CALLING ALL PUPPETEERS!

May this message find you in the best of spirits and good health! As you simmer in the merriment of the holiday season, sleepily loll around in a hazy stupor of good feeling, remember....

THE NEW YEAR IS AROUND THE CORNER AND WE MUST BEGIN IT WITH A MOST EXCELLENT PUPPET SHOW!

Thus, if you have thought about touring through Baltimore, considered stepping onto our stage, or have a new show to share, this is your time!  The chill of winter does for a merry gathering make!

Come out of the woodwork you makers of magical objects, you tellers of stories, you handcranked image scrollers, you puppet wagglers!  

OUR NEXT SLAMWICH is on Saturday, January 18th! 

Rarin' to go? Send an email to valeskapopuloh@yahoo.com! If you have friends or know of performers who create puppetry-related work, share the call!  

Huzzah!

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CAME TO OUR TWO SHOWS!  AND MANY THANKS TO OUR WONDERFUL PERFORMERS!  

Orchester Prazevica! Justin Sabe! Bonobo Blue! Emily Schubert and Co.! and PUPPETHAMMER! Our next slam is on January 18, 2014!

 Orchester Prazevica making feet stomps and hearts swell! 

 Emily Schubert and Co. performing "The Farmer and His Flower"

Black Cherry Director Michael Lamason and Jen Liu doling out the puppet food!

Next Puppet Slamwich, November 9th!!

Don't miss it! Purchase advance tickets online here:

http://puppetslamwichnovember.brownpapertickets.com

FB event page HERE! 

CALLING ALL PUPPETEERS AND PERFORMERS!

You are hereby reading the official call for performers for our next season of the Puppet Slamwich! at Black Cherry Puppet Theater in Baltimore. 

The dates for the upcoming season are Saturday:

November 9

January 18

March 8

June 7 

If you are interested in performing, please let us know by emailing Valeska at valeskapopuloh@yahoo.com. If you have a specific date in mind (LIKE NOVEMBER!) let us know! If you have friends or know of performers who create puppetry-related work, please share this call with them! Our slam's diversity and vitality results from the great network of puppeteers that keeps growing thanks to word of mouth and folks like you! 

Also, we like to include a stellar musical guest at each show. We have been lucky to host the Barrage Band Orchestra, Orchestre Prazevica, Walker and Jay and Umami, among others. If your band is interested in performing or you have a puppetshow-stopping musical recommendation, let us know!

Many thanks, best wishes to you all!

Valeska, Michael, Jen, Lisa, Bill and the Puppet Slamwich Crew

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Puppet Slamwich! at Black Cherry Puppet Theater celebrates puppetry for adult audiences in all of its forms, from traditional to experimental, as well as related genres, such as vaudeville, cabaret, toy and object theater. Puppet Sandwich hopes to introduce audiences to a broad array of puppetry, welcoming emerging and established artists from the Mid-Atlantic Region and beyond. Puppet Slamwich! at Black Cherry Puppet Theater is supported by a grant from The Puppet Slam Network and IBEX Puppetry. 

June Puppet Slam is almost here!!!

Black Cherry Puppet Theater proudly presents our June Puppet Slamwich!

SATURDAY JUNE 1st! Two Shows, 7pm and 9:30pm

Doors open 1/2 before each show! Buy advance tickets here:

http://junepuppetslamwich.brownpapertickets.com/

Live Puppets. A jam-packed program that cannot be missed including:

KATHERINE FAHEY "New Sun"

with a musical performance by The Bowlegged Gorilla

KEVIN SHERRY "The Yeti" (new puppet)

-PLUS! A new Original song by Brain Bear

ALEX VERNON & SARAH OLMSTED THOMAS "Off the Record"

DAVID GREENFIELDBOYCE "Little Cloud"

CHUCK GREEN "Nightstand"

MADISON J CRIPPS "Marionette Cabaret"

DAN FRIEDMAN "Thermocline"

CALLING ALL PUPPETEERS & PERFORMERS !

If you are interested in performing at our next slam in June, please let us know by emailing Valeska at valeskapopuloh@yahoo.com. If you have friends or know of performers who create puppetry-related work, please share this call with them! Our slam's diversity and vitality results from the great network of puppeteers that keeps growing thanks to word of mouth and folks like you! 

Looking forward to seeing you at the next slam! 

The slam on March 9 was a wonderful success with two sold-out shows and a fantastic line-up of performers. A few pictures from the night follow:

Jeanine Padgett and Jim Sheehan's "Vent"

Alex Vernon and Sarah Olmsted Thomas' "Milo the Magnificent"

Kevin Sherry's "The Rat"

Kevin Sherry in "The Rat"

Sarah Arroyo, Jessie Poole and Dan Friedman in "Coffee Bar" directed by
Colette Sears 

Matthew Thurber's "Alice the Goth"

Melissa Sharlat and Scott Shuster's band Umami!

Our surprise guest and a mere mortal.

As spring approaches, the puppets keep multiplying like randy rabbits! New performers are popping up like crocuses! March’s Puppet Slamwich includes performances by man of wonders David London, new critters and stories by the prolific Kevin Sherry and shorts by Jim Henson grantees Jim Sheehan and Jeanine Padgett.  Sarah Olmsted Thomas and Alex Vernon bring their vaudevillian verve to the Black Cherry stage for the first time with “Milo the Magnificent.” An ensemble of young puppeteers, under the direction of Colette Searls, presents a crowd pleaser from their winter show “Fabulous Presto!” Brooklyn-based cartoonist and crankie storyteller Matthew Thurber tells a tale made just for his Charm City stop with “Alice the Goth!” If that doesn’t make your heart race, 80’s cover band Umami will keep you revved up!  

Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 7pm and 9:30pm at Black Cherry Puppet Theater, 1115 Hollins St., Baltimore MD 21223. Tickets are $7, and can be purchased by clicking here for Brown Paper Tickets. Tickets will also be sold at the door, thirty minutes before each show. Seating is general admission and limited. 

Call to Puppeteers & Performers for March 9th Slam!

Hello Lovely People, Puppeteers and Performers!

May this message find you in the best of spirits and good health!

This here before your very eyes is the official call for performers for our upcoming Puppet Slamwich! at Black Cherry Puppet Theater in Baltimore. The slam is scheduled for Saturday, March 9, 2013

If you are interested in performing, please let us know by emailing Valeska: valeskapopuloh@yahoo.com

If you have friends or know of performers who create puppetry-related work, please share this call with them! Our slam's diversity and vitality results from the great network of puppeteers that keeps growing thanks to word of mouth and folks like you! 

Many thanks, best wishes to you all!

Puppet Slamwich 10: Worlds Collide! January 19, 2013

Our January slam "World's Collide" brought performers from Frederick to Washington DC, from shadow puppet space age ritual to comedic object theater. Thanks to all of our wonderful performers, our great audience and the foot-stomping, heart-breakingly beautiful gypsy jazz sounds of Orchester Prazevica!

January 19th Puppet Slamwich!

January PUPPET SLAMWICH! 

A series of puppetry and performance for Adult Audiences

Saturday, January 19, 2012

7PM and 9:30PM

Tickets Available soon @ Brownpapertickets.com

or at Door 30 minutes before showtime!

 Worlds Collide! at January’s Puppet Slamwich! An alien shaman encounters the last native man of his tribe in “Ishi’s Brain,” a puppet adaptation by Lisa Krause and Eamon Espey of Espey’s recently released graphic novel.  Fantasy slams into Truth as virtual lovers meet in the flesh in Hideous Puppet Pile’s “Internet Dating” (pictured).   Puppets duke it out with papercuts as DC’s Patch Players share the stage with the side-splitting, scissor wielding Eric Avery.  And Charm City’s rousing Slovak gypsy jazz ensemble Orchester Prazevica help all of us lift off!