Getting Ready for Puppets at ACA

Puppet at ACA Opens November 16th!

It's fun to pretend you're an animal, snorting like a pig when you finish a cookie, or wearing a furry hat to keep off the Boston chill. Join me at Arlington Center for the Arts on November 16th at 2 pm for "The Trolls and the Tree," a green-themed story with a feisty squirrel, fleet-winged birds, and some rowdy trolls, too.  
Arlington Center for the Arts theater
41 Foster Street, Arlington
Tickets $7; 3 for $20, at the door. 
Can be reserved by e-mail to galapagospuppets@gmail.com

And our line-up for December to March has lots of fun with lots of animals:

"Jack and the Beanstalk" by Dream Tale Puppets
Saturday, December 7 at 2 pm

"Mathilda's Bath" and "Cow and Mouse's Picnic" by Galapagos Puppets
Saturday, January 11, 2 pm

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

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

Summer shows, summer chairs

Come see a Galapagos show this week:

"Badger Meets the Fairies" at Winchester Library, Tuesday, July 23 at 3:30

"Badger Meets the Fairies" in Stanley Park, Westfield, MA, July 26th at 10:00 am

and a collaboration with Jacek Zuzanski of DreamTales Puppets , a wonderful puppeteer and director -- I'll make the voices for Jack, the Giant, Giant's wife and other silly characters in "Jack and the Beanstalk" at the Boylston Public Library on July 27th at 11:30 am. 

Chairs? Come see "Chairful Where You Sit," Arlington's public art exhibit. My daughter Frances and her friends and I made a "Magnolia Park Bench" complete with swings, a slide, a community garden, and worried parents. 
Come see our bench at Mass. Ave and Pleasant St., from July 21 to 28!
more: Chairful Where You Sit blog

A Fairy Garden Celebration at Eric Carle Picture Book Art Museum, June 8th

Meet all kinds of fairies through picture book art on Saturday, June 8th at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst. Children will make apple-head fairies and fairy houses, and see my performance of "Badger Meets the Fairies" at 11:30 and 2:00.

More:
http://www.carlemuseum.org/Programs_Events/Upcoming/A_Fairy_Garden_Celebration

Honor the Year of the Snake -- Snow date show!

MONKEY AND THE MYSTERY OF THE SNAKE

Saturday, June 1 at 11 am

Arlington Center for the Arts

Someone keeps sneaking into the Banquet Hall and gobbling up decorations meant to honor the Year of the Snake. Could it be the mysterious Snake King? Or a cranky monkey who wishes the banquet were in his honor?

We missed the chance to welcome the Year of the Snake because of a big snowstorm in February. Come honor it now with Margaret Moody of Galapagos Puppets! Stay after the show for oolong tea and puppet-play.

Please note the NEW TIME for this show: 11 am 

For directions: www.acarts.org/directions.php

Hope to see you there!

Margaret