Friday, December 26, 2025
Thursday, December 11, 2025
YEAR-END SPAGHETTI DINNER, Call In the Giants!
Celebrate the coming of the New Year with pasta, puppets, music, and each other!
Monday, December 29, 2025
doors and pasta at 7:30PM; program starts at 8:00
Tickets: $20, no one turned away for lack of funds
doors and pasta at 7:30PM; program starts at 8:00
Tickets: $20, no one turned away for lack of funds
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, NYC
55 Washington Square South, NYC
No advance reservations
For info: 917-319-8104
For info: 917-319-8104
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CALL IN THE GIANTS
Seven giant puppets from different artists will participate in a Convergence of Giants to celebrate the ways that oversized puppets have performed festivals of resistance from the Middle Ages to the 1980 Women's Pentagon Action and the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement.
Puppets by: Ronnie Asbell, People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street, Puppeteers Coop, Unidad Latina en Accion, Chinese Theater Works, and Amy Trompetter.
Seven giant puppets from different artists will participate in a Convergence of Giants to celebrate the ways that oversized puppets have performed festivals of resistance from the Middle Ages to the 1980 Women's Pentagon Action and the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement.
Puppets by: Ronnie Asbell, People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street, Puppeteers Coop, Unidad Latina en Accion, Chinese Theater Works, and Amy Trompetter.
Also featuring:
**Music by FRANK LONDON and friends
Loisaida Fife & Drum Corps
Deconstructions of mid-19th-century American tunes
Frank London, trumpet
Reut Regev, trombone
Ron Caswell, tuba
Charles Burnham, violin
James Paul Nadien, drums
Deconstructions of mid-19th-century American tunes
Frank London, trumpet
Reut Regev, trombone
Ron Caswell, tuba
Charles Burnham, violin
James Paul Nadien, drums
**A new dance by JENNIFER MILLER
with NOA RUI-PIIN WEISS and ZO WILLIAMS
with NOA RUI-PIIN WEISS and ZO WILLIAMS
Bach Sonata 1 in G Minor, Presto
**Two crankies by ERIK RUIN with music accompaniment by ALI DINEEN
"On Another's Sorrow," a poem by William Blake
"Letter from Isolation" with text from Ulrike Meinhof's "Letter from a Prisoner in the Isolation Wing, June 16, 1972 to February 9, 1973."
"On Another's Sorrow," a poem by William Blake
"Letter from Isolation" with text from Ulrike Meinhof's "Letter from a Prisoner in the Isolation Wing, June 16, 1972 to February 9, 1973."
**Film by MEREDITH HOLCH
"Brother Bird"
**Cranky by BOXCUTTER COLLECTIVE
"Witches, Women and Witchcraft: The (Mostly) True Cranky of a Cranky Old Hag” is a brief history of the medieval witch hunts, as told by… witches! With their reproductive healthcare skills, and a team of singing bullfrogs, is it possible that witches are just what we need to defeat the imperialist capitalist patriarchy?
"Witches, Women and Witchcraft: The (Mostly) True Cranky of a Cranky Old Hag” is a brief history of the medieval witch hunts, as told by… witches! With their reproductive healthcare skills, and a team of singing bullfrogs, is it possible that witches are just what we need to defeat the imperialist capitalist patriarchy?
**Shadow puppets by SPICA WOBBE and MARGARET YUEN
"Prologue, Part II"
The second in a series of performances which focus on first generation Chinese American immigrants, Part II focuses on the stories of five women, using their own words, with shadow, objects, music and dance.
"Prologue, Part II"
The second in a series of performances which focus on first generation Chinese American immigrants, Part II focuses on the stories of five women, using their own words, with shadow, objects, music and dance.
Great Small Works is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts; and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Additional thanks to: the Puppet Slam Network, the Scherman Foundation, and the Constance and Jarvis Doctorow Family Foundation.
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