Mark Blashford, a performer of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival’s Pop-Up Puppet Gram presents an excerpt from TIMBER!, his new show about a forest, its wild inhabitants, its enemies, and the artist who defends it, featuring hand-carved marionettes and original music.
Maria Camia (MARICAMA) is a Brooklyn-based visual theater artist and writer who creates spiritual/sci-fi plays, puppets, and performances with the intention to globally inspire play and healing. Camia performs The Aricama Herstory, which uses theater, comics and spiritual clothing to tell the story of a young girl named Allimah who dreams about the herstory of the Aricama world including Potato Gods and the first flower Humanoid.
Grammy Award winner Ty Defoe is a writer, actor and interdisciplinary artist of the Oneida and Ojibwe Nations of Wisconsin. Defoe co-created with IBEX Puppetry the 2019 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival opening production, Ajijaak on Turtle Island, an eco-focused, First Nation origin story and spectacle that featured giant animal puppets and performers of the Ojibwe, Lakota, and Cherokee Nations.
Tickets include food and drink.
