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!