{"id":123806,"date":"2017-04-10T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=123806"},"modified":"2017-03-27T12:58:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:58:30","slug":"first-ever-banners-cranks-mini-festival-ballard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/04\/first-ever-banners-cranks-mini-festival-ballard\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Ever Banners and Cranks Mini-Festival at the Ballard"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry will present its first-ever Banners and Cranks Mini-Festival<\/em> on April 14 and 15, 2017 in conjunction with its current exhibit Banners and Cranks: Paintings and Scrolls in Performance<\/em>. The Banners and Cranks Mini-Festival will present cranky and cantastoria performances created by puppeteers, musicians, and artists from throughout the Northeast, with productions geared for adult audiences on Friday, April 14 at 7 p.m. and family-friendly shows on Saturday, April 15 at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

“The Banners and Cranks Mini-Festival,” Ballard Institute Director John Bell said, “is an exciting new addition to our performance programming, and we are very happy to bring these shows to Storrs Center.”<\/p>\n

On Friday, April 14 starting at 7 p.m. performances will include Dave Buchen\u2019s Three Mythological Metaphors for Donald Trump<\/em>; Lattimer<\/em> by Felice Amato; Feed<\/em> by Anna Patton; Rose Friedman and Justin Lander of Modern Times Theater performing Pickle and Gas Pump<\/em>; Jason Hicks and Lily Paulina of Semi-Upright Theater Company performing A Page from Woody Guthrie’s Notebook<\/em> and Three Pages of Therapy for Our Current Situation<\/em>; Tosca<\/em> by Better Than Never Theater Company\u2019s Sam Wilson and Joe Therrien; Ballard Institute Director John Bell of Great Small Works performing Ode to Common Things<\/em>; Neighbors<\/em> by Meredith Holch; Daniel\u2019s Story<\/em> by UConn Puppet Arts Program MFA student Shane McNeal; and Secret Shortcut<\/em> and Police Log<\/em> by Clare Dolan and Erica Heilman. These performances are geared for adult audiences.<\/p>\n

Family-friendly shows will be presented on Saturday, April 15 starting at 2 p.m. and will feature Dave Buchen performing The True Story of Vlad the Structuralist<\/em>; Stupendous Superlatives<\/em> by Gregory Corbino; Felice Amato performing Underground<\/em>; Banana Split for My Baby<\/em> by Rose Friedman and Justin Lander of Modern Times Theater; Great Small Works’ Ode to Common Things<\/em>; Pickled Paula<\/em> by Meredith Holch; Secret Shortcut<\/em> by Clare Dolan and Erica Heilman; and the premiere of a new work by Semi-Upright Theater Company (Jason Hicks and Lily Paulina).<\/p>\n

Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Ballard Institute, by calling 860.486.8580, or online at bimp.ticketleap.com<\/a>.\u00a0 For more information about this festival, visit bimp.uconn.edu<\/a> or call 860.486.8580.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry will present its first-ever Banners and Cranks Mini-Festival on April 14 and 15, 2017 in conjunction with its current exhibit Banners and Cranks: Paintings and Scrolls in Performance. The Banners and Cranks Mini-Festival will present cranky and cantastoria performances created by puppeteers, musicians, and artists from throughout the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":123810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1914],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2060],"class_list":["post-123806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sfa"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-05 11:01:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/123810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123806"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=123806"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=123806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}