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Pageantry and Puppet Building Resources
Books
The American Pageant: A Movement for Art and Democracy
by Prevots Nimia
Community Drama: Its motive and Method of Neighborliness
by Percey Mackaye
Cities of the Dead
by Joseph Roach
The Met Books, Pageantry
by W.E.B. Debois
Some others...
Parades and Power (Temple University Press)
Street Art Of the Revolution
Caribbean Festival Arts
Web sites
The Puppeteers' Cooperative Home Page includes sketches to show how to make large puppets and ideas for puppet processions.
The Puppetry Homepage is a very comprehensive puppetry resource.
The World of Puppets (K-2 curriculum) is a webquest created by Educational Media and Technology that takes students around the Pworld to look at puppetry, then reflect on what they've found, write their own stories and create their own puppets and then perform their own show. They also have links where you can share your puppets and stories on-line.
Wise Fools Community Arts is a non-profit organization which uses art and theatre as vehicles for community building, self-determination, social and political change.
The Institute of Outdoor Drama at University of N. Carolina Chapel Hill
The New Deal Stage, selections from the Federal Theater Collection 1935 to 1939
The Mormon Miracle Pageant
"Rehearsal for Reality: Theatre and Education", this paper describes the methodology of the theatre of the oppressed.
A Directory of resources about Participation Theatre, Theatre for Social Change, "Theatre of the Oppressed", and Therapeutic Theatre.
A Directory of American Theater History Resources
Ancestor Celebration Resources
Books
Golden Tales: Myths and Legends from Latin America
by Lulu Delacre
Grades 4-6, younger for reading aloud. Unable to locate an illustrated collection of the Latin American stories that she heard as a child growing up in Puerto Rico, Delacre has created a collection that will be welcomed by all who have also sought in vain for such an introductory treasury. (Booklist)
The Ancestor Tree
by T. Obinkaram Echewa
Ages 4-8. An original Nigerian folktale.
Daughers of the Dust
by Julie Dash (novel and film)
" ...while the film focuses on the Peazant family at the point of their migration from an isolated island community of formerly enslaved Africans, the novel carries the story to the next generation - to the 1920s and Amelia Varnes, a student of anthropology who returns from New York to observe Gullah society for an ethnographic study, and in the process, rediscovers her matrilineal heritage. Inspired by Zora Neale Hurston, Dash elegantly combines sultry descriptions with evocations of oral tradition, cultural theory with a sincere reverence for Gullah esthetics and experience." (The New York Times Book Review)
Web sites
The Ancestor Page
African Spirituality Webring Sites
Festivals.com
Bon Festival in Japan (Japanese Holidays)
Ching-Ming Festival Information (Chinese in Hong Kong)
Kwanzaa Information Center
The Sacred Fire (Celtic)
Understanding Tet (Vietnam)
Ancestor Resource Directory (US)
This is a good starting point for geneological searchs organized by US state
Here are some helpful hints to find appropriate websites for your classroom: Education Search Suggestions,
Yahoo Directory Resources: Culture and Group Directory
Teaching for Change Resources
Books
Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing
Minnesota Humanities Council
Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development
edited by Enid Lee, Deborah Menkart and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Network of Educators on the Americas, Washington, D.C.
Publishers of Multicultural Texts
University of Texas Press
P.O. Box 7819
Austin, Texas 78713-7819
Ph: 512.471.7233
utpress@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Lee and Low Press,
95 Madison Avenue
Suite # 606
New York, NY 10016
Ph: 212.779.4400
Fx: 212.683.1894
info@leeandlow.com
Web sites
Earth Celebrations is a New York-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering ecological awareness through the arts.
Beyond Heroes and Holidays is a "practical guide to K12 anti-racist, multicultural education and staff development." The website includes ordering information and excertps.
Teaching for Change Weblinks
Wealth o’ Websites is a resource for K12 educators that organizes website by theme and topic. Highlights include:
Local Resources
InLiquid.com is a local, juried, not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to increasing visibility and opportunities for visual artists.
University City District
3940 Chestnut Street
215.243.0555
Taller Puertorriqueño
2721 N. 5th Street
215.426.3311
Multicultural Resource Center
6617 Lincoln Drive
215.438.2729
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