"Stories from Snowy Lands" on January 10th

"Stories from Snowy Lands" by Sparky's Puppets

Saturday, January 10th at 11am & 2pm

Arlington Center for the Arts

Tickets $7; 3 for $20, cash at the door

(may be reserved by emailing galapagospuppets@gmail.com or calling Margaret at (781) 643-1228

The warmest way to spend a January Saturday is with Sparky's Puppets. Watch a snowman come to life, then giggle at the antics of an ice-fishing bear in "Stories from Snowy Lands." Sparky's gentle humor appeals to children as young as 3 and keeps their parents and grandchildren laughing too. Come for the show; stay for puppet-play and coffee.

Sparky Davis has been performing favorite children's stories for schools, libraries and festivals throughout New England for more than 30 years. Each of her shows features colorful hand puppets and plenty of audience participation.

"Stories from Snowy Lands" is the third show of this winter's Saturdays with Puppets series of fine puppetry for families at Arlington Center for the Arts. Still to come:

"Monkey Makes Mischief in Heaven" by Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, February 14 at 2pm

"Cow and Mouse's Picnic" and "Mathilda's Bath" by Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, March 14 at 2pm

Come meet Badger on December 6th

"Badger Meets the Fairies" by Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, December 6 at 2pm

Arlington Center for the Arts

41 Foster Street

Tickets $7; 3 for $20, cash at the door

Mr. Badger flies off to help the fairies with a project in their garden. Can he stay and learn to fly? Join Margaret Moody for a hand puppet show based on European fairy lore. Original puppets and sets built by Sandra Pastrana and Margaret; lilting music by Alison Plante. Best for ages 4 and up.

We hope you'll stay after the show to create your own fairy!

Want to reserve a ticket? please email galapagospuppets@gmail.com or call Margaret at (781) 643-1228.

"Saturdays with Puppets" continues on December 6

"Badger Meets the Fairies" by Margaret Moody of Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 2pm
Arlington Center for the Arts theater
41 Foster Street

Tickets $7; 3 for $20, cash or check at the door
may be reserved by e-mailing galapagospuppets@gmail.com or calling 781 643-1228

Mr. Badger is thrilled to meet Blossom, a flower fairy, in the garden. He flies away with her to help the fairies build a playground. But then it's complicated: the fairies won't use cement; and Mr. Badger wants to learn to fly. Join Margaret Moody for a gentle tale based on European fairy lore. Best for ages four and up.

"Badger Meets the Fairies" features puppets and sets built by Sandra Pastrana and Margaret Moody and a music score created by Alison Plante of Berklee College of Music.

Please stay after the show for puppet-play -- and coffee for grown-up friends.

NOTE: there will be ONE SHOW on December 6th, at 2pm.

"The Three Pigs and Other Tales" at ACA

"The Three Pigs and Other Tales" by Deborah CostineSaturday, November 8 at 11am and 2pm

Arlington Center for the Arts

41 Foster Street

Tickets $7; 3 for $20, cash or check at the door

Join masterful puppeteer Deborah Costine for classic stories told with shadow puppets -and a gentle touch. Tomorrow opens this season's "Saturdays with Puppets" at Arlington  Center for the Arts. Come for the show, and stay for puppet-play and coffee afterwards.

Reservations? email galapagospuppets@gmail.com or call 781-643-1228 before 8am on Nov. 8.

More shows to come in our sixth season:

“Badger Meets the Fairies” by Margaret Moody of Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, December 6, 2 pm

“Stories from Snowy Lands” by Sparky’s Puppets

Saturday, January 10, 11am and 2pm

“Monkey Makes Mischief in Heaven” by Margaret Moody of Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, February 14, 2 pm                        

“Cow and Mouse’s Picnic and Other Tales” by Margaret Moody of Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, March 14 at 2pm

"The Three Little Pigs and Other Tales" by Deborah Costine

The Three Pigs and Other Tales

by Deborah Costine

November 8

11am and 2pm

Arlington Center for the Arts

Tickets $7, cash or check at the door

Join puppeteer Deborah Costine for gentler versions of classic stories told with shadow puppets. “The Three Pigs and Other Tales” is designed especially for children ages three and up, featuring simple humor and a whimsical stage that allows Deborah to talk with her young audience from above the screen.  Come for the show, the first in this season’s “Puppets at Arlington Center for the Arts,” and stay for coffee and puppet-play afterward. Tickets may be reserved by e-mailing galapagospuppets@gmail.com.

Deborah is an artist, author, naturalist and puppeteer who has been presenting school and public performances throughout New England for over thirty years. She is a winner of the U.N.I.M.A. USA Citation for Excellence for her production, "A Woodland Cinderella," and a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation for the production of her original show: “Turtle’s New Home.”

More puppet shows to come this season at Arlington Center for the Arts:

Saturday, December 6, 2pm: Badger Meets the Fairies, Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, January 10, 11am and 2pm: Stories from Snowy Lands, Sparky's Puppets

Saturday, February 14, 2pm: Monkey Makes Mischief in Heaven, Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, March 14, 2pm: Cow and Mouse's Picnic and other Tales, Galapagos  Puppets

Welcome Spring with "The Carrot Salesman"

Mr. Bunni with a carrot customer

"THE CARROT SALESMAN"by Brad Shur of Puppet Showplace Theatre

Can the sweet bunny in the fedora sell enough carrots to please his boss?

Please join us this Saturday:
March 15th, at 11am and 2pm
Arlington Center for the Arts 
41 Foster Street
Tickets $7, 3 for $20, cash or check at the door
can be reserved by calling (781)643-1228 or emailing galapagospuppets@gmail.com

After the show, we'll celebrate SPRING by planting carrots. And playing with puppets!

Thanks for another great year of "Puppets at Arlington Center for the Arts"!

Mr. Bunni's boss

Would you buy a carrot from this man?

"The Carrot Salesman" by Brad Shur

Saturday, March 15 at 11am and 2 pm

Arlington Center for the Arts theater

Tickets $7; 3 for $20 by cash or check at the door

More info: galapagospuppets.blogspot.com

Join Mr. Bunni, a door-to-door vegetable salesman, as he journeys from earth to sea and even to outer space to find new customers. Will he ever sell enough carrots to please his boss? Or will his new friends teach him a valuable lesson? This imaginative tabletop performance features a live actor, colorful 2D paper puppets, and plenty of audience interaction. 

Brad Shur is a versatile puppeteer who has created and performed characters made of everything from pixels to paper mache. He is the Artist in Residence at Puppet Showplace Theatre in Brookline, MA.

We offer two performances of this warm, funny show: 11am and 2pm

Please stay after to plant your own carrot and play with puppets!

Brad Shur’s original works include The Yankee Peddler: Stories and Songs from Old New England and The Magic Soup and Other Stories, recently featured at the Puppeteers of America National Festival 2013. Prior to becoming the Artist in Residence at Puppet Showplace, Shur toured the country as a performer with Big Nazo (Rhode Island), Wood & Strings Theatre (Tennessee) and The PuppeTree (Vermont). As a builder Shur has designed and fabricated puppets for American Idol, Dollywood, Avenue Qproductions, and the U.S.S. Constitution Museum. Shur is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design.

This Monkey Goes to Heaven

The Monkey King lands happily in the Heavens, ready for adventure in the Year of the Horse.

Come share Monkey's adventures!

"Monkey Makes Mischief in Heaven" by Galapagos Puppets
Saturday, February 8 at 2 pm
Arlington Center for the Arts theater
41 Foster Street, Arlington

Tickets $7; 3 for $20, by cash or check at the door
may be reserved by e-mailing galapagospuppets@gmail.com
or calling (781) 643-1228

The Monkey King has high hopes for his time in the Heavens. He wants to meet the Gods and lovely Goddesses, and learn the secrets of long life. But when he isn't invited to the New Year Banquet, Monkey's appetites for mischief -- and peaches -- get the better of him! Will Monkey learn the ways of goodness?

Join Margaret Moody for this episode of the traditional Chinese epic "Journey to the West" told with traditional Taiwanese puppets and choreography, which she studied with the I Wan Jan Traditional Hand Puppet Troupe in Taiwan. 

And please stay after the show for oolong tea and a chance to dance with a New Year lion!

BEFORE THE SHOW: TURN TRASH INTO ART! A fun family workshop at Arlington Center for the Arts from 1 to 2 pm on February 8th.
Get ready for Arlington's ECOFest (March 29th) by creating something useful and beautiful from a bucket. Trader Joe's supplies the buckets; Arlington Center for the Arts gives you all the paint you need; you and your children supply the creativity and fun!
REGISTER for this free workshop by e-mailing pam@acarts.org

"Monkey Makes Mischief in Heaven" on February 8th

Nectarine Queen

"Monkey Makes Mischief in Heaven"
Margaret Moody of Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, February 8 at 2 p.m.
Arlington Center for the Arts
41 Foster Street, Arlington
Tickets $7; 3 for $20, cash or check at the door
(may be reserved by e-mailing galapagospuppets@gmail.com or calling (781) 643-1228

The Nectarine Queen goes to pick peaches for the Jade Emperor's New Year banquet -- and finds only one, half-ripe peach. The Monkey King has been gobbling peaches instead of tending them! Will the Monkey earn his place in the Heavens? Or continue his mischief?

Join Margaret Moody for this episode of the traditional Chinese epic "Journey to the West" told with traditional Taiwanese puppets and choreography, which she studied with the I Wan Jan Traditional Hand Puppet Troupe in Taiwan.

And stay after the show for oolong tea and a chance to dance with a New Year lion!

"Cow and Mouse's Picnic" and Mathilda's Bath"

"For I'll be there, puttin' down my tophat, mussin' up my shirtfront. . . "
("Tophat" by Irving Berlin)

"Cow and Mouse's Picnic" and "Mathilda's Bath"

by Margaret Moody of Galapagos Puppets

Saturday, January 11, 2pm

Arlington Center for the Arts

41 Foster Street, Arlington

Can Mrs. Piggle Wiggle and a tap-dancing Grandpa convince Mathilda to take a bath? And can an undersea adventure teach Cow to share? Margaret Moody answers these questions and more in "Mathilda's Bath," based on a Mrs. Piggle Wiggle story by Betty MacDonald and in "Cow and Mouse's Picnic," a funny farm fable.

Tickets $7; 3 for $20; can be reserved by e-mailing galapagospuppets@gmail.com

Come for the show; stay for coffee and puppet-play afterward. Hope to see you there!

Still to come in this winter's "Puppets at Arlington Center for the Arts":

"Monkey and the Year of the Horse" by Galapagos Puppets
Saturday, February 8 at 2 pm

"The Carrot Salesman" by Brad Shur of Puppet Showplace Theater
Saturday, March 15 at 11 am and 2 pm