into this community-focused event venue, and the beautiful space provided the perfect backdrop to the performance.

As for the show... I’d been aware of Bread & Puppet since my undergraduate days but, back then, I was too focused on school and work to make time to attend a show, although they were a regular occurrence in the hippie Upstate New York town.

The troupe has been on the experimental theater scene in the US since 1963, and its self-described “lived philosophy of art and activism” is on display in every aspect of the experience, from its “junk aesthetic” to its absurdist sense of pageantry. Gigantic papier-mâché puppets share the stage with musicians on stilts.

The themes of the brief vignettes—AI, ICE, East Wing demolition, illegal detention, and, above all, reverence for mother Earth—are alternately topical and universal, the topical folding into the universal at a quick, slightly whiplash-inducing clip that never stops being fun even as it tackles heavy or uncomfortable subjects.

This is a political protest disguised as a folk circus. This is a folk circus masquerading as a political protest. The two are intertwined because we cannot afford to compartmentalize, and the art of Bread & Puppet—cheap, crude, resourceful, proudly made by hand—is a middle finger proudly raised to “the radically wrong system” of the current day.

As the performance ends, the audience can stay behind to enjoy bread with aioli and peruse prints and other ephemera by the @breadandpuppetpress.

Cincinnati, there’s still time to catch the last local performance this afternoon [3pm, Sun 25 Oct]. Then it’s on to Buffalo and, in December, a residency at the @theater_for_the_new_city. Go.

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Hello, 2x rad upcoming shoes in Balto 🪳🪳
(Then a big announcement coming soon 🌬️)
10/30 full choir tribute band The Roaches 🎃
11/7 matinee at Metro w touring + local buds 🪂

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📷 @fujifilmx_us XT30 II

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📷 @fujifilmx_us XT30 II

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エルクとゴキブリの神

Available online & in-store🍂

Bread + Puppet Press @breadandpuppetpress
- 2027 God of Who + What Calendar
Artwork by: Peter Schumann

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How many gods does it take to realize the god we need while being confused and oppressed by the war-mongering class of the money empire? Yes, the neverminding god has to be defeated by our beloved sunrise-god. The god of logic, logically urges necessary revolution! So that our everyday Humdrum can flourish in equally necessary ecstasy and culminate in the god of darkness yielding to the celebration of the god of Palestinian resilience and resistance.
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日常のなかで直面する抑圧や無関心を超え、希望や新しい光に向かって立ち上がる人々の「強さ」と「祝福」を描いたメッセージ。

権力や戦争に対する抵抗、そしてパレスチナの人々が持つしなやかな強さへの敬意が、詩的な言葉と版画表現を通して力強く込められています。

わたしたちのNOとYESの神

退屈と絶頂の神

上がったり下がったりな人生の神

パレスチナの神

ここじゃないどこかの神

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the woods

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I discovered @breadandpuppet in exactly the way one might imagine: by stumbling upon an installation in the forest while admiring fall leaves in Vermont. I was immediately smitten. Then they performed in OKC last year and I fell in love with their work in a new way. And thanks to the work of an incredible committee of possibilitarians including @kelseykarper, @molliver.okc, and @doublesworded, they returned this year for an even bigger show and a community workshop.

Tonight, while OU beat Texas, the OKC Farmers Market was packed full of folks enjoying the community of live theater and explicitly political art. It was a beautiful and hopeful thing to witness.

I struggle to consider myself an artist. And even when I can grasp that, certainly not a performance artist. And, it was a joy to embody that space for a short time with so many incredible artists, teachers, and community members. If you see me icing my knees in the days ahead, know it was worth it for an intensive experience with the Bread and Puppet troupe.

Thanks to everyone who came for the art, for the politics, and for the people this evening. It was an honor and a pleasure to share the space with you.

Photo 2 by @andrew_birdman

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Always a joy to see bread and puppet. Almost makes me want to be a possibilitarian.

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COMING TO OKLAHOMA CITY ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10th!
DOORS 3:30pm • SHOW 4pm
Farmer's Public Market, 311 S. Klein Ave, OKC

The BREAD & PUPPET Theater presents
‘The Upside Down World Circus’
📯🙃🎪🥳🎠🥸💸

Get ready for a show featuring puppets big and small, acts serious and silly, and performances slapstick and sublime. Stilt dancers, papier-maché beasts, and a riotous brass band make a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration. 🎊

After the show @breadandpuppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, followed by Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” SALE – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets & banners from in-house ~ Bread & Puppet Press. @breadandpuppetpress

Supporting Partners 🤝
@factoryobscura
@flora_bodega
@osc.press

🎟️🎟️ tickets in bio links! 👀
$20 (no one turned away due to lack of funds)

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@breadandpuppetpress and we eat and we drink

We couldn’t miss @breadandpuppet on tour so we drove to Mazomanie, Wisconsin, yesterday (2.5 hrs). I’m grateful!

Check their tour schedule—they’re heading to the Twin Cities, Des Moines, Lawrence, OKC, Marshall NC, Nashville, Cincinnati, and so on.

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Bread and Puppet Theater (+ Press!) in Cleveland last night!!!

Touring from Vermont, this troop is the TRUTH. They are brilliantly weird - I love it all, but especially the way they balance the humor with the heavy. Firm denials done in joyous resistance. The Up-Side Down World Circus: the perfect America 250 crit to buoy the soul, and hold all the things together. Bread and Puppet Press was also representing with their relief prints (also, adore 😍).

I was talking to my uncle earlier today. He confirmed that he and my grandma saw Bread and Puppet together in Kent in the late 1970s. 💜 He was really jazzed they’re still at it. (Then it was Nixon and other* illegal wars, same same but different times.)

If you don’t know, now you know! Check them out. Thank you, @breadandpuppetpress @breadandpuppet 🫶

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hard liver selects: Everything I bought on my first day at the Printed Matter New York Art Book Fair @printedmatter_artbookfairs

mentioned:
Squeeze Sour, lin lin Plum @squeezesour
StreetSalad @streetsaladbooks
Some Other Books @someotherbooks
Superblooom* @sprblooom
treelikeswater @treelikeswater
Yinan Lin @lyn.stupidgraphics
Hwang Eunyoung @kkamanke
Bread & Puppet Press @breadandpuppet
Viaindustriae Publishing @viaindustriae
Bonnie Tran @tonniebran
Justine Kwon @justine.kwon
FAR-NEAR @far___near
Printed Matter @printedmatterinc

#printedmatter #artbook #nyevent #haul #bookcollection

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