Programs and Events
Youth and Families

Saturday, July 12, 10 am–12 pm
Emerging Artists Family Workshop: Look a Book!
A bookmaking workshop
(ages 6 and up)
Karen Skove Chu and Kim Richardson Lindley (www.zushibooks.com)
Learn how to make one-of-a-kind books using clever folding and binding techniques, collage, and even a little puppetry.
Space is limited. RSVP and pre-payment required: asuka.hisa@smmoa.org or
310-586-6488, ext. 118
$15, $10 SMMoA members

Saturday, July 19, 7 pm
Dante’s Inferno (www.dantefilm.com)
A film of hand-drawn puppets brought to life with hand-made especial effects. This literary classic is retold as an apocalyptic graphic novel meets Victorian-era toy theater.
Voices by Dermot Mulroney and James Cromwell; Q&A with artist Sandow Birk, director Sean Meredith, and puppet designer Elyse Pignolet.
Free Admission

Saturday, July 19, GLOW: Dusk till Dawn
Bike to the GLOW Festival!
GLOW is Santa Monica’s inaugural dusk-till-dawn arts festival (http://www.smgov.net/smarts/glow/). Continue your evening after the Dante’s Inferno screening and join the SMMoA Street Team as they ride to the Santa Monica Pier. Enjoy a special bike rental rate courtesy of Perry’s Café and Beach Rentals.

Bikes must be returned to Bergamot Station no later than 9 am, Sunday, July 20.
$20 per bike for museum members; $25 per bike for non-members
All bikes include helmet and lock; Orders must be submitted by Thursday, July 17

Saturday, July 26, 6–8 pm
The Puppet Shows: Part I
Featuring three acts; Introduced by playwright Erik Ehn

• Concrete Folk Variations, Chapter 1.75
  Created by Susan Simpson
  A serial noir story set in the lesbian bars, cop shops, and streetcars of McCarthy-era Los Angeles.
  
  
• Cold Morning Light
  Created by Kyle McBain Leeser; Music by Jack Berglund
  This first chapter of a puppet epic tells the story of an airship company's apprenticeships and one man who breaks the cycle.
  
  
• His Hands Make an Army, His Hands Make a Hospital
  Created by Eric Lindley and Katie Shook
  Puppetry, performance, text, and live music tell the story of siblings from a New Mexican farm encountering rapid industrialization and foreign conflict

Saturday, August 2, 6–8 pm
The Puppet Shows: Part II
Featuring three acts

• The Reptile Under the Flowers
  Created by Janie Geiser; Music by Valerie Opielski
  A multimedia peepshow/diorama/performance with miniature puppetry and live video.
  
  
• The Matchbox Shows
  Created by Laura Heit
  Raconteur and sometimes pyromaniac Laura Heit performs miniature puppet shows within matchboxes.
  
  
• Le Petit Macabre
  Created by Caitlin Lainoff; Music by Daniel Corral
  A surreal puppet opera using shadow, light, animation, and live kazoo to reveal the imminent threat of a comet wrecking-ball hurtling through space to make way for a brighter century.

Saturday, August 9, 10 am–12 pm
Emerging Artists Family Workshop:
Plastic Hunks and Chunks
(ages 6 and up)
Alison Joy Goldberg (www.alisonjoygoldberg.com)
Plastic is ubiquitous, colorful, practical, and way too disposable. In an act of creative consciousness, construct unique shapes and forms

Space is limited. RSVP and pre-payment required: asuka.hisa@smmoa.org or
310-586-6488, ext. 118
$15, $10 SMMoA members

Friday, September 12
Opening Receptions
Member’s Preview: 6–7 pm; Public Opening: 7–9 pm
Martin Kersels: Heavyweight Champion
Project Room 1: Henry Taylor: Girrrrrl!
Project Room 2: Bruce Pollock: Circling West

Friday, September 12
Opening Night Workshop: Martin Kersels
(ages 6 and up)
6–7 pm Members only
7–8 pm General admission
Space is limited. RSVP and pre-payment required:
asuka.hisa@smmoa.org
or 310-586-6488, ext. 118
$15, $10 SMMoA members

Saturday, September 13, 1–4 pm
Emerging Artists Family Workshop: Willow Weaving with Steen Madsen
(ages 6 and up)
Weave objects from Danish willow with master artist Steen Madsen. Madsen collaborated with Martin Kersels in the creation of Dionysian Stage, a sculpture on view in Martin Kersels: Heavyweight Champion.
Space is limited. RSVP and pre-payment required:
asuka.hisa@smmoa.org or
310-586-6488, ext. 118
$20, $15 SMMoA members

Programs for The Puppet Show are funded, in part, by the City of Santa Monica’s Community Arts Grant Program.