Who: Peter Schumann and The Bread and Puppet Theater
What: Performance: Insurrection Mass with Funeral March for a Rotten Idea
When: Monday July 30th @ 7:30pm
Where: Goddard College Haybarn, Plainfield

Bread and Puppet Theater will perform their latest show at the Goddard College Haybarn Theater, in Plainfield on Monday July 30th at 7:30 p.m. In this show Bread and Puppet, under the direction of the "insurrection preacher" (B&P director, Peter Schumann), appropriates the form of a Catholic funeral mass as a ritual bye bye to a rotten idea in our culture or politics that is badly in need of burial. The Mass also features the gates of hell and first-person testimonials by humanitarian aid workers on the US-Mexico border. Open to the public. Admission by donation. There will be Bread & Puppet posters and limited edition woodcut prints for sale and bread and aioli served after the show. For information about Bread & Puppet see http://breadandpuppet.org/

There is also an exhibition of Peter Schumann's giant woodcut banners on both floors of the Eliot Pratt Library of Goddard College. In the upstairs Art Gallery is a series of works, entitled Post-Apocalypse for the ¾ Empire, inspired by the Albrecht Dürer's woodcuts illustrating the apocalypse. Downstairs is an exhibition of banners for the Possibilitarian Uprising. Regular hours for the library are 9 – 4 pm, M-F. The library will be open till 9 pm on Monday, July 30th. Check library website for other extended hours https://www.goddard.edu/lits/ or call 802-322-1604), or The Art Gallery website, with directions: https://www.goddard.edu/about-goddard/art-gallery/

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