25/8/2000
The Spiral Q - summer program
Spiral Q, Philadelphia
The Spiral Q Puppet Theater seeks to mobilize communities, empower marginalized people and illuminate the victories, frustrations and possibilities of living in the neighborhoods of Philadelphia and similar urban settings through the construction of full-scale giant puppet parades, toy theater and neighborhood pageantry.
The Spiral Q Puppet Theater
seeks to mobilize communities,
empower marginalized people
and illuminate the victories,
frustrations and possibilities of
living in the neighborhoods of
Philadelphia and similar urban
settings through the construction
of full-scale giant puppet
parades, toy theater and
neighborhood
pageantry.
Spiral Q's Programs:
- City-wide Parades and Pageants
- Neighborhood Parades and
Pageants
- Social Change Demonstrations
- Performance.
All of Spiral Q's projects are built
through collaborative organizing
and hands-on art-making.
Look for our giant puppets all
around the city, we'll be visiting
more block parties, neighborhood
park events, drill team
competitions and demos.
We're all over the map!
SUMMER PROGRAMS:
Taller Puertorriqueno
Fairhill Square Park
4th & Cumberland
Saturday, August 26
Taller's Youth Artist Program students will work with Spiral Q and
community artist/activist Julia Lopez to design and lead a collaboratively
built community pageant in Fairhill Square. Students will be enlisted to
envision a giant puppet spectacle that speaks from the streets to address
important health issues affecting this brilliant neighborhood on the move.
Turtle Dove Music Festival
Myrick Conservation Center, West Chester
Saturday, September 9
Spiral Q joins the Brandywine Valley Association's 4th Annual TurtleDove
Music Festival for a day of music, performers, storytellers and
environmental arts. Take part as we wind through the pastoral settings
with small processions and garden rituals to celebrate the harvest!
Located 6 miles west of West Chester and 3 miles east of Unionville on
Route 842.
The Day of The Dead
Sept 17th- Oct. 31 (event)
At the center of Spiral Q Puppet Theater is the vision of people from all around the city parading in their own neighborhoods with
the art and puppets they made
reflecting their lives today. At the end of a summer of neighborhood parades, the Day of The Dead event is a way for these
divergent communities to come
together through the process of art making and huge public participatory spectacle. Open studios will be held at our center city
location and we'll revisit our
summer partners to build additional puppets and parade props. A network of busses will be provided to bring people and
puppets from all over the city to
parade together in one massive homemade Giant Puppet Parade and participatory pageant!
Kujenga Pamoja - Harvest Festival
2544 Germantown Ave.
Saturday, September 30
Each September, the Village of Arts and Humanities celebrates the bounty
from its gardens and the achievements of its youth with the Kujenga Pamoja
Festival. Spiral Q works with the Village to create a roving pageant and
ritual parade - a procession of children and adults, dancers, African
drummers and giant puppets to bring harvest offerings and blessings to the
households in the Village community. The day culminates in a torch-lit
Rites of Passage ceremony for the Village teens
Educational Resources Development
Spiral Q Puppet Theater received a grant from Samuel S. Fels Fund to hire
a Community Intern to help us further develop our educational resources
that began with last year's Day of the Dead project. Community members,
and program specialists and local teachers will work with our intern to
develop curriculum supports that explore the evolution of public ritual
and celebration across cultures that bring together communities and their
institutions through the production of giant puppet parades and pageants..
These resource materials will be available for free online at the end of
the summer for puppet-making, pageantry and community arts mobilization.
Check it out at www.spiralq.org