Join us for the Fall 2011 UConn Puppet Slam, Saturday September 17, for Free!

Katy Laguzza in a 2010 Slam

 

Join us on Saturday, September 17 on UConn’s Main Campus in Storrs for the Fall 2011 UConn Puppet Slam–an exciting array of bold new works for puppet theater by vibrant puppet artists from New York City, Boston, and the University of Connecticut!

The Ballard Institute and UConn’s Puppet Arts Program will host the Fall 2011 UConn Puppet Slam on Saturday, September 17 at 8 p.m. in the Studio Theater of UConn’s School of Dramatic Arts, on 820 Bolton Road in Storrs, Connecticut.

Video by Lani Asuncion from a 2010 Puppet Slam

This UConn Puppet Slam will feature the following artists:

–Jenny Romaine of Great Small Works: “La Ciudad: Magic Box of New York City”

Alissa Hunnicutt: “The Red Dress”

–Sara Peattie and Theresa Linnihan of the Puppeteers Cooperative

… and a sparkling spectrum of new works by students from UConn’s famed Puppet Arts Program!

The performance is free and open to the public!

For more information, contact bimp@uconn.edu, or 860 486 0806.