Vermont's BREAD & PUPPET THEATER - WildTravelsTV.com
The Bread and Puppet Theater of Glover, VT has been putting on shows since the 1960s, with puppets that can be more than 20 feet tall. It's also an amazing museum of characters, and WILD TRAVELS gets a look. This story is included in the second season of our travel series.
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Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and Resistance (Part 1 of 3)
- This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of this country's most beloved theater companies. Founded in New York City in 1963, The Bread and Puppet Theater's first productions ranged from puppet shows for children to pieces opposing poor housing conditions. The group's processions, involving monstrous puppets, some about 20 feet high, became a fixture of protests against the Vietnam War. We don't have playwrights in the theater. Our playwright is the daily news, is this -- all this horror that happens, says theater founder Peter Schumann. And it's not so much that we want to do it, but we continuously get obliged to do it, because the goddamn media don't say it. They are -- they live by omission, rather than by reporting. In the early 1970s, Bread and Puppet moved to Glover, Vermont, where they transformed a former hay barn into a museum of puppets. Today, Bread and Puppet remains one of the longest-running, non-profit, self-supporting theater companies in the United States. We spend the hour with Schumann, asking him how the theater addresses the most urgent political issues of our time, from nuclear weapons to mass domestic surveillance. Soon to celebrate his 80th birthday, Schumann also discusses why he refuses to retire and the place of older people in our society.
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Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and Resistance (Part 2 of 3)
- This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of this country's most beloved theater companies. Founded in New York City in 1963, The Bread and Puppet Theater's first productions ranged from puppet shows for children to pieces opposing poor housing conditions. The group's processions, involving monstrous puppets, some about 20 feet high, became a fixture of protests against the Vietnam War. We don't have playwrights in the theater. Our playwright is the daily news, is this -- all this horror that happens, says theater founder Peter Schumann. And it's not so much that we want to do it, but we continuously get obliged to do it, because the goddamn media don't say it. They are -- they live by omission, rather than by reporting. In the early 1970s, Bread and Puppet moved to Glover, Vermont, where they transformed a former hay barn into a museum of puppets. Today, Bread and Puppet remains one of the longest-running, non-profit, self-supporting theater companies in the United States. We spend the hour with Schumann, asking him how the theater addresses the most urgent political issues of our time, from nuclear weapons to mass domestic surveillance. Soon to celebrate his 80th birthday, Schumann also discusses why he refuses to retire and the place of older people in our society.
Watch part 3 of this discussion:
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Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and Resistance (Part 3 of 3)
- This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of this country's most beloved theater companies. Founded in New York City in 1963, The Bread and Puppet Theater's first productions ranged from puppet shows for children to pieces opposing poor housing conditions. The group's processions, involving monstrous puppets, some about 20 feet high, became a fixture of protests against the Vietnam War. We don't have playwrights in the theater. Our playwright is the daily news, is this -- all this horror that happens, says theater founder Peter Schumann. And it's not so much that we want to do it, but we continuously get obliged to do it, because the goddamn media don't say it. They are -- they live by omission, rather than by reporting. In the early 1970s, Bread and Puppet moved to Glover, Vermont, where they transformed a former hay barn into a museum of puppets. Today, Bread and Puppet remains one of the longest-running, non-profit, self-supporting theater companies in the United States. We spend the hour with Schumann, asking him how the theater addresses the most urgent political issues of our time, from nuclear weapons to mass domestic surveillance. Soon to celebrate his 80th birthday, Schumann also discusses why he refuses to retire and the place of older people in our society.
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Bread and Puppet Theater
Grasshopper Rebellion Tour, Austin, TX, 11/18/18. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to record the entire show, including the two best skits (The Supremes and The Not-So-Evil-A-Tron). Hopefully next time.
Bread and Puppet Theater at Magazine Beach, Cambridge
Labor Day Weekend at Magazine Beach
Bread and Puppet presents: Nothing Is Not Ready
Sunday 31. August
Bread & Puppet Turns 50 [SIV320]
8/18/13: Bread & Puppet Theater celebrates their 50 year anniversary this summer in Glover. Eva attended the Total This and That Circus in Two Parts on Sunday to meet some of the artists and activists.
Bread & Puppet Band at Glover Day
The Bread and Puppet brass band playing at Glover Day
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Bread and Puppet Theatre Circus Debt Ceiling
Bread and Puppet Theatre Circus Debt Ceiling
Bread and Puppet: The Decapitalization Circus, July 2010
76-year-old Peter Schumann, the founder of Bread and Puppet Theater, featured on stilts as the finale of the Decapitalization Circus, July 2010 in Glover, VT. With great love and admiration for this revolutionary theater...I'm so glad we make the pilgrimage to your farm every year so we can show our kids how art can change the world!
Bread and Puppet Fire, An Emergency Performance for Gaza - September 11 2014 - NYC
Filmed September 11, 2014, 5:15pm, First Street Green Cultural Park, New York City. A reworking of the Fire cantastoria with recently made puppets, and banners first used in vigils during the Gaza attacks.. Staged at First Park as part of 9/11 Cultural Festival.
Bread & Puppet 2005 - Part 2
The National Passion Play of the Correct Moment Part 2 - See the minimalist genius of world renowned artist, puppeteer, and choreographer, Peter Schumman. The Bread and Puppet Circus is truly high art. Though video doesn't really truly capture the magic ao a B & P performance, producer/shooter, James Paul Ludwig gives us a glimpse into the politically charged production of a B & P performance. Taped in Glover, VT, 2005.
Bread & Puppet , VT. (Ciervos - ASTRO song)
Film Class project
edition by Freanh
bread and puppet show in Vermont, United States.
Song : CIERVOS BY ASTRO (chilean band)
July 4th 2011 Montpelier Vermont Bread & Puppet Theater in Parade
The Bread & Puppet Theater joined in the 4thof July parade down State Street. here is a bit of their great show!
Varna Puppet Theater
Excerpts from Silent Legends, Magic of the Wind Festival Sliven 19-09-2015
Bread & Puppet Sing for Chet Briggs
The Bread & Puppet Theater troup shape note hymn in memory of Barre Historical Society President Chet Briggs who died on January 2, 2014.
Cans4Home Glover,VT
#cans4home in Glover,VT with Kelly Howard of East Hardwick, VT Kelly donated his bottles and cans in the #cans4home challenge Can you buy a home with cans? Kelly called out and challenged his own father!!! Wow wtg Kelly we also met Kelly's wife Kelly Lynn Howard,who told me great things about her farm Bill Hill Farm in Hardwick, VT ,they will also take the challenge later on. Who will they challenge? You will have keep watching to find out,like us on fb facebook.com/secondchancevt follow us on Twitter @SecondChanceVT if you would like to sponsor us please message us or email us at secondchancevt@gmail.com if you would like to donate to a great cause please visit gofundme.com/scvermont America we will buy a home with cans,but we cant do it with out you,America help us pay it forward so we can buy more homes with cans! Lets do it!Lets buy a home with cans we challenge everyone to take our challenge today #cans4home we will see you next time! On the great American can challenge!!!
Bread and Puppet 2010 -The Derby Line issue
Skit on the federal goverment's heavy handed treatment of q Derby Line resident who treated the border like his backyard. The new security regulations in the sleepy border village have transformed it into an armed camp full of border agents, and police forces from throughout Vermont. They earn overtime and justify it by various enforcement actions.
Stand With Standing Rock! Divest From TD Bank! Bread & Puppet Occupies!
Bread and Puppet Occupies TD (Toronto Dominion) Bank in Montpelier, Vermont - takes the stage in preparation for a public act of divestment in protest of the Canadian bank's major funding of proposed fracked-gas pipelines across Canada & US, in Solidarity with Pipeline Resistance at Standing Rock, North Dakota.
Collaborative Event: Central Vermont Climate Action
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