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The Ngugi Project explores the work of Kenyan playwright, novelist, and theorist Ngugi wa Thiong'o, often considered the preeminent writer of the African continent today. Join in the early stages of creative process by reading Ngugi's works with the core artistic team. Explore themes, images and characters with New WORLD Theater and UMass Department of Theater faculty in a stimulating evening of art-inspired dialogue!
Contact Priscilla Page at NWT to register and get info on reading list.
It’s an hour plus 15 minute jazz festival Jazz In July style performances!
Bassist Chip Jackson discusses his experiences as a 15 year member of the Billy Taylor Trio.
A historical look at Tiger's rise through the trumpet ranks, and a discussion of his rhythmic approach to improvisation.
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Club Jazz in July
Wednesday, July 8, from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Marriott Center, 11th Floor Campus Center
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Saxophonist/Pianist and internet entrepreneur, Jake Epstein, discusses the in’s and out’s of copyrights and downloading in the information age.
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Jazz in July Jamsations! Student Showcase
Friday, July 10, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
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Through performance and demonstration, the Tillis-Holmes Duo (Frederick Tillis, saxophone; Jeffrey Holmes, piano) will be tracing the history of jazz from its New Orleans origins to the modern day.
– Jazz Legend Sheila Jordan discusses a singer's relationship with the rhythm section. Topics include: arranging techniques with a jazz trio and vocal conventions for various styles.
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Club Jazz in July
Wednesday, July 15, from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Marriott Center, 11th Floor Campus Center
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Topics piano virtuoso Hal Galper will discuss are "What To Listen For and What To Do With What You Hear," "The African Versus the Euro-centric Sensibility." “The Second Line March Beat & Syncopation," "How Rhythmic, Melodic and Harmonic Dialog Occurs During Group Performance,"
Saxophonist and director of UMass Fine Arts Center, gives a historical overview of the jazz hard-bop era. Dr. Hill will discuss musical conventions, major players and historical/future significance of this era of jazz evolution.
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Jazz in July Jamsations! Student Showcase
Friday, July 17, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Bowker Auditorium
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In his portrayals, each installation combines reclaimable material (steel, wood, glass, sand)
and sets the model of the figure in the representation of the landscape.
In Rajnesh Domalpalli’s debut feature, Vanaja, a lower-caste teenage girl in Southern India, aspires to be a dancer.
Join us for this exciting trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC and discover Afghanistans's unique role as a center for both the reception of diverse cultural elements and the creation of original styles of art.
Carolyn Mae Lassiter was raised in Ahoskie, North Carolina where her family worked as sharecroppers until she was twelve years old. Picking cotton, tobacco and peanuts alongside her family, she spent little time in school. Carolyn developed her interest in art during the early 1970's when she lived in Mexico with a family of indigenous artists. A self-taught artist, she began drawing in 1989. Her artwork is critically acclaimed at shows internationally. Carolyn's work includes various types of multi-media art inspired by dreams, spirituality, life in the country, family, and animals.
In director Wisit Sasanatieng's film, red motorcycle helmets rain down from the sky, grandmas are reincarnated as geckos and a mountain of plastic bottles dominates the Bangkok skyline.
An exhibition of work by four acclaimed contemporary artists who explore themes and ideas central to Andy Warhol’s artistic practice, demonstrating how Warhol’s legacy continues to influence and shape the content of the work of a new generation of artists.
Filmmaker Liew Seng Tat presents a quirkily endearing story of a preoccupied single father and his two little boys, their tomboy friend, and a stray puppy.
An exhibition of Andy Warhol’s photographs culled from over 100 Polaroids and black and white silver gelatin prints granted to the University Gallery by the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program in celebration of the Andy Warhol Foundation's 20th anniversary.
“If genius is the sustained application of intelligence,” writes Richard Cook, “then Evan Parker merits the epitaph.” Born in Bristol, England in 1944, Parker has developed the possibilities of unpremeditated music more deeply than almost anyone. “Other kinds of music might entertain you, cheer you up or pump the blood,” writes Manfred Pabst, “but Rothenberg’s clarifies the mind and throws your soul wide open."
An exhibition of student works from the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts in South Hadley, MA
An exhibition of work by students from the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School, South Hadley, MA
Singapore’s enfant terrible filmmaker Royston Tan delighted Singaporean audiences with this box-office record-breaking getai musical/comedy/melodrama.
Carolyn Mae Lassiter was raised in Ahoskie, North Carolina where her family worked as sharecroppers until she was twelve years old. Picking cotton, tobacco and peanuts alongside her family, she spent little time in school. Carolyn developed her interest in art during the early 1970's when she lived in Mexico with a family of indigenous artists. A self-taught artist, she began drawing in 1989. Her artwork is critically acclaimed at shows internationally. Carolyn's work includes various types of multi-media art inspired by dreams, spirituality, life in the country, family, and animals.
An exhibition of Andy Warhol’s photographs culled from over 100 Polaroids and black and white silver gelatin prints granted to the University Gallery by the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program in celebration of the Andy Warhol Foundation's 20th anniversary.
An exhibition of student works from the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts in South Hadley, MA
An exhibition of work by students from the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School, South Hadley, MA
An exhibition of work by four acclaimed contemporary artists who explore themes and ideas central to Andy Warhol’s artistic practice, demonstrating how Warhol’s legacy continues to influence and shape the content of the work of a new generation of artists.
In his portrayals, each installation combines reclaimable material (steel, wood, glass, sand)
and sets the model of the figure in the representation of the landscape.
A musician travels with his sons from Iranian to Iraqi Kurdistan to perform a concert for the first time in thirty-seven years.
As both a photographer and former actor Carol Ross has always maintained a position in front of and behind the camera. Based on her first book entitled POP: A Celebration of Black Fatherhood, this exhibit features photographs of devoted fathers. Since its unveiling her book POP has been featured in Essence, Heart & Soul, O Magazine, Baby Talk, ABC Chicago, Oprah & Friends Radio and countless publications. Ross says: “In my work I seek to challenge angles and break conventional technical rules, always searching for new ways to view and interpret the world--sometimes with humor, always with compassion.”
Reha Erdem’s exquisitely coming of age tale takes place in a rural Muslim mountain village.
Deerfield, Massachusetts-based artist, Marcia R. Wise crops the face closely with little or no background, often excluding the top of the head, hair, parts of chins, ears. Her focus is on the language of the eyes. Sometimes the eyes pose a question or cause one to wonder what is being seen, thought, felt, or said.
Like a shadow cast or an image reflected on water,Conlon's work involves the transformation of form on a surface.
In her on-site installation, Ludwig explores the concept of a scab; a crust that forms over a wound during healing.
Their musical association stretches back to 1988, and includes 14 albums and concerts ranging from duos, to work with the Koln, Atlanta and Detroit Symphony Orchestras.
The first of four sessions in the second Healing in Tibetan Buddhism series. Open to all, regardless of prior initiation or practice.
This series of workshops will offer practical Tibetan Buddhist techniques for experiencing joy in daily life: Analysis, Meditation, Deity Yoga & Mantra.
A Conversation about Experience and Scientific Basis with Khen Rinpoche, David Gardiner and Phuntsog Wangmo
The second of four sessions in the second Healing in Tibetan Buddhism series. Open to all, regardless of prior initiation or practice.
The fourth of four sessions in the second Healing in Tibetan Buddhism series. Open to all, regardless of prior initiation or practice.
The program includes a world premier performance of a new percussion concerto by Brazilian composer, Marlos Nobre, which the Orquestra de São Paulo has commissioned for the extraordinary percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie.
New Asia Cinema and Amherst Cinema Arts Center present a special Bollywood Extravaganza!
This new documentary by British filmmaker and journalist Havana Marking explores the phenomenon of the pop idol TV show “Afghan Star” in Kabul.
Cuban percussionist Dafnis Prieto stands out for his energy, his creativity, and his borderless musical world view. Experience an eclectic mixture of traditional, Latin and world rhythms.
Within a short period of time Dafnis Prieto's revolutionary drumming techniques have had a powerful impact on both the Latin and jazz music scene, locally and internationally.
The Grammy-Award Winner is joined by his "beautifully scruffy, harmonically precise, spirited, and better-than-ever band" and they'll be singing songs in both English and Spanish with their own homespun style giving you the feeling that a bunch of wildly talented friends and neighbors just got together to throw a party . . . and everyone's invited.
The gentle but powerful sitarist Mita Nag and virtuoso tabla player Samir Chatterjee join forces to bring Indian tradition to UMass.
Listen to ardent Rumi devotee Peter Rogen and internationally recognized musician/singer Amir Vahab recite the loving spiritual poetry of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi.
An interactive anime screening and cosplay event.
Stories of the Rainbow Serpent, the giant multi-colored snake of great power and significance for Australia's Aboriginal people, are retold by expert storyteller Paul Taylor.
Like a shadow cast or an image reflected on water,Conlon's work involves the transformation of form on a surface.
An exhibition of work by four acclaimed contemporary artists who explore themes and ideas central to Andy Warhol’s artistic practice, demonstrating how Warhol’s legacy continues to influence and shape the content of the work of a new generation of artists.
An exhibition of Andy Warhol’s photographs culled from over 100 Polaroids and black and white silver gelatin prints granted to the University Gallery by the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program in celebration of the Andy Warhol Foundation's 20th anniversary.
In her on-site installation, Ludwig explores the concept of a scab; a crust that forms over a wound during healing.
Deerfield, Massachusetts-based artist, Marcia R. Wise crops the face closely with little or no background, often excluding the top of the head, hair, parts of chins, ears. Her focus is on the language of the eyes. Sometimes the eyes pose a question or cause one to wonder what is being seen, thought, felt, or said.
These three outsider artists from New Mexico live with developmental disabilities, have experienced confinement in an institution, and have come into their own individual artistic paths later in life. Like many Outsider Artists, Jay Dickens, Arnold Nelson, and Floyd Nelson have developed artistically without any preconceived notions or limitations regarding art. Collectively, their work illustrates the triumph and strength of the human spirit.
The American Shakespeare Center recovers the joys and accessibility of Shakespeare's theatre and gives its audiences some of the pleasures that an Elizabethan playgoer would have enjoyed: universal lighting, doubling of parts, fun with gender confusion, minimal sets,
familiar costumes and the use of music throughout.
Believing that Shakespeare's stagecraft is as important as his wordcraft, the American Shakespeare Center brings us Romeo and Juliet with their own modern performance style based on how Shakespeare's company performed plays in Renaissance London.
California-born Hong Kong superstar Daniel Wu’s entertaining directorial debut is a mockumentary--or popumentary--about the formation of a boyband.
"Another Evening/Serenade: The Proposition" approaches the legacy of Abraham Lincoln as a rumination on the nature of history.
Groove to the music of Washington DC’s hottest Bollywood band, Kehkashaan with a repertoire that ranges from oldies to current sizzling hits from popular Hindi movies.
It’s Birdhouse Factory by Cirque Mechanics, an extraordinary troupe of Cirque du Soleil, Pickle Family Circus, and Moscow Circus veterans who transform the mundane into the magnificent.
When world-renowned circus stars dream up a factory, it is no ordinary industrial plant. It’s a wild and wonderful workshop where the machines are circus props and the workers are acrobats, dancers, contortionists, and clowns.
The title of this exhibition is borrowed from the musical terminology relating to a style of singing in which the melody sung by one singer is responded to or echoed by another. The purpose of this project is to facilitate an exchange between art and writing based on the same fundamental idea of call and response.
Please join us for the 3rd Annual Youth Film Showcase: Cultures of Peace with films by local youth celebrating peace, social justice, cultural diversity, and environmental issues!
Join us for a celebration of Cambodian-American youth with a showing of the award-winning film, Monkey Dance, and a cultural performance by the Angkor Dance Troupe of Lowell, MA.
Featured Artists:
Jackie Boudreau-Kinsey, Candace Bradbury-Carlin , Jim Doubleday, Stephen Foley, Ben Ostiguy, Marcia Rossi Wise, Bill Rock ,Tess Rock
A traditonal Chinese folk tale is recounted using the ancient Chinese art form of shadow puppets.
A postgenocidal story of friendship of two Rwandan young men from different tribal backgrounds by Korean-American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung.
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Tyshawn Sorey
Sorey plays drums, piano and trombone, and has recorded with Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith, Dave Douglas, and Butch Morris, among many others.
Thursday, November 19, 8:00 pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
| "The enigma that is Tyshawn Sorey: while most young drummers are walking in the footsteps of the elders," writes Mark F Turner, "Sorey thrives on the outside, composing and performing free improvised music.
Tour New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art and see the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the Arts of the Samurai.
An exhibition of work by four acclaimed contemporary artists who explore themes and ideas central to Andy Warhol’s artistic practice, demonstrating how Warhol’s legacy continues to influence and shape the content of the work of a new generation of artists.
The title of this exhibition is borrowed from the musical terminology relating to a style of singing in which the melody sung by one singer is responded to or echoed by another. The purpose of this project is to facilitate an exchange between art and writing based on the same fundamental idea of call and response.
An exhibition of Andy Warhol’s photographs culled from over 100 Polaroids and black and white silver gelatin prints granted to the University Gallery by the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program in celebration of the Andy Warhol Foundation's 20th anniversary.
Featured Artists:
Jackie Boudreau-Kinsey, Candace Bradbury-Carlin , Jim Doubleday, Stephen Foley, Ben Ostiguy, Marcia Rossi Wise, Bill Rock ,Tess Rock
Swallowed is an installation including hundreds of photographs, thousands of plastic water bottles, video projects, audio recordings and drawings.
Swallowed is an installation including hundreds of photographs, thousands of plastic water bottles, video projects, audio recordings and drawings.
Morris has changed the way audiences see modern dance, with a unique artistry that reflects a profound and sophisticated love of music. It is not just dance at the highest level, but simultaneously, concert-going at the highest level—a perfect blend of sound and movement, all happening in the moment. Sublime.
The Grammy nominated Imani Winds with their dynamic playing, culturally poignant programming, and genre-blurring collaborations with the equally dynamic jazz vibraphonist Stefon Harris.
Based on the children’s book by Tomie dePaola, Strega Nona is the musical tale of a friendly magical witch who strives to cure the ills of her tiny Italian town. With a fantastic cast and brilliant lyrics, this musical will transport your students to a magical place.
The University Gallery embarks on an exhibition of significant social and aesthetic value by organizing “Greening the Valley: Sustainable Architecture in the Pioneer Valley”, and a series of related public talks and events. It will not only document the rich variety of green architectural activities taking place in our Pioneer Valley and greater Springfield communities, but will also capture the development of the new technologies and practices in green architecture that will become an increasingly important aspect of our daily lives. The exhibition and public talks will represent a valuable source of information for researchers, students, and the public-at-large. Local citizens will be able to make valuable connections with area architects and suppliers whose work and materials emphasize sustainability.
This exhibition is the third annual exhibition at the University Gallery in which artists are invited to integrate their own works with pieces they select from the University Gallery's works-on-paper collection, which includes over 2600 contemporary prints, drawings, and photographs.
Fully-engaged and totally original, Santa Fe artist Kelly Moore paints on canvas and paper, as well as on other more unlikely surfaces such as used tubes of paint, discarded paint brushes, wooden boxes, and electrical wiring. His dolls, hung along the sides of his flea market vendor’s booth, pop up between paintings of faces, crows, hillsides, and a range of references, marks and gestures that emerge from deep places inside him. His works have a poetic quality, giving back to us what we bring to them.
"The RFK Project" chronicles Robert Kennedy's dramatic transformation from discomfort with and indifference towards the Civil Rights movement to a champion and crusader. It offers a compelling and dramatic illumination of a crucial decade, enabling a new generation to hear the words, feel the tension and explore the issues that still resonate today.
The 60’s in America was a decade of heroes, violence, love, death, progress, and disappointment. The "RFK Project" chronicles Robert Kennedy's dramatic transformation from discomfort with and indifference towards the Civil Rights movement to a champion and crusader.
Parker and Drake invite the reknown German trombonist Konrad "Conny" Bauer to perform in Amherst. Born in 1943, "Bauer has mastered the wide range of techniques available to the contemporary trombonist," writes John Corbett, "as well as the web of genres in which the instrument is imbricated, including march, parade, circus, early jazz, bop, free improvisation, new music, even other related traditions like alphorn and bugle call."
Fully-engaged and totally original, Santa Fe artist Kelly Moore paints on canvas and paper, as well as on other more unlikely surfaces such as used tubes of paint, discarded paint brushes, wooden boxes, and electrical wiring. His dolls, hung along the sides of his flea market vendor’s booth, pop up between paintings of faces, crows, hillsides, and a range of references, marks and gestures that emerge from deep places inside him. His works have a poetic quality, giving back to us what we bring to them.
Ballet Folklórico de México sets itself apart by combining their artists' talents with the traditional music, elaborate dance and ornate costumes of Mexican culture. The result is a stunning performance that disseminates the rich tradition and folklore of Mexico throughout the world.
This exhibition is the third annual exhibition at the University Gallery in which artists are invited to integrate their own works with pieces they select from the University Gallery's works-on-paper collection, which includes over 2600 contemporary prints, drawings, and photographs.
The University Gallery embarks on an exhibition of significant social and aesthetic value by organizing “Greening the Valley: Sustainable Architecture in the Pioneer Valley”, and a series of related public talks and events. It will not only document the rich variety of green architectural activities taking place in our Pioneer Valley and greater Springfield communities, but will also capture the development of the new technologies and practices in green architecture that will become an increasingly important aspect of our daily lives. The exhibition and public talks will represent a valuable source of information for researchers, students, and the public-at-large. Local citizens will be able to make valuable connections with area architects and suppliers whose work and materials emphasize sustainability.
Gamelan Galak Tika demonstrates the mystical music of Balinese shadow puppet plays, the vocal rhythms of the Kecak and movements of Balinese Dance.
Humans, computers and robots join forces to present a musical hybrid of Western and traditional Balinese music.
Predominantly Pacific Islanders and Maori, this company is renowned for its unique ability to combine their traditional and contemporary dance forms.
Six-time Grammy winners, the Chieftains are recognized for bringing traditional Irish music to the world's attention and after all these years of making some of the most beautiful music in the world, their music remains as fresh and relevant as when they first began.
In this exhibition, curator and art historian Gary Tartokov introduces Indian artist Savi Savarkar to our community in a thoughtfully organized exhibition. Savi Savarkar’s art is most remarkable for the expression of his social situation in South Asian culture as a Dalit, and for the immediacy, depth and power with which he expresses the meaning of that situation to us.
Parker and Drake invite their colleagues Lewis 'Flip' Barnes (trumpet) and Rob Brown (alto saxophone), the so-called Raining on the Moon Quartet.
A percussionists' paradise presented by Zakir Hussain and company via various percussion instruments, the stringed sitar, and the sarangi in both folk and classical music.
Zakir Hussain is appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large as an international phenomenon. A classical tabla virtuoso of the highest order, his consistently brilliant and exciting performances have not only established him as a national treasure in his own country, India, but earned him worldwide fame. The concert also features a number of musicians, mostly from India, playing percussion instruments as well as sitar and sarangi (a north Indian stringed instrument played with a bow).
Co-presented with the Asian Arts & Culture Program.
In this exhibition, curator and art historian Gary Tartokov introduces Indian artist Savi Savarkar to our community in a thoughtfully organized exhibition. Savi Savarkar’s art is most remarkable for the expression of his social situation in South Asian culture as a Dalit, and for the immediacy, depth and power with which he expresses the meaning of that situation to us.
This exhibition is the third annual exhibition at the University Gallery in which artists are invited to integrate their own works with pieces they select from the University Gallery's works-on-paper collection, which includes over 2600 contemporary prints, drawings, and photographs.
The University Gallery embarks on an exhibition of significant social and aesthetic value by organizing “Greening the Valley: Sustainable Architecture in the Pioneer Valley”, and a series of related public talks and events. It will not only document the rich variety of green architectural activities taking place in our Pioneer Valley and greater Springfield communities, but will also capture the development of the new technologies and practices in green architecture that will become an increasingly important aspect of our daily lives. The exhibition and public talks will represent a valuable source of information for researchers, students, and the public-at-large. Local citizens will be able to make valuable connections with area architects and suppliers whose work and materials emphasize sustainability.
In Kathleen Camaratta's solo exhibition, the viewer is a traveler taken to the threshold of sensation, to the body of the mother earth and to the generating power of nature.
Kenichi Ebina fuses freestyle hip hop with poppin', lockin', mime, house, jazz, contemporary, and ethnic dance styles, as well as martial arts, comedy, and visual illusion.
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New Moves
Kenichi Ebina & Company
Thursday, April 8, from 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Concert Hall
| Complete with sound and lighting effects, this exciting new dance group fuses Freestyle Hip Hop with Poppin’, Lockin’, Mime, House, Jazz, Contemporary and Ethnic dance!
Neal Conan's compelling narration, and evocative music created specifically for this project, work seamlessly to take the audience along on some of the world's most extraordinary expeditions. With featured actress Lily Knight.
Beginning with discarded maps, LaPrade Seuthe carefully color matches the hues in the existing maps and applies these opaque paint mixtures to eradicate names, symbols and other location identifiers. Once the clean slate has been established, she adds drawings of images culled from encyclopedias, dictionaries, travel guides and assorted manuals. For her, this process is parallel to an internal process of creating a clean slate or starting over. Her painting is complete when connections between seemingly random images are revealed.
Along with her feather light vocals, Rokia’s music is infused with western pop rhythms and traditional African instruments, making for a rare and beautiful thing. The result is a beguiling sound that can claim to be "world music" in the purest sense.
Parker and Drake invite the brilliant tenor and soprano saxophonist Evan Parker to join them.
This triumphant story of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play professional major league baseball, chronicles the young athlete's nonviolent struggle to integrate what was then considered a "white man's game."
Described by the New York Times as "A breath of fresh air," Aspen Santa Fe Ballet stands out as a model of what a small ballet company should be with its "musicality athleticism, and technique-conscious delivery." Its versatile and gifted troupe of 10 young dancers, perform an eclectic repertoire of pieces by some of the world's foremost choreographers. This sophisticated company performs lively programs enjoyable for all audiences.
The University Gallery embarks on an exhibition of significant social and aesthetic value by organizing “Greening the Valley: Sustainable Architecture in the Pioneer Valley”, and a series of related public talks and events. It will not only document the rich variety of green architectural activities taking place in our Pioneer Valley and greater Springfield communities, but will also capture the development of the new technologies and practices in green architecture that will become an increasingly important aspect of our daily lives. The exhibition and public talks will represent a valuable source of information for researchers, students, and the public-at-large. Local citizens will be able to make valuable connections with area architects and suppliers whose work and materials emphasize sustainability.
This exhibition is the third annual exhibition at the University Gallery in which artists are invited to integrate their own works with pieces they select from the University Gallery's works-on-paper collection, which includes over 2600 contemporary prints, drawings, and photographs.
Goodnight Moon is a celebration of familiar nighttime rituals, while The Runaway Bunny’s pretend tale of leaving home evokes reassuring responses from his loving mum. Whimsical puppetry and evocative original music will bring a new sense of appreciation to stories that have delighted several generations.
Goodnight Moon is a celebration of familiar nighttime rituals, while The Runaway Bunny’s pretend tale of leaving home evokes reassuring responses from his loving mum. Whimsical puppetry and evocative original music will bring a new sense of appreciation to stories that have delighted several generations. |
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