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DocuSign Envelope ID: D830FDE7-7735-4C4D-946F-99B358D08638 <br /> Orange County Arts Commission Fall 2015 Arts Program Grant <br /> Cantastoria Workshop with Bread and Puppet Theater <br /> community, adding new layers every summer as new apprentices learn the ropes from <br /> returning apprentices and past puppeteers with years and even decades of experience under <br /> their belts. An extensive local community participates and lends resources for the summer <br /> shows, parades, and the maintenance of the buildings and grounds. Children grow up in the <br /> theater and now even some of those children's children are taking part. It is this network of <br /> support and volunteerism, as well as the attraction and commitment to an art form that is <br /> homemade, and which reflects on and addresses the concerns of the world and celebrates its <br /> beauty, that has made the Theater possible and what it is. <br /> As the theater continues to operate within its means on a shoestring budget, the summer <br /> program has evolved into a highly organized operation, including larger than ever intern and <br /> volunteer participation, and plays to enthusiastic and growing audiences. One of the most <br /> enduring legacies of Bread and Puppet is its autonomy, receiving no direct government or <br /> corporate funding, but instead relying on its own practice of frugality and a huge amount of <br /> volunteerism, along with the merged incomes of performance fees, Press sales and donations to <br /> pay its own way. This model is in itself an art form, not only of puppetry and theater making, <br /> but also a lived philosophy of art and activism. Bread and Puppet's impact on the greater world <br /> of experimental theater is acknowledged by scholars, and evidenced by the hundreds of unique <br /> theater companies now in existence that cite Bread and Puppet as an influence, in countries <br /> from Nicaragua to Italy, Korea to France, Peru to Poland, and of course the U.S. It is difficult to <br /> conceptualize what this past fifty years of work represents: how many thousands of hours of <br /> paper-mache, sewing and painting; hundreds of thousands of hours of puppet rehearsal and <br /> performance; the countless band rehearsals, meetings, training sessions for volunteers; millions <br /> of miles traveled by the many many Bread and Puppet company members across these fifty <br /> years. This is a landmark we celebrate with astonishment and humility. <br /> From Bread and Puppet Theater's website <br /> http://breadandpuppet.org <br />