SummerStage Kids Presents: Puppetmobile
City Parks Foundation is excited to announce the return of its popular PuppetMobile production, Little Red’s Hood.
City Parks Foundation is excited to announce the return of its popular PuppetMobile production, Little Red’s Hood. Little Red’s Hood is a fresh retelling of the classic “Little Red Riding Hood” tale updated with a modern sensibility that will appeal to kids. The production features a dozen, hand-made marionettes crafted by the expert puppeteers from the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre. Like many of today’s children, Little Red is a smart, young city slicker who is to focused on her smartphone to notice her surroundings. Wulfric is a misunderstood wolf with a sweet tooth. When Little Red travels from New York City to the country to deliver some cupcakes to her Grandma, she encounters a colorful cast of characters as Wulfric the Wolf tries to head her off at the pass. Little Red’s Hood is directed by Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre’s Artistic Director Bruce Cannon and written by Liam Hurley.
7/9/2014 0:00 10:30:00 AM 11:30:00 AM
(212) 360-8290
info@cityparksfoundation.org.
SummerStage Kids Presents: Janice Marie Robinson’s Melodic Magic
SummerStage Kids offers unique, interactive events for the entire family, throughout the summer in park locations citywide. With dance performances, storytelling, acrobats, spoken…
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7/16/2014 0:00 10:30:00 AM 11:30:00 AM
(212) 360-8290
info@cityparksfoundation.org.
CityParks PuppetMobile Presents Little Red’s Hood
Little Red’s Hood is a fresh retelling of the classic “Little Red Riding Hood” tale updated with a modern sensibility that will appeal to kids.
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Little Red’s Hood is a fresh retelling of the classic “Little Red Riding Hood” tale updated with a modern sensibility that will appeal to kids. The production features a dozen, hand-made marionettes crafted by the expert puppeteers from the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre.
Like many of today’s children, Little Red is a smart, young city slicker who is too focused on her smartphone to notice her surroundings. Wulfric is a misunderstood wolf with a sweet tooth. When Little Red travels from New York City to the country to deliver some cupcakes to her Grandma, she encounters a colorful cast of characters as Wulfric the Wolf tries to head her off at the pass.
Little Red’s Hood is directed by Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre’s Artistic Director Bruce Cannon and written by Liam Hurley.
The CityParks PuppetMobile is the oldest continually operating company of its kind in the country, which presents free performances and puppet-making workshops in neighborhood parks, recreation centers and schools throughout New York City.
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7/17/2013 0:00 10:30:00 AM 11:30:00 AM
info@cityparksfoundation.org.
SummerStage Kids Presents: Ken Waldman
Ken Waldman combines old-time Appalachian-style string-band music, original poetry, and Alaska-set stories and songs for a performance uniquely his.
Ken Waldman combines old-time Appalachian-style string-band music, original poetry, and Alaska-set stories and songs for a performance uniquely his. Touring as Alaska’s Fiddling Poet, he has performed throughout North America at leading concert series, festivals, and performing arts centers. In New York, he’ll be joined by multi-instrumentalist, Charlie Shaw, and others–maybe even you.
7/24/2013 0:00 10:30:00 AM 11:30:00 AM
info@summerstage.org.
SummerStage Kids Presents: Edge School of Arts
The Edge School of the Arts (ESOTA) was founded in 1996 and modeled after the prominent Bernice Johnson Cultural Arts Center which stood as a beacon of cultural and artistic excellence…
The Edge School of the Arts (ESOTA) was founded in 1996 and modeled after the prominent Bernice Johnson Cultural Arts Center which stood as a beacon of cultural and artistic excellence in Southeast Queens for almost 50 years. ESOTA is in its 18th year of existence. The school is family owned, and operated by management and teachers with years of professional dance training and experience. ESOTA is also the home of the award-winning children’s dance company KECDE (The Kerri Edge Children’s Dance Ensemble).
7/23/2014 0:00 10:30:00 AM 11:30:00 AM
info@cityparksfoundation.org.
SummerStage Kids Presents: The Carpetbag Brigade
By utilizing performance art and its pedagogy as a tool to transcend language, class, and genetic heritage, The Carpetbag Brigade seeks to create bridges of understanding.
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By utilizing performance art and its pedagogy as a tool to transcend language, class, and genetic heritage, The Carpetbag Brigade seeks to create bridges of understanding by sharing its craft both locally and globally in diverse urban and rural settings. By synthesizing acrobatic stiltwalking, butoh dance, contact improvisation, musical composition and physical theater, The Carpetbag Brigade has pioneered a unique aesthetic approach and corresponding technique.
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7/10/2013 0:00 10:30:00 AM 11:30:00 AM
info@summerstage.org