Puppet Pageant info:
The Twilight Soiree
Open studio workshops October 23-29 (see schedule below).
Performance event October 31- November 2 at dusk.
Come celebrate the thinning of the veil between this world and the other side with a social mixer of metaphysical proportions. Enjoy a meet and greet with things that go bump in the night. Dance on the lawn with re-animated matter. Have a get-together with those that are gone but not forgotten. Toast the evening with an eclectic menagerie of strange and beautiful characters.
FREE EVENT! That’s right! For all ages!
Common questions about Hip Pocket’s Puppet Pageant:
What is a puppet pageant?
It can be many things! You can expect masks, puppets, community, pageantry, music, and immersive site specific visual feasts.
When can I see it?
Thurs-Sat, October 31-November 2 at 7pm. Performed & experienced before the 8:15 PM stage show of Metamorphosis.
Where is it?
The puppet pageant is performed on a site specific designated spot located on the property at 1950 Silver Creek Road, FW 76108.
Can I take part in it?
Absolutely! Do you want to be in it? Do you want to get crafty and help make things?
Write to us HERE and we will answer your questions and get you signed up for this FREE event!
Open studio workdays will be held within the time frame of Oct 23-30. EXACT SCHEDULE CAN BE FOUND HERE . The puppet pageant is led by Brooklyn based artists, Erin Orr and Chris Green. It is a super cool experience that you do not want to miss!
We need a few supplies and maybe you can help us out with these. Click the link to find the list.
About the artists…
Chris Green and Erin K. Orr, our fearless resident artists from Brooklyn, NY.
Chris Green is a Tennessee-born, Brooklyn-based designer, performer, and director. His original theatrical, cinematic, and immersive projects draw from the vast tool-kit of visual theater and puppetry with works presented over the past 27 years both nationally and internationally. Honors and grants include: Creative Capital Award, MacDowell Fellowship, LMCC Process Space grant, as well as multiple grants from Theater Communications Group and the Jim Henson Foundation. Film credits as performer and visual effects designer include ‘Silo’ directed by David Soll (shot inside a defunct Atlas-C missile silo) and ‘White Noise’ directed by Noah Baumbach. In 2006, Green founded Chris Green Kinetics – an award-winning interdisciplinary design studio creating one-of-a-kind theatrical productions and interactive installations with a wide variety of partners and clients ranging from non-profit museums to major theme parks (chrisgreenkinetics.com). Recent projects include kinetic set design for David Neumann and Marcella Murray’s Obie Award-winning ‘Distances Smaller Than This Are Not Confirmed.’ Current projects include stop-motion puppetry for the artist Swoon’s upcoming feature film ‘Sibylant Sisters.’ Green has had the honor of working with Erin K. Orr and Lake Simons over the years to stage community-driven pageantry on the acreage around Hip Pocket theater and is thrilled to be returning for this next adventure.
Erin K. Orr is absorbed in the creative alchemy of turning the raw ingredients of images, objects, folklore and food into a feast. Erin creates puppet works in collaboration with living composers ranging from a dark fairytale for adults, to a circus about the real life drama of honeybees and a puppet musical inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca. She has received grants from LMCC, the Jim Henson Foundation and the Jerome Foundation. Erin also creates thematic dinners for immersive theatrical events and is currently working on a storytelling dinner that draws on Estonian werewolf lore and personal narrative exploring hunger and domestication. She is an award winning arts educator who has taught puppetry throughout the NYC public schools for 30 years, and works as an artist mentor and curriculum specialist for federally funded research about literacy and puppetry. She has worked for over 20 years with Chris Green and Lake Simons and is pleased to return to create her 8th Hip Pocket Puppet Pageant!