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DocuSign Envelope ID: D830FDE7-7735-4C4D-946F-99B358D08638 Orange County Arts Commission Fall 2015 Arts Program Grant 2 Cantastoria Workshop with Bread and Puppet Theater Arts Program Grant— Fall 2015 Orange County Arts Commission Proposed Use of Grant Funds Cantastoria Workshop with Bread and Puppet Theater ArtsCenter Stage at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro is requesting $1500 from the Orange County Arts Commission in support of a free Cantastoria workshop with Bread and Puppet Theater on May 1 2016. Bread and Puppet Theatre will be at The ArtsCenter May 1 2016 with their production of The Public Access Center for the Obvious Presents: The Situation. Bread and Puppet has performed at The ArtsCenter in February 2011 with The Decapitolization Circus and in March 2013 with The Circus of Possibilitarians. In keeping with Bread and Puppet's philosophy of inclusion in art, prior to the performance, Bread and Puppet will be offering a free Cantastoria workshop to interested community members. ABOUT BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER Based in Vermont, Bread and Puppet is now in its 52nd year of touring and performing around the world. Using a wide variety of puppetry and mask techniques, the theater troupe attempts to address the social, political, and environmental urgencies that affect all of our lives. Peter Schumann and The Bread and Puppet Theater have received the Obie Award, the Erasmus Award from Amsterdam, The Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the President's Award of the Puppeteers of America. The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City's Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems of the neighborhood. More complex theater pieces followed, in which sculpture, music, dance and language were equal partners. The puppets grew bigger and bigger. Annual presentations for Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and Memorial Day often included children and adults from the community as participants. Many performances were done in the street. During the Vietnam War, Bread and Puppet staged block-long processions and pageants involving hundreds of people. In 1974 Bread and Puppet moved to a farm in Glover, Vermont. A 140-year old hay barn was transformed into a museum for veteran puppets. Our Domestic Resurrection Circus, a two day outdoor festival of puppetry shows, was presented annually through 1998. As the theater continues to operate within its means on a shoestring budget, the summer program has evolved into a highly organized operation, including larger than ever intern and volunteer participation, and plays to enthusiastic and growing audiences. One of the most enduring legacies of Bread and Puppet is its autonomy, receiving no direct government or corporate funding, but instead relying on its own practice of frugality and a huge amount of